The whole discussion on the newly confirmed gay Episcopal priest got me thinking about homosexuality and all of the justifications that surround the issue. Particularly I was thinking about the arguments that homosexuality is normal or genetic or something like that. (Anything that falls into that set of arguments that denies that homosexuality is an abhoration). I was considering this argument in light of evolution and it sparked a couple of thoughts. It seems to me that if homesexuality is natural and we have evolved from apes then it would seem to follow that homosexuality would also be natural for apes. Maybe I'm mistaken but I don't know that I have ever seen or heard of gay apes, or any other gay animals.
Maybe someone can prove to me that there are gay apes and can blow this whole argument out of the water. Whatever. It still doesn't change the fact that homesexuality is an abhoration.
My last post about PETA got me thinking about meat. For those of you who know me and know my dietary habits you know that it doesn't take much to get me thinking about meat, but that is beside the point. I started thinking about meat and about how much a PETA member would hate me if they ever met me. Keep in mind that I have never met a member of PETA or taken much time to even really understand what they believe. Basically I don’t really care because what I have seen of what they believe is crap. So I’m not going to waste my time studying any more. I think my basic problem with PETA is that I believe that animals like cows were put on the earth so that I could eat them and they believe that cows have feelings and should be protected with more fervency than we would protect the life of a human child.
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[The following paragraph is going to be a random tangent. If you are easily distracted and cannot continue your train of thought while pausing for random thoughts please skip this paragraph.] For some reason I have this idea that at some time in the history of the world all animals were "wild" as opposed to "domesticated" or the like. Modern day cows wouldn't necessarily be considered “domesticated” but they definitely aren’t “wild” animals. Working off my assumption that all animals were at some point wild it would follow that at some point cows were wild. I don’t know if it is just me, but I have a hard time imagining this. Anyone that has seen cows first hand knows that they are about the slowest and dumbest of all animals. I can’t imagine how they survived before someone put them out in a field and put a fence around them. I just have a hard time seeing a herd of cows roaming the prairies and fighting off a pack of wolves. Are there any wild cows still out there? Maybe someone can help me here.
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I just get sick of people who put the “feelings” of plants and animals above the well-being of humans. Where the crap do they even get the idea that plants have feelings and even if they do why do I care what a plant or animal feels or how I treat it beyond the concepts of stewardship and the like. I'm not going to go into my rant about the stupidity of chaining yourself to a tree so that it won't get cut down but not caring at all when millions of children are dying of hunger in Africa not to mention the horrors of abortion in this country. I'll just say, "GET A PASSION THAT MATTERS!"
I guess I just get angry at anyone who would try and deny me a good burger. To quote Nick Smith, “I like animals, they taste great.”