I was a bit concerned when I saw your focus on biblical study…..thought you’d be another wack-job Bible thumping extremist. I’m sooooo glad that isn’t the case. There needs to be balance in the Force after all.

What I’d like to share about the whole gay issue can best be taken from Alfred Kinsey’s study, which is more about a state of mind than a label. Few people fit in the totally straight or totally gay ends of the spectrum, most of us are somewhere in the middle. So, I guess in the label since, most of us are bi. I don’t like labels anyway….so most of us are just people who can have a wide range of tastes.

I can remember when I was growing up hearing about the Kinsey study and how perverse it was, little did I know at the time how it could have helped me figure out my own sexuality. I only picked up his book after I saw the movie about Kinsey a few years ago. I found it fascinating reading, umm not the first 5 chapters.

Maybe things would have been a lot different in this country if his study would have been embraced instead of shunned. Our children might be a little safer and not feel the need to take their own lives to escape the torment from their peers.

I don’t mean to sound like a Debbie Downer but you inspired me to write about a very important issue. I’ve enjoyed reading your posts and look forward to reading more.

More seriously, I think/hope that one of the things that will be accomplished by the gay rights movement is the increased recognition of bisexuality (recognition by both straights AND gays), for two reasons:

(1) because people should, as Dr. Cargill says, be able to be who they are, whatever that is, and

(2) because society assumes that bisexual people who end up in longterm relationships with people of the opposite sex are “straight”–which only serves to perpetuate dishonesty, straight privilege, etc., etc., etc. (often, sadly, with the cooperation of the bisexual him- or herself). There is a national coming-out day for gay people–there should be one for bisexual people as well.