Special Rights

Posted on July 1, 2003 in Human Rights Morals & Ethics Partnership

With a book and a steeple

With a bell and a key

They would bind [Truth] forever

but they can’t….


“George Fox”, a Quaker hymn

chari goddess of good karma is dead on:

What’s upsetting is the constant implication that gays and lesbians are fishing for “special” rights… as if wanting and expecting the same rights, privileges and benefits as heterosexuals are “special” rights that heteros may consider giving us. As Americans, we should be guaranteed these rights, with no questions. But many people are allowing their religious beliefs to cloud the issue.

I’d like to turn the insinuation on its head: heterosexuals who oppose homosexual marriage are demanding special rights on the basis of their sexuality. These same people demand special rights for their religion, which is Biblioidolatry (it’s not Christianity that leads them to demand organized prayer in public school — Christ would have opposed it) and as chari points out, it’s not Christianity that leads them to flip around their Bibles until they come to a passage that suits their prejudices against gays, lesbians, African Americans, etc. They make a book — a thing compiled by men living two to three hundred years after the death of Christ — more sacred than the Spirit itself.

I say we end special rights and acknowledge the right of gays and lesbians to choose a relative the same way that heterosexuals now can. Let’s allow no special rights for false prophets either who think that by shouting that they can overturn not only the Bill of Rights but the message and example of Jesus.