WerewolfPoet wrote:
If I am allowed to interject this thread with a bit of semi-relevant humor:
Replace "gays" with "autistics" or "persons with dementia" (or just about any minority, for that matter) and we may be a tad bit closer to the actual motives of The Powers That May Or May Not Be.
WerewolfPoet, I'm thinking the same thing.
As a society, we offered our gay and lesbian neighbours the same opportunities to
make a living and get ahead in this world that we already offered their heterosexual
counterparts--
provided that gays and lesbians lie to themselves, to us, and to God
about their sexual orientation. If a gay or lesbian should renounce that lie, our society
would retaliate by revoking that offer.
If the early course of the AIDS epidemic revealed anything, it revealed that lie for what it was.
But it also demonstrated that
we are the guilty party for thrusting this choice upon them.
For this choice was a Hobson's choice: take the alternative we offer you (e.g. the horse closest
to the stable door), or we will not allow you to take anything.