saitaina | another Letter to the Editor

Originally published at Memoirs of a Nobody. You can comment here or there.

In a May 18th Letter to the Editor, Frank Plummer wrote, “Homosexuality violates the basic law of nature: procreation hence, that it prove that it is not normal behavior.”

Sorry to disappoint you, Frank, but that’s where you’re wrong. Granted, nature has been, and always will be about the continuation of the species. But the part of the brain that drives this urge recognizes nothing beyond what gets us going in order to mate.

There are documented cases of homosexual behavior in animals just as there are in humans. No, you cannot create an off spring this way but apparently our subconscious doesn’t care. It has only one desire to fill, and that is the urge to mate with whatever (of our species) as many times as is possible. This urge and subconscious desire has been with us since our ancestors of Homo Sapiens and the Neanderthals.

Just because we like to pretend we don’t have the same chemical make-up, urges and desires as desires they do, doesn’t make it wrong.

As for being in love with a truck, your brother or a goat? Different issues. Homosexuals do NOT have the same rights as heterosexuals. I’m sorry but we don’t. And it’s not fair. I would like to live in a world where any child I might have has the right to love, be with and marry whom they want, just as I want that right. And it’s really not that much to ask for. Changing the law to include those of us who might love a person of the same sex does not open the door for those who love other things that are considered “taboo”.

There ARE reasons you can’t marry your brother, just as there are reasons you can’t marry Bessie the cow. They ARE valid reasons (incest, or the sexual relation between genetic family members is known to cause horrendous birth defects, and I would assume the same for animal relations). But I have yet to see a reason why I can’t marry someone whom I love who is of the same sex.

Really, is it that hard to except that a law might one day read, “Marriage is between two humans, regardless of sex, who are not related to each other.”