MEP’s Love Guide #12
Today’s MEP Love Guide actually comes from a cute little book called The Gay Guy’s Guide to Love.
It suggests:
Don’t fall for these despicable, pernicious, malevolent, heinous, and generally wacko myths about gay love:
Myth: Gay love is wrong.
Reality: Love is love - gay, nongay, or in-between. Don’t let parents, priests, politicians, the press, or your psyche tell you differently.Myth: Gay relationships threaten family values.
Reality: Gay couples ARE families who do or do not embody family values just like straight couples.Myth: Gay relationships don’t last because homosexual men are constitutionally unable to coupel successfully.
Reality: One, plenty DO last. The world is filled with gay couples who have been together twenty, thirty, forty, or more years. Two, the only thing gay male couples are constitutionally unable to do the same as heterosexual couples is have babies.
June 7th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
While I appreciate your points here and what you are trying to do, I feel the need to point out that the last myth maybe isn’t all much of a myth. The reason? Long term successful relationships demand a temperament of the ego.
Ego is something gay men have plenty of - if that is a real ego or an artifact of other issues, is another debate. We also have very little to temper it. In the heterosexual world they have children, which in the case of most families, causes serious ego reduction.
What is also noteworthy about this topic of reigning in the ego is the centrality of this concept to Jewish civics, liturgy, and philosophy. Islam takes it to a bit of an extreme - just my opinion - and Christianity has all but missed the mark on this one.