I can’t help but be in a bad mood today and it’s a direct reflection of the vote in
It really sucks when not only do you have to deal with homophobia on the street but it also sucks when you have to deal with it in your own families or friends as well. I am a strong believer that family is not a shared bond of blood but it is who you let into your heart. I really don’t understand and maybe I’m just naive why some people would insist on me celebrating their marriage, their children, and their life together, yet when it comes time for me to celebrate they look at it as though we are playing a child’s game of house. How could we possibly be serious? We are two men. I’ve decided recently that enough is enough if you can’t take a serious confirming interest in my life than my life has no room for you. My life is too valuable and short to have it filled up with the negativity of some people.
One thing in life that I value more than anything is my absolutely loving partner, Mike and our adoring little angel Nicholas. Nothing in this world can ever rip apart the bond that the three of us share. We have had discussions many times about raising our family with religion and we have finally come to the absolute conclusion that religion is actually the root of all evil. Religion disallows anyone to be a free thinker; it disallows anyone that is different from them to have a happy life together. They say to give your heart to Jesus and God in my opinion they might as well give their heart to Charles Manson or Hitler because that is the behavior that they, the religious right groups are portraying. Don’t get me totally wrong because there are plenty of good people out there that do hold religion dear to them but also are not bound with hatred and have sensitivity in their heart to others with different beliefs.
To cliché a phrase “misery loves company,” is that why there are so many right wing religious groups? Have they become a collective like the Borg? Are people today that miserable that they are drawing in on the negativity of everything and trying to suck the life out of those that are weak only to make their own cause stronger. I heard a great phrase in a song by Annie Lennox “dying is easy, it’s living that scares me to death,” how true.
I feel somewhat better after blowing off some steam. I refuse, as do many of the lgbt community, to give up the fight for equality. With any hope in the near future we’ll start to see some change for progress and we can all live in a country that values all of its citizens as first class.