Articles Archive for 28 July 2009
Commentary, Featured, Thought of the Gay »
I’ve been reading through a Homophobia and Religion Forum on thinkatheist.com, and felt the need to jot out my thoughts least I forget them – perhaps I’ll need this reference point in the future, although I hope I won’t.
I’m gay, an atheist, and the grandson of a Church of God minister who, in the 40′s/50′s, preached that black people didn’t have souls. It was the Curse of Ham – they weren’t human, were sexually provocative, degraded the good christian society, etc. etc. I remember hearing all of this as a child and thankfully, never bought into it. It made no sense to me. I also remember talk of the “juke joints” and the sexually provocative nature of those establishments, which later came to represent (at least to those that wished to degrade a segment of the population for their own egotistical purposes) the entire community.
Featured, Stupid Things People Say About Gays »
Recently, a Prop 8 Summit was held to gauge the reaction of LGBT activists to placing an initiative on the ballot to overturn Prop 8 as early as 2010. The options, generally, were: (1) Put it on the 2010 ballot; or (2) wait until 2012. I won’t argue the points here as they are exhausting and, ultimately, pointless. The fact remains that a majority have taken away the rights of a minority and the minority should do everything in its power to regain the rights it once had.
I’m one of those people that tends to read comments on blogs and news items to get an idea of what other people think about things before just taking the author’s words for it.
