class lent credibility to the foundations of the narrative from the Religious
Right.
Watching national leaders contort abstract social constructs made me realize
that their ridiculous insipidity made most people think that while the last
hurricane, terrorist attack or tsunami was not caused by enjoining of male
couples and female couples, it could have serious repercussions to the social
fabric of the country.
As opposed to the disingenuous politicians and media as I was, I was also
touched by the sincerity of the genius and talent of persons that I found out
were gay. Comic actors like David Hyde Pierce, Nigel Hawthorne, Stephen
Fry, John Inman and Jim Parsons made me laugh during the most troubled
times of my life. They were not only sources of “entertainment” — they
helped bring of a true sense of happiness. These were sincere, genuine,
wonderful people who understood the power of love through humor. It could
not be that their faculty of love and happiness could be “unnatural.” If this
were so, then all it meant was that our “natural” capacity for love was
insufficient. The matter reached final clarity when I discovered in the
writings and speeches of the late, legendary Christopher Hitchens, the
simple assertion that homosexuality was wrought of the same love that
heterosexuality was. It's not that homosexuality is an “equal” of
heterosexuality, it is actually not even separate. It is rendered of the same
essence, which is the search for love.
Pursuit of Love
In his memoirs, “Hitch-22,” Hitchens further clarified the competing
influences in the evolution of our civilization:
“... to a conflict that dominates all our lives: the endless, irreconcilable
conflict between the values of Athens and Jerusalem. On the one hand,
very approximately, is the world not of hedonism but of tolerance of
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