I think that the issues of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transexual acceptance is very interesting. While I personally don't care if people are gay and get married, I don't want to be around people who are overly flamboyant. I also don't care as long as I'm not hit on by gay guys or preached to about gay rights because I don't care. I think it's interesting because it's something that really shouldn't be a public issue even though people only care about it because of their religious beliefs but honestly if they're not hurting you then why should you care? I've known gay people that are cool and friendly and honestly didn't think twice about it but one gay person I know was overly flamboyant and annoying and came onto me and he actually goes here to ship. I think the people at the Westboro church were absolutely crazy, they made connections to religion that made no sense. An example of this is when the woman who is the pastor's wife says that being gay is in the ten commandments when she said it was the same as committing adultery which is not true at all. And then they were saying god was killing our soldiers because we allow gay marriage in America as if soldiers never died before gay marriage was legal. In a nutshell, they're all just biblehugging assholes who need to worry about themselves and get the hell out of America. They can go live in some other country and see how much they like it and if theyre freedom of speech is allowed where they go.
Oranges are not the only fruit was a very difficult book to read because it jumped around way to much and never went into enough detail. But as for the overall message behind the book I thought it was like every other book about a girl who finds herself to be a lesbian. It wasn't very interesting and the only reason it was somewhat readable was the fact that she was sexually active with other girls in the book.
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I appreciate your post. I agree with you whole heartedly on the idea that I believe gays should have every bit of rights as heterosexuals do. I do not believe that a simple choice of preference in people should change the way you view a person unless it affects you as an individual. I agree with you when you mention Oranges are not the only fruit was a difficult read. I found it very difficult to follow at some points...so once I was finished with the novel I read it through on sparknotes to make sure I was gaining the right concepts.
ReplyDeleteI think your opinion on this topic is similar to the opinion of a lot of people our age that really isn't considered in the political debates over whether we should allow gay marriage or not. That is that most of us feel we should allow gay marriage, but that doesn't necessarily mean we're comfortable around certain gay people. And also I agree that the novel was pretty confusing
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