| Christianity and Being Homosexual |
[Nov. 18th, 2004|10:25 pm] |
Hmmm...my mom asked me the other day why I didn't believe in God. She was worried that she wasn't a good Christian if her children weren't good Christians. She said she thought she failed as a parent and things. But I told her she did all she could by introducing me to an option. The thing is...I do believe in God. But I'm afraid that he doesn't believe in me. I'm bitter and cynical and sometimes I blame God for my misfortunes. Because it's been apparent all my life that God does not love homosexuals. It's been said that God does not love a lot of people for a lot of reasons. And if I were a good Christian I would stop cursing, lose weight, and be straight. So I told my mother this...leaving out the lesbian thing...and she totally surprised me. She said she pretty much disregarded the Old Testament, in which God (through the authors) lays out rules and things. She said she saw those stories as more of rules for the times in which they were written...being barbaric(stoning people to death for crimes and even sassy children...sassy I say!!)among other things. She said the New Testament is clearly forgiving. God says "love thy neighbor and leave the vengeance and judging to me". So, to all those "good" Christians out there...Stop badgering people and outlawing things!! Stop deciding for other people which is the right way to live and love. Only God will judge me. It is not YOUR choice whether or not women have abortions. You have no rights over another person's body and what they choose to do with it. You take in your hands things only fit for God to decide. And isn't that what the Christians faith has been doing since it's birth? Forcing people to accept what they couldn't understand. Those "lost souls" were worshipping God in their own way, worshipping his earth, or his miracles. You can't save a soul, only God can. The Crusades were bullshit. I don't know if everyone knows that now, but they were. The Moores and Muslims worship the same God. The Koran is the Bible straight off in their language. There is no such thing as uncivilized peoples. To colonize a people and destroy their culture in the name of God is to destroy the earth's diversity, the human diversity...it's to kill a history of people far older than any Christian history can go. There was the "convert or die" mentality with the Native Americans. And the Christians pretty much decided.."Aww, this is too hard, lets just kill 'em." And there's the long history of the Catholic church fucking everyone and their mother out of their money. Christianity is and always has been about power. How much power you can exercise over your people by scaring them with religion? Descrimination, hatred, destruction and murder in the name of God is a sacrilage. Some may say that none of these things is happening anymore. It is. The banning of gay marriage is as discriminating as Jim Crow laws. Christian groups say it's unnatural and immoral. Who are you to judge what it is? Don't twist the words of God in your mouth, and don't use Him to justify putting others below you. Because whether or not I'm gay, I'm just as much a child of God as you. I'm no less, no more. Don't flatter yourself. Chances are, you're not perfect either.
This was inspired by an article I read on MSNBC.com in which a woman and some power-crazed Christian group outlawed a day of "cross dressing" in a public school because it "promotes homosexuality." The day was originally meant to have students reverse their social roles...sort of a Sadie-Hawkins thing...(where girls ask the boys out). It had nothing to do with sex or sexuality. Don't put adult meaning to childrens actions. And by the way, what's the problem with exposing our children to homosexuality? It's a way of life that's no different from any other. No matter whether you "think" that's true or not, it is. It's about love as much as heterosexuality is. Diversify your children's outlook on life. Teach acceptance to your child, not hypocrasy. What good will the hatred and discomfort do? Christians want to make the world a good, right place? Don't stress rigid roles that your children must live in. Be flexible, be forgiving, be open minded and accepting. God bless you.
Blair |
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| Welfare and the Control of the Federal Government |
[Nov. 18th, 2004|04:45 pm] |
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| |  enraged | ] |
| [ | music |
| | "We're All to Blame" by Sum 41 | ] |
We all know the wealthy people control the government. If you're not wealthy to begin with, it's hard to campaign for a public office even with donations and all that fundraising. So the nature of politics in general is based on who can spend the most money and who can pay off the most interest groups and large corporations. The tax cuts the federal government gives to corporations, large businesses, and the already wealthy in general, could, if collected, pay off the national deficit. Since no one expects the national deficit to actually be paid off...the uncollected tax breaks could more than likely pay for expanded welfare programs and social security.
Everyone's so damn upset that there won't be any social security for my generation and the generations after mine, even though my generation is what's sustaining it now. I pay SS for the rest of my life...most of my paycheck goes to my grandmother...but there won't be anything for me when I am her age. But the truth is, and everyone in the government knows it, we're paying taxes for ourselves and our rich people. With nothing in return. They get loopholes and tax breaks, and we get starving children and shitty jobs. Bush said the tax cuts would trickle down, but why wait for that tiny microscopic trickle?? Why not just keep taxing the rich and use the money to better our social programs?
Bush thinks he's sustaining capitalism...but he's ignoring those who really need help in the capital department...small private businesses. Why is it that the bigger the corporation the more it's rewarded? We should be reinforcing the progress of small businesses and in result sustaining diversity and competition in the market...and isn't that what capitalism is all about? Giving the consumer a choice and cost control through competition?
Don't get me started on welfare. Welfare Reforms are bullshit, just ask those who are living it. Who is saying that the reforms are helping anything? They are stupid and they know it. They are evil. They are wealthy people so far removed from poverty that they have a Marie Antoinette Complex. "Let them eat cake." Some people and families fall so far below the poverty line that they HAVE no bootstraps to pull themselves up by. They can't afford them. We have begun to kick people off welfare whether they have work or not...most families can not rise above the so-called poverty line when they receive welfare AND have jobs. We need to expand welfare and social programs. Open more family shelters. Help people find real work. Train them for real work. Educational programs for legal immigrants and their children...including literacy programs for adults. Make room for and build low cost housing. How is this hard? There are places to pull this money from, but the government refuses to see it. The politicians refuse to give up their corporate funding, and private funding for that matter, by suggesting such a thing as reinstating the taxes that were once imposed on those corporations.
The tax cuts Bush gave to the wealthy and the welfare reforms are shortsighted and avoidant of an important issue. But I am in no position to change anything. None of us really are. We, the middle and lower classes, cannot change our "beast of burden" classification. Some republican or politician may say "why don't you run for a public office and try to change things?" or something to that effect. But what did we learn from Mr. Smith Goes to Washington? No matter who you are, you can't help but succumb to the sleaziness of politics. Sleaziness is too entrenched in our political system, everyone is getting paid off and everyone has a deal to make. Too much compromise. We will run ourselves into the ground. We will continue to ignore those who need help until we starve them off the planet...at least then the wealthy won't have to worry their dear, spoiled little minds about it. God damn them.
Blair |
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| Human Sexuality |
[Oct. 14th, 2004|09:25 pm] |
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| |  contemplative | ] |
| [ | music |
| | the sound of Nic playing Spiderman 2 on the PS2 | ] |
Okay, today we had a guest speaker in our human sexuality class. Great guy. He began class by asking us to give him some words used to describe Homosexuals...fag, dyke, carpet muncher, and the like. So he wrote them up on the screen. Everyone was laughing and stuff...then he started to write other words...spic, nigger, chink, cunt...and everyone got quiet...we were all too nervous to react. Then he went on to say how we use words to dehumanize other people so we can do things like beat them up, tie them up to and drag them behind cars, kill them. We remove the human element to treat them like shit without the guilt that should come with it. The other words...fag, dyke...are used the same way. So then he went on to tell us that he was a gay man, about the struggle with identity and such as most gays struggle with. And he gave the class the opportunity to ask questions...any questions, anything possible. It was an awesome lecture. I admire him because we could tell he was nervous. And Nic and I still don't have the courage to walk down the street holding hands... |
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| What else? Gay marriages, of course!! (by blair) |
[Oct. 6th, 2004|07:20 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | sarcastic | ] |
| [ | music |
| | The TV and Nicole's laugh | ] |
Here are a few arguments about why straight people think gay marriages should be banned...and some of my and Nicole's replies to them...
1. It goes against God or something: The basis of this is...procreation, right? C'mon, isn't the world crowded enough?? In fact, why not let perspective gay parents take care of some of those lost and relation-less children? But I guess that's an argument for another time...
2. Protecting the "sanctity of marriage": Almost half of all married couples get divorced anyway...what sanctity? The government hasn't made legislation regarding adultery...which is another de-sanctifier of marriage, right? What about the whole "swinger" thing? Haven't constitutionally banned that yet.
3. What are the other arguments? Well, there are just the plain, stupid, our-of-your-ass reasons like "it's gross": Actually, no, I can't think of one intelligent adult who'd say something that childish, so I'll just ignore that one and all others like it.
If you'd like to remind me what the other arguments are, I'll reply to them...thanks!! |
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| Home Improvement (by Blair...again...) |
[Sep. 27th, 2004|04:21 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  listless | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Brand New "Failure by Design" | ] |
We helped Nic's parents wallpaper their living room over the weekend. And then we had this whole conversation about our future "home." Heh, so cheesy. But really...I feel really displaced since we left home. Before we "went away" for school, I was going to reclaim my room at my dad's house. Since my mom and I left, it's just become a storage room for my sister's shit, and whenever I went to stay, I had to sleep on the floor. It seems like I left my childhood there. Everything in that room reminds me of when my family was together, when we went to Galveston together, had birthdays and Christmas together... But now it's all empty memories, and everything we do is only as half a family. And now I've left my place at my mother's house. My aunt was telling me that once you leave home, it's hard to ever come back and take over that role of "daughter" again -- having Mom trying to give me curfews and rules again... It's already hard to deal with. When we go home on the weekends, my mom drives me crazy. But what'll happen when this semester is over and Nic has to go back to being the "babysitter" and I have to be in the house by ten? So the point is we've been thinking about getting our own place, and what it'll be like when that happens. Because we can't take advantage of our parents any longer. We're caught between jobs and school, childhood and adult responsibilities. What the hell is going on!!!??? |
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| All Girl Dorm (by Blair) |
[Sep. 23rd, 2004|07:59 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  nervous | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Bright Eyes.... | ] |
Hahaha. I and my girlfriend (Nic) just happen to by living in our university's only all girl dorm. Do they suspect anything? Have they heard anything incriminating from inside our room? I don't know what Nic thinks about this irony...but I can't stop thinking about it. I see these girls in the hallway and wonder if they have already found a reason, THE reason, to dislike me and my "roommate." I've yet to have an experience where someone outwardly disrespects me for my being gay. What does it feel like? How long before it happens to me? I guess it's stupid to care what other people think about me at all. Ugh, others have been through worse, I'm sure. |
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