Sex talk makes me HOT!

Sex is a wonderful thing it can make you feel things you could not have ever imagined, but it is at its best when it is with someone you LOVE. There is something about the intimacy, and comfort that goes along with LOVE. What gives religious zealots the right to tell someone who and who they can not LOVE, just because they can not handle the fact that a man is making love with another man. Believe me this would not be a big deal if it involved only women. Men in positions of power would be happy to allow women to make love to one another, as long as it is caught on tape for them to watch later, and then they could fantasize about being the meat (no pun intended) in the female sandwich.

This past week the Vatican said it will not allow homosexual to become priest, a mass gay wedding in the United Arab Emirates was broken up and all the men arrested, and a single female teacher at Catholic school was fired when it was found out that she was pregnant. What do all these things have in common? It all has to do with other people forcing their sexual and moral views upon us.

First the Vatican, I am not a Catholic and do not claim to understand a religion that forces its priest into celibate lives. How can a person that is not allowed to marry or have sex even begin to counsel people about sex and marriage? I know that some people are called to serve the Lord, but don’t you think that you are limiting the pool of candidates when you ask them to give up the search for love on earth. I know that this rule of celibacy will never be lifted because the powers that be see it as “I had to do this for my entire life and these new recruits will too.” As for the homosexual priest, give me a break isn’t this more of the “don’t ask don’t tell” philosophy. Only thing they may ask but can’t the person just lie and then confess. I don’t mean to be attacking all Catholics, I have many Catholic friends and they are great people, but of course here in America Catholics don’t pay a whole lot of attention to what comes out of the Vatican anyway. I’m sure this is nothing more than a PR move to appease the vocal minority, and a cover for the abuse scandal. Even though the abuse scandal has nothing to do with homosexuality, the Vatican would like everyone to think the priesthood was infiltrated by a bunch of homosexuals and now the problem will be solved.

Second the mass gay wedding, these men are going to be tried and could face hormone treatments, five years in prison and a lashing. The minister of justice and Islamic affairs warned parents to be on the look out for “deviant” behavior in their children. "There is no room for homosexuality in the UAE." I’m sure the Christian right wishes they could film the lashings and show them in their churches, even though they would never admit it. When are people going to realize that God made these people the way He did and leave them alone. I know homosexuals as a minority are an easy target, but it is time for us as a people to get over our homophobia.

And lastly, the firing of a teacher because she had sex out of wedlock, how the hell do you find out if a male teacher is having sex out of wedlock? This is just outrageous on so many levels. 1. The father wants nothing to do with the baby, so how is this woman to support this child now that the school has robbed her of her ability to earn a living? 2. This woman could have had an abortion and kept her job, but she chose to have the child and they penalize her for it. 3. This is the mantra of the Christian right, we want you to have the babies but we will not support you or your bastard children in any way. This is the story that outrages me the most. I am glad the ACLU is suing the school for discrimination, and I hope for women everywhere that they win.

NEXT UP—Bush’s pledge to stay the course in Iraq, and the speech.