Are we ever going to be honest and stop this hypocrisy?
I have often said that there is no such thing as totally black or totally white when it comes to sexuality; there are many tonalities of gray. You do find some at either end of the spectrum but they tend to be rare. Very few humans are devoid of the capacity to love and make love to another person of the same sex and this is not something that is said by me without the statistics to back it up. Scientific studies and surveys have been conducted ad naseum on this subject.
It is because our country has a legacy of sexual repression and traditions that are diametrically opposed to human nature and the honesty of what sex really is and what it represents to humans. We were set on this course by our Puritan forefathers and later on reinforced by the horrendous repression of the Victorian era.
We now have such things as legal prostitution in very few places but we don’t see the sky falling over Nevada. We also have legal marriage or civil unions in a handful of states and hell hasn’t frozen over.
The tremendous effort by some Evangelicals, Fundamentalists and Mormons to make it a religious matter has placed a ticklish tangent on the subject. It is clear that these people are very hypocritical as we see many of them being caught in compromising situations with prostitutes or with minors. It is also been seen to have some of these “pillars of the community and their congregations” being found out to have sex with persons of the same sex, particularly egregious with underage ones.
We have the Larry Craigs, the Foleys and the Haggards; we have the countless numbers of others like Sanford and Vitter just to name a few. And it doesn’t stop there, they keep coming out of the woodwork and it will continue because sex is a natural thing, it is a physiological necessity and a reality of life our society and religion has tried unsuccessfully to repress.
The fact is that men and women in the absence of the opposite sex will have sex with each other. This is true of prisons, the military, sports, summer camps and many other such situations. The day will come when there is not a stigma placed on homosexuality and or homosexual acts. That day will be perhaps when we as a society have become honest with ourselves.
Ending this stupid and unfair “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” crap is a good start.
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