Taboo

I think maybe it is time to get a little more real. The world is not christian, nor baptist, nor american. The world is simply full of living things trying to stay alive. Another truth: Nature abhors a vacuum. Any possible thing you can imagine, and more, nature has tried. What works lives, what doesn't, dies.

I won't tell you yet everything I've done and seen, but let's start with homosexuality. I'm really not sure what percent of the human world population is homosexually inclined, but I know it is significant in a statistical sense. Even non-human species are homosexual, bisexual, asexual, and trans-gender. So please, don't bother to tell me that god says love and marriage belong only to heterosexual humans. Unless you feel like giving me a good belly laugh.

There are men that I love with all my heart, and would probably have sex with, given the right circumstances, but whom I respect absolutely. There are women I know who pair with other women who I would feel lucky to have as parents

Right now, I am completely celibate. By choice. I prefer to wait for a soulmate than to have sex for the pleasure of it. I'm not knocking sex, it's fun. It's just that in my emotional world, sex complicates things. It creates dependences when, in a loving friendship, there are no expectations around gender roles and responsabilities. No, I am not trying to avoid responsibility for myself, I am just taking responsibility only for myself.

Something I admire about gay men in this culture, at this time, is that, like me, they have had to buck society to follow their own inner truth. I feel very comfortable with gay man and lesbian women because they follow what they believe god tells them is their own true nature. They dance to a different drummer, and I can hear the drum-beaters right now saying that Satan is speaking through me. My response? Satan is the dark side of the god I love. I choose to seek, and follow the higher good.

I think maybe that's enough frank-speak for the moment. Live well, and prosper.