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That’s what the religious (un)right would like us to believe. But if we examine our culture there's persuasive pressure to be heterosexual. From birth we’re saturated with heterosexism, usually beginning with our parents. If one's parents are anti-gay, they will typically try to steer their children to be hetero and can be unaccepting to the point of disowning them. Some churches, particularly Christian and Muslim, call homosexuality a "sin" or "unnatural" and will sometimes not accept gay people or try to make them straight. Such "reparative" programs are psychologically damaging and have dismal "success" rates around one percent. And even in those cases all that's accomplished is the sublimation of same-sex attraction. Some of these people who marry opposite-sex partners never consummate their marriage. In some countries homosexuality is illegal and people who are outed or discovered to be gay can be put to death. In the media, couples are almost always portrayed as male and female, though gays and lesbians are receiving increasingly more exposure from cable's The L-Word, to public TV's In the Life to network’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Sex researcher
Alfred Kinsey developed a scale measuring sexual orientation,
now known as the Gender is also a spectrum. A mistake is to equate sex with gender—they're separate and distinct. Sex is male and female, or a blending of the two in intersexed people. Gender is a social construct that places men and women into distinct categories each with its own attributes such as dress, hair style, mannerisms, walk, etc. The West tends to have strict gender constructs and sometimes ridicules, or acts negatively toward, gender-variant folks. Some in the religious right think transgendered people are trying to 'deconstruct' biological gender. We have better things to do than try to get boys to wear dresses and want to live our lives without transphobia and homophobia. No matter how one feels about same-sex marriage, denying one class of people the same rights granted to another is in violation of the 14th Amendment’s equal protection of the laws. When I hear Christians spouting off about the homosexual agenda, this is much ado about nothing. The heterosexual agenda is more persuasive and powerful, along with the religious right's anti-GLBT agenda. home
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wait, heterosexual agenda? Wasn't it the homosexual agenda?
