Why are Folks so Terrified of Gays and Lesbians?

My friend, Jim Craven, is the Blackfoot Solicitor General. When he authored their constitution using Blackfoot principles back in 1999, he put in the document that sexuality was a right. In other words, you can be gay or lesbian or transgender or whatever and still be accepted as a tribal member.

In a phone conference with the elders who were to pass the document, their only objection to all 75 or so articles was that. Before they could make objections, Jim said something like this:

We are an oppressed people and we would be oppressing other oppressed people should this not be passed as a right. To oppress other peoples when one is from an oppressed people is to justify the unjust oppression of our own.

So, I was saddened but not surprised to hear that 3 states have passed gay and lesbian marriage bans. They claim this on a position of religious moral authority. Their religion, Christianity, states something like being gay is an abomination. Oddly, this book has been edited from the orignial so many times, one has to wonder what the original said. Did Jesus, who seemed to hang out with whores and a rather vast amount of men, condemn gayness? Did he say that being gay was wrong? Didn't he say something like Love one another? I guess not. I guess Jesus was really into oppressing oppressed peoples.

Christianity, of course, is promoting for the most part this genocidal war in Iraq. Christianity is based in the United States on the genocide of the indigenous. Did Jesus say "KILL ALL THE RED NIGGERS AND STEAL THEIR LAND!" Or was it that Love one another thing. By the rather vast global mass slaughter the world has faced at the hands of those who say Christ is their leader, I would have to say...YES! Jesus did indeed support raping of children in boarding schools, killing women and children to strike terror into the hearts of men, supports torture, Loves raping women, Loves forcing women to have babies they can't support, Loves killing killing killing because...that is what many Christians do in his name.

Gays and Lesbians and Other Genders? Jesus hates them. He Loves killing and raping and oppressing women, though!
I do not understand why folks are so afraid of gays and lesbians etc., marrying. I walk down the street and if I see a gay or lesbian person walking toward me, I feel no fear.

When I see a white male Christian coming toward me, I know they would think I was an abomination and try to change or harm me in the name of Christ.

What the heck is a gay person gonna do to me? "Eugene! You have to do something about that shirt! Haven't you ever heard of an iron? How's your wife gonna want your body if you dress like a rotten avacado?"

Man, I am gonna have nightmares about gay folks trying to dress me nice for Shusli now. Or am I gonna have nightmares of good Christian men getting away with raping Indian children in boarding schools.

Can you make the call?