11-29-2011, 05:32 PM
But a happy balance can be found in this world. Experience tells me that balance is never found by ZEALOTS on either extreme.
I am 54..I have been openly gay since I was 15...and that happy balance you mention is a tad condescending...these zealots on at least one side have been fighting for equality due to the action of the zealots on another.
Sure...there is alot of "unhappiness" and a lack of balance when a partner who has been with someone for 20-30 years looses everything because the church actively obstructs people that are not even it's own members from enjoying equality under the law.
I watched AIDS unfold and I can spend the next four hours telling you one story after another about the unbelievable heartbreak and cruelty with partners not being allowed at the bedside of the person they love....it still haunts me to this day...I watched and listened and it was raw and it never leaves you...
Right now the surviving person of a couple who were one of our best friends and who got together when we did 25 years ago is rehabilitating and learning to walk after an accident killed his lover and left him paralyzed and in a coma. he woke up to have his whole life and all his possessions ripped from him by his lovers religious family with the full support of the law behind them. I felt sick listening to the story and so very angry..too bad he can't enjoy the balance you speak of....
Your church has done alot of damage to GLBT people..damage that cannot be undone...ruined alot of lives....
...so thank God for the zealots who are working for TRUE balance...not the kind of balance you describe. Equality is the TRUE BALANCE.
I am not condemning your choices..they are what they are...but to suggest people who are fighting for the equality and who stand up to the church are zealots is a bit too much for me.
I am 54..I have been openly gay since I was 15...and that happy balance you mention is a tad condescending...these zealots on at least one side have been fighting for equality due to the action of the zealots on another.
Sure...there is alot of "unhappiness" and a lack of balance when a partner who has been with someone for 20-30 years looses everything because the church actively obstructs people that are not even it's own members from enjoying equality under the law.
I watched AIDS unfold and I can spend the next four hours telling you one story after another about the unbelievable heartbreak and cruelty with partners not being allowed at the bedside of the person they love....it still haunts me to this day...I watched and listened and it was raw and it never leaves you...
Right now the surviving person of a couple who were one of our best friends and who got together when we did 25 years ago is rehabilitating and learning to walk after an accident killed his lover and left him paralyzed and in a coma. he woke up to have his whole life and all his possessions ripped from him by his lovers religious family with the full support of the law behind them. I felt sick listening to the story and so very angry..too bad he can't enjoy the balance you speak of....
Your church has done alot of damage to GLBT people..damage that cannot be undone...ruined alot of lives....
...so thank God for the zealots who are working for TRUE balance...not the kind of balance you describe. Equality is the TRUE BALANCE.
I am not condemning your choices..they are what they are...but to suggest people who are fighting for the equality and who stand up to the church are zealots is a bit too much for me.
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