Saturday, June 23, 2012

Caiden Cowger rant

This rant has been out since early June as far as I know, and I've just listed to it. This guy is from West Virginia, and he has a conservative talk show as far as I know where he discusses his conservative veiw points. In this rant he is talking about how people are becoming gay because of celebrity influence and because of President Obama. His focus was on Lady Gaga and Barach Obama. He then points out some hypocrisy about that he cannot share his opinions or beliefts [on christianity] w/o being called a bully, but yet there is a gay agenda out there that those who don't follow a liberal viewpoint have to either accept or what.


I feel that, this guy is entitled to his opinion, and I am not at all per say offended because I have heard much worse from Christian extremist groups such as the Westboro Baptist Church. I don't entirely agree with the rant, but I do feel he is entitled to his opinion and I do feel that they are being somewhat hard on the guy. I'm not homophobic, however, I don't expect a guy who is not gay to agree with homosexual sex. Now, many straight guys, don't have a problem w/ lesbian sex, but when two guys want to have sex, they see it as the most disgusting thing ever. Again, these guys are entitled to their opinions. With that being said, I do find it to be hypocritical for them to cheer lesbians on but condemn gay men. Caiden was not doing this, he spoke against it as a whole, but I do think that going as far as to accuse Lady Gaga and the president of making kids gay or encouraging them to be gay is a bit ridiculous. Sure they may be encouraging them to embrace their gayness, but I don't think they turning these youth gay. I agree w/ him on his disagreement on the idea that one is born gay. I don't believe that one chooses to be gay (as far as having the feelings and urges), but at the same time I don't believe it's caused by anything genetic or biological, nor do I believe that ones orientation is immediately "placed" in them at birth. This is not an attack on anyone who believes otherwise, but to me it's just highly unlikely. No teen is just going to go from liking the opposite sex to the same sex, if they do, they were at least bisexual to begin with IMO. That individual either did not know it or they were in denial about it. With all that being said, though, if someone is not in agreement w/ with two individuals of the same sex having sex, that's fine. I'm sure that gay individuals are grossed out by sex between those of the opposite sex but no-one scream "heterophobia" at them. Still though, the gay teen "epidemic" cannot be blamed on Lady Gaga or Barack.


Moving on to Barack, many are disappointed with him for jumping on the gay marriage wagon. The truth is, I saw this coming a long time ago. I am not at all surprised that he supports it. If he supports abortion, then why are individuals so surprised that he is not opposed to same sex marriage?  My opinion on that is, hey let him support it, as long as he does not try to force the churches to perform it. That right there, would go against separation of church and state.


Back to the main topic at hand, I'm all about treating individuals with dignity. If you are nice to me, I will be nice to you, however, just because one does not agree with every aspect of your lifestyle (and yes to some extent ones sex life is a lifestyle), does not make that individual a homophobe or a bigot. Still, nobody can be made "gay", one's feelings will either develop towards that direction or they wont. Anyway, here is the link below. Leave a comment on this blog and tell me what you think about the rant.