God's Plan

Country singer Martina McBride recently gave an interview to Out.com, an online magazine for and/or about gays. She encouraged her fans to be tolerant of homosexuality and to embrace the differences in people. She also said that’s what she teaches her children. You can just imagine the hate-filled venom that spewed from the mouths of conservative fans. As usual, they have God backing them up. I’m not a Christian, I’m Buddhist, but let’s assume for our purposes here that the God of western religions does exist. These are some of the comments (in italics) found on message boards after Martina spoke.

"The Almighty GOD created Adam & Eve and not Adam & Steve,"

Of course he did! He was trying to start a new species. Adam and Steve might’ve kept Eden looking like a Better Homes and Gardens cover, but populating the earth would’ve been beyond their capabilities. Well in case you people haven’t noticed, the earth has been populated for quite some time now. In fact, it’s overpopulated. Here are a couple more oft-cited mantras of Christians:
“The Lord works in mysterious ways.”
“God has a plan.”
Did it ever cross your narrow little mind that homosexuality IS God’s plan? It’s a form of population control. If a certain percentage of people are born without the desire to fornicate with the opposite sex, it could certainly slow down birth rates. Being the loving God you claim he is, he wouldn’t want this select few to be deprived of love, affection, and companionship, now would he? The only alternative to opposite sex is same sex. Pretty smart.

Another comment for Martina reads:

"She (along with all other parents) MUST teach their children that turning gay is a CHOICE and is not acceptable in today's society,"

Who told you it’s a choice? You might like to think it’s voluntary, but you have no proof of that whatsoever. Having closely observed a gay relative from birth, I think at least some people are born that way. No doubt in my mind. And most importantly, “all parents MUST teach their children” this outdated backward school of thought? Really?? Who died and made you God? You, and the Church you learned this nonsense from, have no more authority than I do! I imagine you also have less education. So I, with the same authority you profess (but with facts to back me up), have decreed that you must teach your children that organized religion is corrupt, and that Jesus of Nazareth would shit a holy brick if he knew of the atrocities the church has committed in his name.

By the way, what are these people doing reading Out.com?

Here’s what I think. There are too many people on earth now, we can’t feed them all. I believe there is some intelligent force at work in the universe, but I think it’s something we probably couldn’t even conceive of, much less fully understand. I just call it Mother Nature. And Mother Nature has a lot of tricks up her sleeve to deal with various problems. Natural disasters (which seem to occur most often in highly populated, poverty-stricken places like China, Brazil, and Southeast Asia) are a quick remedy to overpopulation, so perhaps homosexuality is more of a long-term solution. Who knows? It certainly makes more sense than the idea that a person would willfully choose to be gay, in effect choosing to be ostracized, ridiculed, and deprived of rights in a society run by holier-than-thou, bible-thumping bigots.
The truth is, gays aren’t hurting anyone, and if they’re not affecting you, why do you care? They’re not asking you to be gay. Maybe you’re right, and they’ll go straight to hell, but that’s not your problem is it? So mind your own damn business.

Here’s a bible quote for you:

“Judge not, lest ye be judged yourself.”