The Christian 'Wrong"

There's a Fundamentalist writing comments on one of my essays trying to convince me that being gay is a choice. I know, normally not even worth my time. Yet she won't give up - she is so certain she is right. Again and again she wants me to read the Fundie sites which claim to "cure" homosexuality. She talks of being a psychologist/nurse who has seen it happen.

Of course I don't believe her. Too many of my friends who are gay are people I have known for so long and who have experienced so much at the hands of this cruel society we currently have. If they could "choose" to be something different and not suffer or be afraid of the reprisals at work, with regard to housing, traveling, or any one of a number of other subtle ways they've often been told they are somehow "wrong" they would. Who would want to suffer through all of this?

Continually she is telling me I am not reading what she's sending me. Of course I am not. One glance and I know what it says - I have heard it all before. Has she read the writings of Mel White who worked for Jerry Falwell, all the while suffering as a closeted gay man? I doubt it, or she believes he can be cured too. Uh huh.

In any case, while listening to her tell me I am wrong and she is right (typical of the Fundies - there are no opinions, just that they know they are right and the rest of the world is wrong) I finally said that I sure hope a gay child or grandchild didn't come into her life. She didn't like that.

Well, let's see, it's okay for you to say my friends are going to hell based on what you BELIEVE (I don't care how much Fundies say the word KNOW - it's still FAITH and a BELIEF. If they have to call it KNOWING to make themselves feel better, that just shows how weak a foundation that belief really is set on.) but the minute I say that based on your writing I would not want to be your child or grandchild if I were gay, I am somehow disrespecting you.

Why is it so one-sided to them? It's like the whole Doctor Dean controversy. The Neo-Con Republicans have been disrespecting Democrats, Liberals, hell anyone who doesn't follow their line of thinking for the last ten years now. Yet the minute someone fires back at them with the same fire they have been dishing out, suddenly it's a terrible thing.

Here's a newsflash for you DICK (so appropriate is that for him) Cheney: I love Howard Dean. I know plenty of other Democrats and Progressives who are cheering him on. It seems to me that it't the Neo-Cons who are afraid of him. Just as some people are afraid of words that conflict with what they need to "KNOW".