Hello I'm Rich Brown and this is my personal website and blog. I'm just your simple, average, down to earth, professional, out gay man and aspiring circuit boy, living in Phoenix, Arizona with a few things to say while trying to find my place among all the scary, conservative, religious nuts in this sick and twisted world.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Stop Talking About "The Gay Agenda"
While I was listening to CNN today I heard the term "The Gay Agenda" used three or four times by some conservative, religious fanatic talking about the recent Heinz advertisement that was pulled because it showed a gay family and two men kissing. This person kept talking about how the commercial was trying to advance the "Homosexual Lifestyle" and the "The Gay Agenda."
Well I have just one thing to say about this. Straight people are not allowed to use the term "The Gay Agenda" anymore because it doesn't exist. It's a fictitious term made up by religious zealots to create fear. If there is an official gay agenda, then neither I, nor anyone I know in the gay community has ever been made aware of it. If you do have a copy of "The Gay Agenda" then please forward it to me, because my name must not be on the mailing list.
Seriously though, if there really was a "Gay Agenda" I'm certain it would simply refer to the desire of me, my friends and everyone else in the gay community to be happy, allowed to love the consenting adult we choose regardless of sex, and live a happy & normal life while being able to have equal protections of the law that everyone else is provided. Is that a bad thing?
I'm really getting tired of this argument. It's pointless. People need to get with the times and realize that being gay is not a lifestyle choice, and we're going to be here in your face and on your TVs to stay. Cheers.
Good post Rich, and you're right. "Gay Agenda"?? You have to realize this stupid statement comes from just another un-informed, ignorant, prejudiced person who but for the grace of God could have just as easily been born gay.
What always gets me more than anything is how these people must think (but just can't quite remember when it happened) that at some point in their lives they made a conscious decision about their sexuality. "Okay it's time to decide. I think I will live out my life being a heterosexual. That's my choice."
What makes me even ANGRIER are straights who think my above statement is ridiculous but who still feel homosexuals DID make that decision! WTF is wrong with the human race??
|______________________________________________________________________ posted by Jude @ Thursday, June 26, 2008 3:04:00 PM
