keninabu!

Love III

I'm quite curious about the film Brokeback Mountain, about two gay cowbows who fall in love with each other.

The NYT review writes that the movie is not about homosexuality, it's not about sex, but it is about love.

But isn't that already the case for a lot of homosexual people? That is really isn't about wanton, crazy sex, or about sex at all, but about love.

Sometimes it angers me that a lot of purported peace-lovers and purported "lovers of our fellow sinners" condemn homosexuality, with hypocritical words like "love the sinner, hate the sin", before launching into a whole spiel about "protecting marriage" and "protecting our children from homosexuality".

It angers me in a lot of ways, not least because one of my best friends happened to fall in love with a guy whose father wanted to do just that: protect his son from his sexuality.

So he brainwashed his son into breaking up with my friend, and to transfer schools, and to cut off all contact, to straighten out.

In the end, the father will pass away, and just leave behind two lost souls, with one haunted by repression and another haunted by this ghost from the past.

posted by keninabu @ 11:59 PM