80/20

Homosexuality is not normal.

But then again neither is being a professional athlete, a Medal of Honor winner or a Fundamentalist Christian.

Our population, as it relates to sexuality, can be represented on a bell curve. The 10% on the left side are the homosexuals. The 10% on the right are the Fundamentalist Christians represented by Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty. (Actually there are twice as many Fundamentalist as Homosexuals in the US, but let's just go with the 10 and 10) In the middle is the 80% “norm.” We are a loving, accepting society that tries to accommodate everybody, so we have the 80% trying to negotiate a peace in the conflict between the two outliers. A truly herculean task.

To quote Rodney King, “Why can't we all just get along?” Because we can't, that's why. We're humans and basically good and as such we will make an effort to reconcile the differences, to let others see the error of their ways. We will very often be unsuccessful because there will always be those folks out of the norm, (otherwise the term normal would have no meaning).

The first step in reconciliation is understanding, and maybe that's also the last step. Our ability to change others basic beliefs through the brilliance and persuasiveness of our arguments is optimistic at best, delusional at worst. Understanding may be the best we can hope for. While the homosexual population seems to demand the majority understand and accept their life style, they seem have a limited desire to try to understand the beliefs of the Fundamentalist Christians. The Fundamentalist Christians just know the gays and Lesbians are going to hell and are just as passionate, but much less vocal about their beliefs.

Boy George, the singer, once said, “Any love is good love,” which seems to be the anthem of the LGBA community. (Love, in this case, is a euphemism.) The Fundamentalist Christians believe in a strict interpretation of the Bible and you go to hell if you perform that particular euphemism. Who is right? How do you reconcile those two distinctly different beliefs? You don't. You just live and let live. If the Fundamentalist Christians miss out on love they could have had, too bad for them. If the homosexuals have a very hot afterlife, sorry for them.

Phil Robertson answered a question from a GQ magazine writer. He truthfully said how he feels about homosexuality; he did not organize his fellow duck hunters to rally against ABC for putting on Glee or NBC for >Modern Family, or MSNBC on general principles, he just said what he believed and shut up. The gay community can't seem to let it go at that. They seem hell bent (no pun intended) to make anyone not believing as they believe be punished in some way.

FLASH: Life isn't easy, and the more aspects of it in which you are minority, the harder it gets. Work with it, and don't expect the majority, who have enough problems of their own, to take on yours also because they don't have to—the benefit of being the majority.