Ethics and Morality in the Gay and Lesbian Community Page 4 Text Only
| I was recently asked the question: What if all people were homosexual? The human race would cease to exist! Being gay does not prevent procreation. Actually, gay men and women have been making babies since the beginning of time. Still, I think that it was just intended to be provocative. Actually, since being born gay is a recessive trait, it is mathematically impossible for that to happen. However, if it were to happen then mankind and womankind would continue anyway. Remember, being gay does not say who you can have sex with. It only indicates with whom you have a connection, with whom you fall in love. You can have sex with anyone. But then you would have a true moral dilemma then. Wouldn't you? Frankly, the continuance of the human race by homosexuals will never be an issue. It has never been an issue except by some weird fanatics. |
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| How does one deal with the loss of your one true
love? On May 29, I lost the love of my life. There is no amount of tears or
carrying on that could ever bring her back or give me what I had again. She was
diagnosed with rectal cancer in February of 1998 and died May 29 1999. We
had a year to grieve. It is now time to pick up the pieces of my life and go
on. It occurs to me that many of us have gone or will go through this. I am
54, vital and attractive not to mention a whole host of great characteristics. But
to begin again is hard. You see I know what it is to be loved and to love. There are
so many people who have no grip on that. We are back to finding the perfect
match. I had a cat that I loved named Brandy. She loved me so and followed me everywhere. At night she would climb up on my pillow and put her sweet head on mine and purr. She would purr me to sleep sometimes. She got me through some hard times. And when she was 18, she died. I missed her so much but she was gone. Since then, I have had other cats. Right now I have several but there is one named Toffee who also follows me around and purrs for me when I touch her. She is so devoted but she is not Brandy. But I love her just as much. Love, whether it be for animals or people, is the same. Each relationship is different but sometimes the next one is even better. I have chased love into Florida in my old home town of Tampa. I am seeking love in Atlanta where I live now. Where will I meet the next one true love? Where is the elusive butterfly? I do not know. But this I do know. There is life after love. And I am going to find it. |
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| Sooner or later the hate mongers will find these
pages. You know who you are if you are one of those people. But just in case you don't
know, let me tell you who these people are. These people fall into numerous groups but I will discuss only three: the murderers, the killers and the thieves. The murderers are those who would find justification for taking the life of anyone who lives their life differently from theirs. These people find justification for murder in their Bibles for their own behavior that God would find abhorrent. They will bomb, rape, maim and destroy anyone who gets in their way. The killers are those people who claim to be open to all kinds of lifestyles but who in reality will make jokes about their fellow employees and tell ugly jokes about gays behind their backs. These people deceive themselves and others; all the while they are belittling those whom they claim to befriend. The thieves are those who seemingly befriend gays and lesbians when they meet
them and then treat them like a pet. These people are not interested in knowing who we are
or how we feel or what our interests are. And when we respond to their treatment with
anger, they may be heard to say, "We tried so hard to make Jeff and John feel at
home. They just don't appreciate how hard we tried." Get a grip!!! If you have to try
hard to do something with a friend doesn't that tell you something! |
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| It could happen to you or me. He was just
another gay person. Now he is OUR gay person. He is our martyr. We
have had others. There was Stonewall. There have been many others. Far too many
others. What happened? Didn't you hear? They killed him because he was GAY! They had been so very carefully taught to hate. To them, he was not human or possibly less than human. Interestingly, this is a theme that plays all through history. They did the same thing in Germany to the Jews and the Gays. The sad thing is that all over the country crimes are perpetrated on gays because they are gay and nothing is done about it. In one Georgia city, a gay person could be riding through the town and be pulled over by the police just becaue they had a rainbow sticker on the car. The officer proceeds to break a tail lamp and then say that the person was driving with no tail lamp. Some how people go out of their way to do harm to gay persons. Many straight people claim to believe in equality under the law and feel the existing laws are sufficient. I find it interesting that these same people are blind to the fact that the police are part of the problem. Many officers will ignore crimes done to gay persons. This may not be true in some of the larger cities or of all police, but by and large, it is true. The point of hate crimes legislation is that it would be a federal crime to commit crimes of this type. The injured persons or, in this case, the family of the dead person would have recourse outside of the narrow confines of the bigoted, narrow jurisdiction in which they may live. |
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