Rules of engagement.
What do I think about the government 'encouraging homosexuality' and according homosexuals 'special' rights? Nothing that I'll care to share, with you. Unless of course, you are genuinely interested in my views and engaging in a mature discussion - and NOT so that you can judge me. (Well, God forbid. But you did just that, didn't you?)
I'll not forget the anger that flared behind your dark eyes when I shrugged my disinterest.
When you tried to broach the subject again, I asked instead what you would think of a close friend, who's been through thick and thin with you, who decided to come out of the closet.
I'll not forget the momentary shock, and then disgust, that unsettled your face, when you thought for a moment that I was hinting that I was one of those whose sins you hate but whose person you claim to love - except your love, strangely enough, involves distancing yourself from such a person, for fear of your friend's (or is that ex-friend's) 'unhealthy influence' on you.
You're so quick and eager with that big black marker of yours, drawing lines between those who share your 'moral' views on the sanctity of the family unit, and those who refuse to discard their 'immoral' beliefs. How soon will it be before you justify drawing one more line between Christians and non-Christians - between you and I?
Though I didn't tell you this, I didn't think the government had accorded homosexuals any 'special' rights. They had merely asked to be accorded the SAME rights that the rest of us have. Why do you and your kind want to deprive them of these same rights that we have, and worse, falsely portray this desire to enjoy the same rights as wanting 'special' rights?
The moral decay of society does not begin and end with homosexuality. Perhaps, your kind should spend more time looking at and doing something about other social ills too. Why expend so much effort on this single obsession with that one apple tree that tempts your soul with its promises of sensual pleasures, while the rest of the garden flourishes, unabated, with weeds?
