Gay and Lesbian Rights

Dear Diary,

Once more today I turn on the television and once more I see more controversy being propagated over the rights of gays and lesbians. Should they be allowed to marry? Should they be allowed to have kids? Should they be allowed to this or that? The typical fear-mongering that the media reports of today seem to be synonymous with.
But seriously, why all the controversy? Who really cares what these people do? Personally I am bi-sexual, in a way I find it a little daunting that the world seems to care so much about my sex life. But that's beside the point. The only people that seem to really care about gays and lesbians seem to be the Christians.

*putting on a flak jacket, adjusting my Kevlar*

The Christian community keeps crying out that they “need to save the sanctity of marriage” but what do they need to save it from? I mean they talk as if they actually own marriage, what, people didn't get married before Christ?

I mean if God himself was so “pro-marriage” then why did he not want Adam to marry Eve? According to some ancient texts, that the Christian community refuses to acknowledge because a couple of guys a thousand years ago decided they were too long to include in the bible, but anyway, according to those books the Devil was the one who actually “tricked” Adam into wanting to marry Eve after they were kicked from the garden, why do you think God's supposed command was “be fruitful and multiply?” not “get married, be fruitful and multiply” .

Besides that, if we actually go off the actual bible, that Christians readily accept. If they actually read the thing once in a while, there is nothing at all that forbids lesbianism. The only thing in the bible that talks about lesbians is where it says that a lesbian can not marry a priest, but nothing about it being forbidden.

So all of those Christians out there who have a problem with lesbians actually have no foundation for their claims. As for gays, well that's an entirely different story. I don't know what western religion has against those poor guys. I am tempted to say that perhaps society was as homophobic back then as it is today, but considering most of the ancient philosophers, senators, inventors etc. of the time period back then were actually gay I don't think that that is the case. (mind you we owe the world we know and love today to these guys)

So if society wasn't homophobic back then, why include it, who knows, maybe they wanted to be different from the rest of the world, they saw the rest of the world enjoying sex, and said to themselves, hey that's how we can be different, we'll be against sex.

Personally I don't understand the problem. If a man wants to be gay, or a woman wants to be a lesbian, or either wants to be bi, then who are we to say no? They aren't hurting anyone, they are happy, why try to take it away from them. Then again as the old saying goes, if a person preaches constantly about one topic it is usually because they themselves are guilty of it, so perhaps all these supposed Christians that are up in arms about gays and lesbians are just scared of their own gay and lesbian urges.

Till next time,
Charlotte.