Meg...
I read what you said about domestic violence as it relates to the gay community and I wanted to thank you. I am gay and I have been in violent relationships, are you are right, my filing with the police department was my coming you with my family. What do you think of gays?...
Pretty much what I think of everyone else in this country. Your rights end where mine begin. If ever there is a dispute, we have the court system. I trust them.
But if your question is what do I think of the gay movement, I would have to say that sometimes I applaud them and sometimes I think that the people involved are so extreme, they even make other gays angry. I think that, like so many organizations, too many of them represent the most radical viewpoints. That’s OK, they have every right to do so. It‘s just that every single gay person I have ever met is like me, they just want to live their lives as peacefully as possible. Even they differ on the issue of gay marriage. (I have my own opinion regarding gay marriage but that is another subject for another day.) I like my gay friends, they are intelligent, funny and usually, pretty darn happy people.
My father told me that when he was in the army, they had gay soldiers and nobody cared. My father’s theory is that you should let gays into combat, but not women. He said that a man might feel the need to protect the woman, distracting him from his duty, if only for a split second. Dad said that, as a man, he wouldn’t feel that obligation to help another man, gay or not. He told stories of one of his gay friends prancing around the barracks in a tutu. The entire barracks erupted in laughter. Nobody "bashed" him. Nobody minded at all.
He said that people started getting angry when gay rights became an issue. I am not saying that gays shouldn’t have fought for their rights, just that it riled up some morons.
That’s about it. That’s the thinking I have done about gays in general. In real life, I take them each as they come, as the individuals that they are. I think most of us do that. It’s just that a few bad apples make us all look bad, whatever "group" we belong to.
Meg
I read what you said about domestic violence as it relates to the gay community and I wanted to thank you. I am gay and I have been in violent relationships, are you are right, my filing with the police department was my coming you with my family. What do you think of gays?...
Pretty much what I think of everyone else in this country. Your rights end where mine begin. If ever there is a dispute, we have the court system. I trust them.
But if your question is what do I think of the gay movement, I would have to say that sometimes I applaud them and sometimes I think that the people involved are so extreme, they even make other gays angry. I think that, like so many organizations, too many of them represent the most radical viewpoints. That’s OK, they have every right to do so. It‘s just that every single gay person I have ever met is like me, they just want to live their lives as peacefully as possible. Even they differ on the issue of gay marriage. (I have my own opinion regarding gay marriage but that is another subject for another day.) I like my gay friends, they are intelligent, funny and usually, pretty darn happy people.
My father told me that when he was in the army, they had gay soldiers and nobody cared. My father’s theory is that you should let gays into combat, but not women. He said that a man might feel the need to protect the woman, distracting him from his duty, if only for a split second. Dad said that, as a man, he wouldn’t feel that obligation to help another man, gay or not. He told stories of one of his gay friends prancing around the barracks in a tutu. The entire barracks erupted in laughter. Nobody "bashed" him. Nobody minded at all.
He said that people started getting angry when gay rights became an issue. I am not saying that gays shouldn’t have fought for their rights, just that it riled up some morons.
That’s about it. That’s the thinking I have done about gays in general. In real life, I take them each as they come, as the individuals that they are. I think most of us do that. It’s just that a few bad apples make us all look bad, whatever "group" we belong to.
Meg
posted by Meg Kelso | 12:59 PM
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