Why celebrating being gay, lesbian, trans, etc. means displaying your favorite way to kink it up in public, I’ll never understand. I currently don’t know of any parades that feature straight people simulating different types of sex on floats, but if there were you can bet that the same people who say Pride parades are important would be the same people saying straight parades are gross and unnecessary.

You don’t have to imagine it. There was a straight pride parade planned in 2019 and the outrage in reaction to it was telling.

The reaction to pride parades is usually pretty uniform when it comes to people with at least two brain cells to rub together. They ask the simple question “Why does this need to be seen?” There have even been gay people who see these things and decide to skip the festivities. It inevitably leads to a second question.

“Why can’t you do this behind closed doors?”

Here’s where some in the conservative movement begin to differ. Most conservatives that I know are pretty liberty-minded. They don’t have a problem with gay people as individuals and while they may not agree with their lifestyle or even think it’s gross, they wouldn’t go so far as to tell others what to do in their private lives. In fact, their entire philosophy is “I want to leave you alone just as I want to be left alone.”

But not every conservative believes this. Some believe that homosexuality should be outlawed, usually based on theological beliefs. Some of my own readers have expressed their displeasure that I bring up the fact that few people actually care what goes on behind closed doors.

To them, I ask how they square their belief in freedom and liberty with the desire to monitor and interfere with what people get up to in their bedrooms.

Some crimes are easily agreed upon. Don’t rape, steal, murder, commit fraud, etc., etc. However, some things don’t meet the criteria of being a crime despite being distasteful, unsafe, or even immoral.

For instance, a large swath of people may consider being forced to wear a seatbelt an intrusion on personal freedom as the danger of not wearing one is on the person not wearing it and no one else.  Some people believe that a tobacco company being allowed to advertise to the public again should be allowed. Some believe that growing marijuana in a backyard garden should be nobody’s business but the grower’s.

Homosexuality is like that.

Not everyone agrees that homosexuality is a crime against humanity. It may be a sin in the eyes of God, but consensual homosexual sex doesn’t result in loss of life, liberty, or property unless there are other sinister factors related to it. As such, a free society will generally shrug off consensual adult sex between two parties even if a good chunk of society doesn’t agree.

There are a few reasons for this. Firstly, you’d never stop homosexual sex, and attempting to do so would be a huge waste of time and resources. Once two people close their front door, you don’t know what they’re getting up to. They might be watching the game, building an engine, or getting it on. Demanding to know if they’re having homosexual sex would mean intruding into their homes, and it’s here that many people realize the folly of making homosexual sex illegal.

Today, they may be intruding into their home. Tomorrow it might be yours. That’s a slippery slope many would wisely avoid.

Keep in mind, this isn’t like abortion where someone was being killed and the response to making it illegal was “We’ll arrest and punish the holy hell out of anyone that does.” You’ll never know if a homosexual act occurred. There’s no body afterward.

Then there’s the cost. I don’t know a lot of people who would want to commit the resources to find homosexuals and stop them from copulating. It would require something along the lines of a Constitutional-breaking Gestapo here in America with more money and access to data than the CIA and FBI combined. There are millions of gay people out there and getting them all is a ludicrous idea in the same way eliminating guns from America is a ridiculous concept.

That’s just the logistical problems with it. We also need to consider another problem; the moral implications.

How far are you willing to go to harm someone who is doing harm to no one else? Keep in mind that I’m not talking about the LGBT activists you see in the news who are advocating for kids to be introduced to kink and believe that every single person needs to be accepting of their sexual lifestyle or else. I’m talking about gays, lesbians, and even transgender people who have absolutely no desire to bother you or anyone else. People who just want to live their lives in peace just like you do.

It’s important to remember that these aren’t monsters, they’re human beings. People who are committing sins to be sure…but then again…so are you. We all are in some way, shape, or form. None of us are innocent and only one can truly have the final victory over our sins.

And you’re not Him.

As far as I’m concerned, it’s no one’s business what consenting adults get up to in the privacy of their own spaces. I can openly tell them how I feel about it, but I’m not of the mind to go so far as to directly interfere with their private affairs.

And this is a philosophy that I feel all sides could adopt. They don’t need to shove it anyone’s faces, they don’t need to make people celebrate it at their jobs, and there is no reason to put my child in its path. It’s no business of mine, and making it my business is no business of theirs.