Gay People are Awesome

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I am a lot of things; I’m annoyingly sarcastic, I’m terribly defensive, I lack patience, and I’m competitive to a fault.  One thing I’ve never been called is homophobic. In my mind,  exhibiting antipathy towards homosexuals would be like exhibiting antipathy towards  homo sapiens; it just does not compute in my tiny little brain.

Sure, proclaiming that I have gay friends doesn’t recuse me from being a homophobe, just as stating that your best friend is black doesn’t necessarily mean you’re not a racist.  To boot, I have been known to utter the word “f*g” and have quickly been chided by a gay compadre, but I’m here today to tell you that not only have I almost completely strickened that word from my vocab,  but that  I enjoy homosexuals.

I enjoy them because they’re awesome.  Generalizing here, they’re just more fun than regular people. They’re open and brutally honest.  They’re fashionable. They’re usually just as or more dedicated to a cause than other people.  They’re more courageous too;  not to mention, they have the market cornered for everything home decor.

Now if you’re wondering where I stand on the issue of gay-marriage, don’t, because I don’t care.  I’m not saying I don’t care as in I’m not interested.  I’m saying I don’t care as in it doesn’t effect my job, my blog, the NFL, or Facebook, so I’m all for it.  Who am I and who are you for that matter to weigh in on others’ lives when it has no impact on you?

Getting into what little about religion I do know and I’m going to contradict myself here but yes, do I think the intent of marriage when “GOD” “invented” it was procreation.  However, from the two books I’ve read about God and his only begotten son, Jesus, these guys are more about love than procreation.  You’ve heard the term, “God is love.”  Well this verse from Corinthians 13:13 takes it one step further:

“I may be able to speak the languages of human beings and even of angels, but if I have no love, my speech is no more than a noisy gong or a clanging bell. I may have the gift of inspired preaching; I may have all knowledge and understand all secrets; I may have the faith needed to move mountains-but if I have no love, I am nothing. I may give away everything I have, and even give up my body to be burned-but if I have no love, this does me no good.”

Obviously love is important to these dudes no matter who it’s between.

On Miss California I will say this: while I don’t believe people should weigh-in on things unnecessarily, if you’re asked a question you should give an honest answer, whether you’re representing California or Food for thought.  When we get sponsors (if we get sponsors), do you think I’ll then bite my proverbial tongue to pander to them?  No.  If I did, then that would be going against the very thing that got me those sponsors in the first place.  Being honest isn’t always in step with being politically correct and sometimes people’s feelings cannot be spared.

I’ll say that first of all Perez Hilton is an annoying gas bag and to draw a picture of a dick on Miss California’s face on his blog after the pageant is petty.  Just as he has a right to support gay marriage, Miss California has the right to believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman no matter how much it really doesn’t impact her and no matter how much it goes against the “essence” of being Miss USA.  Whether it’s closed minded or not though, that was her belief and she WAS asked the question.

I’ll leave you with two things:

1) Although it’s now too late to query your representative, the local law enforcement hate crimes prevention act (otherwise known as the Matthew Shepard Act) passed the house along a mostly party line vote yesterday and it must now pass the Senate before it goes to the president’s desk.   I’m assuming you can now blow up your senator’s cell phone to tell him to vote for it.  If I’m wrong, I’m sure my friend Terry will leave a comment with more information.

2) Question….is one racist if they think it should be illegal for a person of color to marry a Caucasian? Is one xenophobic if they think foreigners shouldn’t be allowed in the country? Is one intolerant if they think practicing Islam should be illegal? Thanks Terry for the discussion points.

Food for thought – udothedishes…