Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Broken Reasoning in the Mountain

roA gay PCV friend of mine told me a story. His community members don’t know he’s gay and the other day while they were out in the hills, working on a project, one of the workers began to explain how homosexuality is the worst thing in the world. Most of the other workers just sat and listened. One rationalized that ‘while it may be the worst thing in the world, the times are changing and now if you go out to bars you’ll see male couples.’

The first man told a story about how one time he was riding in a public taxi and a male couple he suspected of being gay got in. Well, the man was so offended he demanded that the taxi driver pull over to let him out. There was so debate over whether the man should pay for the ride, and the taxi driver said, ‘you were in the car for such a short distance,’ so he let the man out without charging him. Then the man told his fellow workers, ‘I didn’t even tell the cab driver why I was getting out.’

Pity, I told my gay friend, his powerful statement just went to pot.

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