[Assam] Gay marriage: Heather doesn't need two mommies

[umesh sharma]

Gay Marriage

 

I am rather hesitant to talk about an issue which really doesnot seem to concern most Indians ?and is a non issue in I think all of the developing world. But I have been airing my rustic views on this topic and one of batchmates who is into Peace Education pointedly asked me and others to come out with our views on this issue. The animated discussion lasted well past midnight-depsite a tiring evening baseball game that day.

 

Now yesterday afternoon, while walking from Harvard Square towards MIT (and going over Charles River with steam coming from the river!! And to watch Batman at Loews theatre amidst sky crapers of Boston near the Common Park) ) I happened to see a middleaged East Asian aiming his camera across the street - high up ? on twisting my head I saw a new hoarding of two youngmen wrapped in a towel of American flag with a gay website . Asians generally do not take pictures of buildings on the street after FBI etc caught some in Bostson (before I came here) thinking they were terrorists.

 

So I think lots of Asians might be interested in the issue. From an educators point of view also ?there is the question of children?s books like ??Heather has two mommies? or ? Daddy?s room mate.?  My interest got piqued in the gay marriage issue ?after I saw a picture of Boston Univ?s Graduation ceremony a few weeks ago. The young guy in his ceremonial robe was shown getting photographed ?with his biological middleaged mother ?and her lesbian partner!  Then I could relate to that young guy.

 

Imagine if my father or mother NOW became gay ?and I had to introduce them alongwith their partners to my classmates at Harvard. The child?s angle ?with his/her gay parents really got my goat. Why should the child be punished and discriminated against just becos his/her parents are gay?  Ofcourse this guy in the picture cannot do anything about it ?he is already born and bred by his parents ?one cannot choose one?s parents? But a couple can choose NOT to have a child. Why should a couple raise a child knowing that it will be persecuted-esp when the child does NOT happen to be biologically theirs.

 

I can relate to it ?since I was 25 when my father ditched my mother for another and broke up my family?when in India belonging to a broken family is as bad a thing as belonmging to a gay family in USA. I could not handle it and chose to get transferred from Jaipur to Bhopal. Even when I returned I had to face lots of flak ? overt and covert. So as an offspring who has to pay the penalty ot one?s parent?s wrongdoing ? I can empathize with a kid ?who was/will be persecuted if adopted and raised by a Gay couple in USA or elsewhere.

 

My female colleague pointed out that gay people want to have the same legal rights over each other?s property, privacy, disclosure in courts ?as those available to married husband and wife. Well I see no objection to that. Recently a man in India(?)  married his aged grand-mother legally ?just so that she might have no trouble with property issues ?if he were to die. So also do people marry dogs and cats as well-or make such legal provisions-regards property for them.

 

So go ahead and get hitched to a person of your sex ?if u want to have the same legal rights as a heterosexual couple(and what u do in ur bedroom is not my concern) ?but there is no reason for you to ?ruin? the life of a child by adopting him/her and exposing it to persecution. Thus I see no need for gay couples to adopt any children at all?so no question of children?s books like ?Heather has two mommies.?

 

Someone said that going by this argument even Blacks should also stop producing children since they would be persecuted too (in USA.) But Blacks are a race are mere fulfilling their duty to propagate their race. There is no race of Gays ? they are of all colors and ethnic origin ? and no species have a gay species !! Just like there is no race of eunuchs. We do have lots of eunuchs in India ?but not visible in USA. Why?

 

Umesh

 

PS: I do have some theories about why in India gays are found mostly in Indian Jails and in Pak in female college hostels (as per a recent remark) ?and why I might get raped if put inside an Indian Jail ?by the ?Gays? there ?as routinely happens. I had read Desmond Morris?s classic  book ?The Naked Ape? ?on the suggestion of my father ? as part of my teenage sex education. He spoke about lots of sexuality but none about permanent Gaydom. Even those who are permanently gays ?and proved scientifically or genetically so ?can be explained by the remarkable control of the Mind over the Body. The kind of things you experience mentally ?thru media or peer pressure ? may create permanent change in brain (as per recent brain theories) and behavioral patterns. So those who are more bombarded to Gay-stuff ?read in developed nations media, clubs etc, forced uni-! sex groups (like Indian Jails) ?are more likely to develop permanent Gay behavioral patterns.

 

It is similar to the phenomenon of loss of appetite for sex and fertility in high stress environments like city-nation Singapore recently.

 

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