YOUR SEXUAL preference or what you fancy yourself to be does not define your sex.
If you’re born with a penis and a pair of testicles, then you are male; likewise if you’re born with a vagina and ovaries you are female, and no amount of politically correct nonsense or surgical alteration will change that because at the end of the day you’re just a surgically altered male or female.
Having said that, there’s really nothing wrong with being gay, the problem is if you pretend you’re not.
Indeed, if you choose to have sex with someone who is the same sex as you are, I find nothing wrong with it as long as you both are consenting adults, you do it in the privacy of your bedroom, and you do not do it with animals and children.
Being gay whether you’re male or female only becomes an issue when you pretend you’re not, because basically you are lying to yourself. God knows what you’re capable of doing just to keep up the facade.
A case in point is politics; politicians are generally known to suffer from amnesia and they make campaign promises and forget them altogether right after winning the elections.
Take for example former President BS Aquino; when he was campaigning in Cavite he said “if the MRT line from Cavite to Metro Manila is not done by 2016 he and then Transportation Secretary Abaya will have themselves both run over by the train.” His term ended and the much anticipated “mag pasagasa ako sa tren” never happened.
Now just imagine a politician who projects the image of a “macho man complete with a wife and children” but is actually a homosexual after sundown. And the lying game begins.
Now there are politicians who are gay and make no qualms about it, one can say they’re gay and proud of it.
Former Albay governor, congressman and Cabinet secretary Joey Salceda is one. He made no issues about being gay and it never affected his career in public service. In fact he is one of the few public servants who really serve the people.
We have Geraldine Roman, congresswoman of the 1st District of Northern Bataan Province, who is a transgender. When she was campaigning she presented to the people who and what she is and in fact her advocacy is equal rights for the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) community.
Whatever Congressman/woman (depending on what you prefer) Geraldine Roman claims to be is of no consequence in her/his being a lawmaker and discharging his/her duties and obligations as such.
Incompetence or competence in performing one’s sworn obligation has no gender.
In Iloilo Province we have Mayor “Calay” Alonsabe of the Municipality of Alimodian; the good mayor is openly gay and he never made any pretensions. He is not or even tries to hide the fact that he is. He became quite famous for his statement, “Agi takon pero indi takon makawat” or in English, “I’m gay but I’m not corrupt.” It seems he was describing in opposite a certain dismissed city mayor.
It has long been rumored that former President BS Aquino is a closet gay and if you look at his life closely all the indications are there. The man is pushing 60 and all his life he has been living with mother till she died. Women seem to run away from him. He is rich, the son of a President and a President himself, with fast cars and money yet no woman has ever claimed he impregnated her and to this day he never married. If he is a closet gay pretending he is not, just look at his administration – all lies and half truths.
Meanwhile in “I Am Iloilo City” from coffee shops to barber shops the speculations are always there that dismissed Mayor Jed Mabilog is a closet gay. It really does not matter whether he is gay or not; he was dismissed from public service because of unexplained wealth issues and certainly whatever his sexual preference is has nothing to do with his dismissal.
At the end of the day it does not really matter if you’re gay or lesbian, black or white, Christian or Moslem; if you’re an asshole you’re an asshole! (brotherlouie16@gmail.com/PN)
