Today was the Day without Gays.  The point of this day was to bring attention to homosexual contributions to this country.  I think this is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard, and one of the biggest contradictions I've heard in months.

Gay rights are stupid if you ask me.  And no, it's not because I'm some bigot from West Virginia or something like that - actually, quite the opposite - I'm a very tolerant and loving Christian, as my Bible tells me to be.  Gay rights are stupid because drawing attention onto a group of people via a label creates more animosity than it addresses.  It is blatantly obvious that you cannot support "gay rights" without being overzealously supportive, and you cannot oppose these "rights" without being overzealously bigoted and spiteful.

I believe there is one solution to this problem - individualism.  Individualism is the cornerstone of liberty - the more we understand that we are all unique, that there is no one person like us, that there is no fair reason or way to group similar people with us, the better off we are.  Collectivism has all but destroyed this country, and it is time that it be rid of completely, to preserve what's left of this once-great Republic.

Individualism wouldn't do away with prejudices completely in this country, I understand.  I know that all our problems won't go away overnight.  But we have to learn that we are all unique and that we have to stop grouping people together so much.  If you are gay, you need to act and think on your own, rather than take your marching orders from the "leaders of the gay community," who care much more about your money than your well-being, just as the leaders of any minority community.

Now, this ties into gay rights very well when you sit and think for a moment.  The pseudo-right wing* wants to ban gay marriage on the federal level, and the left wing wants to make gay marriage legal on the federal level.  Both are tyranny in the worst form.  The true solution is one people NEVER think of these days: get the government out completely.

Government marriage is a violation of the separation of church and state anyway, because these marriage licenses exist only so that Christian couples who were not of the same race who wanted a church marriage could get one legally.  Note the word "Christian."  Today, we have atheists obtaining Christian marriages for tax benefits, which is against both the Bible and the Constitution, because that's basically having a state-sponsored religion, and that's having non-Christians take Christian oaths.  We need to stop this practice now, before gay people have the right to marry, because it is NOT liberty as you perceive it.  Gay people should have the right to love whomever they choose, but neither homosexuals nor heterosexuals should have to obtain a marriage license to love.

Not to mention another probable government practice that will arise: branding and tracking.  Sure, two people of the same gender will have the "right" to marry, but one thing I fear is a homophobic president who would have all these gay couples rounded up and sent to forced labor camps or something for their beliefs.  (Research REX 84 and Operation Garden Plot - the camps are not a figment of my imagination.)

The best way to live in this country is without government tracking, without labels and collective judgments.  Gay people have the same rights as everyone else; to realize this truth, the homosexuals of America should cast away their zealous quest of "gay marriage," and the bigots of America should cast away their zealous hatred of those who are gay.

One more note before I draw this first entry to a close.  Christians, more so than anyone else, should realize that prejudice is wrong (only God has that power, which He will use on Judgment Day).  In the Bible, the first book of the New Testament is Matthew.  In the seventh chapter of the book, Jesus says this:

Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

Also, as far as the individualism argument, the Bible also has these to say: the first from 1 Corinthians 12:12-13, the second from the same chapter of the book, but from verse 27:

For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

Christians, keep a note of that; it might come in handy one day, one day soon.  And everyone remember that we are individuals, not members of groups; America could improve unbelievably quickly if we all kept that in mind.

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