I used to live with a guy who would say he wasn't against gays but he didn't want them in the military. His whole reasoning wasn't that it would change whether or not he could trust them but because he didn't want to hear about their wild sex the night before and all guys talk about sex. I tried to get him to think how it must feel to be gay and having to listen to other guys talk about the wild sex they'd had with girlfriends or prostitutes. He would say that if they were just normal then that wouldn't bother them to hear it. No matter how hard I tried or what I said, to him it all boiled down to the fact that they just weren't normal.

I've never understood that argument, about being normal. Normal by whose standards? By any religion? By law? By each individual's ideas of normalcy? Because to me, being normal is just being yourself. By most people's standards, I was always considered to be highly intelligent. To me, I was just me, just normal. I thought that everyone could do math because it was easy and anyone could spell without problems because it was just a matter of looking at the word and seeing it was wrong or right. Then I met my friend Michael who looks at words, knows they're wrong but for the life of him he can't see where the problem is.

For churches who argue that homosexuality is wrong because God said it was an abomination in the bible, I only have a few questions. Do you believe that God is love? Do you believe that the Devil is the absence of God? If you believe both of those things, then how can you believe that homosexuality is wrong, because for most, it's all about the love. If you believe that God is love and that two people love each other, then you have to believe that God is with them and therefore, it is right. Because if God is with you, then how can God hate you? It makes no sense to believe any other idea.

The bottom line is: If God is love, and two men or two women or a man and a woman love, then God is there and the relationship is blessed. It's that simple.