Don’t ask, don’t tell and gay marrage: How are civil rights still losing in the modern era?

In the year 2000, all household chores will do themselves due to modern convenience, we will all have flying cars, you can wash out your living room with a garden hose and robots will cut everyone’s hair.  Everyone will be equal and everyone will be employed!

It’s sad how the picture for our modern era is nothing like the modern era we find ourselves in.  No flying cars, the economy trying to fight back through unemployment and underemployment and I don’t even have a robot best friend.  However, that is not what frustrates me the most.  What frustrates me is that after all of this time we are still playing the game of us VS them.  People continue to think that their religion gives them the right to subjugate someone else.  There was the religious argument that slavery was OK because Africans were animals and thus could be put to work.  There was the religious argument that interracial relations in the United States were unnatural for pretty much the same reason.  The religious argument that women should GTF back to the kitchen and be unable to vote because they have to SERVE men instead of getting involved in the business of men.  However, even though all of these things have been passed and made law and are common now, we forget how those lessons mean today.  And due to this, the bill trying to remove the horrible policy of don’t ask, don’t tell is under threat of being filibustered.

People believe that due to Leviticus 18:22 in the Old Testament it gives them the right to say being homosexual or bisexual is an abomination.  However, they ignore that shellfish is an abomination in the same book of the old testament, that if your child curses you they should be put to death or have their eyes gouged out by ravens or both.  However, the argument they use is that some parts of the bible are ‘out of date’ and since homosexuality is something they are uncomfortable with then CLEARLY the bible still means that part.

The bible can be used as a tool to help people and to assist them to find God.  I think any religion that helps people find love and joy is a beautiful thing as long as they don’t harm anyone else in the process.  However, people in congress are rallying behind this idea that they can pick and chose what parts of their religion they want to worship is and ignore the parts that they don’t’ care about.  They have no right to say that being a homosexual is wrong.  They have no right to pass judgment on someone else based on a book they read and believe in.

While I’m on the topic: Christine O’Donnell actually said that you can, in fact, legislate morality(VIDEO).  For those of you just tuning in, Christine O'Donnell is running for Senate out of Delaware and I some choice things to say about her in a former post.  This is another religious fallacy that I cannot stand.  Your morality is not the same as the rest of the worlds so you can’t impose what YOU think is moral on anyone else.  There are people who are in open relationships, open marriages, polygamists (outside of religion as well as within), and there are people who are transgendered and even those who consider themselves asexual and there is nothing wrong with any of it because who are you to tell them they are wrong?  Isn’t the American dream…in reality…being happy just as you are?