A nervous teen anxiously ganders the school soccer practice from in-between the bleachers; not in hopes to make it to the next tryouts but to score the midfielder. There’s also the adolescent who longs to talk and touch and desperately kiss the girlfriend. This story is about the boy watching soccer practice and the girl wanting to kiss her girlfriend.
Hold it. The reaction that instantaneously ignited after you read the last line. Hold onto it before the umms and hmms come out so as to deliver the “right” response. Because it’s the one you have, not pretend to have.
There are the stifling supporters who are ready to strip and show you how comfortable they are with the gay SOS going on until you are too. Then there are the animated adversaries with flushes of shame dropping down their heads and averting their eyes. But it’s that third group, those who pick a side just to eschew any controversy, which really is to worry about.
There’s no denying how much men love girl-on-girl action; porn, video games, or actual fights. But those very men turn into court-room drama actors when the lesbians rally for legal rights?
Let’s not get Jesus involved in this one. This is not just any hormonal hallapalooza creating hullabaloos. The LGBT have come a long way to prove what they should not have to. More than sexual urges this is about the feeling of belonging and blending in a group. The confusions, chaos, aches, anxieties, have all been whirling too much too long to create the hurricane of acceptance that is today. But just as it’s important to give approval to those belonging and believing in them, shouldn’t the same be given to those who do not?
The advocates may be termed as liberals but that does not make those watching the protests parochial. Disagreeing and biasing are not the same. Those against gay marriages can still accept them and mend their own ways. “Backward”, “narrow-minded”, “haters” are just as unfair as “creepy”, “un-natural”, and “abnormal”. Pick a side because you believe in it not because it’s the trending way to believe.
“To each its own” works both ways. And that is what should not be forgotten.