What a sane and wise way Martina Navratilova uses in putting it:
I have never felt ashamed of being gay, even when people have tried hard to make me feel that way. I know how I feel isn’t wrong. There can be nothing wrong with loving another human being, regardless of their gender. What is wrong is to be prejudiced against those you don’t understand or who don’t feel exactly like you. Occasionally, someone will throw the Bible at me and I say, “Are you saying that God had us evolve in every way over the last two thousand years but the Bible has not?” I ask them to look at the Bible. It justified human slavery, genocide, the sacrifice of animals. We’ve evolved beyond those things! The Bible has evolved in those things, why not in human sexuality? Then they might say, “Well, it’s not normal.” I think of Naomi Judd’s words. She said, “Normal? Normal is just a cycle in a washing machine.” You can have a normal temperature, a normal water level, but what is a normal human being when we are all so full of emotion, love, and sexuality?
(Quoted from page 171 of One Can Make a Difference: How Simple Actions Can Change the World, edited by Ingrid E. Newkirk. Adams Media, 2008.)
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I have never felt ashamed of being gay, even when people have tried hard to make me feel that way. I know how I feel isn’t wrong. There can be nothing wrong with loving another human being, regardless of their gender. What is wrong is to be prejudiced against those you don’t understand or who don’t feel exactly like you. Occasionally, someone will throw the Bible at me and I say, “Are you saying that God had us evolve in every way over the last two thousand years but the Bible has not?” I ask them to look at the Bible. It justified human slavery, genocide, the sacrifice of animals. We’ve evolved beyond those things! The Bible has evolved in those things, why not in human sexuality? Then they might say, “Well, it’s not normal.” I think of Naomi Judd’s words. She said, “Normal? Normal is just a cycle in a washing machine.” You can have a normal temperature, a normal water level, but what is a normal human being when we are all so full of emotion, love, and sexuality?
(Quoted from page 171 of One Can Make a Difference: How Simple Actions Can Change the World, edited by Ingrid E. Newkirk. Adams Media, 2008.)
For information and news of Martina Navratilova, click here. For images of or relating to Martina Navratilova, click here.
For a brief biography of Ingrid E. Newkirk, click here. For images of or relating to Ingrid E. Newkirk, click here.
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