Approval

Yesterday at Church there was a visiting Pastor who was using an alias to protect his identity while he travels around to LGBTQ churches preaching the Word. I enjoyed his teachings, but the many contradictions hit me soon thereafter. How can you preach that one should have courage when speaking the Truth, then do so only using an alias? A few of us from Church took the Pastor out for dinner. The dualities became even more apparent over Greek food. The Pastor, who came out late in life, began talking about the nature vs. nuture argument for determination of homosexuality. Everyone at the time engaged in the banter about whether the domineering mother or genetic composition caused us to be as fabulously queer as we are.

That was about the time I had to cry foul. Why is the Pastor, and each of us, looking so hard for vailidation? It is as if gay people really need someone to either confirm that it is okay to be gay or to come up with a biological reason for being gay so that it's okay. Who cares if it is biological, social, psychosocial, or just psycho, it is what we say it is. Isn't it our Constitutional right to love who we want to? Alright, but shouldn't it be? As long as who we are banging isn't classified as a farm animal, we don't need anyone's seal of approval. Even at that, you have to admit that the coy advances of domestic sheep are hard to turn down.