people unclear on the concept of privacy

August 6 is the day for the surgery… I am not looking forward to it. Of course, who DOES look forward to surgery? Some days I’m a little freaked out about it; other days I’m not. I’m sure it will all turn out OK. I just keep telling myself that. Leslie has offered to loan me books and DVDs, and Kim has offered to accompany me to appointments or whatnot for moral support. I have such great friends.

I just read an article about the impact of the Supreme Court decision that reversed the laws that made sodomy illegal, and how some religious groups feel threatened and are having complete shitfits about it. So they are mobilizing the troops why? Because the government now agrees that it’s not their place to approve private sexual technique or choice of consenting partner? That it’s now legal to have sex in ways that people have been having sex anyway for as long as people have been on this earth?

These folks seem to think that sexual privacy is a bigger issue than Osama Bin Laden or Saddam Hussein, who, I may add, billions and billions of dollars later are still on the loose. They are more concerned, and — let’s not pretend here — more frightened by the prospect of two men or two women being attracted to each other than they are by the threat of terrorism, or the threat of media conglomerates, or corporate piracy, or the spread of bigotry and ignorance?

I guess it all boils down to this: Somehow these people, for whatever reason, can’t accept that other people’s beliefs and opinions are just as valid as their own. It’s the whole “I’m right and you aren’t” mentality, and the scary part is it’s often disguised in a syrupy-sweet “I care about you and want to help you” package. Their blind and rabid belief in some invisible man in the sky makes them arrogant to the point where anything that is different from what they are comfortable with is Wrong or Morally Corrupt. And the scary part is, they often have the power of the people in charge to back them up.

And don’t EVEN get me started on the “slippery slope to pedophilia and incest” issue. There is a very big difference between sexual pleasure and sexual abuse. I think that most people can tell the difference. Not to mention how completely offensive it is to chuck incest, rape, sexual abuse and exploitation in with same-sex intimacy. How insulting. That’s akin to insisting to someone that their belief in their god is equivalent to a belief in the tooth fairy or Easter Bunny.

Don’t people have bigger issues to worry about than which body parts are going into and out of which orificies on complete consenting-adult strangers?