Awareness

[sesame]

As long as the general public continues to look down upon the gays, lesbians, trannies, there will be suffering and oppression written in their fate. People still consider them as somewhat undesirable, hostile, abnormal, unnatural, mentally unstable, religious outcasts. The general opinion about them is very low and hateful. The Govt's opinion is only a reflection of the masses. Most people think of their sexual preference as their whole life, when its only a small part of their personality. So its wrong to label an individual as gay or tranny and subject him/her to discrimination and torture for a lifetime.

Yeah, politicians who try to decide our life partners for us, who try to dictate what we should listen and see and think like, are trying to turn us into mindless drones! It is MY right to do what I like as long as I am not harming others. This right of choosing and living is the barest basic of freedom. Without intellectual freedom, life is like living in a virtual jail without any choice of your own.

Whom should I marry, what religion should I belong to, what language should I converse in, what colour should be my hair, skin and iris, how deep does my lineage go as pure blood, who should be my friend and my associate, do they really need to probe that deep? Where does my individuality come in, after all this shit? Who am I?

The Government is there to ease and facilitate my life. The Govt. is an elected body to smoothen the flow of life for it's citizens. The role of any Govt. is to provide food, housing, medical care, sanitation and security at the least expense, and nothing more than that. The Govt is there for the good of the people, not the reverse. When the rulers create burdens for the common people, complicate normal life and take away our freedom, it has failed to serve it's purpose. It needs correction.

But then, the rulers are very powerful and arrogant. Who will correct them? Why would they listen to individual complaints? They will not. They dont listen to whispersand groans of suffering individuals. But when this groan comes out in a unified, organised voice of a multitude, through the MEDIA the rulers react instantly! Also, the people needs to be educated first. They must change their attitude of alienating anyone who can think and act a little differently from what is prescrthe Holy Bible. When the common masses will have sympathy for the gays, trannies, lesbians and acknowledge them as equals, the Govt will follow suit.

Bush, McCain or Obama are only representatives of various facets of the common people. The common people must change first. Until then, the gay, tranny lot will remain a suffering minority.

[nmlss]

When I read or hear about that things I can only think in one word: REVOLUTION

[Ogryn1313]

Sesame, I totally agree with you. I'm not opposed to betterment for your situation and such. I'm all for fairness and equality for everyone. However, I do disagree only with one statement you made. Please allow me to explain before you pass a judgment on me.

"The Government is there to ease and facilitate my life. The Govt. is an elected body to smoothen the flow of life for it's citizens. The role of any Govt. is to provide food, housing, medical care, sanitation and security at the least expense, and nothing more than that. The Govt is there for the good of the people, not the reverse. When the rulers create burdens for the common people, complicate normal life and take away our freedom, it has failed to serve it's purpose. It needs correction."

Firstly, it is for the good of the people. It helps maintain order, secure our rights, defend us, etc. Government is for the people and the greater good.

But...

The government isn't there to ease our lives and facilitate them. The government is not there to give you food, shelter, and all that. This kind of thinking is part of the secular progressive ideology. And it holds, as a basic tenent, that government has to provide citizens with happiness. This kind of belief turns a society into an entitlement society. And sadly, some nations have already fell to this cancer and now have large numbers of people who are lazy and shiftless and expect the government to take care of them.

The government is only responsible for ensuring our rights, providing us the opportunity through our own hardwork and efforts to better ourselves. The government can, and should, aid and assist those who are for numerous possible reasons unable to do so. The government defends us from aggressors. It provides laws to protect us from one another and punish the offenders. It strives to create some common playing field.

Please do not point out the flaws in this government though for I'm well aware of them. No government is perfect. And no government ever will be. Government is always in state of change and, hopefully, always striving for the best.

But under no circumstances should the government provide everything, ease your life and facilitate it. You might as well say the government owes you happiness. You can find this secular progressive ideology in a book called Elephant by a George Lakoff.

What happens in such a government there becomes a state in which everyone becomes dependent on the government. It creeps into many aspects of our daily lives from education, employment, retirement, health and on. And in such a world our taxes would be incredibly high. Unless of course said government begins to employ redistribution of wealth which is more like socialism.

Government should make life more fair for you. It ought to create an even playing field where you can be free of discrimination and treated as an equal. And I wish that it would. I'd never want you to be unduly burdened or suffer while I have a better lot.

But you are part of a minority I sadly must point out. It's a balancing act. Government can't afford to favor one minority too much because it often affects another minority or even the majority. How much can do for this group without it oppressing or unsettling the other?

Kennedy said "ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country."

Those are brilliant words. To me, I interpret them as saying "serve your fellow countrymen do expect your nation to serve you."

And I believe in it. So I do indeed support you and everyone like you. But I am not supportive of any notion that the government should provide happiness and ease our lives. I don't this to turn into an entitlement society like other nations.

What needs be done, I think, is continue fighting and calling attention to the needs of your community and gathering support. Carve out some equality and justice. But don't expect special treatment by virtue of your special needs. This isn't how a government should work.

Anyway, I hope I've not offended you. Not my intention. I simply wish to challenge your view that the government owes you an easy life.

[sesame]

But you are part of a minority I sadly must point out. It's a balancing act. Government can't afford to favor one minority too much because it often affects another minority or even the majority. How much can do for this group without it oppressing or unsettling the other? :D I'm straight, by the way. But I can see the condemnation of gay people and Trans-persons. The general public hate them out of ignorance and misconception. This injustice and brutality must end. All citizens have equal rights and freedom to choose their partners according to taste. Nobody should dictate it for others.

Furthermore, the Bible is the life story of Jesus Christ, written 2000 years ago. Its good for spiritual guidance. But on social context, its totally outdated. The ancient Israeli society of the New Testament have nothing in common to this advanced complicated society of today. So its pointless to force oudated social values on people and torture them. Do people accept everything written in Bible? For example, "Love your enemies, forgive them...", "Love your neighbour as thyself", do people practice these essential values? No they dont. Then why do you apply the insignificant bylaws to oppress your neighbours, you hypocrites?