I just wanted to see if we can come together to agree on the knowns and the unknowns.

I’ll start.

The Knowns:

We know that we don’t know much about the existence of God or intelligent design at least outside of what the religions teach and one’s faith.

We know that most of us actually would like to know the origin, the philosophy, the reasoning…..of it all, other than what the astrophysicists and the organized religions tell us.

We know that the religions have outlived their purpose and are currently causing more damage than good, including actual abuse, and act to separate us instead of bringing us together…

We know that some of us really need guidance from a religious organization or leader.

We know that some of us totally rely on our intuitions, judgments, conscious and our ability to decipher for ourselves the right from wrong regardless of our beliefs in God or intelligent design.

The unknowns:

Given the size of the universe, we really cannot disregard the probability of there being a creator, unless we believe ourselves to be the most inteligant  beings. I should have listed that under the knowns since I am yet to meet anyone who is willing to label themselves as intelligent.

We  really don’t have physical evidence that the prophets were actually here and actually said and did what we believe them to have said and done. This can also be listed under the knowns, I suppose.

We really don’t know whether there is going to be an afterlife, or reincarnations to complete the cycles, etc.

We really don’t know about the so called “Judgment Day”. Furthermore, this notion is contradictory to the concepts of a forgiving God, the idea that we were created in “his” image, that we are purposely flawed so as to self-correct or learn from our mistakes and reincarnation.

I was just recently informed by my 14 year old niece that she is bisexual.

Now I know what some of you are thinking; this is just Lady Gaga’s influence. That it’s now cool to be gay. That kids today are just experimenting and are more curious than anything else.

Well, I know my niece well enough to believe that she is for real but I’m also secretly hoping that you are wrong.

You see all my life, I have had issues with both heterosexual men and women even though I belong to that group myself.

Examples of those issues with respect heterosexual men include but are not limited to:

Their intense love for sports. If they are not doing it, they are watching it, playing it on video games, reading about it, discussing it…………..

Let’s not forget climbing the corporate ladder. That’s relentless.

There’s also the never ending need to be destructive, join the army, shoot something or activities like that.

Heterosexual women?

They become dumb early in their lives, somewhere in grade school in an effort to draw that stupid boy’s attention. From there it really escalates to bigger hair, smellier perfumes, longer nails, caked-on make-up, tighter, shorter outfits……………

Now I know that it sounds like I’m stereotyping. I fully realize that. I also realize that not all men and women are like that. Perhaps the percentage that actually are like that (in some variation) is around 50% but you must admit, that 50% is in your face.

So much so that that they begin to look like the poster-child for the entire heterosexual community. A community that I myself am not proud to be a member of. Unfortunately, the best that I could do was to receive a honorary membership from the gay community. Oh well.

So where did the 10% figure come from?

I personally don’t believe that only 10% of the population is gay, just as I don’t believe that only 20-40% of the population is introverted.

Remember just like the introverts, gays & lesbians have had to put on this mask and master hiding their sexual preferences in order to just survive. Oh sure, there are those brave flamboyant & obvious-ones but the rest are not as easily detected, not without a decent gaydar anyway.

So the next time you talk to or look at your parents, children, neighbours, co-workers, minister….. keep in mind that there is probably more like 40% non-heterosexuals amongst us.

I, for one, am only too happy to learn from them how to get in touch with my feelings, live life to the fullest and be myself, as opposed to what/who society tells me to be.

So Happy Pride my gay & lesbian friends. Here’s hoping that the rest of us can learn a few lessons from you.