MAE JULIAN
Who’s life is it anyway?
“C’mon now, smile on your brother, everybody get together, try to love one another right now.” The refrains of the song keep running through my head. I keep wondering why we can’t leave people alone who are different than we are. Can we only accept people who are just like us? The subject of gay rights has again come up. We watch as the courts in Massachusetts struggle with the law. Gay people want the right to marry. Others declare to know what God wants, and God does not like Gay people! Absolutely not! “Why, even in the Bible, (and the Bible thumpers get out the good book), it says right here that God don’t like no fags. Or, at least, that’s what He meant.”
You know, when I was a kid, I had no idea what gay was. Well, back then it meant happy. I had never heard of queer, either. It meant odd back then. Our whole vernacular has only changed to make hatred more polite. Back then, society blamed overly strong mothers for boys being gay. Then, some decided, it was because the schools were not strict enough. Then they claimed that it was because you couldn’t tell the difference between a boy and a girl the way they dress and wear their hair.
I am hopeful that we can all take a deep breath and say, “let people be.” No one in their right mind would CHOOSE to be gay. Who would bring all that discrimination upon themselves? People are born the way they are born. Gay people do not choose to be gay. Can we come to grips with the differences amongst us and be charitable? Gays can’t reproduce, so they shouldn’t get married, some say. Well, what about older people, and infertile couples? Should they be denied marriage on the same basis?
If children are endangered by being raised by gay parents, and that influence would cause the children to be gay, then how do straight parents have a gay son or daughter? Heterosexual marriage has been around a long time and it hasn’t changed at all, right? So…women are still property, and divorce is illegal, I guess. Now, really! It all seems so insane, somehow, to deny rights to people who are different. If it comes to be that gay people can actually get married, I doubt that everyone is going to rush to the alter with a same-sex partner. The figures will still be the same. So why deny rights to people based on our own misinformed ideas?
How did things get so screwed up? I think we are focusing on old perceptions, and bigotry instead of looking at the situation as it is. I hope that all people will be given the opportunity for equality. Otherwise, we live in a world where only the strongest, the majority, the most bigoted will prevail. Can we all just be kind? Let’s all just let people be who they are. ‑What a breath of fresh air that would be.
Joshua: “…before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born, I set you apart.” Perhaps we could consider that children are sent to us by God just the wonderful way they are. Who are we to deny that right to a child sent in love?
Sincerely,
Mae Julian
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