Two wrongs don't make a right.

"Two wrongs don't make a right." My mother said this to me repeatedly throughout my childhood when I would smack a sibling, steal a toy, do some other naughty thing and protest, "But she/he did it first!"

The phrase - and the lesson behind it - has stuck with me all of my life.

Too bad politicians and extremist wackos of both sides of every 'hot topic' issue haven't learned that same lesson.

My musings now are primarily about the current agenda and behavior of the GBLT extremists. Isn't it always the extremists who get all the attention? I would like to assume that the mainstream GBLT folks are just as embarrassed by the extremists claiming to represent them as I, as a Christian person, am often embarrassed about the stupid stuff other people do in the name of God/Christianity/Jesus.

Disclaimer before I proceed. I am not a politician. I am not a journalist. I welcome rational discussion and perfectly accept that my opinions are just that - MY opinions. You are entitled to yours. Profanity and insults will not be tolerated in comments and will be deleted.

Also – I reference actual news stories I have read over the last few months, but as this is not a factual journalistic piece but merely my opinion, I am not bothering to re-find the articles to link you. Google search will find them, I’m sure.

So.

Does no one else see the irony and the hypocrisy of a group which demands rights for its members by trampling all over the rights of others? Do we really think it is okay for the ACLU to champion the ‘rights’ of a gay couple to ‘force’ a profoundly, fundamentally Christian business to bake their wedding cake, thereby putting that individual out of business because a) she can’t afford the lawsuit and b) she is not willing to give up her deeply and profoundly held religious beliefs?

Really?

There are thousands of bakeries that would jump at the chance to have their business. This is not a situation where that woman’s cakes were the only cakes available in the entire universe. Can you not see that this sort of behavior only hurts your ultimate goals and causes the fundamentalists to dig in their heels against you?

What about the state where the ACLU is trying to force a church (I think a Baptist one, but not sure) to perform homosexual marriage ceremonies inside the church against the clear and explicit doctrines of the church?

Really?

When there are countless churches that would gladly perform this ceremony? Contact me – I have an awesome brother-in-law who is a well known and highly respected minister of the nondenominational Christian church in which I grew up. Financially destroying this one little church to prove your point does not help your cause.

What about the state – I believe it is Virginia? Where the Catholic Charities no longer handle adoptions because they were sued by the ACLU representing a gay couple who wanted to adopt. Of course, adopting children to a gay couple is against the tenants of the Catholic Church, so in the end they were shut down because they would not give up their beliefs under the weight and pressure of the ACLU.

Hurray for you. You successfully bullied a charity into closing its doors. Do you feel good about yourself now? When there are other places, other organizations, where you could have gone to adopt a child? Please do not pretend that this vindictive behavior had anything to do with love or a desire to be a parent. It was nothing more or less than hate and vengefulness.

And this, my friends, is why I will continue to stand on the side of Religious Freedom. Have we forgotten that Religious Freedom was the initial reason the pligrioms first came here? That countless wars have been fought over this in every nation throughout the known history of humankind?

You have every right not to agree with the religious beliefs of any given group. You have every right to deride them, insult them, call them stupid, ignorant, uneducated, whatever you choose. You do NOT have the right to TAKE THEM AWAY.

Please note that none of my commentary above has anything to do with whether I, personally, am in any way against persons of GBLT persuasion. I believe that God loves us all, no matter what, the end.

However, I will state one other thing that gets my own dander up. It is a discussion I recently shared with my wickedly brilliant niece who is a vocal and active champion of all things GBLT.

When talking about public places where various states of stranger/acquaintance nakedness might be occurring – public toilets, locker rooms, dressing rooms, etc.: If you have a penis, you belong in the room for penises. If you do not have a penis, you belong in the room for no-penises. I will forever and profoundly, vociferously object to any legislation that changes this basic fact of physiology! I don’t care what you feel like on the ‘inside’ – as long as you have a penis, you go where penises go.

For the very simple reason that there are idiots and creeps and wackos of every gender and persuasion who would ‘pretend’ to be transgendered in order to go into the public naked space of the other gender to do horrible and nasty things to those other people.

If you want to fight for your own private, locking, one-person-only space, I’m right behind you. I can readily understand that if you feel like a girl, you don't want to be in a room of naked, rowdy boys.

But I think it is stupid that there is now a law in California which allows ‘transgendered’ high school students to use the locker rooms/showers of the gender they believe themselves to be rather than the gender they physically are. Sorry, but it’s stupid. There will be high school boys all over the place pretending to be transgendered so they can look at naked girls. Duh!

Let’s use common sense, for crying out loud!!