This is a sequel to Why Should I Care? in the Gay Issues Section of A Gay Opinion
“A pre-emptive strike,” he said. “We wage war on their shores to prevent war being waged on our shores.”
Does that make it right, waging war in a foreign country to prevent war from being waged in the U.S.A?
Karmicly speaking, what goes around comes around. While the war of bombs and bullets is waged in a foreign land, a war of words and emotions is brewing here in the good old U.S.A. While American troops fight to free the Iraqi people, American politicians see ways to dispossess homosexuals. Through fear and violence American soldiers are determined to change the minds of Iraqi people, and through force and duplicity American politicians are determined to prevent homosexuals from sharing the same rights as heterosexuals on the issue of marriages.
Because we don’t want our country ravaged by war, our buildings turned into a pile of rubble, we choose to go forth and westernize the Middle-East country of Iraq. We provided the catalyst of change for others, while trying to hold back the tides of change for ourselves. We are karmicly screwing ourselves.
Pre-emptive?
While we strike a pre-emptive blow against terrorism in a foreign land, congress prepares a pre-emptive amendment to the Constitution. The only difference being, the amendment will be the equivalent of a Hiroshima or Nagasaki. It will almost permanently devastate the rights of homosexuals in the U.S.. I say almost because eventually it will be repealed, if it is passed.
However all the pre-emptive plans share one common attribute. Arrogance. It is decidedly arrogant of any one government to decide to wage war with another in an effort to keep the war from springing up in one’s homeland. It is decidedly arrogant of one group of people to insist another live by their particular morality.
It is flat out arrogant of man to decide what is natural and what is God made. Man is an arrogant creature. Kneel before man, because he has the ability to conquer his fellow human beings, and attempts to conquer nature. We should be impressed by our own arrogance.
So pre-emptive war is what we wage, physically, emotionally and verbally. Man should be proud of his accomplishments. He can kill physically, and emotionally in war. He is able to perceive threats where there are none, and fight until he wins a hollow victory.
Man has reached his pinnacle. Alas he cannot see another way. He is at his perceived height of glory, yet some of us know there is a higher plain. Unfortunately not enough of us are willing to reach for that higher plain, the one where war is not an option.
Arrogant? Yes, I am: because I believe in a better way to become part of a whole, other than force. I believe in balance. Man is tipping the scales now, when balance and equality are required. The whole is the sum of all of its parts. Denying or conquering any one part throws off the balance, and starts a chain of events that diverts the natural course.
However, we eventually return to the natural course. The natural course is acceptance, tolerance, and education of the ignorant through love and compassion. I urge everyone to embrace the natural flow.
copyright 2003