<Homosexuals do not require, or are otherwise waiting for, my
approval for whatever they want to do in the privacy of their own
bedroom, obviously.>
Dwight, may I humbly suggest that you may be missing the point here in the same way that you always miss it in your other postings that make reference to homosexuality?
Why do you assume that homosexuality is about what happens in the bedroom? Is that what heterosexuality is all about too? What happens in the bedroom is but a part of any whole relationship. Much of this wholeness is defined and felt as a compelling desire to share the fact of the wholeness itself with the rest of the world one lives in. To deny or limit, or to argue against the full and forthright expression of such a relationship because the fundamentals of the relationship are thought to be wrong according to a particular belief system is to deny and argue against the infinite nature of Love itself. Really, it is an argument against Love.
Any whole relationship, based in love and without any thought of power, is a sensible place in the midst of an unpredictable world where the greatest threats to sanity are fear and the drive for power.
This interest in power, motivated by fear, is not always raw and obvious. Often, it is sophisticated and presents itself as a kind of enlightenment. For example, one may state ones tolerance of homosexuality with the magnanimity that permits homosexual couples to share bedrooms and yet denies them full and forthright access to the other levels of civilized living that heterosexual couples take for granted. This limitation is said to be an argument against "special rights," when in truth it is an argument for special rights. This is not sane, for it is not the way of Love. It is the way of fear and the need for power that arises out of it.
No matter how Love particularizes Itself, it wishes to be known, to be affirmed, completely understood and shared. It has no secrets; there is nothing it would keep apart and hide, and what fear perceives to be Love's vulnerability is really its strength and beauty. What fear cannot understand is that Love does not seek for power, but for relationships.
Dwight, were we to but even briefly be able to step outside the confines of our belief systems, we would not be able to see many things that we had supposed to exist. For example, there would no longer be homosexuality, not even heterosexuality. No fear, no sense of scarcity, no need for power. No need to be right, and no tolerance. In their absence would appear Love, manifest in its abundance and all the countless ways in which it particularizes itself. What a trip! This would be true prayer, would it not?
"The holiest of all the spots on earth
is where an ancient hatred
has become a present love."
Happy investing!
Best,
Charliss |
