The Straight and Narrow...

I don't usually spend much time thinking about the 'straight and narrow' folks of the world. Tonight is not one of those times that I can disregard them entirely. I got some questions on my mind.

Do you think they were born that way or did some traumatic life-event stunt their intellectual, spiritual and emotional growth? I do believe that children learn what they live. I mean, if education isn't possible then public education really has no point. But I concede, not all education is of the intellectual variety. Look at athletes and dancers and actors of an exceptional level. There seems to be a physical agility, an intelligence of motion that most of us do not possess. Look at the great minds of philosophy and psychiatry like Jung and Freud and Nietzsche, they seem to possess an intuitive intelligence to a degree most of the rest of us lack.

So, how do we come think as we do? Is it innate (genetic, LOL) or is it learned? How do the institutions like government, family, school and church effect our minds? Are conservatives born or made? Yes indeed, where do conservatives of the political and religious types come from? And, more importantly, can we send them back there?

Why do some people think they can speak for God? Do they think they are that important? Must be pretty kewl to think you are that right all the time, huh? Why do some people think that I should conform to their vision of perfect reality? What the hell makes anyone think that they have a grip on what a perfect reality is? Hmmm...interesting question, eh?

Ever want to shove a pine tree down a conservatives' throat? I've heard that some parts are edible! (not a Euell Gibbons quote, but I couldn't' resist...LOL)

I look at all the outrageous things I've been told by the 'straight and narrow' types. UGH!

It's just a phase..........FOR THIRTY-SIX FREAKING YEARS????

If I pray for release this will be lifted from me...SO GOD MADE ME GAY SO I CAN PRAY TO NOT BE GAY SO HE CAN FIX ME???? GOD MUST BE VERRRRY BORED WITH THE UNIVERSE!!!

It's not normal...AND IT IS NORMAL TO WORRY ABOUT EVERYBODY ELSE LIFE BUT YOUR OWN???? AND JUST BECAUSE IT'S NOT YOUR NORMAL DOESN'T MEAN IT'S NOT MY NORMAL, BY THE WAY!!!

It's not healthy...REFER TO "It's not normal" response.

God's plan is....YOU CAN FILL IN THE BLANK WITH 'WHATEVER' HERE AS THE RELIGIONISTS GENERALLY DO!!!!

It's in the Bible....WELL THERE ARE ONLY 10 COMMANDMENTS, I'D THINK IF IT WAS THAT IMPORTANT THERE'D BE A COMMANDMENT JUST FOR THAT!!! WAS THAT AN OVERSIGHT?

It's in the Bible...WHY DIDN'T JESUS ADDRESS THIS? WAS THAT AN OVERSIGHT? DOES GOD COMMIT OVERSIGHTS?

Leviticus says, "Man shall not lie with man as with woman" ...WELL OF COURSE NOT, BASIC BIOLOGY, IT'S GOT TO BE DONE DIFFERENT, NOW DOESN'T IT? IS THAT PROHIBITION OR A HEADS-UP ON THE FACTS OF GAY LIFE? DUH!!!

Marriage is between a man and a woman...MARRIAGE IS BETWEEN TWO PEOPLE AND THE DULY ELECTED GOVERNMENT THEY LIVE UNDER!!!

Gays will destroy the institution of marriage....HAVE YOU LOOKED AT THE DIVORCE RATES LATELY? HETEROSEXUALS ARE DOING A GOOD JOB ALL ON THEIR OWN.

Gays will destroy 'family' ...WHERE DO YOU THINK GAYS COME FROM? WHAT DO YOU THINK IT DOES TO A FAMILY TO BELIEVE CASTING OUT A LOVED ONE IS A GOOD IDEA?

Homosexuals are pedophiles...GET A DICTIONARY SO YOU CAN GET CLUE!!!

Gays want 'special' rights...LET'S SEE, THE RIGHT TO LOVE, TO MARRY LAWFULLY, TO CARE FOR OUR LOVED ONES, TO BE RESPECTED AND SAFE IN OUR BEING...HELLO! ARE THERE ANY HUMAN BEINGS WHO DO NOT WANT THOSE RIGHTS???

Dear God, please protect me from your zealots!

Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray oh lord, the zealots at bay to keep,
Should they rise up in rancor before I wake, I pray the lord their tongues to take.

Why, oh why, do those conservatives insist that I believe in the God of their understanding? And why the hell do they believe they completely, fully and utterly understand a being of infinite dimensions? Do they really think they can take the infinite and grasp it in the infinitesimal space between their two ears?

OH GIVE ME A HOME, WHERE THE ATHEISTS ROAM,
WHERE THE QUEER AND DISENFRANCHISED PLAY.
WHERE SELDOM IS HEARD A DISPARAGING WORD
AND RELIGIONISTS ARE QUIET ALL DAY!
HOME! HOME OF THE BASICALLY SANE!

Eenie, meenie, miney, moe,
Catch a religionist by the toe!
If he hollars, "don't you believe?'
Just say, "Hell no!"

See, I have a higher power, a god, if you like, of my understanding. I don't have to believe in yours. I have my own. And, incidentally, you can't have my higher power cause it won't work for you. Your straight and narrow mind couldn't begin to conceive of what I call the source of life and light and understanding. My god is Jesus and Allah and Vishnu and the Great Spirit and the four winds and the elements of water, earth, sky and fire; the hint of universal in a limited existence; things seen and unseen, things felt by my heart and soul which no one else will ever experience the way I do. That intimate relationship with the creative essence that I know personally assures me that I am on the right path, pursuing my journey as only I can.

SO GET YOUR PRESUMPTIVE HANDS OFF MY LIFE!!! GET INVOLVED IN YOUR OWN LIFE AND LEAVE THE REST OF US ALONE! ENOUGH OF YOUR HOLIER THAN THOU, EGOCENTRIC, CONTROL DRIVEN RUBBISH!!! I'M MAD AS HELL AND ONE OF THESE DAYS I'M GOING TELL YOU SO RIGHT TO YOUR 'GET IN MY FACE' BULLSHIT!!!

AND NEITHER ONE OF US IS GONNA BE HAPPY THAT DAY!

Descent

She reaches sweetly into my heart the way
Early October touches the autumn leaves
And offers a blazing passion of vibrant color
Amidst the love stroked hope of my soul
That turns with outstretched arms wide open
To the pallet of possibilities that she brings.

Fall's Descent

Flaming red maples, leaves tipped to the sky
As warm autumn days turn to brisk fall nights.
Crisp cool air carried by wayward wind wisps by
The flow of the season brings eager foliage nigh.

Change so naturally comes against time's shuttered eye.
It beats and pulses and breathes and chops and slices
Within nature's blind harmony comes resounding chorus.
The ebb and flow of color delights the stalwart forests.

Tis a season for all creatures to slow their cycle down,
To steady harried pace, to plant feet firm upon the ground.
Time to breathe from deepest stirrings, look casually around.
Listen to the silence as the harbinger of change sounds.soon to
Enjoy the mosaic majesty of multi-colored splendor all around.

Autumn leaves are turning, preparing for the fall
Metamorphosis abounding in the god's kingdom hall.
A spectacle of shaded hues highlighted for one and all.
Earth displays her festive finery, very proud and tall.
She speaks to your abysmal soul, heed ye, Gaia's call!