For some reason there seems to be a re-emergence of the whole "we must accept homosexual people" regime going around. I am not sure why this has started up again. I honestly believed that we all came to an uneasy truce sometime in the 90s and everyone was happy, secure in knowing that gay people can come out of the closet without fear of prejudice (well, not as much prejudice) and straight people can safely walk the streets fearing not the secret agenda of the rainbow people. Now all of a sudden everyone is talking about intolerance towards homosexuals and I don't understand why. Even my gay friend is at a loss, he thought everything was going just fine. We tried to figure out what the hell is going on last night, but unfortunately the only news source we regularly check is Fark.com.

Anyway some people at my uni have decided to jump on the band wagon with this as well. All over my uni are these posters saying "Stop the intolerance: Homophobic people should be beheaded" or something like that. I wonder if these people realise the irony about this. They propose to "stop the intolerance" by instigating intolerance towards a different group of people. The way I see it is that if you make the choice that there is nothing wrong with homosexuals then you are admitting that there is the opposite choice of not liking them. Just because you made the choice doesn't mean it is the right one, and it doesn't mean you made the wrong one. All it means is that you consciously weighed up the consequences of each choice and picked one that felt right to you. Saying that all homophobic people are evil is just as intolerant as saying all homosexuals are evil. The point is that everyone has the right to believe what they want and we should not go on some crusade to make everyone think the same way we do. However, after saying all this I should probably point out that I am a big hypocrite. I am very pro-gay; in fact, I am so in favour of gay rights that my gay friends go "damn, you are gayer than we are". But that is my choice and I am not going to instantly hate someone just because they think otherwise, and I would stand up for them if they were being beaten up by a bunch of drag-queens (not that it would be that difficult, we all know drag-queens punch like girls).
All good things must come to an end.... including intolerance over the rainbow.