"Not to oppose error is to approve it; and not to defend truth is to suppress it; and indeed to neglect to confound evil men, when we can do it, is no less a sin than to encourage them." --Pope St. Felix III
Subject: Presidential Proclamation--Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month | The White House
Just reading the last paragraph is enough to make me sick. I don't want gays or anyone to be discriminated against or killed in foreign countries for being gay or something unapproved of.
I think the hospital visit rules mentioned in this proclamation are exaggerated but should be relaxed to allow friends to visit, if it is true that they can't now.
I don't see why having a disorder that causes one to be gay or want to be transgendered should be something to be proud of. Why pride month for that? They didn't ask to be gay or work to be gay. They just are gay and stuck with a very difficult lifestyle.
Being gay is not a fault or a success. It simply is. Like any naturally occurring condition, it just happens. When someone is born blind, we don't say God made him that way and so it is good. We blame our flawed nature and researchers do whatever they can to prevent it or reverse it. Why isn't being gay treated the same way?
I am no more proud of my heterosexuality than of my stature, hair color, or anything else I was born with. Why is it okay to have a pride month for people who didn't do anything to be the way they are other than breath the air around them and exist?
Our sympathies for the plight of gay people should not guide our president's decision to celebrate the cause of their plight.
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