Ah... What?

Religion and sex never ceases to amaze me.  Why people sign up for any institution that limits natural behavior is beyond me.  Don't have sex at all, until you're married, and once you do, it better be vaginally and solely for procreation purposes.. Your penis/vagina is for you and you only (excluding the occasional preacher) until you get married.. and get this load of bullshit I just read..

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-shore/how-is-being-gay-like-glu_b_747071.html

"Would you support a serial adulterer who loves his wife, but is just attracted to other women because that's who he is and how he was born? How about an alcoholic who just can't help himself? Would you support him as he leaves his wife for alcohol? A glutton? A man of extreme pride? Why does homosexuality get a pass, and not any other sin? A person with homosexual desires who resists temptation is exactly the same as a married man who resists temptation to carry on affairs with other women---which is to say, a human being battling the temptation to sin. The most compassionate thing that we could tell someone struggling with homosexuality (or any other sin for that matter) is to keep resisting temptation. Keep battling. Don't give in. This is your badge as a Christian, that you fight temptation"

The above quote is taken from the HuffPo blog (the link I shared above)...

This blog is really interesting.. He proposes that the anti-everything Christian movement has turned it's focus from trying to change orientation and sexual choices to that of a sin that any man or woman can overcome.  He says, and I agree, that this way of thinking is telling people with non-bible conforming sexual activities to curb those thoughts as a man trying to quit drinking would do; to give up - on loving someone.  It's in religion's best interest to convince everyone that we are sinning, and that we have the "strength" to "fight" "evil" "temptations," and a "mission" to "battle."  Why is everything so hateful? Why are the same people that speak for this religion engaging in behavior they condemn?

"It's in the bible, it must be true." - Ha, and I also believe everything I read on the internet.  Bobby Henderson , an Oregon State physics graduate, invented a religion also; The Church of Flying Spaghetti Monster, aka (I love this) Pastafarianism. They celebrate Friday as a holy day. They believe that the decline in pirates is causing global warming (this is just a play on the fact that beliefs and fact aren't always linked even though correlational; cause yes, pirate numbers have gone down and temperature has gone up, but they are not related - obviously)...

moving forward....

The recently defeated Ken Buck says that sexual orientation is a choice as well. You can choose whether to eat at Fat Jack's Supersubs, or Deli Zone.. so it's apparent that you can choose whether you like the same sex or not.  This makes total sense.. ha! What makes sense is this...

Sexual orientation just is. It varies across all people.  Straight, straight with occasional cross-dressing, straight with frequent cross-dressing, androgynous straights, androgynous gay, gay, bi-sexual, transgender, polyamorous straight or gay or bi or trans, or "man-baby" fetishes, or fetishes of grass, or what the fuck ever!  I'm making things up now, but I would be willing to bet that somewhere in the world someone does have a grass fetish, and you know what? They deserve to find someone that makes that grass fetish become a fucking reality instead of condemnation of inner desires.  We are all different, and we all find ways (or not in the case of recent suicides) to negotiate our sexuality with our surroundings.  We learn, we change, we accept, and hopefully, flourish as self-aware sexual beings. The same courtesy that is given to the straight, white, middle-class male, should be extended to every different variation of human... cause no one way is, has, or ever will (should) be "right." We are all alive, we all feel... we are all "right."



.....Just a few thoughts