Fairness and Equality

This comment appeared in response to the call on this blog to help reinstate the Hate Crime ammendment to include protection of GLBT people.

"This blog is sick, perverse, and contrary to nature. Just like you queers."

This is what a bigot sounds like. This is what drives the anti-gay movement - a deeply ingrained belief that efforts to bring conversation that confronts the many myths surrounding the GLBT community is "sick, perverse, and contrary to nature."

The wonderful thing is that Venango County and much of the country - much of the world - is getting past this kind of bigotry. It's no longer possible to control what people know. What people are learning is that those who hold the beliefs of the commenter are the ones who are sick, perverse and contradicting nature.

Science is now proving that homosexuality is as natural as being left handed. The genetic markers are most clear with homosexual men. Science is often ahead of the general population and typically religious conservatives are the last to accept the truth. But then, most of you reading this blog already know all that. And the few watching who hang onto ingrained stereotypes and lies aren't going to change their minds reading this blog.

An interesting example of how the religious right works science to prove something that isn't science at all was on the radio this week. Seeking NPR, I stumbled onto a story about DNA. The speaker was explaining how 30% of a worms DNA is common to ours. And DNA research is very demanding - even one letter change and it can be totally misinterpreted. I was interested. Then the punch line telling me this was certainly not NPR. All this DNA research proves that Moses was right all along when he said we humans are as close to dust as we are the other animals. AND this proves that the only truth we need is the Bible.
Where's the DNA research in the Bible? I missed that...