Regardless of what anyone says here, or anywhere else is America, stories from Iraq lead me to think that homophobia is probably higher over there. It may have occurred to some in the military that denouncing something such as homosexuality which many Islamic people also denounce, might create some small amount of common ground among Islamic clerics. Obviously, by itself, it wouldn’t be expected to win anyone’s hearts and minds, but a one yard gain at first and ten is better than zero.

All of this still fails to explain the ‘homosexuality is immoral’ argument. When Jesus was asked what were the most important commandments, he instead answered with something different to explain their justification. Love God, love others as yourself - the golden rule. In so many words he said, don’t be an asshole.

Would any rabid homophobe reading this care to explain how homosexuality qualifies as being an asshole, and therefore immoral by somehow harming others? I myself don’t like a lot of things that others do to themselves and with each other, but if it’s not harming me, why should I care?

though, I suspect you, whoever you are, never would. too bad.

A good friend once pointed out to me, on a day when I was venting great frustration and horror at the inroads crazed right wing evangelicals and like religious fanatical ilk were making in our political (read: power structure) systems, and how frigthening I found it. Why wasn’t he more alarmed?

What he said really hit a nerve and helped me put it all in perspect…on my outcry as to the DANGER of these people, he asked, “But don’t you see? They are wildly reacting to the reality they know but don’t want to, and refuse, to face. THEY are the soon-to-be extinct. They are outnumbered, and inevitably dated. They are LOSING. They are losing psychically, in a deep sense, they are losing and they KNOW it, on every front. What you see, and are rightly upset about, is their last gasping breath. They, too, will soon pass.”

He’s a dear friend, and the son of a [Pentecostal} Preacher Man.

And, he’s right. So- troll all you want, believe deeply and act out…but your limited viewpoint, lack of thinking, and inability to really see that ANY person who charges into war cares not about something as minute as sexual desire and expression (in whatever form), and most about surviving, is what blinds you to the obvious truth about this post.

But, “we as a society”, don’t think about that at all as we mill empty-eyed and empty-headed through the mall, do we? Why, like Babs Bush, would we cloud and trouble our “Beautiful Minds” with such trivialties?