Yearning To Be Free

What is this “Gay Agenda” I keep hearing conservatives talking about and why wasn’t I included in the conversation or even given a copy. I keep missing out on these directives when they’re handed out. I’m beginning to feel like it’s being done on purpose. It’s like when in the 80’s all of a sudden we went from calling ourselves Black people to calling ourselves African-American. Well nobody consulted me and I don’t recall a poll going around or even a voting ballot. I mean African-American is okay and I use it in my writing, mainly to be politically correct, but it doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue the way Black does. And to be honest aren’t African-Americans those African citizens who become naturalized American citizens? If not what are they called because they are not the same as African-Americans born in America…(my head hurts). Anyway back to this “Gay Agenda”. What the hell is this thing and am I included or will I be left out like African-Americans (there’s that word again) were when the Constitution was written. Or maybe it’s something I don’t even want to be included in. I mean I don’t want to sign up for something that means I would have to disown members of my family or that would require me to force my religious beliefs on to free thinking adults who are completely capable of making decisions that affect their lives themselves. What if it causes me to fear what I don’t understand and rationalize it through selective scripture readings? Perhaps I’ll begin to live my life based on these readings with no regard to who wrote them, the era written or their personal agenda.

But if the “Gay Agenda” is something that provides equality to all Americans regardless of gender or sexual orientation then count me in. If it means harassment in housing and the workplace is not allowed, I’m all in. If it means same sex married couples are afforded the same of over 1,138 Federal benefits currently offered to heterosexual couples based on marital status, including unpaid leave to care for an ill spouse, social security survivor benefits and spousal benefits and the right to refuse to testify against one’s spouse among others, I’m all for it. If it allows me to choose to serve my country in the military without some ridiculous law that requires me to perjure myself, count me in. As Americans haven’t all citizens earned the right to live free and entitlement to equal protection under the law? To live in a nation unbound by religious condemnation, a nation where the rights of the minority are not voted upon and taken away by the majority. I’m not so sure and I don’t think this so called “Gay Agenda” has much chance of succeeding and frankly has no place in these United States. After all, what are your expectations of a country founded by duplicitous and insincere slave owners yearning to be free?