Forbidden Fruit Revisited

This may set the theologian's hearts into a spin.  This may even give the fundamentalists a tremor in their pants but it has to be said.  Maybe the good book was intended to be different if dear little Eve wasn't so impatient? 

I pre-empt, as a gay guy knowing that guys to guys understand our bodies, more so than woman do.  We know what the pieces do and how far they can be stretched so to speak.  It is the same for women! My lesbian friends say that it is their knowing each others bodies that make it tick or do the trick. 

So having said that, could that be why God got a little tetchy when Eve jumped the gun or got a tad excited over Adam’s Guns?  After all he was created in God’s image, and that, apparently is perfect.  I am having visions of trying to hold myself back from Michelangelo’s David or Adonis.  I am pretty sure if he said hands off while I rest, I would be having troubles with the apple and my serpent as well, so Eve must be forgiven for her indiscretions.

Ok, God told them not to touch the tree of knowledge. Maybe, just maybe, God wasn't finished creating quite yet, and needed a little nanny nap to figure out reproductive organs etcetera. Maybe, just maybe, he told these two to wait until the jobs were finished.  Maybe, he was contemplating another Adam to fit in with Adam and another Eve to compliment Eve.  Just maybe, being gay was the way it was to be, and because Eve jumped Adam and got her leaf off, we have suffered since. 

Maybe,just maybe, we were set for a life of gay abandon till she stewed her apple! And, that is why God said, that in punishment, Adam was to make and collect food and Eve was to bear children with pain. 

God, if she had not interrupted the plan, the straights may be seeking equal rights today and not us. 

But seriously, both are great stories! However, no one is totally satisfied.  Both stories have merit but by all accounts God told them to hold back.  Not once did he say go for it while I sleep.  Maybe, just maybe, he only wanted to people on Earth that never gave him grand-kids. Maybe, he wanted to see them grow only as friends and not experience the problems of divorce, of sexuality, of raring kids, of growing old, and still needing to bonk.  Maybe, just maybe, he wanted his world to be two friends knowing true friendship and sharing life in general. God knows. 

Maybe God had no intention to have either of them looking over their shoulder to see who or what was judging them. After all, you can’t be persecuted for being just you and there is no one to judge but God himself!

I know if I was God, (a bit late now after going off about blowing my cherry over David and Adonis) no matter who I put on earth in my image, I would want for them to be free to be who they are.  Free, as long as they do not physically or mentally hurt anyone. And, never having to prove themselves to anyone but their God.  I know that I would want them to love genuinely and deeply.  I would want for them to know friendship, to know compassion, to know true acceptance and caring, and to give till the only pain was that of giving. 

This is how I would want my creation story to be passed down through the generations.  I would want for my religious interpreters, and leaders, to read my gospels filled with love, sharing and compassion.
These are my thoughts .

Cheers until next time 

Is being Gay a Disability? #discrimination #gay #gender #society

It is no secret that my partner is deaf! When we are in a new surrounding, like a shop or meeting people for the first time, he says "I am deaf." For no other reason, than to bring to their attention, that there may be some differences in communication.  Never once have I heard him say "Hi, I'm deaf and gay." 

Quite often, we the gay people of this world, confuse others as to our birth right.  Yes, we were born this way!  We are not missing any parts for our bodily functions.  We are all in tact.  As far as I, and many others see it, it is just a descriptive adjective to our human status.  It is like we are people who happen to be gay. Like women, who are people, happen to be women.  Like my partner, he is a person that happens to be Asian.  We are all humans with the different description to our make up.  Each and every person on this earth has a description as to who we are.  We just want to be equal on the playing field of life.  No discrimination as to our sex, our colour or our religion.  We breathe, we have skin, we have emotions, we are all human and equal. 
 
I believe that for most, we just want to live our lives as normally as possible.  We don't need to be living in a commune of like minded people.  We want to live in a fully integrated society that sees and has no barriers. As for our descriptions, that is just a cover page to our life, and their are many varied and different novels in the world libraries.  Each book brings a different hue to the delicate weave of the fabric of society.  It  just happens that our thread is the colour of the rainbow.  The rich threads of each and every one of us when interwoven can make the most glorious of fabrics. 
 
There will always be writers clubs, artist gatherings, ethnic clubs, gay bars, women's and men's clubs, tennis clubs, bear clubs.  These clubs are there for those who have common interests so they can enjoy like minded activities. But when these institutions are closed and the activities over, we should be able to go to a home that is not segregated as to our individual lifestyles.  Surely, it would be better to look out our front doors and see that everyone is equal. That there is no difference to any of us, at the end of the day.  We don't have to enter a room and say "Hi I'm Gay". "Hi I'm a female!". There are very few with whom we cannot communicate. If we have to walk in and say "Hi I am gay!", so they feel they know how to communicate with me, then I should just walk past, not even bother, because those people are the bigots of the world.  Another descriptive word for humans, and in that case, they should be segregated like those before us.  

Quite often, when we are fighting for a cause we forget that there are others who are our allies. That we are preaching to, and sometimes alienating, the converted who believe in the same things that we strive for. They just happen to be of a different colour thread to ours. Whether it be the Women's Movement, the Gay Movement, or an Ethnic cause we all have common beliefs and goals.  If we are able to harness all of these goals and beliefs to a common cause, how powerful a force would that be and what a truly beautiful fabric would we weave?

Each and everyone of us is specially gifted. We are not disabled.  We are individual threads to the fabric of life.  We are only handicapped if we allow others, and ourselves, to believe that we are not equal.

Let our descriptive characters be only part of our overall lives.  We don't need to walk into a room and say - I am a gay human; I am a female human; I am a coloured human; I am a artist human.  Soon they will simply be descriptive names for the various clubs that we belong to for our collective get togethers, or better still relegated to the heap if extinct society taboos and attitudes. 

This is my goal anyway.

Cheers!

Bitches Coz

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