Sept 11 and Gay Bashing
Don’t I just ever tire of introducing gay & lesbian politics into just about everything?
NO & NEVER!
I just finished watching the DVD of United Flight 93 (on Sept 11 nonetheless, but I did not intend that), and what struck me the most out of this movie* is how passengers and hijackers alike prayed to their respective Gods during their dark times. The former perhaps to justify their counter-attack on the hijackers who they intended to kill, and the latter to justify their suicidal and murderous desires to crash the plane and kill all the passengers (preferably somewhere symbolic of American life).
This only shows how faith/religion, is customizable. Think of any plot (i.e. discriminate gay people, justify sex with children, prohibit a woman’s right to abortion etc), and you will surely find something in your religion to justify your convictions and the (hateful) actions that you will use to support them.
How could it be that god can be on both sides of the fence (passengers and hijackers) when the objectives of the competing parties were opposites of each other, negating each other actually?
It is easy to say that God was with the passengers, but this is downplaying the historic, cultural, and sociological aspects/factors/reasons that brought the 4 men into United Flight 73 to begin with. Everyone on board knew they were doing the right (i.e. god-approved) action. How do you explain this.
Perhaps god was with no one, except those who had love — and only love — in their hearts. Not hate. Not faith. Not prayers.
I look at straight people now, and regardless of how open-minded, liberal, gay-friendly they espouse themselves to be — if they get God on their side to defend reservations or negative opinions (even if they are limited or mild) about gay life (marriage, structure, stability, rights etc), to me they are nothing but garden-variety customizable-religion junkies. And oh how I wish that I could’ve bought plane tickets for them all!
