Pride Month!

 Hi, 

This is going to purely be opinion because I want to let you know my plan for the next month. Pride Month. I'm letting you know beforehand so you can skip it if you disagree with me--by which I mean, if you're going to be a bigot here, leave and feel free to not come back. In some ways, I'd love to actually talk to a bigot about how they justify things and whatnot, but I don't see that happening without both of us getting angry at the other and abandoning the whole thing. In some ways, that makes me feel unreasonable, but since I'm militantly accepting of people as they are (aside from bigotry, but that's because I know that's a choice and a wrong one), I don't actually mind being unreasonable here. 

There are a few arguments I know that people have against homosexuality/transexuals/etc. I just want to give my responses to those points, then you can bring up new ones if you need to, but you'll at least understand what I'm doing this month. 

First-- The bible is against it, therefore God is against it. 

Nope. The culture of the time the bible was written means that homosexuality was common. Ancient Greece, it was known and expected to have sex with your own gender often, and it was often considered correct for men to be closer to each other than their wives. 

The Bible isn't the word of God. I'm not saying it wasn't originally his teachings, but it's been translated a thousand times and each translator added their own little quirks and opinions to it, which then got added to later translations. There's a rumor about the King James bible having a hidden Easter Egg about Shakespeare, but I haven't looked into that much so don't take my word for it. More recent translations of some really old texts, instead of translations of translations, suggests that the line about men laying with men was actually referring to men laying with children. So, against pedophilia. Which isn't actually saying much since they could be considered adults before they hit double digits, in some places/times. Plus, with all the interpretations that have been had, you can make the bible say pretty much anything. 

Second argument-- it's unnatural. 

Nope again. If it were unnatural, it would only appear in humans. Instead, there are multiple animal species that have homosexual relationships, there are some birds that have homosexual pair bonds that last for life and they occasionally mate with another pair so that they can get eggs to raise-- male/male or female/female pairs getting together just for eggs. If God objected that much to homosexuality, he would have stopped that from happening. 

Plus, there are multiple species, such as a stick insect in Australia and a lizard in New Mexico, that are purely female and have sex only for pleasure, but procreate through parthenogenesis. So, that tells me that God doesn't even object to it on account of procreation, because he found a way around that. So...there goes the threat to families also. 

Third-- We'll take the Threat to Families here. 

If homosexuality was contagious, then it would have gotten to everyone. Considering the centuries that it was a known and accepted act, there is no one that doesn't have homosexuality somewhere in their genetics, if that's a worry, and there is already proof that being exposed to homosexuality doesn't make people gay. 

It may make them rethink a few things and realize that they were gay all along, but it doesn't make them gay if they aren't open to it. 

Giving a kid to a household with two gay parents won't hurt the kid. Conflating homosexuality and pedophilia is disgusting and a whole other can of worms that I'll shove down the throat of anyone that tries that argument. 

Fourth-- Marriage is between a man and a woman. 

Marriage is a human construct and has, over the centuries, been a lot of things. Trying to limit it's definition is bigoted and stupid and disrespectful to the generations that came before us. 

Fifth-- The slippery slope. We can't accept homosexuality because then we might accept polygamy or something else worse. 

I'm sorry, is anyone actually going to try to use this argument? It came on a list of arguments against homosexuality and I just can't with it. I mean, you could apply this anywhere. Slavery, for example. No one should ever be a slave and I hate that any human has ever thought themselves above others so much that they were willing to allow such a heinous act, but forcing the freeing of slaves? That could have been a slippery slope to treating everyone equally, like letting women work and protecting children and whatever else you think this could have led to. 

Sixth-- It threatens traditional values. 

No. It is actually more traditional than the more recent bigotry that is homophobia. That's the new thing that's threatening traditional values. It's also leading to a lot of issues because it made men scared of being close to each other for fear of someone suggesting that they were in a relationship they aren't. 

The other problem with this argument is that, if this threatens traditional values, then maybe those values should change. 

There's also the arguments against Transexuals. 

They're a new idea? No. There are several cultures that have had transsexuals for centuries, and historical artifacts have in fact shown men and women that were in the roles of the other gender. There is a pair of men mentioned in the Egyptian Mural/Hieroglyphic histories that has what is thought to be a gay pair. There are hunter/gatherer graves for women containing hunting tools. There are also old cultures that have proof of transexuals in their histories and now. I'll actually bring up some of those this month. 

They're just a fad? No. They have been around for a long time. Nowhere near new. They might be more popular among kids because it's not an option, but that doesn't mean it's a fad or new. 

They're against God? Look, either he makes us all the way we are, or he doesn't. If he puts a female soul in a male body, he obviously means for us to love the soul and let them be who they are. Unless God is cruel, he wants us to prove that we can love everyone for who they are, like he does and he asked us to, instead of being self-important bigots who want to tear others down. 

Ok, I'm done for now. As you can probably see, I'm entirely Pro-LGBTQIA+, and will object to anyone trying to cause problems there. 

In case it comes up, I'm also pro-Black/Women/Children/Etc, which for me means that everyone should be treated with respect and as equals...aside from bigots, who should be educated on why bigoty is un-Christian and not helpful to life as a whole. 

I'm also Pro-Animals. That's a whole other thing, but I love them and love cuddling them. I have a few other litters of kittens at the moment that I'll tell you about when they get older so I have more pictures of them, and after June because I have other plans for this month. 

If you want to argue for your bigotry, I'm willing to listen to your arguments and explain why they're wrong, if you're willing to consider that you might be or can come up with an argument that doesn't fall apart as soon as you ask for proof. 

Let me know if there is anything I should add or anything you want me to write about this month, and I'll see you tomorrow for the first of the month of LGBTQ+ stuff.