LETTER: Gays are not the enemy

Editor,

Everybody seems to be talking about the homosexual issues right now. In the course of letters sent they have been compared to foodstuffs and those who perform bestiality. The word and concept “diversity” itself has been attacked. The question I would like to pose is: How does it harm you? The human species has the same danger of extinction as the planet has of running out of oxygen. In fact it could be argued that a decrease in population growth (no matter the cause) would, in fact, be beneficial.

Humans are a pack/herd species. Packs gather together to protect their genes and ensure that these genes move onto the next generation. That’s selfish gene theory. No matter what you would say this theory applies to humans as well. Humans have become the dominant species on this planet, mostly because they are by far the most genetically aggressive. Brain size and “divine right” aside, we only rule because there are enough of us to mercilessly dominate the land.

What I’m getting at is that humans are aggressive and violent creatures by nature. In this world where war is so very infrequent, we have been forced to find enemies within our own society. We have decided to use the club of morality to beat the overinflated corpse of our own species. Homosexuals, gays, whatever the PC world would want to call them are merely the enemy we have found now that we can no longer attack those of a different color. The problem is “difference.” We refuse to accept that which is different because we refuse to understand it.

I’m a straight, fat, white man. I have no ethnicity. Or I’m forbidden it because the world needs a scape goat. I don’t care about color, gender, or sexual preference. All I can truly hope for is that the world will forgive me the grievous sin of being born a straight, white, middle-class male. I don’t care if I have the right to say these things. I believe them. I also believe that they need to be said.

John Belliston