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Wednesday, 28 April 2010
Are gay rights, rights? Just a question
The fight for human rights has taken some dodgy discourse. Today people are fighting for gay rights, abortion rights, maybe soon we might need fornicator and adultery rights. Speaking with Ray, one of the African fellow-colleague today at the library, he was narrating his recent and on going discussion with Carl(a good friend of mine) on gay rights and the bible.
I don't believe in gay rights,because I do not believe in homosexuality. I love Carl and he knows that am sure but homosexuality has its place in a dysfunctional lifestyle, yet what I believe we should be working at is a lifestyle that pleases God if we believe in him or that one believes in, and if he does believe in homosexuality that can not make me hate him. Am sure not all my friends believe in what I believe in and for that am thankful; yet when it comes to the basics and foundational belief in God I think that homosexuality is beyond intellectual rhetoric and that there is just no way I can justify the act.
We all struggle with things in life, yet it we were to give into everything we wanted, what a world we would be living in. I can only imagine the number of people who would have been murdered by others. Anyway, bottom line Human rights and gay rights are distinguishable, if the human rights we have are by virtue of being human and they are inalienable then freedom is one of them, so why need an extra gay rights. And to argue homosexuality based in the Bible becomes in itself a discourse of contradiction,because there are plain and clear illustrations of what life should be and was meant to be, and again we tend to use certain scriptures without the coherence of scripture on the topic.
Another issue comes in when thesizing(for lack of a better word, I like to create my own, after all language is dynamic) one's personal desires into rights becomes problematic, because then we may have vegetarians demanding that meat is not to be sold in the markets together with vegetables. Everything will become a potential right. So what are rights?
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