And I think this is the wrong approach. The astonishing pervasion of perversion on the internet is proof positive that we aren’t really interested in staying out of other people’s bedrooms. The entirety of the pornography industry is built on voyeurism, you won’t believe what we’re going to show you next, and we as a society put down enough money toward that to have brought it out of it's darkened corner into the limelight. So, the whole idea of “please stay out of my bedroom” is countered in basic human behavior by the “but I want to look in yours” that to some degree or another, I believe we all have sooner or later.
No, I think the right approach is to shift gears away from the rights and privileges granted in the Constitution, because frankly, what we want to be there isn’t in there. “Right to Privacy” are not words that appear in that document; it is inferred a place or two, like in the fourth amendment prohibition of illegal search and seizure, but the exact phrase we need to make our desire to keep other people our of our bedrooms a Constitutional issue hasn’t show up there yet. Not likely to, either. And so, it’s a poor choice for the source document to base our hopes of getting gay rights through.
The right document is The Declaration of Independence.
If the government can’t bring itself to adhere to this plan, then a revolution is in order, and the last time we did that, it was unpleasant. That’s the whole gist of that piece of paper.We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Now, we don’t quite have the magic words here, but these are more forceful. Because it requires us to do what the people who are combating gay marriage rights are fighting against, to acknowledge that homosexuals are created equal in the sight of God---they fall under all men, and for god’s sakes don’t get hung up on the whole men vs women thing here---and we need to leave them alone toward their own Pursuit of Happiness. Just like we want toward our own. Period.
The people who are so vehemently fighting against gay marriage are failing at this miserably, and are trying to impose their will on the rest of us. They cannot bring themselves to acknowledge that a homosexual is in fact a human being.
Ask them, go ahead; the antigay violence is an indication that the belief being held by the perpetrators is that is alright to do horrifying things to people we don’t think are people. The Nazis excelled at this.
Ask them: if the gays are not quite human, can we not do what we want with them? How can the prohibition against slavery from that document we just got done putting down be applied against someone we don‘t hold to be equal with us? They want us all to deny that homosexuals are just like the rest of us in regards to what the government and maybe even the rest of us can and cannot do about what happens in their bedrooms at night. "We should have free rein to do what we want with them. Period." These people want to control what happens in other people’s bedrooms. And wouldn't it be handy to have ourselves a slave class again?
Ask them: are fags people, human beings? Yes or no.
No means war. It's unavoidable.
If they say "yes, they're human, but..." then the question of choice will come up. "God didn't make no fags, He don't make no mistakes." The argument they must fall back onto is that homosexuality is a choice, which is easy to get through.
Show us the choice. Not in one or two little stooges or plants that have been well rehearsed, but in general, across large swaths of the gay community.
There's a difference between a choice and a realization. The people who are so adamant about no-gays-no-way can all tell you about a specific choice they made: their choice to follow Jesus Christ. They can tell you time and date; their religion is in fact a choice.
Noticing that you are equipped as a man or a woman isn't a choice, it's a realization. Just like how tall you are. Noticing that you are attracted to men or women is a realization, not a choice. It doesn't go away because you decide to not pursue it; it comes back, again and again, over and over, it haunts you, it torments you, it forces you toward it. Ask any gay person on earth: is this just a whim, or did you have no choice? Just a casual choice, right? Like coffee or tea, the color shirt to wear today, what to watch on TV today? Just like that, right?
I have yet to meet a "Gay-by-Choice". Do the anti-gay people have a list we could call on? Have to be a pretty big list, don't you think? According to their argument, they are all that way. Point to any homosexual, and yeah, ask them.
"Yeah, well, fags lie." Good thinking: if gay people lie about this, then don't we all somehow lie about this? And why would we believe you? And are you really going to tell us this is about who is capable of lying, of sinning? So, do straight people have a choice, a real choice and not some game-show-choice to say "see?" about who they are are attracted to sexually? That should be easy to prove: what kind of porn does your body actually react to? If we all stood naked in the room together, naked, with porn playing on the TV, who gets aroused to what? Wouldn't that show us the truth? Maybe this would convince people. We could make it mandatory. Wouldn't that ultimately answer the question, solve the problem of truth? Don't counter with how dirty idea that is; porn sells because it actually effects us: physically, reliably, repeatedly. Volunteers?
All of this ultimately has nothing to do with religion or government or even sex; it has to do with power. And the people who are holding that some things in the bedroom are to be arranged only just so will not stop with the arrangement of personnel in those rooms. They will then insist they should be able to dictate what can happen there between approved participants. And they will want proof, something the Internet has proved itself good for: a webcam in every bedroom. There's a plank for the election. I seem to remember hearing Rush Limbaugh calling for the filming of the bedroom activities of a woman he didn't think was quite human and needing to be respected, so he could get his jollies recently. This is the behavior that is being lauded by the anti-gay proponents: treat people we don't like or agree with or whatever as subhuman because that's what we should do. Ask them.
There's another document they can and do call on to justify all kinds of horrors. It's got a little more history behind it; a history of being abused. It's a thicker book that has a habit of not actually getting read; especially by those who swear by it. That much is obvious, because they keep missing the most important lesson it has in it is: put the Book down; just do the right thing.
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