Hmmm.... What happened to the comments of this post? There were 6 comments [Re:评论(6)], and now there are only 3? The comments with questions and answers support and illustrate further the meaning of the blog post (Gay rights are human rights), with the deleting of the 万塔/汤安 comments, the integrity of the expression of ideas is severely compromised. : (
Hi 万塔/汤安: Thanks for coming and telling the story in full! I hope you set up your blog and tell all the stories you know. This colleague of yours is an honorable person with moral principles. He has my respect. I don't know 月弯儿 well but I hope she could be back to write and tell all the stories she wants to write and tell.
当年做AIDS课题,单位的研究中发生过一个Biosafety P4的实验室意外,导致一位高帅阳光的白人博士后同事落入了选择"继续从事研究和从此隐瞒个人隐私以获得巨额保险",或者是"公开一直保密的同性恋事实维护生活跟内心的平静"的两难境地。选择后者最终使他离开了那所大学,但却拥有一生的Monroe那句so keep your head high, keep your chin up。结果他带来同伴跟大家认识和告别。
确实宗教人士中对同性恋以及婚姻平权问题也正如你所说的有不同观点,并非铁板一块。比如南非大主教图图说:“I have no doubt that in the future, the laws that criminalise human love and commitment will look the way the apartheid laws do to us now -- so obviously wrong." (Bishop Desmond Tutu speaking of "Stop Uganda's 'Kill the Gays' bill").
同样的观点在“异性恋支持婚姻平权”网站的一位歌手的话语中得到印证:"Politicians against gay marriage now, are the future villains of our American History books.(今日那些反对同性恋婚姻的政治家,是未来的我们美国历史书中的恶棍。)" (Natalie Maines, The Dixie Chicks)
在我前面那个“脸书,高院,婚姻平权”帖子里,我给出过一个心理学者派特森研究报告的链接,望查阅,其结论是:“Overall, the results suggest that important decisions about adolescent lives should focus not on parental sexual orientation, but on the qualities of adolescents’ relationships with parents.”(总体而言,研究结果表明,对青少年生活作出重要决定的因素不应该聚焦于父母的性取向,而在于青少年与父母的关系的质量。)
In Romans 1 we read: "God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion (Rom 1:26-27)." Also, In the beginning the Creator made them male and female. For this reason, a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh (Matt 19:4, 5).
However, in John 4:20-21 (New Revised Standard Version), we read: "Those who say, 'I love God,' and hate their brothers and sisters, are liars; for those who do not love a brother or sister whom they have seen, cannot love God whom they have not seen. The commandment we have from him is this: those who love God must love their brothers and sisters also."