I started to loosen up with life after I decided to join the print media because of the freedom that comes along with my job. I want to think "freely in the sky" and be more liberal in my approach to the phenomenon of life. Although I started identifying my values with the liberals but I have not assimilated the activism of the extreme right movement because it is not healthy for the society as a whole. I have also been exposed to the ideas of the conservatives and have practiced them for a while but as I begin to define myself and establish my own style and legacy, I get more and more uncomfortable with conservatism.
I have watched O’Reilly Factor for quite sometime (in fact I have his book on The No Spin Zone) and tune in to Fox News channel every night but I get sick and tired with too much Republicanism. I get along fine with the “most trusted news” and am more at home with CNN channel.
I listen to 97.1 WASH FM but I’m more
fascinated by The Kane Show at Hot 99.5 FM Morning Mess. Last week’s
morning segment of the show talks briefly about a homophobic evangelical pastor
from the South. The Rev. R. Albert Mohler, Jr., a pre-eminent
leader and president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville,
Kentucky suggested a prenatal treatment for babies in order to reverse the gay
orientation of the fetus. This idea by the reverend is not only ridiculous
and contradictory but puts mockery to the essence of being “human”. This
argument is extremely absurd and illogical because it contradicts the very own
statement of the same church who contends that being gay is a matter of choice
and social issue rather than biological. I do not believe that there is a
biological basis for being gay because it is purely social. There are
several social factors (from early on) in a child’s life that influence him/her
sexual orientation. Although it is social influence that defines the
child’s sexual preference in future life, it does not mean that being gay is
sinful. The sinfulness of being gay is not only a trademark doctrine of the
Evangelicals but also of the Catholic Church. I beg to disagree with this
conservative position of the church because I am convinced that freedom as a
gift from God is not selective and restrictive, otherwise that will contradict
God Himself.
There is no biological basis for being
gay and there is no way it could be determined by the medical profession.
If assuming for the sake of argument that there is, then the Church has
just contradicted himself. If the fetus is said to be gay then let it be
because that it what God intends him/her to be. Any medical treatment and
manipulation done by the Church/Evangelicals to the fetus is an intervention of
nature and hence contradictory to their very own teachings. As I
understand the reverend, a serum maybe injected into the fetus to alter the
sexual orientation of the baby but is there any guarantee of its effectiveness?
What if the baby turns out to be gay? Can the mother or father sue anyone
(the doctor or the pastor) for
malpractice? What is wrong with being gay? This whole paranoia
about gays is an obsolete misconception of pre-Vatican era and a hypocritical
and self-centered theological doctrine of post-Vatican. Both Evangelicals and
Catholic Church should look first into their own hierarchy and biologically
examine and test the sexual orientations of their own people (even the Bishops
and Cardinals).
The homophobic attitude of the
Evangelical pastor is no surprise to me because the South (Alabama, Kentucky,
et. al.) has always been conservative on many social issues. It is only
in the South where the followers of Evangelical movement are almost in every
corner and every kind of Baptist church is one or two blocks away from each
other. Much as I cannot blame them for their faith and commitment
to conservative social issues, I am hoping that they could be more tolerant to
the faith and social beliefs of others in the North (Connecticut,
Massachusetts, et. al.) and West (California, Nevada, et. al.).
What else the social conservatives could
do and liberals but argue about theory and doctrine. In any case, it is
always the individual who decides his/her own lifestyle and sexual preference
in life. Whether he/she chooses to be gay or not is his/her own making.
Man is the driver of his own destiny and along the highway of existence,
only he/she can decide when to pick up the path of maturity.
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