i commented on a butch blog the other day and it started me thinking a little further than my comments there.
why do perfectly nice, good people turn unkind when there’s a religious issue with homosexuality? and by unkind, i mean an absolute faith/conviction that they are right, leading to utter disregard of us poor queers’ feelings.
*insert shit-eating grin here*
“love the sinner, not the sin.”
never mind if the “sinner” in question is a faithful, perhaps even christian soul, who is kind to old ladies and small animals. all of these things become irrelevant in the do-gooder’s need to impose their opinions.
they smile while they inform you that you’re going to hell unless you change.
they have no respect for science.
they have no space for compassion, unless it falls within their tight little coda and cloaca.
*rewind*
i’m sitting on a beach with my girlfriend in the early 90’s. we’re on towels, in shorts and swimming costumes. my arm is loosely round her shoulders. a very fat and topless man lurches pendulously up and says in very bad english, that “god created adam and eve, not adam and steve.” i say thank you, now please be on your way. he launches into the hellfire speech. i smile like a crocodile and say ok now that’s enough fatso, fuck off. very quietly, very pleasantly.
*fast forward*
if it happened today, i think i would react differently. i think i would simultaneously be more and less tolerant and either ignore him totally or get right to the fuckoff without the pleasantries first. or i’d sit back and let my girlfriend deal with it.
why do people think they have the right?
queers don’t go around en masse trying to get people to change their lifestyles or religions or whatever.
perhaps we should.
hi, i’m ulla and i’d like to talk to you about The Way of Queer … please take a pamphlet …
i’ll launch a massive ad campaign – it will feature gorgeous people doing exciting things and the catchphrase (over suitably shit-eating grins) will be, “… and all because i’m queer!” there will be a jingle and t-shirts. it will be endorsed by celebs and designers and so on. it will, in a word, be hawt. the logo will be unforgettably gorgeous.
i will pace main thoroughfares with a placard saying, “straight roads never get anywhere really, do they?” my girlfriend and i will stride hand in hand into crowded restaurants and tut at heterosexual couples.
people will see therapists and healers to find out why they are straight. they will develop deep self-loathing and very complex neuroses. i will look upon them with a patronizing and pitying compassion, all the while feeling smugly superior.
*zhweeeeeeeeeeeeep!*
fuck it must be uncomfortable inside those minds!!
i think it was thumper (of bambi fame) who said, “if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.”
*** no right wing fundamentalists were harmed in the making of this blog post ***
October 11th, 2010 at 17:48
fuck yeah!!!
count me in for street team marketing. and anti-hetero protests.
October 11th, 2010 at 20:01
ok you’re heading up the international street team/protest division XD
October 11th, 2010 at 18:14
it’s funny how they seem to gloss over the part where jesus said you should be nice to other people. that and the thing with the shellfish.
October 11th, 2010 at 19:10
they gloss over the part about the bible being a BOOK!!! this alone means it’s inherently up for interpretation. i’m a christian lesbian. and i’m always thankful that my pastor’s actually intelligent and has thoroughly researched the politics behind the book and includes it in his lectures.
October 12th, 2010 at 01:36
Last night at dinner with two lesbian friends from church, we were talking about the whole kerfuffle that had kicked it off. Both of them read my essay and the responses and… Yeah it was nice to have some sanity checking from them that I wasn’t the one who was off base.
At one point I found myself quoting the “love the sinner, hate the sin” catchphrase, with my judgmental friend the sinner, her comment the sin. It made us laugh, anyway, to turn the rhetoric on its head.
October 12th, 2010 at 08:51
such a pity we even have to laugh at that stuff
October 12th, 2010 at 04:51
Im really enjoying you writing more. Ha. You have such a great way of putting things.
straight roads really do never get you anywhere. :o)
October 12th, 2010 at 08:50
:D thanks friend
October 12th, 2010 at 08:05
Maybe in the world you’ve imagined, all the clubs at school will be for the queer kids, except for the one straight-gay alliance. And kids will whisper cruelly if they find out you’re *not* adopted by at least one parent.
October 12th, 2010 at 08:49
and yet i’m uncomfortable with that imagined world, you know? because it’d be cruel … and it makes me sad that more of the majority doesn’t understand that.
October 12th, 2010 at 23:31
Agreed.
October 12th, 2010 at 15:13
I think that it’s important for people to have some sort of faith or belief. However, when religion and faith becomes overzealous, that’s when you get things like 9/11, the Crusades, and the Holocaust. If it doesn’t hurt you, why should you be biased against it? We gays aren’t asking people to be gay, too; we just want to be accepted. There’s nothing wrong with that.
October 19th, 2010 at 07:54
exactly
October 15th, 2010 at 15:42
I love you’re attitude : )
October 19th, 2010 at 07:55
thanks :)
October 19th, 2010 at 06:31
great point and awesome post!
October 19th, 2010 at 07:56
thank you :)
October 23rd, 2010 at 19:10
I have no idea. Some people can turn the religion into kindness towards others and some… not.