I urge you to consider what an error it is to commit moral treason against what you know about your life. Ask yourself if the things which puzzle you (your sexuality, your fear of damnation by a supreme being) are possible in reality. Is it something that is possible on earth or does it only apply to some presently unknown "higher region" of existence that is out of reach of man? Now ask which one can you count on - the one where you can look around you and perceive things with your senses, saying "This," and pointing to a tree near a waterfall, or "That," pointing to a skyscraper towering above a harbor. Or the one where you can neither point to, visit, nor enjoy, but must accept on blind faith without *ever* having validated its existence. Yes, it is possible to accept the second in defiance of your mind, but such fantastic conditions are best left in the human imagination. Such irrational thoughts contradict with reality and represent an error in knowledge.

My life on earth is the only one that I have a right to expect, no other. Each day when I wake up I am conscious of the world around me, and I know that I understand where I’m at, what I’m doing, and what I will do next. I will not live my life in fear of my death. By the nature of death, when I am dead I will no longer have anything to live for - it would be silly to consider other alternatives such as the popular "Life after death," statement. Life for what? Given by whom? Where do I find it? Well, how come I have to be dead in order to know what it’s like? Why should I be interested in something which requires my destruction for its fulfillment … just look at that - how can one be alive when they are dead? How am I supposed to know what that life is by negating the one that I have *now*? This is the only life that I accept as valid. There can be no life when one has nothing to live for.

One should feel no remorse or fear for their actions as a homosexual. Gay people should accept and act on their sexuality without regret, not only because it is unalterable, but primarily, as a natural phenomenon and a source of great joy. Homosexual relationships are as rewarding as heterosexual relationships. Being gay is neither immoral nor irrational nor tragic nor unfortunate nor inadequate. (It is only tragic and unfortunate to the extent that gay people grow up in a homophobic society.)

Any attempt to integrate homosexuality with a religious system of beliefs results in a nit-picking of concrete issues. One can spend any amount of time picking phrases out of a religious text, such as the Bible, and come up with statements that support homosexuality in one context and damn it in another. Phrases that embrace love between anyone, but condemns it between people of the same sex. This pattern continues until no one is quite sure what they should think or do, but there is an underlying sensation of guilt and fear for not knowing at all.

If misery is what you seek to achieve in life, then by all means, continue to embrace religion as your source of knowledge. For those of you that are interested in enjoying a rational live that is based in reality, turn to your mind and your senses. Do not allow contradictions to exist in your knowledge. Approach everything with a deliberate use of logic. Realize that as humans, our lives are based on our faculty to reason, this means think, not feel (emotion) nor believe (religion) nor force (war), to determine our way through existence. You must be conscious of what’s going on around you and deal with it according to the most rigorous system available to you - the philosophy of reason which holds your life as an absolute, as something worth living for.