at dinner, the discussion wandered into Christianity (huzzah!). Now, the Jewish guy there started getting into fundamentalist protestants and that sort (Jehovah’s Witnesses and all that) and talking about how Christians of that sort, and even in the end, disrespect other religions. A point lies in there that came up a lot in Sunday School, and I don’t know that it was ever answered much to my satisfaction. On the topic of homosexuality, about the only time I ever saw it accepted from a group tying itself to Christianity was on a really weird telemarketing show for Jesus or something odd. Really odd. This topic came up in Sunday School. Is it alright to deal with them? To accept them? Should we be friends? Should we even accept or respect them? What’s too far? Too little?
Now, at some point, acceptance of other people’s rights becomes ridiculous. The phrase “shades of gray” gets used a lot for questions of morality, but what always bothers me the most in the end is that the shades of gray only have meaning because of the black and white that defines it. Gray would be nothing without black or white, and black and white exists in this world. There is absolute evil, like rape, racism, hate, the list goes on. There is absolute good too, love being so immediate there. There are things that are utterly unacceptable, and that’s a lesson that’s rarely emphasized these days. I’m not saying everything is clearly definable, it would be far too easy that way, just as saying everything is a “shade of gray” and hiding behind that sketchy defense. There are situations which are absolutely definible, and those that aren’t so easily done.
Acceptance only goes so far, if your friend is about to drink himself into a potentially lethal situation, whether it be overdosing or just driving piss drunk, you stop him (or her, political correctness points!).

I should stop myself before I type more stuff I realize what I just wrote is as retarded as what I just deleted.