Robert, I think the division between the sacred and the profane which you have created in your mind is the source of your difficulty. It's a division many on the spiritual path create for themselves but in reality its all part of the maya and I think you already know that. It's the same division, I believe, that created the problems in the Catholic church: rejected aspects of the personality become more predominant when you try to suppress them. For me the yin and yang symbol describes a whole person very well: a light side, a dark side and a spot of each in the other.
My sister a Christian of the Palin variety, who happens to have a gay son, was devastated by the news. It contradicted everything she believed in. And she had all the assumptions that went along with that: gay people are promiscuous, gay people get lots of diseases, gay people aren't spiritual, etc . This created a huge conflict in her mind between what she had been taught about gay people and what she knew her son to be: a very kind and talented young man who loved his mother dearly with a list of accomplishments any mother would envy. One day my sister said to me: "You know, when I first found out about it, all I could think about was what he wanted to do in bed. And that's the problem - that's all people think about when the meet a gay person what they want to do in bed. But it's not about that, its about who they are drawn to love I was the one with the problem." FYI: I happen to live near a large city that has gay bath houses, and yes people do go there. There is also an equally busy heterosexual bathhouse that been in operation since the 60's. The interesting thing is, when you meet a straight person, the first thing that comes to mind isn't where they go or what they do in bed is it? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Bottom line is the bath houses, and the materialism, and all the fuss with feathers and such. > It's all such an act. > Basically, I just don't get it. > > (Hey Archie, > Oh, Edith...ya know them queers, out there on the left coast there, Edith...well I was thinkin...they should send them all back to Africa, ya know Edith.) > > R.G. >
