UC News Record |
Opinion Page
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Oct. 15-18, 1998 |
| I’m so excited, and I just can’t hide it! It’s "Coming Out" week for the UC lesbians, gay, bisexual and Transsexual (LBGT) Alliance! Yesss!
I mean, doesn’t’ that just make you want to jump and yell, "This is so awesome! It’s what I’ve been waiting for all year, and I sooo want to participate!" Sure, we straight people are being "oppressed" by the alliance’s activities, being that we cannot have a "Get Straight Week," but, hey, it’s all in good, clean fun, right? |
You see, we all have our weird, not-so-lovely parts of ourselves, we all sin, we all have so to speak, "problems."
However, I do not brag nor do I run around joining organizations proclaiming, and affirming, my sin and my problems. I live with them, I challenge,,e them everyday to stop through prayer. It takes faith, it takes willingness, it takes belief. but sin can be dealt with without having to show it to the world in pride. This, simply, is wrong and disgusting. |
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| Tolerance, right? Accept others as they are, right? If you don’t have anything good to say then don’t say anything at all, right?
Keep your opinions to yourself, right? Don’t stand up for a cause you know is right, right? I dare to stand out from the blurred and just-be-tolerant-and-let-it-pass thinking and say, "NOT I!!!" I see nothing good or clean about the Alliance’s movement, and I’d really like to see them "moved" off campus. Though, I know, though, that this is not at all a possibility, so I dare to rattier just speak my mind when they speak their corporate mind as well. Know that my words are not out of hate, but out of love and concern mixed with outrage and disgust. |
The label "homosexual" doesn't do justice to the acts performed behind the scenes.
Sex is meant to be an incredibly enjoyable, be it orgasmic experience. It is not meant to hurt - it should happen with ease, not with pain or penetration where it wasn't meant to happen. Squirming, Yuck? Grossed-out? You should be. It's a nasty habit. I feel sorry for those who choose what they do. Perhaps it's not entirely a choice, perhaps you have "tendencies" or something of that nature. All I know is that it's not natural, and I cannot see how it can bring you joy - I only see how you are mocked and, yes, "oppressed" at times. Perhaps it wouldn't be so bad if you didn't make such a display of it. Maybe your life would be much less emotionally stressed if you looked for help to get out of the situation you're in, I don't know. |
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If someone doesn’t show any sort of disapproval, the lifestyle and activities can only grow as more and more soul-aching and acceptance-seeking students find their way into this clan of lefties on the loose, with no reproach or concern expressed toward them. I consider my duty as someone on the home team to represent what the other side as to say about the issue at hand.
What are they trying to prove, anyway?" Just because they have a different, chosen lifestyle, it does not mean they deserve any special "gay rights." What kind of crap is that? I’m an English major, therefore I should have more rights than an engineering major, the dominant major on this campus... Uh, no, sorry, that list does not compute. Sodom and Gomorrah? Has somebody ever explained what happened to that city way back when in the Bible? Where people messed around, attempting to go against the way their bodies were designed to fit together. They were DESTROYED by the wrath of the Designer! Perhaps the leader of this clty (meanings Sinsinnati - Just kidding, Cincinnati) might want to look into the ultimate outcome of places where much filth exists. |
I really can't say cause I'm not in your shoes. Just know that I truly do care for you, just not your cause.
I say wear your baseball caps anyway if you're one of the straight folk like me on Friday. Don't be afraid of what others think as you "stand up" for being straight. This week,. as celebration is made fore those who believe their alternative lifestyle is right, don't hide your face in disgust - celebrate being straight in your own way! Show them which team is winning, hit a home run for the home team, smack your teammate on the butt without a second thought, KNOW that the straight and narrow path is the path with the least amount of consequence and suffering, and be wearing your ball cap on Friday with someone of the opposite sex holding your hand, smiling proudly as you walk, across the chalked, defaced bridge. Tolerance, here, is not the answer. Silence is not the answer either. DEALING with the issue is the way to solve things There, I've done my part. Anyone else care to join me? |
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I am truly speaking out of love and concern, please don’t think otherwise. I do not hate gay people, not do I ever attempt to distance myself from them out of fear.
I simply believe that their decision is one that is not easily justified, rather, effortlessly reprimanded and downtrodden. Some might say they love the sinner, hate the sin. That may well be true, but it sounds lame and lethargic. be it apathetic in response to something, that many of us recognize as wrong,. |
Tyler Young, Junior year Enqlish major
(Todd's note: This letter is filled with spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors. It is presented here in the same form as published.) (Todd's note: When I read Garfield's line, 'You want compassion, rent Bambi', I couldn't help but think that the Disney-boycotting Southern Baptists don't even have that exposure to compassion.) |
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