Burning Ones

It’s ok for an Australian Gay bar to ban heterosexual people&8230;

Truly, I’m totally against hate and discrimination of any kind. I’m vehemently anti-racist, anti-sexist, and anti-hate. However, I’m also a Christian and unlike many of my fellow believers I do believe in Universal and Absolute definitions of Sin. One of those sins which I believe is clearly found in the Bible is that of Homosexual sexual relationships. Now, that being said, I do not believe that homosexuals should be treated as second class citizens, I do not believe that the fact that their lifestyle is sinful means that they deserve love any less than I do or deserve judgement any more than I do. We have all fallen short of the glory of God (Romans 3). Therefore, I have to question the wisdom of an Australian Gay Bar (That’s how it describes itself) winning the right to ban heterosexuals from its premises.

As a human being, I am offended when any group is discriminated against, and I find it to be uniquely counter-productive when the majority is repressed due to the minority’s uncomfortableness with how the majority is reacting to it. I think this way because when you repress the majority, it reinforces the thought in their head that the minority is different enough that it needs official protecting and thus it is actually inferior due to the fact that it needs something that we (the majority) do not need. You see this with something like affirmative action which, though a noble effort to solve the problem of officially sanctioned racism, has in fact reinforced in the minds of many people (at least in my sampling of society) that minorities are worse than white americans because they need help.

This is a complicated issue, and I do understand that in any free society it is a responsibility of the society to protect its minorities from the tyranny of the majority. However, I think that when you legally begin to protect aberrant social sectors you almost remove part of their identity. It’s simply a fact that homosexuality, as of this point, is still considered to be somewhat different from the norm. This is something that a homosexual person should be proud of as a member of that minority because it does give them a sense of uniqueness. When I was much more outwardly punk than I am now, I gloried in the fact that society didn’t get me, because I was different. However, I suppose a lot of this comes down to the fact that I still think that homosexuality is something that is mainly the product of environment (a statement that is still hotly debated). I chose to be a punk (even though at the time it didn’t really feel like a choice) and therefore it made it much easier for me to accept when some one didn’t accept me because I knew that I had chosen that path. I suppose a homosexual person who never feels that they made a choice would be deeply hurt by society not accepting who they are&8230;

So, all this boils back down to the inherent backwardness of a faction of society that is attempting to find equality and acceptance with its heterosexual brethren counting it as a victory that it has won the right to ban heterosexuals from its bar. This does not do anything but reinforce the already present differences between the two communities.

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