I find that as I get older I'm becoming less and less tolerant of differing opinions; specifically those political. Perhaps it's the way things have turned out now as opposed to when I was younger, or my awareness of things now as opposed to when I was younger. I cannot understand gay Republicans, even moderate ones. Jake is one, due to his conservative upbringing and so forth, and it boggles my mind. It's one thing I guess if you agree with enough of their principles, but I don't understand anybody homosexual identifying with them. They don't want us in their club under any pretense. They aren't even being subtle about it. Look at George Bush's website under Outreach; there's a heading for everything including "snowmobiler," but nothing for homosexual.

I had an argument once with one of those gay republicans, who was every bit the type of bigoted racist you find in the back end of Texas despite being a fudgepacker and Middle Eastern, and the things that continued to come out of his mouth made my skin crawl. He didn't feel that gay people should get married and that the entire gay rights movement should cease because gay people should work towards being exactly like straight people so they stop rocking the boat. My problem with that viewpoint was that it made restrictions on a group of people for no reason whatsoever. He countered with "Well your viewpoint restricts my beliefs."

I guess he's right, but I'm fine to restrict a person's belief(s) if their beliefs take away or refuse the rights of another human being for stupid and arbitrary reasons like race or religion or anal sex. Is that equally as wrong as the minds that crafted segregation and slavery? I don't feel in my heart that it is.

I've told C.S. on many occasions that I hope I'm never put in a position to make the choice between pressing the button to save the human race or let it be wiped out. I hope I'm never the deciding voice that the aliens hear from in their trial over whether or not to destroy the world. I hope it's never made my decision, because I would honestly have a very difficult time explaining why it needs to be kept around.

For all the good our species once created, and for all the pockets of beauty scattered around the earth, is it really anything that needs to be kept? I don't know. I'm personally just a few more Orwellian choices in legislature away before I start engineering a super virus.

Entry last modified: April 14, 2006 at 1:49 pm.

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