Timothy Goodwin

The love of money is assuredly the root of all evil. You don’t believe me? Than consider this; some Christian communities are heard speaking against the rights of the gay community because Christianity when used for money, is the easiest religion that can make a church wealthy, whether it is right in its intentions or whether it is wrong—with mass hysteria all things are possible. (Not all Christians believe this way; most are the fanatics that raise their voices the loudest to be heard.)

People are people. Or are we too blind to see this? The gay community bleeds the same blood as the heterosexuals do and they aren’t hurting anybody, but apparently this is ignored because those in power are blinded by the money-signs that some of the Christian communities can generate to justify their cause.

Children are not the ones offended by the gay community—instead it is the parents that persuade their children to be offended, and this is wrong; just because the masses believe that something is right, does not make it so. When are we, as a people, going to start thinking for ourselves, rather than listen to the ravings of mad-men that try to hide behind their justifications in the name of God? Those who are offended by this statement are those that try to hide behind this justification; and that doesn’t make it right; anymore than feeding asparagus, beets, yams, and hominy to the homeless is right and justified, because no one wants to eat these unsavory foods, and people can use the tax right-off. If you don’t like the food, what makes you think that the homeless will like it? We may as well be feeding them cat food, and justify our charity in that light.

The homeless are treated poorly because they are in a state where they are not given cause to argue—beggars cannot be choosers ( now there is a wonderful Christian attitude to have); I have a better one: Who was it that said, “When I was in prison you did not visit me? When I was hungry you did not feed me? When I was without clothes you did not lend me your cloak”? The gay community is treated in the same light, because they do not have the money and therefore the voice to be heard. I strongly feel that those who refuse to hear the voices of the needy, because they have the money to ignore them are cowards; and again, those who are offended by this should be.

The largest adversity and enmity that I find in our society, beyond the structure of the economy and prejudice, is that Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness seems to be delegated and/or relegated by religious dogma; homosexuals find themselves victims of this country’s inability to separate church from state; so that an Old Testament scripture determines the livelihood of homosexuals. According to this religious dogma, it is an abomination for a man to lie down with another man (Lev 20:13)—nowhere does it say however that it is an abomination for a woman to lie down with another woman; it is merely assumed that because man shouldn’t lie with man, then woman shouldn’t lie with woman. However, what does it say about unruly children? (Deut 21: 18-21) That is that they should be stoned to death? My goodness! And what about the eating of shellfish? (Lev 11:10) Is this not also an abomination? Well…in some cases I can see where some shellfish would be pretty bad…

The point that I’m trying to make however is that dogma cannot enforce one demand and/or abomination, and leave out the others for convenience sake. Or are we to assume that all children are not in fact unruly?

When you get right down to it, the very act of prejudice is unruly; it leads to hate crimes. And yet I don’t propose that the prejudice be stoned to death; rather I propose that those unruly try and exhibit a little more kindness toward those that they obviously don’t understand; or is this truly the nature and reflection of themselves and their god?

People believe that the scriptures were written by men who were inspired by God. Here’s a thought: Is it possible that the scriptures were written by men who wanted others to believe that they were inspired by God—look at the evidence around us today…

And what difference does it make anyway, if there is in fact supposed to be a separation of church from state?

If this were truly the case today—if indeed there was a separation of church from state—then there would be no prejudice, and no dogma relegating and/or delegating the homosexuals’ rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness; for it is only the mentality that is compelled—and supposedly righteously justified—by dogma that challenges the livelihood of homosexuals.

I am a horror novelist. I write horror-fantasy. However, nowhere in my work will you ever find homosexuals being treated as unjustly as they are in today’s society, or punished for their rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness; rather you will find those who challenge said rights; rich men and women, who profess to have found their wealth by pursuing their calling given to them by God; where in reality these men and women have found wealth through the purses of the blind and ignorant, that fail to see that religion still remains today to be the opiate of the masses.

It is time—especially now—that society stops listening to the raving diatribes of fire and brimstone initiated by the rich men and women that profess to be sent by God, and instead start thinking with minds void of self-righteous indignation and/or justification; minds that are void of animosity and prejudice for their fellow man—whether he be homosexual or heterosexual.

We’re all in this together. No one gets out of the show alive, and when the Final Curtain falls, you will be all alone; how we treat one another is our testament of who we are, and whether or not we want to strive to be better people than those who have already had their chance, and moved on…

Heres a thought:

Try to be good to each other. Pay it forward. Then you can say incontrovertibly that you lived a rich life.

And remember, if you don’t like the food you eat, what makes you think that you are benifiting anybody who is hungry by giving it to them? Consider this the next time you offer food that you don’t want to the homeless.

And consider whether or not you are a coward the next time you don’t give the gay community the rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.

In closing: I allow ANYONE to use this commentary where they think that it wil be of benifit. Copy and paste it anywhere and everywhere that you want to.

Maybe one person cannot make a differance in this world; but two shooting stars gracing the skies together just might… Think about it.

T~