Kingdom in the closet?

Published on May 2, 2012 by patcondell

This is amusing.  It can be said without reservation that this guy doesn't have a high opinion of Saudi Arabia.

By the way, there are a few things here that I don't agree with.  Western culture seems to regard homosexuality as an identity.  I don't agree.  I think that it is a behavior.

For example, can you be a former alcoholic?

There are some who think in a similar way that alcoholism is an identity.  Once an alcoholic, always an  alcoholic according to that way of thinking.  But if you really don't do it anymore, what does alcohol have it do with your identity anymore?  Frankly, I don't get that way of thinking.  If you don't do it, you aren't that type of person anymore.

Another example?  What is the point of rehabilitation for criminal behavior is the behavior is hard wired and can't be changed?  Evidently, it is considered that people can be changed, and therefore the behavior is the problem, not the identity.  If it were the identity, then  it would be like having a dog meow, or a cat bark.

My opinion is that you are what you do.  If you don't do the behavior, then you aren't that type of person.