041109 0022 - Daniel J. Stern posted:

> On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, indago wrote:
>
>> I am recalling a program I saw on cable of a search into why an
>> individual is gay. An individual, seeking to understand why someone is
>> gay, asked a gay person: "Why are you gay?" The gay person looked him
>> straight in the eye and asked: "Why are you straight?"
>
> A clever and apt rejoinder, to be sure, and it might make the light of
> understanding come on for some thinking people, but not for those
> self-proclaimed "Christians" for whom thinking is tantamount to blasphemy.
> For those individuals, the answer to "Why are you straight?" runs along
> the lines of "Because that is God's order for the world. Homosexuality is
> inherently disordered, an abomination before God, and it is a behavior and
> a lifestyle choice at best, and a sickness at worst. Come pray with us and
> Jesus will cure you of your homosexual urges."
>
> That's a longwinded way of saying what President Bush's Karl Rove said
> just the other day:
>
> "If we want to have a hopeful and decent(!) society, we ought to aim for
> the ideal, and the ideal is that marriage ought to be, and should be, a
> union of a man and a woman."
>
> Yep, that's the Bush administration..."spreading freedom and democracy
> around the globe" (the Brits called it "bringing them civilisation" a
> century ago...didn't work out too well back then, either).
>
>

Now I am recalling the story of the schoolbus driver who was driving a bunch
of school kids to school, and listening to all the name calling and chatter.
He finally got tired of it and pulled the bus over to the side of the road,
and hollered back to the kids: "OK you kids, I'm tired of listening to all
you kids namecalling each other, calling ******s, whitey, chink, and
whatever. From now on we're all going to be one color on this bus. We're
all going to be GREEN. Now you dark greenies get on toward the back of the
bus and you light greenies move on up front here."