I think that some bigots are afraid of kids asking questions. They’ll say, “don’t confuse them with your gay imagery and shoving everything in their faces, it’ll confuse them!” Well, news flash for them: Teenage-dom is a REALLY CONFUSING TIME. Sexuality at that age is confusing.

I came out as bisexual first – people might think this is less courageous, like I was still closeting myself. Maybe this was true at first – but honestly, many of my questioning peers were coming out as Bi, and I was also still questioning myself. I made clear I’m attracted to girls – I just wasn’t sure I wasn’t also attracted to guys. One female friend of mine was trying to figure out the same thing, but swap the genders in my previous sentence. We bonded over it.

To this day I still feel as though I’m not completely 100% gay. I mean, I’m GAY – I doubt I could ever be with a man, don’t get me wrong – but I don’t think I’m 100% attracted in only one direction all the time. And I think this is okay. I think acknowledging this and trying to understand this about one’s self is more important than finding the “correct” label. I think Gene is totally right in saying the kids 10 years younger than me – today’s teens – are experiencing coming out in a different way than I did, maybe taking it more for granted. Bless ‘em! I’m glad it’s come to that. :D

Oh, and sorry for rambling.

Those of us who are religious, and belong to churches that ARE accepting of GLBT people as we are, do believe we have the evidence, and that the call to do justice (including to GLBT people) love kindness (ditto) and follow God as we understand God, a God of justice and mercy (this comes from Micah) would say we are the finer of the group, and work hard (both hetero and gay members) to share this message with more and more people. We have been having more and more success at it by the way.

We read our scripture and come to the conclusion, often at odds with the things we were tought as kids and by society, that God calls us to be accepting and loving of all people, regardless of their orientation.

I respect your anger…and we have discussed this. I am not trying to convert you. But please, realize that, at great cost, whole denominations with millions of members are now GLBT welcoming. To imply that the whold Church (big C) is not, it’s just not right Richard.

People of faith are often the enemy. I am the first to admit that. But far, far from all people of faith are, and some, after looking at their own instruction book, become some of our best allies. And as the recently retired Bishop of NH would tell you, some of “them”, are “us”.

Yep, they’ve lost all the actual arguments. But America’s finest Christians never allow trivialities such as reasoning, evidence, and facts to get in their way. They just try harder. And that means ratcheting up the breathless frenzied intensity of lying to incite fear and loathing.

Wouldn’t you expect God, the creator of the universe, to provide his finest followers with much more solid material to work with than lies? Since God created within us the ability to reason, is it too much to expect that His directives be backed up with at least a smidgen of evidence and facts? A real god COULD do that. Why doesn’t he?

PS: Kudos to all the wonderful positive posts and commenters in this blog!

BTW, Obama is just doing the lame-a*s Democratic thing where he pretends he doesn’t support marriage equality, which, while obnoxious, is still better than the bigots of the Republican party. Don’t worry — public opinion is on our side, and as the bigoted side continues to die of natural causes, it won’t be long before the Democrats just support marriage equality. I mean, lots of Republicans already do…