ext_31590 ([identity profile] catsittingstill.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] avevale_intelligencer 2008-11-05 04:36 pm (UTC)

I repeat, being able to cross the street like anyone else is not special treatment. And people who mistake it for special treatment are somehow always people who have been able to cross the street all along.

Being able to get married like everyone else isn't special treatment either. And people who mistake it for special treatment are somehow people who have been able to get married all along.

The Old Testament teachings you refer to arose in a time period when Jews were terrified that their young people were going to abandon them for a richer more vibrant, more attractive culture living all around them. Specific prohibitions, for example in Deuteronomy, against meat cooked in milk, against clothing of more than one fiber, against homosexual sex, were intended to keep Jews from mixing with that richer culture by forbidding things assoicated with that culture. For Christians to use them now as an excuse to oppress gay people is to take them completely out of context (though I admit it may also arise from a fear of losing their young people to a richer, more vibrant, more attractive culture.) A design flaw indulged in for religious reasons is still a design flaw, and it speaks ill of that religion that it should so readily be used as an excuse to oppress a minority group.

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