Love and Sexuality

When i read an article in The Daily Mail, a short while ago i was astounded at how one journalist so openly voiced her views on lesbianism as fact. Saying how parents should be worried, because of the increasing trend of respectable, young girls involving themselves in ‘lipstick lesbianism’. She poorly represented the other pro-gay view! This led me to thinking about how types of love different to the stereotypical, same-aged, heterosexual, mentally and physically healthy relationship are deeply frowned upon, even now, in our non-discriminative, ‘free’ society. Some books and television series have sought to try to open up the public’s narrow view of love, i.e. The Reader, whilst films such as ‘Lesbian Vampire Killers’ and ‘Just Friends’, only seek to mock non-conformist lovers. As the phrase goes, “You can’t help who you fall in love with” and i think that people should be more respective of that. Certainly the stereotypically ‘healthy’ form of love does not always proof just. Think for example of love affairs such as that of Bill Clinton, when there are plenty of other influential persons who have not stayed to social ‘love norms’ and yet remained faithful and true. Elton John and Robbie Williams may not share a love for females, but does that mean that what they feel is wrong? Certainly the public has enjoyed delving into their music, if not their love life! ‘Gay’ is an unjust label. Once someone knows that someone is gay, they treat them differently and no longer see the ‘whole person’. Why should a non-heterosexual fancy you anymore than a heterosexual would? Moving on from this, i have also watched countless programs on ‘large age gap relationships’ which simply seek to humiliate the persons involved, in order to make money! They oh so casually reveal ‘the bad bits’, without properly examining the strong emotional bonds, i.e. the underage sex, the unexpected pregnancies, the public scandal. Adding to my main topic, one rarely sees couples with one mentally or physically disabled person out in public! Why should they be embarrassed to show their love, due to the public reception they receive? Why should it matter if the ‘disabled’ one was ‘disabled’ before or during the relationship? Surely love is love and better than any ever emotion, in what ever form it takes! As long as it is mutual, there doesn’t appear to be any underlying problems! Love brings happiness and hope. Love rebuilds lives. It changes people! Why then should any couple have to be ashamed of how they feel, regardless of their sexuality, gender, age or physical and mental capabilities? God told us all to love one another – then surely love is never wrong! Why should transsexuals have to hide in the shadows? Are they murderers? Criminals? If so, then what is their crime? Being who they are? In a ‘free’ society, surely this is no crime! And as for psychological ‘therapies’ which are supposed to cure people of their ‘[love] illnesses’, they are simply abominable! Have gay people ever harmed the Western Baptist Church? Even if you don’t agree with something, does that give you the right to take drastic and often rather harmful action against it? Is that very Christian? We should leave the lovers to love and lock up the real criminals; the heartless racists.