Having discretion with our mouths…
Liberated?
Where we ended up yesterday was acknowledging that there is, in fact, an obvious difference between those things that we need for basic survival – food, water, shelter, and sleep – or needs, and everything else that is outside of those commodities that we call wants.
Ostensibly, does a person need “…a chicken in every pot, and two cars in every garage…” and the answer is no they don’t. It is a great asset to own a vehicle albeit it is not essential for one’s survival. In reality, humankind was on this planet thousands of years before any vehicle came into existence.
As we alluded to in our previous article, somehow and somewhere people began to associate their natural rights, and subsequent civil rights to their lists of needs, when again in reality these rights are a want. Settle down give us a minute!
Can anyone support the assumption that civil rights are the same from state to state, let alone country to country? No! And we assuredly want to make this notion heard by everyone – In Iran for example it is against the law to practice or be together as a homosexual couple – moreover, when one thinks about Islam and the Muslims who abide in Islam, the actual act of ‘coming out’ – doesn’t seem particularly intelligent to us.
Now then, and for what it’s worth, the main-stream media as well as Rolling Stone Magazine feel a sense of self-serving nonsense by making it public that Adam Lambert, the runner-up on the latest installment of “American Idol,” has officially ‘come-out’ with the proclamation of “…this may come as no surprise to anyone…but I’m gay…”
All things being equal, who cares? The last item of business for me normally is not the sexual status of another human being. And herein lays a lot of where we believe the ambivalence comes from with others like us, who simply don’t care. Moreover, making this relevant to what we’re stating is in the notion of: Is it a want or a need to tell people what you do behind closed doors?
Telling folks what you do in your intimate and personal life is not a need. One is not going to die if they don’t divulge this information. However, more disconcerting is in the notion of ‘why’ a person feels that they need to disclose it. Now remains the dilemma of whether one can, in fact, follow rules, regulations, policy, or otherwise.
The ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy was a means to satisfy everyone who this affected. All one needs to do is maintain decorum and military discipline by NOT telling people what you do behind closed doors and who you are doing it with and this sounds very, very easy to us. I can assure you that I don’t go around and ask people what they do in their intimate lives simply because it is none of my business and I don’t want to know.
Now why is it that the LGBT community can’t understand and do the same thing?
You’re asking minorities to thank the majority for granting them civil liberties? That seems mildly arrogant. I don’t agree with affirmative action, or the funding of factions with public money.
“America’s left-wing has been accommodating, enabling, and empowering smaller factious groups since at least the seventeenth century”
America didn’t really exist until the 18th century, and prior to that the “left-wing” were the patriots. You may “see it” differently, but your opinion doesn’t line up with historical fact.
Gay people are not asking to be considered the same as everyone else, they are asking to be considered equal. There is a difference. No two people are exactly the same, but they must be treated as equals, with equal rights, if we are to have a truly fair and free nation.
Blaming discrimination on the group being discriminated is not logical. The only way to address a problem is to admit that there is one. Gay people talking about their problems is not discriminating against others. It is a way of addressing issues that arise because of misunderstandings and general ignorance in the populace.
Please don’t put words where they don’t belong. I loathe the notion that there are two different standards for receiving admittance into college and/or receiving a scholarship — one for blacks and one for whites.
A person who is black only needs a 1.8 GPA in high school to qualify for admittance to university study. A white person needs nothing shy of at 2.50 GPA to get into a community college. At the university level it is indeed higher. While we’re on it, we both know the definition of ‘scholarship.’ So how does a person with a 1.8 qualify for one?
Just one last issue: It is the ultimate act of discrimination to apply two completely different standards for the same matter. Hopefully with a little insight you can understand that the highest ranking on the list for ‘entitlements’ is a black single woman with children. Go figure. Is this separate but equal? Dude I have studied Brown v. Board…Topeka, Kansas till I’m purple in the face; moreover, I’ve read everything Justice Marshall said. His original claims were spot on. Yet, if he were around today, he’d be pissed.
If you don’t by now, you should know that I am a Constitutional scholar and at times an expert and at other times an idiot. The notion of ‘Patriots’ and the left and right-wing groups in this country are more accurately described in The Federalist Papers and another great source is “The Anti-Federalist’s Papers.” That is where the real meaning to your assertions (facts????) are.
The trouble is that there are more basic needs than what you outline. Food, Water, and Shelter are needed to survive, but a sense of fulfillment, family, friends, community, these things are needed to live.
In today’s age, Homosexuals are not considered equal. They are either ignored, as you wish to do, or hated and killed, as is done in Iran and Iraq. The only way to bring attention to this issue is to identify with it.
So no, people shouldn’t talk about what they do behind closed doors. Adam Lambert isn’t. His “coming out” is his identifying with a community publicly, not an expression of sexual practices. TO believe otherwise is to believe in that oldest of stereotypes, that being gay is all about sex.
It isn’t.
Hey Michael (see above and see below),
Do you realize that every time someone refers to the ‘gay community’ they, themselves are being discriminatory? Furthermore, when folks talk about a ‘different’ group of people they are, in fact, making that ‘group’ different.
So if all of this is about equality and discrimination then I’d say that it certainly appears as though the discrimination starts with gays.
America’s left-wing has been accommodating, enabling, and empowering smaller factious groups since at least the seventeenth century regardless of what other society members have to say about it. Sorry, that’s just the way I see it. Being gay is different from the mainstream of this society. Period. We can’t hide it, because we don’t want too.
So why is it that every single faction or groups of people who are, in point of fact, different yet want equality? I’m not bent but what I am trying to say is where are all of the hundreds of thousands of Affirmative Action recipients now after school’s been paid for, day care is paid for, when has there been once that a small faction who has received tolerance, understanding, funds, and celebrating their diversity, ever gone public with a simple ‘thank you’?
La Raza (The Race) The Council for Hispanics and Latino in La Raza received 18 billion dollars for what?