Here's a little story that I've been meaning to post on here but never got around to.

The week Brokeback Mountain (video about 2 gay cowboys) came out on video I was in Super Video after my shift ended. The other players in this little scene are Sue (Super Video manager), Tiffany (Super Video employee), and Middle-age Dude (Super Video customer). Middle-age Dude and I were browsing along the shelves and asking Sue, Tiffany, and eachother's opinions on whatever we picked up. About 5 minutes into this Middle-age Dude picks up Brokeback Mountain and asks Sue if she's seen it.

Sue: Yeah, I watched it. But I didn't particularly care for it. It's about two homosexual cowboys.

Middle-age Dude: Oh. They kinda creep me out.

Tiffany: I really liked it.

Me: Why?

Tiffany: It's just a real good story. And I know a lot of people don't like gays and lesbains but I don't think it's our place to judge them. We're not God.

Me: Oh, Tiffany. You just pushed a huge button on me.

And then Tiffany and I went on a short but pleasant and passionate argument bout that. ("We shouldn't judge." "But God's already judged those actions wrong.") Whenever we paused for breath...

Sue: I'm kinda with you, Anna. Homosexuals just give me the shivers.

Tiffany: But we don't have a right to judge their love wrong.

Middle-age Dude: Just as long as I don't have to see it. I don't care for it.

Sue: Yeah, it's not my thing. I certainly don't want to have to be around it.

And at this point I had to go home. On reflecting on it afterwards I realized two things. 1, I was the only person who took the Bible literally. 2, Tiffany and I argued it on the basis of right and wrong. Sue and Middle-age Dude would only make personal statements of dislike and didn't even view it or were to afraid to speak of it as a moral, right-wrong issue. To me, Sue and Middle-age Dude were more disturbing and disheartening than Tiffany's frank (wrong) opinion.