So recently there's been a shitload of talk about same-sex marriage and adoption. Well, not 'talk' really. More like raging-self-righteous-high-minded-fire-spitting-angry-conflict. There are crazy Catholics quoting huge sections of Leviticus, gay-rights campaigners retaliating with sarcastic biting comments and the good guys preaching love.
What really sickens me about this whole debate is that some people are using it as an excuse to expound their homophobic views in the name of 'children's rights' and worse, God himself. Sure, we're "all entitled to our own opinions", yaddayaddayadda, but trying to pass off your own opinion as that of God is just disgusting. I admit, I don't know what the Big Man thinks about the whole thing - we chat and all, but he communicates in actions rather than words - but NEITHER DOES ANYONE ELSE. And no, the Bible cannot be taken entirely literally as God's word because it has been translated from ancient languages and who knows what's been lost in translation.
All that aside, the main message we're taught is that God loves us all, no matter what we've done or who we are. Thus, surely homosexuals are loved just as much as anyone else and trying to say that they will burn in hell for all eternity for behaving in a way that feels natural to them makes me RAGE. All I want to say to those small-minded fucks: Keep your nasty little opinions to yourself and stop foisting them on others.
So then they start to spout statistics making out that all gays are the sex-crazed, perverted spawn of Satan. They say that these statistics prove without doubt that their views are incontrovertibly correct. Here I might point out that the Nazi's published statistics just like that about the Jewish people, and I think we'd all agree that they were very, very wrong. In that light, it's pretty easy to see that statistics can be doctored, misquoted and just simply made up on the spot, and cannot be taken as gospel truth.
So the purpose of this little rant was to express my opinion in a way that won't cause ferocious facebook fights featuring the ubiquitous keyboard warrior - those people who seem to spend their lives sitting in front of a computer, spoiling for an argument. I may be a young person with admittedly limited experience of the world, but I'm pretty adamant when it comes to this matter. Comments leading to intelligent discussion are always greatly appreciated though :)
Over and out.
