Issues
The first round of the presidential elections is over, and one of the candidates going into the second round is openly gay and married to another man. He's not the guy I wanted to vote on the first round, though I did, and I'm going to vote for him again on the second round. My reasons for voting him and not wanting to do so have nothing to do with his orientation. Frankly I don't give a shit if he's gay or straight. This is not the issue I want to address.
The issue I do want to address is how it really pisses me off to read something like this on my Facebook wall:I'm very disappointed and offended about peoples status updates concerning the presidential elections :( Is it a fact that all pedophiles, abusers of their own children, junkies, alcoholic and mentally diseased parents, beaters of women, rapists, etc. are better than I am simply because they have sex and reproduce with members of the opposite sex? Am I to conclude that because I'm involved with a member of the same sex, I am the lowest grade of citizen, and comparable to a mindless animal?!
Without any undue disrespect to the person I'm quoting, I have run it through my translating organ and vomited back up something that's even slightly eloquent.
I'm very, very bored with this generalization some gays make, as if "I don't want my child to have a homo teacher" equals "Do you have convicted pedophiles on the roster?", or "No way is my son gay!" equals "I would be proud if my son was a schizophrenic crackhead who beats his wife and sexually molests his child". I am somewhat gay myself, and I don't see why straight people shouldn't have a right to want a straight president, when so many gays seem to really want a gay president. I do feel it's pretty stupid to make a candidates sexual orientation a deal-breaker, but that applies to a lot of gay or pro-gay voters in this election as well.
Being gay alone doesn't make a person awesome. Neither does being straight.
The issue I do want to address is how it really pisses me off to read something like this on my Facebook wall:I'm very disappointed and offended about peoples status updates concerning the presidential elections :( Is it a fact that all pedophiles, abusers of their own children, junkies, alcoholic and mentally diseased parents, beaters of women, rapists, etc. are better than I am simply because they have sex and reproduce with members of the opposite sex? Am I to conclude that because I'm involved with a member of the same sex, I am the lowest grade of citizen, and comparable to a mindless animal?!
Without any undue disrespect to the person I'm quoting, I have run it through my translating organ and vomited back up something that's even slightly eloquent.
I'm very, very bored with this generalization some gays make, as if "I don't want my child to have a homo teacher" equals "Do you have convicted pedophiles on the roster?", or "No way is my son gay!" equals "I would be proud if my son was a schizophrenic crackhead who beats his wife and sexually molests his child". I am somewhat gay myself, and I don't see why straight people shouldn't have a right to want a straight president, when so many gays seem to really want a gay president. I do feel it's pretty stupid to make a candidates sexual orientation a deal-breaker, but that applies to a lot of gay or pro-gay voters in this election as well.
Being gay alone doesn't make a person awesome. Neither does being straight.