Essential Gay Activism

[Shana A]

Essential Gay Activism                                                     by: davidhart                               Fri Nov 21, 2008 at 15:28:59 PM EST                                                                                  http://pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=E2B589D5F3E63BB0B3C582D54C3CC906?diaryId=8357

Don't count on anyone simply handing over gay rights upon polite request.  David Hart  Let us first understand that our adversaries are dominionists. One of our failures in opposing Proposition 8 was not successfully communicating this fact to the general electorate. These folks are not content simply to have fundamental religious beliefs. In contrast, they will only be satisfied when the United States becomes a theocracy. They seek to impose those religious beliefs on everyone else. If you study the agenda of the religious right and its numerous overlapping interest groups, it is their intention to control what we -- the people -- read, what movies we see, what music we listen to and what television shows we watch. Ultimately, the religious right wants to control what and how we all think. The greatest threat to dominionism is critical thinking. This, in turn, engenders the religious right's war on science. We all know, for example, that the universe is 4.5 billion years old; that evolution is generally accepted scientific fact and that sexual orientation is biological -- not choice. We also know that acceptance of GLBT people can be directly correlated to accepting the scientific conclusions that sexual orientation is involuntary. Educating the general public about sexual orientation and sexuality is essential. Yet, that was seemingly absent from the debate over propositions 8 in California and 2 in Florida. The religious right is perfectly content to oppose scientific findings with "the bible says thus and so." Critical thinkers are more persuaded by empirical scientific findings.