The Evil Petting Zoo

Straight from Pam's House Blend, two exercises in complete ignorance.

First of all, we have the Christian Medical and Dental Association, who are throwing a shit fit over an article published by the American Academy of Family Physicians about care for lesbian women. According to the CMDA, this indicates-- say it with me, folks-- the acceptance of "a homosexual agenda". Never mind the fact that the article centers on the fact that lesbians and bisexual women have trouble finding health care because they're afraid of being judged by their doctors. Obviously, these women need to be judged and judged some more.

Secondly, and perhaps more dire, a woman writing to the San Diego Union-Tribune compared the violent beating of six gay men by a trio of gay bashers to the "hateful moral assaults" of the gay pride parade itself. Yes, never mind the fact that these men were beaten up for being who they are and may very well require reconstructive surgery. The real victims here are people who take every little sign of life from gay people to be a personal insult against them.

I hear people bitch about the "homosexual agenda." Well, here's my agenda: I have the right to exist. I have the right to live somewhere without fearing that I will be kicked out because I am gay. I have the right to a job where I will not be fired because I like men instead of women. I have the right to medical care without being told by my doctor that I am an ugly, foul sinner. I have the right to celebrate who I am without having my skull cracked in by some dumbfuck, and I have the right to recover without being told that I am a corrupter of innocence.

I have the right to be. And I guess this is just too much for some people. And you know what? They can all go fuck themselves.