Scenes From a Broken Hand: "Sodomy is Not a Civil Right"

Thursday, May 17, 2012

"Sodomy is Not a Civil Right"

So says some cretin in my home state of Virginia, who unfortunately has the power to derail the appointment of a gay judge, and was able to get his ugly face on television to spout off about it.

How about "being left the hell alone?" Isn't that a civil right?

How did a country founded by people running away from religious intolerance and political oppression mutate into this nation of think-skinned, self-righteous, know-it-all busybodies intent on making their personal preferences, habits, and obsessions into Law?

You really believe in limited government? Then back off and shut up and let people be.

Could we please learn to accept the fact that very, very little about another person is any of our business?

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Scenes from a Broken Hand

CHESTER:
This monk I knew in Thailand... amazing man. He was always talking about these veils that stand between us and reality—and how you had to push them back to win the Hide and Seek.

JIM:
Hide and Seek?

MORDECAI:
It's a game, Pogo—the one I'm playing with myself—my real self, deep down.

CHESTER:
No, no. God, or the world, or whatever is out there, is playing it--with all of us. See, God is like this tremendous hand, and we, all of us, everything, are like the fingers. What God does is, he splits himself up into all these different parts, all these fingers: plants, fish, people, rocks—and then—this is the amazing part— he forgets! He forgets what he's done. He plays a game with himself, see? Hide and Seek! That's what the veils are for—so he can forget—so we can forget where it all came from. We see the fingers, but we never see the hand.

from Scenes From a Broken Hand,
a play by Andrew Ordover