Dear Editor,
It is quite interesting that anti-gay organisations in Jamaica have posited a love-hate view of homosexuality. They LOVE all humans and see them as God's creation but HATE their homosexual lifestyle. It has been the propensity of Christian organisations to cloud their hate in love and talk out of two sides of their mouth.
The anti-gay movement has strategically separated the gay human from the act of homosexuality, arguing and sadly believing that being gay is a choice and not a human identity.
For example, the guiding principle of the Love-Hate March Movement says there are only two genders: man and woman. A quick course in Gender, Sex and Society will prove otherwise. This Love-Hate position is an illogical one to hold. Homosexuality is the identity of a person, meaning it is intrinsic. Therefore, it is not a lifestyle.
Like a caterpillar becomes a butterfly, that is how a man becomes attracted to a man: Its natural. For example, if today I stop sleeping with men, my sense of being gay does not automatically change. Gays are human beings (identity), not simply human men who sleep with other men every now and then (lifestyle). Clouding hate in love is a "two mouth machete" and convenient way to advance a dying argument against homosexuality.
It reminds me of the following story of a man who was thrown out for blowing hot and cold air out of the same mouth: Aesop tells the tale of a traveller who sought refuge with a Satyr on a bitter winter night. On entering the Satyr's lodging, he blew on his fingers, and was asked by the Satyr why he did it. "To warm them up,'' he explained.
Later on, being served a piping hot bowl of porridge, he blew also on it, and again was asked why he did it. "To cool it off," he explained. The Satyr thereupon thrust him out of doors, for he would have nothing to do with a man who could blow hot and cold air with the same breath.
A Delusia
adelusiaja@gmail.com
Homosexuality is not a lifestyle
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It is quite interesting that anti-gay organisations in Jamaica have posited a love-hate view of homosexuality. They LOVE all humans and see them as God's creation but HATE their homosexual lifestyle. It has been the propensity of Christian organisations to cloud their hate in love and talk out of two sides of their mouth.
The anti-gay movement has strategically separated the gay human from the act of homosexuality, arguing and sadly believing that being gay is a choice and not a human identity.
For example, the guiding principle of the Love-Hate March Movement says there are only two genders: man and woman. A quick course in Gender, Sex and Society will prove otherwise. This Love-Hate position is an illogical one to hold. Homosexuality is the identity of a person, meaning it is intrinsic. Therefore, it is not a lifestyle.
Like a caterpillar becomes a butterfly, that is how a man becomes attracted to a man: Its natural. For example, if today I stop sleeping with men, my sense of being gay does not automatically change. Gays are human beings (identity), not simply human men who sleep with other men every now and then (lifestyle). Clouding hate in love is a "two mouth machete" and convenient way to advance a dying argument against homosexuality.
It reminds me of the following story of a man who was thrown out for blowing hot and cold air out of the same mouth: Aesop tells the tale of a traveller who sought refuge with a Satyr on a bitter winter night. On entering the Satyr's lodging, he blew on his fingers, and was asked by the Satyr why he did it. "To warm them up,'' he explained.
Later on, being served a piping hot bowl of porridge, he blew also on it, and again was asked why he did it. "To cool it off," he explained. The Satyr thereupon thrust him out of doors, for he would have nothing to do with a man who could blow hot and cold air with the same breath.
A Delusia
adelusiaja@gmail.com
Homosexuality is not a lifestyle
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