bluedylan05:
being a bisexual woman who is not afraid to talk about her sexuality, I would like to know why I shouldn’t be allowed to wear some rainbow parephenalia.
bluedylan05:
hey…i try and get my kicks where I can.
I see.
Well, to answer your question, the Rainbow was used as a sign of God’s covenant with Noah. I’m sure someone has an article they can link to about it. It has nothing to do with sexuality.
I do not believe that anyone talking about “taking back the rainbow” is in any way trying to limit your clothing choices. The point, as I understand it, is to take the focus off of the GLBT community and their usage of this symbolism and put the symbolism of God’s covenant with man in the fore-front of the mind again.
As I am sure you can agree, the GLBT community gets a pretty bad rap from the extremes that put on the parades in places like San Fransisco. I know several gay people (mostly men) who abhor this media image of the GLBT community. The people who participate, however, feel there is no other way. They want noble things: to love and be loved, to have a family, to go to work every day, to play ball on the weekends… They are instead ridiculed and mocked and in some instances beaten or killed. They band together in a community where they feel supported and they provide that support and encouragement for each other. In order to rebel against the culture who has made them outcasts, they flaunt their sexuality as a way of showing that they are secure in who they are. The ones who get TV time are the ones who go to the extreme. They then become the ones who others flock to, so that they can feel as proud and sure of themselves in a society where they are constantly on edge. I do not know why the GLBT community picked up on the rainbow as a symbol of their sexuality. (Not sure why trans-gendered are grouped in there, either. They identify more with feminism. Nonetheless…) But the people here who are using the line in their signature are doing the same thing (but in a much more moderate way) as the GLBT community does with parades. They are rebelling against a society that immediately makes them outcasts because they have noble goals. I am sure you can relate to that.
I can understand how you feel the Christian community is the most hypocritical of them all, preaching love and family while being the most vicious when it comes to the GLBT community. I assure you that Catholicism in no way condones this behavior. As a matter of fact, we get much of the same condemnation from our Protestant brothers. After all, we allow drinking. And dancing. And smoking. And gambling. And we do not hate homosexuals, trans-gendered, or bisexuals. We have support groups within the church for the GLBT community. (And no, it isn’t a “conversion group” either trying to make you un-gay or something.) We recognize the hardships and the stigma you endure and that you did not choose this cross to bear.
We also are able to distinguish the difference between a pedophile (a person who is sexually attracted to pre-pubescent children), an ephebophile (a person who is sexually attracted to adolescents and whose sexuoerotic age is discordant with his or her actual chronological age and is concordant with the age of the partner), and a homosexual (a person attracted to those of the same sex, but within acceptable societal norms on age)–which our current media do not seem to be able to tell a difference between.
I know you are an atheist, but it also might help you to know where we are coming from if you read an encyclical by Pope John Paul II. (Guys, correct me if I am wrong. Would this be Humana Vitae that discusses human sexuality?)
I hope you stick around Bluedylan!
huh?
