NOTE: While a part of this post was written in response to Kate Colombo's discussion titled "Muxes" -- when I began to post my writing in my Facebook Notes, I found that I needed to add quite a bit of additional information. So, since the TD Forums will not allow one to edit a post after ten minutes -- it seemed that I have no alternative but to post the full writing as a new discussion. I pray that you understand.
Hi to my Forum Friends,
On the Religion Forum, a Forum Friend, who I believe claims to be atheist, began a new discussion by posting a link to an article titled "The Muxes of Mexico: Inside The Community Where Cross-dressing Has Been Accepted Since The Time Of The Aztecs” and which begins:
"Far from being marginalized or persecuted, the homosexuals of the 'pueblo oaxacaqueno de Juchitan' in southern Mexico, with their striking dress and intricate makeup, are revered and have been since the time of the Aztecs."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...ted-time-Aztecs.html
My Forum Friend comments, "Each family has a Muxes. Interesting that one says his family made him that way."
First, I must refute your first statement. Having a homosexual, transgender, cross dresser, etc., in a family is not the norm -- but, is, by far, the exception. That is especially true in America where homosexuals are less that 2% of the 313.9 million (2012) population of America.
In the Huffington Post article titled "Gay Population In U.S. Estimated At 4 Million, Gary Gates Says"
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...timate_n_846348.html) we read:
SAN FRANCISCO — How many gay men and lesbians are there in the United States? Gary Gates has an idea but acknowledges pinpointing a solid figure remains an elusive task.
Gates is demographer-in-residence at the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy, a think tank based at the University of California, Los Angeles. For the institute's 10th anniversary this week, he took a scholarly stab at answering the question that has been debated, avoided, p****d and proven both insoluble and political since pioneering sex researcher Alfred Kinsey said in the 1940s that 10 percent of the men he surveyed were "predominantly homosexual."
Gates' best estimate, derived from five studies that have asked subjects about their sexual orientation, is that the nation has about 4 million adults who identify as being gay or lesbian, representing 1.7 percent of the 18-and-over population.
And, if we look at the total population of America: 313.9 million (2012) -- that 4 million tells us that only 1.27% of all Americans are gay.
Why is that tiny minority able to change the laws of marriage for all Americans? One reason is that we have a liberal president who is pro-gay; and we have a liberal Senate which is pro-gay, and we have many pro-gay liberals in the Congress.
Add to that the Liberal Theology churches that deny the Written Word of God, the Bible, which tells us that the homosexual lifestyle is an abomination -- and these Liberal Theology churches declare the homosexual lifestyle to be the new societal norm. In other words, they throw out God's Word -- and replace it with Society's Word.
Now, back to the Huffington Post article titled "The Muxes of Mexico: Inside The Community Where Cross-dressing Has Been Accepted Since The Time Of The Aztecs” -- it does not go back far enough.
Actually, homosexuality goes back to early Old Testament days, i.e., Sodom and Gomorrah, and was prevalent in New Testament days, especially in Rome. Many historians attribute Rome's corrupt sexual lifestyle to be a large part of the fall of Rome.
In prehistoric times, when the people we now call Indians (a misnomer attributed to Columbus) migrated from Siberia, across the Bering bridge, into North America (Alaska) -- and then, over thousands of years, migrated down into all of North and South America -- there were homosexuals and bisexuals. Although all Native America nations, with their varying languages, had different words for the homosexual; a common name and one used by anthropologist is the word "berdache" which basically meant "two spirits."
Those people we now call Native Americans, even from the first to cross the Bering bridge in prehistoric days -- did not understand the homosexuals, and in their superstitions and pantheistic religions believed this "two spirit" person to have special spiritual abilities. So, the homosexual often became medicine men/women, or some other set apart spiritual function. All of this was basically because these early Americans knew these people were different -- and, in their simple, superstitious religions -- gave them special treatment.
In our more advanced society and culture today -- we know it is not a "two spirit" thing -- but, a psychological disorder brought on by family environments and societal pressures.
My Forum Friend tells us of the article, "Interesting that one says his family made him that way."
And, that agrees with what I just wrote.
We are not to hate the homosexual, we are not to ostracize the homosexual -- but, we are not to do as the early Indian tribes did in their pantheistic superstitions and religions -- and make special laws just for homosexuals.
That is discrimination against the heterosexuals of our nation who still live a normal lifestyle -- to set aside those who have chosen an aberrant lifestyle and make special laws just for them.
God bless, have a wonderful, blessed day,
Bill
