( - promoted by Dean)
It's great to see that the issue of gay and lesbian equality is being advocated more and more across political philosophies nowadays.
Sometimes it takes a while, but just like American society has come to realize that racial and religious discrimination is something we should not tolerate, nor should we continue to institutionalize prejudice based on sexual orientation.
One of my favorite movies about gays is Latter Days (2003), written and directed by C. Jay Cox and starring Steve Sandvoss, Wes Ramsey, and Jacqueline Bisset.
It has a great message, a bit of humor, and certainly presents a lot to think about. I'd highly recommend it and you can find it in video stores or online.
In it, "Elder Aaron Davis," the Steve Sandvoss character, helps "Lila," portrayed by Jacqueline Bisset, get over the death of her longtime boyfriend. It is what he says that paints a beautiful picture:
Aaron asks her if she's ever looked at the comics in the newspaper up close. He explains that when he was little, he used to put his face up real close to the comics and look at the many little dots that made up the picture. Then when he'd hold the newspaper further away, the mass of dots blended together and made sense -- they made the picture. It's sort of the "big picture" theory put into a simpler concept.
Then he summarizes that just like the dots, in life "we're all connected." Maybe we don't see it now, and life makes little sense to us now, but "it all makes sense to God."
I thought Aaron's explanation is an excellent argument for same-sex marriage, as well as for breaking down all kinds of discrimination and inequality.
On this Earth and in this adventure of life we're in, we're all connected -- in one way or another. The 300,000 generations of human beings that have occurred from our evolution from the chimp to now during the past few million years --okay, maybe we can argue that another day -- does provide one constant: that we are all related. We are all connected. That giant mass of little dots makes sense.
That mass of little dots does make sense. And it gives us reason to find ways for us to treat each other fairly and well, to live together on this planet without hate or war, to love one another as brothers and sisters and friends, and to be each other's cheerleaders as we continue on this adventure through life.
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