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Macky
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Location: USA
Registered: November 2008
Messages: 973
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Writing to legislators, donating money to our causes, and spreading the word about injustice are ways of doing it. But, in the end, these are the campaigners who get noticed. We should not overlook the silent campaigners.
In my humble opinion, those who live an honest clean open gay life are our most important campaigners. For instance our openly gay politicians, while everyone might not see eye to eye with them, they do us all a service by serving as openly gay to the best of their ability. People who have perverted images of gays see that they are just normal people too, because of these guys.
And yes there are a lot of assholes there, but there are also exemplary gays. A retired celibate gay Roman Catholic priest was insturmental in easing my early years living a gay life. Too much yelling about asshole priests tends to paint these 'saints' as evil, with a broad brush. We need to be careful in our rants.
Then there's the openly gay kid that was in the high school musical at my son's school. A nice kid, great singer and actor, who camped it up big time on stage and received an extra burst of applause when he took his bow. It was Beauty and the beast. At one point the candlestick and clock exchange kisses on the cheek. The straight guy clock gave a 10 inch away kiss to the gay candlestick (but thats pretty good for a straight guy). The gay candlestick, however, gave the clock a loud smacker on each cheek, and the gesture was received with a grin. And that was a superb performance for both the gay and the straight boys.
So what am I trying to say with all this? Something like no matter how bad or useless someone seems to be to us, we would do better just to have faith that there is some good there too. It should not surprise us that we have huge gaps in our knowledge of everyone's good or otherwise intentions. No matter how quietly someone campaigns, he is giving in his own way.
And again, in my opinion, the people who live good clean openly gay lives do more for the cause than any organized group or campaign. History never remembers them. They are never recognized for their contributions. But, they really are not in it for that. They just want to coexist and get along, and sometimes they campaign very eloquently that way.
Max
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is
For brothers to dwell together in unity!
Ps 133:1 NASB
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