Gay Slippers on the HBO Slope

You know, I love how being gay is okay on HBO. People were even, mostly, okay with the cowboy-on-cowboy sex in Brokeback Mountain. What happens on the mountain stays on the mountain, right? Same with all of the other trendy sexy stuff. It’s okay, on TV.

This double standard really sucks. On one side we get this message that gay sex and one night stands (all available on HBO and even on TBS with reruns of Sex and the City) are okay for entertainment. We get this sneak peek into the exciting, titillating (had to use this word) sex lives of these people (who aren’t really gay). It might even make some people feel better about their political correctness, kind of like when people say, “Yeah, there’s this black guy at work that I talk to when we’re in the elevator.”

Then, we have the real world where people who ARE really gay want to commit to marriage vows can’t because some people think that a gay marriage will destroy the whole concept of man-woman marriage. If people aren’t gay, then they don’t have to be bothered by gay marriage. Hey , they could even respect it for what it is, two people in love who want to be together with benefits. People get married for such different reasons, like money, for the sake of children, pressure from family (like a shot gun in the back, you know), for prestige, and for health insurance. Okay, and these reasons make marriage between a man and a woman sacred? More sacred than the true love and commitment between two woman? Hmmm. Does not compute.

Well, the whole deal of calling homosexuality a sin is a slippery slope, and the whole problem lies in trying to moralize according to fundie faith in a country with religious freedom. There’s your slope, people. And, we will never be able to climb the slope (with all people reaching the idea that either side is right). There will always be tricky spots according to someone else’s faith. One way to make this slope disappear is to take away religious freedom and make everything else punishable. No gays. No multiple partners. No Muslims. No more good TV. No more privacy. And, nobody to question authority.

Wait a minute. I saw that movie!!!!

The other way to make the slope disappear is to see everyone as people and to leave acting like God to God.