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funktagious) wrote2005-02-10 11:02 am
funktagious) wrote2005-02-10 11:02 am
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Okay. What is UP with people? My sister made me watch Wife Swap after Alias last night (the fact that she actually wanted to watch it is an entirely different issue altogether, but, still: ew), and in it I saw one of the worst specimens of "Christianity" and "America" since George W. Bush. During her husband's interview bit, he stated that anyone treating anyone (regardless of sexuality, faith, etc., etc.) with less than dignity and respect would be severely frowned upon by his church's pastor. Except: his wife spent the entire episode treating the woman she was living with like a disgusting, ignorant leper because she happened to be a lesbian.
Toward the end of the program, when the reunited couples share what they learned from their experience, she went so far as to claim that one of the other women was a CHILD MOLESTER, simply because she was in a relationship with another woman who happened to have a child. She then told them that they were, as the Bible, and "common sense" state, completely DEPRAVED. Because of their homosexuality.
What? WHAT? Did I mention that this woman is black, and that her husband is white? How does she not realize that, less than forty years ago, her relationship with her husband would, too, have been considered depraved by a good chunk of the population? That, today, there are still people who would sooner MURDER her and her husband than recognize their relationship? How does she not realize that she (and others like her) are, essentially, the homosexual's version of the KKK? She seemed to love pointing out that African Americans had (and have) suffered terribly over the years for something that they have no control over; how is it she cannot make the connection?
Furthermore, I would like to point out that we do not allow the KKK to decide who is and is not allowed to get married, so WHY SHOULD THESE JACKASSES BE ALLOWED TO?
So, anyway, here is my main question, because I seriously DO NOT understand: Why do people even care what other people do?
I like Krycek. Some people like Mulder. Some people like Krycek AND Mulder. Am I going to flip out and call someone depraved because they like something I don't? No, because that is stupid. Am I going to go on a crusade to take away the civil rights of Mulder lovers because I think he is annoying, and often grossly incompetent? Um, NO, because that would not only be stupid, it would be UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
For those of you who are new here: this country was founded on the idea of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and unless you are infringing on someone else's right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, you are pretty much supposed to be able to do what you want with yourself. I do not see how allowing homosexuals to get married, or an adult to smoke a joint in her own home, or people who like Mulder to rhapsodize on his many Jesus-like qualities effects ANYONE except the people who are actually participating.
So why do other people care? Someone explain it to me.
Toward the end of the program, when the reunited couples share what they learned from their experience, she went so far as to claim that one of the other women was a CHILD MOLESTER, simply because she was in a relationship with another woman who happened to have a child. She then told them that they were, as the Bible, and "common sense" state, completely DEPRAVED. Because of their homosexuality.
What? WHAT? Did I mention that this woman is black, and that her husband is white? How does she not realize that, less than forty years ago, her relationship with her husband would, too, have been considered depraved by a good chunk of the population? That, today, there are still people who would sooner MURDER her and her husband than recognize their relationship? How does she not realize that she (and others like her) are, essentially, the homosexual's version of the KKK? She seemed to love pointing out that African Americans had (and have) suffered terribly over the years for something that they have no control over; how is it she cannot make the connection?
Furthermore, I would like to point out that we do not allow the KKK to decide who is and is not allowed to get married, so WHY SHOULD THESE JACKASSES BE ALLOWED TO?
So, anyway, here is my main question, because I seriously DO NOT understand: Why do people even care what other people do?
I like Krycek. Some people like Mulder. Some people like Krycek AND Mulder. Am I going to flip out and call someone depraved because they like something I don't? No, because that is stupid. Am I going to go on a crusade to take away the civil rights of Mulder lovers because I think he is annoying, and often grossly incompetent? Um, NO, because that would not only be stupid, it would be UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
For those of you who are new here: this country was founded on the idea of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and unless you are infringing on someone else's right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, you are pretty much supposed to be able to do what you want with yourself. I do not see how allowing homosexuals to get married, or an adult to smoke a joint in her own home, or people who like Mulder to rhapsodize on his many Jesus-like qualities effects ANYONE except the people who are actually participating.
So why do other people care? Someone explain it to me.