What "If"?

It's Not Just A Function

By V. Martin

Understand, that all I'm suggesting is to think about it, I am. Most likely, I'm wrong but in the spirit of all minds on the planet, "I think there for I am". That alone makes me want to argue that plants are, animals are, planets, stars, matter, gasses, elements they all exist but do they think?
It might be better that I don't because here's some of what rolls through my mind. Everyone has as much right to be who they are as much as anyone else. It should not matter if someone chooses or is born "that way" or "this way." It doesn't make it more right or more wrong to be gay then to be straight. Choice or not it's who some people are and that is enough for me!!!!! As a society we weren't going to change collectively until a gene was discovered. For some reason we find it o.k. to violate each other in the most horrific ways when someone displays a personality unlike what is deemed "normal" by society.  But blame it on "god" and now it's even popular to be gay. That's great for those who choose that life style or are born that way. My concern is for those who are made by way of abuse. There are still those that are made gay by means of abuse and their voice is getting drowned out by the "god made gays". Not that anyone should be made to feel less important or less celebrated as a human being. I am worried about what kind of a message this is sending to children and there unique ability to see through the bullshit adults try to cram down their throats. The child that doesn't speak up because now they are being told they are born that way might suffer longer.  They may be trying to tell someone about the abuse only to be misunderstood and instead of protecting them they are told yet again by a trusted adult that it's o.k. to be gay. Of course all the child hears is that it's their fault they are being abused because they were born gay. Even if you're gay no one should lay hands on you unless you're an adult and consenting.

The last thing a kids want to hear from adults is that we can't protect them because the powers that be have a process they must follow. Kids and their concern for their safety just isn't important enough for the grown ups to cut through all the red tape, put in place by who and for whom? By adults, to protect more adults that are suppose to protect our children. I mean don't we constantly put them off as they are growing up? How many times do we tell them that we are too busy or too tired to pay them attention? You know what the child hears? You are not important enough for me to get off my lazy ass and do something with. Or not important enough to even look up from the device in your hand and watch as they dazzle you with whatever feat they just mastered. They only require a few minutes and a few encouraging words to feel like number one, like they matter.