Are they normal?

   Belonging to the LGBTQ+ community is called karma in nearly everyone’s perception in the old days. Even now, many cannot accept seeing their offspring being gay or lesbian. Just the idea of befriending those would be abominable. They are disgusting and divergent, meant to be non-existent, a flaw of the universe. But something against the law of the universe would never exist.

   Some claim that “homo” love is against the Bible, against any religions and social norms. But when considering a religion, please take into account the social, economic, and historical contexts. The harsh and perilous living conditions in the old times made reproduction the utmost importance, having the role to maintain human lives. Hence, human existence was to pass down the next generations. As time goes by, life becomes decent, comfortable, and secure. There marked the hedonistic age, enjoying life pleasures and pursuing true love. People became aware of their sexual orientation.

   From a scientific perspective, being gay is a difference in our genetic make-up. Basically, to some misled activists, LGBTQ+ people have nothing called flaw, they only have a wrong genetic make-up. That notion would pave the way for the so-called “scientific racism”. In the 18 century, a book called Crania Americana was published, depicting Indian and African skulls with odd and abnormal shapes. This led people to believe that Native Americans and African slaves are inferior races. Some activists for the emancipation of slaves are phrenologists, studying Crania Americana. They became conditioned to claim that if released, black slaves would not fight back since their brains are smaller than Caucasians’ and they were too “stupid” to learn to revenge. The same phenomenon is happening here when some say that LGBTQ+ people have a flaw in the genetic make-up. That “flaw” is only a trait. A person can be straight, gay, lesbian, or bisexual just like the way he/she has blue, green, or brown eyes.

   From a religious perspective, LGBTQ+ never goes against any beliefs or regulations. Each person has their own interpretation of the scriptures and religion, and for any reason, some interpretations will be predominant while others are marginalized. The pope says “anyone who wants to build a wall to keep out migrants is not Christian”, referring to President Donald Trump closing the US-Mexico border. But Trump is a Presbyterian, making him a Christian. The Pope uses his interpretation of Christianity to opine that Trump’s action is unreasonable and cruel. The fact that is the head of the Roman Catholic Church does not make his interpretation more convincing or prominent. Then, the interpretation of religions about LGBTQ+ is from personal perspectives, with criticism and discrimination being the predominant one. God never said that love between two men is wrong, nor did Buddha, nor ancient civilizations when depicting the divine “homo” love. One must accept that religions are internally diverse and self-evolving. In feudal times, women who studied math were considered witches, but now the same perception would be absurd and obsolete, to put it mildly. Thus, there is no gainsaying the prospect wherein LGBTQ+ people would be considered “normal”, but the path to that distant world is about dozens or hundreds of years. The path to claiming the righteousness for the community is of the paramount impossibility as for women’s rights. Females suffered from prejudices, no education, and no voice in the family. The fight preserves until now, thousands of years at least. Our descendants then would pursue their history textbooks, seeing how shallow their forebears could be. Religions will evolve, eventually to dismiss the interpretation that LGBTQ+ people are against the hope of God.

   Since time immemorial, love, and empathy are core values of humanity. If people can change to embrace the differences of races, colors, and backgrounds, so can they celebrate the love between anyone, not just a man and a woman, two men, two women, or any other kind. We tend to put Wall-E and Eve into a mold of male-female, but they are machines, neither man nor woman and they fall in love for each other