Category Archives: sexuality

Gay Marriage

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My opinion on gay marriage does not matter. Why? Cuz I’m not gay. That isn’t to say that I don’t have a say on the issue, I’m all for it. It’s just that my say shouldn’t matter. This should be a non-issue. If two people want to get married, why on earth should that be anyone else’s business?

I can understand organizations that do not believe in gay marriage not wanting to perform them. If you’re really sure about that whole abomination of God thing and you build a group of people who want to do everything they can to be God’s special little helpers, I can understand not wanting to be involved. And I wouldn’t be against churches choosing whether or not they wanted to perform gay marriages. But nobody should be able to say that two people in love can’t get married period.

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It’s Like A Grab Bag Of The Stupid

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Homophobia. Deprogramming. Catholicism. Homeopathy. I almost don’t know where to begin.

The Union of Catholic Physicians in Germany are offering homeopathic remedies for homosexuality. It’s cute, because they don’t want to look like the hate-mongering bigots they are, so they make sure to state that homosexuality isn’t a disease, just that they have treatment options for them queer inclinations.

Homosexuality is not a disease. Despite protestations to the contrary, homosexuality occurs in other areas of the animal kingdom, and one of our closest cousins, the bonobos, use sex, both homosexual and heterosexual, to relieve tension. It’s a hell of a lot better than beating the crap out of each other. The image of homosexuality as a disease comes from those who believe for whatever reason that it is an unnatural act to be feared. It certainly isn’t a normal behavior for everyone, but for those who are gay, it is much more natural than heterosexual sex.

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Lying To The Cops, And Other Moral Lessons From The Church Of Scientology

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I have never read Dianetics, so I don’t know what the high prophet L. Ron said about morality, but if this story is any indication, they’re the sort of flexible that works for religions. It turns out that Jan Eastgate, who heads the church’s International Commission on Human Rights, got in a hair of trouble for one of those minor crimes I think we’ve all done from time to time. You know, perverting the course of justice?

Oh, but it gets more intriguing. Go ahead, ask how she perverted the course of justice… She convinced an 11 year old girl to pretend that her father wasn’t sexually assualting her! According to the allegations, she told the girl that the abuse was her fault for transgressions in a previous life, and coached her on how to respond to the investigation that the police  and the Department of Community Services questions.

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A Good Piece On Turing’s Legal Problems

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My first encounter with the legend of Alan Turing was in college. Study computers and you are bound to encounter the name. He was truly a visionary in the realm of computers and mathematics, and his efforts are lauded by many as one of the major reasons World War II ended so darned well for the West. And then there’s that whole Turing Test thing he thought up, essentially a means to determine if a computer was intelligent or not.

It wasn’t until much later that I heard about the other side of Turing’s life. He was a homosexual in a time when it was still illegal to be one. This astounds me, as a rational person not clouded by dogmatic religion. I have always assumed that homosexuality and heterosexuality in others was none of my bloody business, and so long as someone’s proclivities one way or the other were not being forced upon me, what they chose to do and whom they chose to do it with were really none of my business. To continue my thought from yesterday, being gay is just another adjective.

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Women And Atheism

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I’m not going to go into a huge amount of commentary on the topic of the recent comments from David Eller as they’ve been covered elsewhere, but it does make me want to weigh in on the topic of women and atheism. And my response: Who cares?

That’s not to say I don’t care about women atheists, please don’t misunderstand. I’m all for women atheists and women skeptics and women whatever-the-hecks. What I don’t do is care about the gender of people. I’ve commented before about how gender shouldn’t be important to people. I’ve always considered that equality, which is an ideal that we should all be striving towards, is essentially apathy. In other words, I don’t care what adjectives describe you, I care about who you are and what you have to say.

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Things To Do In Florida

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I’ve never been. And I’m not planning on going any time soon, but I’ve always thought it would be a great place to visit and enjoy. There’s so much great stuff there without all the ebola and threats of terrorist kidnappings. But now I’m definitely not going. Why? Because of the law down there.

Here is a checklist some of us might use when we go somewhere on vacation of the things we might want to enjoy. And no, it isn’t by any means what you might call an exhaustive list.

- Sun
- Liquor
- Engagine local scenery
- Tourist activities
- Sex
- Live music
- Buffet dining

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Gay — It’s The New Red

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Once upon a time in America, Reds (aka communists, communist sympathizers, liberals, etc.) were thought to be criminal elements dangerous to the future of America. McCarthyism led to many ruined lives. This web site has a list of some “notable people who were blacklisted or suffered some other persecution during McCarthyism”, and it is a sobering reminder of how easily paranoia can spread and become mainstream, even in the super-educated modern West.

Well, in Uganda, gay is the new Red. But it’s much uglier than that. It isn’t just about ruining lives, it is now about ending them. Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill is on its way to becoming law, and is likely to be passed in the next couple of days. This law would allow for, among many other things, the death penalty for any homosexual with multiple offenses.

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Interesting Research Into Homosexuality

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I must apologize to my faithful readers for last week. I’m afraid that I was swamped in all aspects of life, and that resulted in my writing damn near nothing all week. There were several scratched attempts at blog entries, but I would lose the thread of what I was trying to say due to the crush of other pressures, and the writing wasn’t worth publishing by the time it was finished. So as much as you missed me, I missed having coherent thoughts.

However, this morning I stumbled across an article on NeuroLogica about some fascinating findings in the area of sexual preference that I thought I would share. It turns out that the pattern of same-sex relations in mice can be impacted by manipulating the way their brains handle serotonin.

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Letters: Hard Copy Of The Words That Bite Us In The Ass

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From the desk of Julie Smith-Williams, Vice President
To: All staff of Blaggman Children’s Services Worldwide

Greetings!

Well, it is another new year and I hope that you find yourselves whole, happy, and ready for a great and exciting time of growth and change! With each passing year we continue to grow as a company, and we hope you take the opportunity to grow as a person through our many programs and services.

Unfortunately, that is not the purpose of my message today. I need to talk about some problems we have been seeing. One of the most important things at Blaggman is that we have built a strong and vibrant culture, one that shines with the twin lights of positive worker interactions and self-policing. While we strive to ensure that our staff are shining examples of Blaggman and that they are all good people doing good work for children, we are all too aware of the occasional bad apple. No names will be mentioned, but whenever and wherever abuse has been seen WITHIN the company, the word shot straight up the corporate ladder like a bullet and consequences were handed down WITHIN the company.

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Argentina <3′s Gay Marraige

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In a historic victory over the prominent Catholic and Protestant ideologies, the Argentinian senate has made gay marriage legal within it borders. While 85.5% of Argentinians identify themselves as Catholic or Protestant (wiki), that didn’t seem to stop the government from making a decision based on 21st century science and morality

Of course, Canada made this landmark decision a few years back, so … Welcome to the club, Argentina! Impromptu street parade, anyone?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10630683

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