People often tell me I would be a therapists ultimate project. I have a certain shy righteousness about myself which clashes with and mystifies the people who know me in real life. The truth is that I do keep a large section of my real opinions to myself especially when they involve the personal. I am a social media trooper, yes. My previous entries will shed some light on my past struggles (and successes), but i've never reached a point in a journal entry or through a tweet where I can fully anticipate people will learn anything of true value about me. Not that I feel like I need to explain or make excuses for my actions per se, I do want to put my life into a closer context with how I actually feel in writing. Here's the first entry.
Why do I have such passion for same-sex couples rights to Marriage and Adoption?
I find this one hard to explain as one definitive point. I don't have Marriage on the agenda currently and my plans as they stand are to adopt a child as a single parent. Therefore my sexuality bias has no possible relation to my desire for all people on our planet to have the dignity, autonomy and freedom a reasonable person would say they deserve. Or does it?
The irrevocable truth is that being Gay means I have some rooted personal interest in the idea of a potential future family. I can't deny that fact. Even when I am arguing for same-sex marriage rights for Californian's or people who live in Maine, for example... deep down I opine. I guess my want for self preservation is what gives the ultimate life to my equality high, even though in theory what happens to one state in America has nothing to do with me.
However. The fact that who I am created a glass-half-empty attitude on my views towards the rights of other people similar to me does not preclude my conscious reasons for wanting full equality from being genuine. What gives birth to an idea isn't always the end game or the motivating factor once the life created decides for itself where it wants to travel. I may have just taken a lot longer or been slightly more oblivious to the actual perils of homosexual people had I been straight, for example. The life of my passion for equal rights (in my opinion) is fueled nowadays by my sharp hatred of people treating other people as less than for things they cannot change and only then magnified by my personal feelings of second-class status that trickled down from my childhood.
You could argue from my reaction when Proposition 8 was struck down, that I am throwing myself into the debate as a way to say fuck you to the Catholic Church. This is more of a bonus for me personally and certainly not the central purpose in my efforts. That's truly another point in and of itself, so...
Who do you hate the Catholic Church? Also, why do you issue ultimatums to people who are catholic identifying that they cannot be friends with you unless they abandon their faith?
...continued ...soon.
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