Indescribable Gay Sex
Pam at Pam's House Blend ("Out Mag: "Is Alabama really the worst place to be a gay person in Bush's America?") quoted Out Magazine quoting former-judge Roy Moore, the Ten-Commandment-Lover of Alabama:
Alabama’s highest judicial officer declared homosexuality “abhorrent, immoral, detestable, a crime against nature.” Gay sex, he wrote, is “an act so heinous that it defies one’s ability to describe it,” an “inherent evil” that “should never be tolerated.”
As I mentioned a few posts back, December and the wee hours of its morning were rather productive for me in that I finished five short stories. Recall that I write stories of the adult persuasion, in fact of the gay-adult persuasion; more details via the Jay Neal link above or right.
All I wanted to point out, to former-judge Moore and those like him who are also persuaded that gay sex is so "heinous that it defies one's ability to describe it", is that it's not all that difficult to describe, actually. In fact, I managed it several times, in several interesting variants, in December alone! If they don't believe me, I can recommend several enlightening anthologies.
I mean, it's not like it's rocket science or anything.
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on Friday, 13 January 2006 at 04.29
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There's good reason to believe the playground bully beats up others because he's afraid of being perceived as weak, dumb or otherwise unworthy. If others fear him, he feels empowered and worthy. At the least, he feels he's less likely to be confronted with put downs.
Some people, I suspect, employ religion as a club with which to beat up others for similar reasons. They fear they're not worthy in God's eyes, and/or their own, so they're going to try and force their rigid, literalist views on others, condeming those who don't get in line. It's a way of proving to themselves and God that they are worthy.
Others, I think, are ignorant and fearful of their own body and sexuality, but don't want anyone to know they are. They probably got some gonzo shaming or punishment for touching themselves or running around the house naked when they were small, and never got over it.
Gays, being different in a key respect and in the minority, have traditionally been a target of all these types.
My own conception, in briefest form, is that God is love. The notion of God as the father and humanity as his children fits with that. So, if that's the case, I can't conceive of God creating children who, by a most basic aspect of their being, are repugnant to him. Nor do I think God creates children with the expectation that they will spend their lives repressing that basic aspect of their nature, while all about them are having a grand old time.
It seems to me that to believe otherwise is to conceive of God as either kind of dumb or a prankster. I don't buy either notion.
I do think God in some way finds it novel or remarkable, in a curious sense, that so many people get so wrought up, supposedly on his behalf, about how other people put their bodies together for a few minutes now and then. I have a hunch he thinks other parameters of human behavior are much more important.