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I continue to be appalled by the myths of our puritanical society, one of which depicts gays and lesbians as unqualified to nurture and provide a healthy, loving home environment. Now what consistently seems to be over looked are some common realities. Love and nurture do not determine the sexual identity of a child nor are love and nurture determined by one's sexual identity.
Children need good, loving, healthy environments where they can thrive with quality discipline and preparation for life as an adult. If the question is, what will be harvested from today's seed in the year 2040, then shouldn't we examine the soil we plant that seed in for it's fertility? All that is required to be have Human Fertility is the ability to reproduce sexually. However, this is not all that is required to plant a child into this world. I contend that there are two stages of Human Fertility, one to reproduce life and the other to produce life. After all, even a crack addict can make a baby but can a crack addict raise a child? Sure, but not without there being serious adverse consequences.
A non-rehabilitated crack addict can loose her rights to raise her child based on the factual evidence that she has simply lost the ability to produce a healthy environment for that child. Let's seriously consider that a person or people who lack the ability to sexually fertilize a child with each other retain their ability to produce a fertile environment for a child. Yet, they may loose, and in many states have lost, the right to that ability due to their sexual orientation. How can this be morally right? It is vital that we plant children in environments that are fertile for producing life, environments that enable children to positively contribute to the overall wellness of our Nation's future socioeconomic wellness. The law can not take away from healthy and free individuals the ability to reproduce a child but the law has taken away their ability to produce a child.
Even basic Milano Method affirms that positive contributions to society are not weighed by which sexual orientation you are, ie; heterosexual women are not contributing more positively than lesbian woman, and visa versa with our men. Per the positive contributions of men and women, there is only one rule which can be applied, healthy individuals produce healthy communities, healthy communities produce healthy counties, cities, states,nations and so on. Worst case scenario using the MYTHedology of the puritanical mentality, gays and lesbians adopt children and they grow up to be gays and lesbians. Now, if they are good contributing members of society then what would be the harm in that?
If love, quantifies that I am a man or that I am a woman, then why isn't love gay? Perhaps it is not gay because being male, female or even gay does not define one's capacity or ability to love. Our society needs people who can share a healthy dose of love to these young wounded lives. There is in fact no clinical evidence that one's sexual identity breeds any more corruption in society than does another's sexuality. Rather, statistics have consistently proven the only distinction made between gay and lesbian contributions to society is that they do not have the ability to fertilize one another. This being the case, why then are only a handfull of states permitting gays and lesbians to adopt?
Too many children are waiting, needing good, loving, safe homes. Too many good people, regardless of sexual orientation, are desperately waiting to foster and adopt children. Due to the shortage of available foster and adoptive house holds, so many waiting children are at greater risk of being placed with desperate, money motivated, careless heterosexual "homes". Seems to me, the children are better off being returned to their former unhealthy environments where at least the violators aren't strangers.
Love and Light go with you all,
Ms. Rachel E. Milano
What color hair do you have? What's your favorite food? Are you on a diet or needing to gain weight? How about the flu... been getting that often? Oh, yes, and what of your STD, how are you feeling these days? Doesn't quite roll off the tongue does it?
I live in the state of Georgia, where a reported 50% of HIV infected women are African American and in a country where a reported 50% of the adult population has an STD. It's not a type-O, it's 5 0. 50% is a sad, sick and serious head count.
We live in a day and age where failure to acknowledge or even talk about the ill side effects of STDs in our communities has caused a National Health crisis. How can we be responsible with our illnesses if we don't know we have them? Most of us won't even get tested. Fear, yes fear is a culprit. Some folks need to place a warrant out on their personal fears because behind their self imprisoned bars could lie the verdict of death.
STDs are frightening however, many are treatable, others are not. Condoms DO NOT safe guard you from the most common life long STD, Herpes. There are grave consequences to "sex with out strings", "friends with benefits", "Hooking up", and "Gittin' some". People are having oral sex and intercourse at will and without question. News flash, there's no such thing as "making love in the club", it's plain old unadulterated at risk sex.
Oral sex is indeed sex and is most common amongst our youth who do not wish to believe oral sex is sex. Perhaps they think the word is Oral Xes. Never-the-less, STDs are being found in the mouths, stomachs, between breasts, and heads of tens of thousands of Americans. The shame and guilt are depressing our men and women. The stigma associated with STDs is actually the leading influence in infecting more people.
Carriers of Sexually Transmitted Diseases want to live, not just live but believe that it is possible to thrive living with an STD. However, we must establish a safe speak environment, an open communication forum within society which enables and encourages education reform and life style rehabilitation. People are not their diseases, they have real names, with real lives, dreams and desires. They have the ability to develop and contribute positively to society.
We can afford the greatness of people in our world but we can't afford their illnesses, for some, the cost is just too high. Yet many carriers and infected souls are left feeling abandoned by science and the possibilities of a cure. Often times they are alienated to the point they resort to exposing themselves and others to even greater risk. So many shuffle through existence, taking the casual approach that "we all gotta die sometime" and leaving behind a trail of devastation that admittedly no one wants to send rescue crews in after.
Then, you have the self centered, self righteous indignation of others who paper clip their noses to the stars of heaven and look down on those who suffer and struggle daily with STDs. I often think to myself, "do they ever consider the number 50%? This means if I go into a church seated with 90% African American attendance, to the left and to the right of me are at least eight infected people. What if I looked out into a general congregation of mixed races, wouldn't half be infected with one STD or another? That is unless they have come from out of state or perhaps even out of the country." These are the things I think sometimes.
Love and Light...
Ms. Rachel E. Milano