I have always believed in the evolution of consciousness.
Especially of those who blabber every Sunday morning from pulpits
about something called "love." Ugly and vicious internal
battles are going on today in Episcopalian churches, as well as Methodist,
Presbyterian and others. And of course all fundamentalist churches
are in homophobic trauma. I am having doubts about the evolution of
consciousness. |
A roll call of the brilliant gays and lesbians of history
who have made giant contributions to our evolution as a species and
to our cultural heritage, would include the following. |
King James (yes, of King James bible fame)..Plato..Alexander
the Great...Leonardo Da Vinci...Gore Vidal...Michelangelo...Walt Whitman...Emily
Dickinson...Gertrude Stein...Rock Hudson...Greta Garbo...W.H. Auden...Amy
Lowell...Tennessee Williams...Thornton Wilder...Willa Cather...Jane
Austen...Henry James...George Santayana...Babe Zaharias...Christopher
Isherwood....Peter Tchaikovsky...Oscar Wilde...Clifton Webb...Ethel
Waters...Frederick the Great...Liberace...Rudolph Valentino...James
Dean...James Hormel...Ramon Navarro...Malcolm Forbes...Christopher
Marlowe...Phillip Johnson...Van Cliburn...Edward Everett Horton...John
Gielgud....George Gershwin...Adrian...Aristotle...Hadrian...Chastity
Bono...Noel Coward...Agnes Moorehead...Montgomery Clift...Anthony
Perkins...Virginia Woolf...Edward Albee...Andre Gide...Sumner Welles...Cole
Porter...George Cukor...Marcel Proust....Rudolph Nureyev...Genet...Dag
Hammarskjold...Martina Navratilova....John Chever...Aaron Copland....A.E.
Housman...William Tilden...Greg Louganis...Ian McKellen...Richard
Halliburton...Lawrence of Arabia....William Haines....Horatio Alger...Jean
Genet...Sumner Welles...Ethel Waters...Leonard Bernstein...and space
limitations preclude my listing thousands more of many of the most
creative and brilliant representatives of our species. |
I have two nephews. brothers, who often visited me on
Marine Corps and Naval Air Stations. They always wanted to be a fighter
pilot like their "uncle Bill". They both became
top
Naval Fighter pilots. One became the Number one Top Gun of that elite
group. His brother is gay and has been as far back as he can remember.
Today he is a captain with one of America's largest airlines and is
one of the finest pilots in America. Gay. |
Robert Bernstein, former Senior Trial Lawyer for the
U.S. Dept. of Justice, wrote an excellent book "Straight Parents,
Gay Children." He and his wife were told by their daughter that
she had always been a lesbian. They embraced her with love, and marched
with her in gay parades. Bob went on to become the National President
of PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays.) one of the finest
and most loving organizations in America. |
When is the good Christian love going to extend to the
over 600,000 lesbian and gay youth under 18 years of age in California
alone? The suicide rate is the highest in gay and lesbian children
because of their families' inability to accept who they are and give
them the Christian 'love' they prattle about every Sunday in church.
|
The Christian church has a 2000 year old history of
opposing scientific truth and blocking moral issues: the brutal persecution
of Copernicus...Galileo...Bruno...Vesalius and others; supporting
slavery with biblical references...fighting against the rights of
women, including voting... |
How many future generations of morally sensitive people
are going to be amazed, and laughing, at the homophobic ignorance
and superstitions of todays churches? |
In the name of Christian love, the
witch hunting
moralists are at work. Poor things. They can hardly get out of bed
in the morning without knees shaking...hands shaking and lips quivering.
The sexual world they have to face each day is full of fantasized
goblins...devils...evil spirits and bogeymen and their church fights
over bedroom witch hunts. |
A closing question that any intelligent grade school
child could ask: When are Christians going to start living the "love"
they drivel about every Sunday? |