My view
Rhea County Gay Day.
I live in Rhea County Tennessee, which is a small county north of Chattanooga, TN. I've lived here for about 10 years, I've grown up here. I feel I know the area and attitudes of the people pretty well.
Back in early 2004 maybe March or April, lawmakers in our town passed some law which was supposed to keep gays from working or getting insurance in the county. Which although I do not support homosexuality in any way shape for form, I agree was stupid. I do not know the exact nature of the law. Gays and their supporters want to make it worse than it was, and people around here want to make it nicer and better.
The media went into a feeding frenzy and you got some folks showing up on the courthouse lawn with signs saying gays are equal, and such and so. A few days later the motion was rescinded unanimously. Enter a gay woman living in the county. She decides to organize a 'Gay Day' for Rhea County. Feeling it was a good idea to thumb it in the faces of those hicks, so to speak, at first they wanted a parade…but that was rejected.
So they got permission to use a local park for their ‘festival’ Of course on their website (which ironically says ‘out of business’ now) they claimed it was all because she needed support, and she had been discriminated against, since after deciding to organize the gay day she lost her job. I will not say that was right, she shouldn’t have lost her job.
But something people don’t want to understand is that people in certain areas are not going to bend over backward to please gays. They don’t like them, they don’t want them around. But people are foolish, and this woman and gays like her are.
Now people always want to accuse you of being ’Homophobic’ whatever that means. (allergic the them?) But my views are this. Homosexuality is not inherited, you are not born with it. There is no evidence to back up that claim.
It is a problem for which you need help. Not acceptance. No one should be harassed, beaten, hated or accepted, because they are gay. Being accepted only makes it worse. It’s like someone telling you that it’s okay to have any number of mental diseases. You don’t need help, you don’t have a problem.
People want to feel that anything they do is ok, they want to justify it. And gays are justifying their sin problem by feeling that they are alright, they have done nothing wrong. The bible says all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. One man’s sin is no less equal than another’s. Homosexuality is a sin. No matter how much it is accepted, treated with respect, and glorified. It will remain a sin, and passing a law that makes it legal for gays to get married doesn’t make one bit of difference in God’s eyes.
That that is the view that matters.
Others will belittle people who believe as I do, because I don’t fall in with the ‘acceptable’ line of thinking. That, to me shows the ultimate hypocrisy. I do not hate gay people, but I cannot accept their sin, and tell them that everything is okay.
I have received much opposition, for my position on this. My brother told me that he hoped I would have a gay child some day, so I could see how it felt. Now that’s something wonderful for a grown man to wish on his little sister. Having a gay child would not change my mind about homosexuality. I would still love my child, but I cannot accept homosexuality. I will not validate homosexuality. And that is how I feel.
As for how the ’gay day’ turned out, well, they decided to fly in the face of caution and hosted their picnic. It turned out alright, with much police protection. However that little picnic is not going to change the minds of so many. I agree there is bigotry, but I also think that some things you cannot change. Trying to force the world to accept homosexuality is foolish. They are fortuanate that nothing happened that day. I know that some people who would’ve been dumb enough to take a rifle out on the river that surrounds the park and pick off one or two. Or at least get in there and try to beat some of them up.
Hatred and distrust runs deep in small towns. Lest you get me wrong, I am not advocating any of the things I have just said. I am telling of the fact that these things are true.
To sum this up, doing something that will upset people, as that Gay Day upset the residents of Rhea County, will not change any minds. If anything the people of this county are more predisposed to dislike gays. It did not prove any point, except that you could hold a picnic for gays in a small southern county which does not love gays. If that’s what they were after, well, they got it. If they wanted to make others except them, they failed. But it’s idiots like these people who irritate me. Feeling the air of smugness which emanated from the whole thing is what is really annoying, but I believe that was their intention. To bother and upset people. Not to promote any kind of unity, which they claim to want to do.
And that's the way it goes.
I live in Rhea County Tennessee, which is a small county north of Chattanooga, TN. I've lived here for about 10 years, I've grown up here. I feel I know the area and attitudes of the people pretty well.
Back in early 2004 maybe March or April, lawmakers in our town passed some law which was supposed to keep gays from working or getting insurance in the county. Which although I do not support homosexuality in any way shape for form, I agree was stupid. I do not know the exact nature of the law. Gays and their supporters want to make it worse than it was, and people around here want to make it nicer and better.
The media went into a feeding frenzy and you got some folks showing up on the courthouse lawn with signs saying gays are equal, and such and so. A few days later the motion was rescinded unanimously. Enter a gay woman living in the county. She decides to organize a 'Gay Day' for Rhea County. Feeling it was a good idea to thumb it in the faces of those hicks, so to speak, at first they wanted a parade…but that was rejected.
So they got permission to use a local park for their ‘festival’ Of course on their website (which ironically says ‘out of business’ now) they claimed it was all because she needed support, and she had been discriminated against, since after deciding to organize the gay day she lost her job. I will not say that was right, she shouldn’t have lost her job.
But something people don’t want to understand is that people in certain areas are not going to bend over backward to please gays. They don’t like them, they don’t want them around. But people are foolish, and this woman and gays like her are.
Now people always want to accuse you of being ’Homophobic’ whatever that means. (allergic the them?) But my views are this. Homosexuality is not inherited, you are not born with it. There is no evidence to back up that claim.
It is a problem for which you need help. Not acceptance. No one should be harassed, beaten, hated or accepted, because they are gay. Being accepted only makes it worse. It’s like someone telling you that it’s okay to have any number of mental diseases. You don’t need help, you don’t have a problem.
People want to feel that anything they do is ok, they want to justify it. And gays are justifying their sin problem by feeling that they are alright, they have done nothing wrong. The bible says all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. One man’s sin is no less equal than another’s. Homosexuality is a sin. No matter how much it is accepted, treated with respect, and glorified. It will remain a sin, and passing a law that makes it legal for gays to get married doesn’t make one bit of difference in God’s eyes.
That that is the view that matters.
Others will belittle people who believe as I do, because I don’t fall in with the ‘acceptable’ line of thinking. That, to me shows the ultimate hypocrisy. I do not hate gay people, but I cannot accept their sin, and tell them that everything is okay.
I have received much opposition, for my position on this. My brother told me that he hoped I would have a gay child some day, so I could see how it felt. Now that’s something wonderful for a grown man to wish on his little sister. Having a gay child would not change my mind about homosexuality. I would still love my child, but I cannot accept homosexuality. I will not validate homosexuality. And that is how I feel.
As for how the ’gay day’ turned out, well, they decided to fly in the face of caution and hosted their picnic. It turned out alright, with much police protection. However that little picnic is not going to change the minds of so many. I agree there is bigotry, but I also think that some things you cannot change. Trying to force the world to accept homosexuality is foolish. They are fortuanate that nothing happened that day. I know that some people who would’ve been dumb enough to take a rifle out on the river that surrounds the park and pick off one or two. Or at least get in there and try to beat some of them up.
Hatred and distrust runs deep in small towns. Lest you get me wrong, I am not advocating any of the things I have just said. I am telling of the fact that these things are true.
To sum this up, doing something that will upset people, as that Gay Day upset the residents of Rhea County, will not change any minds. If anything the people of this county are more predisposed to dislike gays. It did not prove any point, except that you could hold a picnic for gays in a small southern county which does not love gays. If that’s what they were after, well, they got it. If they wanted to make others except them, they failed. But it’s idiots like these people who irritate me. Feeling the air of smugness which emanated from the whole thing is what is really annoying, but I believe that was their intention. To bother and upset people. Not to promote any kind of unity, which they claim to want to do.
And that's the way it goes.
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