Subscribe to RSS FeedIs This What The Religious Right Really Wants?
A story about a Canadian MP named Jason Kenney, who in speaking about Canada’s upcoming historic vote to allow Gays to marry in ALL of Canada, said
“Marriage is open to everybody, as long as they’re a man and a woman”Â
.Got me thinking, that maybe we need to pursue this line of reasoning here in the U.S.A., and start a group advocating Heterosexual Marriage for Gays and Lesbians. The guiding principle would be to covertly woo and marry the adult children of the Religious Right leadership. That way, years later, you can come out to your betrothed, and rock their world with your homosexual revelation.It seems like this is really what people like Jerry Falwell, Bill Frist, Tom Delay, Rick Santorum, Pat Robertson, and James Dobson want after all is it not? They want Gay and Lesbian human beings, to deny who they are, to fit into their narrow “biblical” world view, which only perpetuates the suffering of those involved, in order to satisfy the desires of those who are not even a party to the relationship.I like how the Dalai Lama puts it, (edited for length)
Genuine compassion is based not on our own projections and expectations, but rather on the needs of the other: irrespective of whether another person is a close friend or an enemy, as long as that person wishes for peace and happiness and wishes to overcome suffering, then on that basis we develop genuine concern for their problem.Whether people are beautiful or plain, friendly or cruel, ultimately they are human beings, just like oneself. Like oneself, they want happiness and do not want suffering. Furthermore, their right to overcome suffering and to be happy is equal to one’s own. Now, when you recognize that all beings are equal in both their desire for happiness and their right to obtain it, you automatically feel empathy and closeness for them. Through accustoming your mind to this sense of universal altruism, you develop a feeling of responsibility for others; you wish to help them actively overcome their problems. This wish is not selective; it applies equally to all beings. As long as they experience pleasure and pain just as you do, there is no logical basis to discriminate between them or to alter your concern for them if they behave negatively.
