Certain quite relevant and sound thoughts and truths come to
mind when the matter of the so-called “LGBT”
community becomes the subject matter of attention and conversation. As an immediate consideration, rather than
any pejorative names and titles used, it appears but right and proper that
those concerned therein be simply considered as having a Sexual Identity Difficulty (GID) in lieu of other disrespectful
qualifying titles. So it is that:
1. It is not a secret
that certain persons with GID misbehave and live dishonorable lives. But there are those who behave much worse and
thus live detestable lives and become the curse of society.
2. Good or bad, right or wrong, proper and improper are not
necessarily predicated upon those with GID but premised in general on the good
that people leave undone and/or on the
evil that people do.
3. When those with
the Difficulty are looked down upon by people due to their misbehavior, those
without it are not exactly all acting and reacting with good manners and right
conduct, with propriety and integrity.
4. Men and women with
GID are neither necessarily good nor bad.
The same is true for those men and women without it. GID is not necessarily the cause of virtue or
vice, the origin of right or wrong action or behavior.
5. Just as there are “Do’s”
and Don’ts” for those with GID, those spared of the Difficulty are also bound
by the rule of what they may or may not do.
No one is good or bad merely for having or not having GID.
6. As GID is not
something necessarily dishonorable, those
spared from it are neither ipso facto honorable people. What makes persons good or bad are not GID
but their reason and ethics, their faith and morals.
7. This is not an appeal
for a special treatment of those
belabored by the Difficulty but simply a plea for a fair consideration of their
persons. Saints they are not. But who is?
Sinners they may be. But who are
not?
8. Those having the
Difficulty are not necessarily proud of their predicament. But many men and women may not necessarily be
proud of themselves as such whereas not few of them are the liabilities of
society.
9. Compared to sexually
misbehaving persons with GID, theirs is a much lesser evil vis-a-vis the graft and corrupt
practices of many public officials, the goons with their guns in the streets,
the drug lords and their minions.
10. It is the summit
of presumption for those without the Difficulty to even but think that they are
necessarily better persons than those burdened by it. Those without sin, let them throw the first
stone at sinners!
