Who owns the Rainbow?

Is Ken Ham supporting Pride?

 Ken Ham a bigot of questionable sincerity and sanity, has, with the help of government funds made a model of the mythical ark,  The world flood and ark myth originated as far as we know in the Sumerian mythology recorded in the Epic of Gilgamesh. 

 Ken Ham has lit up his model of the ark with rainbow colored lights, but not in support of the LGBT community, he is using the rainbow to try and promote hate and  discord.

 He has claimed that Christians need to take back the rainbow from the LGBT community because he claims that the christian god owns it!

 Firstly this man is wrong, in that Christians are free to use the rainbow, the LGBT community do not own it any more than any one god does. We do receive royalty's every time someone uses a rainbow or sees one in the sky.

 Secondly the rainbow flag created by Gilbert Baker in 1978 is a symbol uniting all people, of all races and religions in peace and the acceptance of the natural diversity of humanity. The colors of the Rainbow flag represent Sex, Life, Healing, Sunlight, Nature, Magic, Art, Serenity and Spirit, all things Ken Ham is against apparently.

  Lets just have a quick look at some actual facts that disprove Ken Hams outrageous claim that his lone god created and owns the rainbow.

 In Aboriginal mythology the rainbows are giant divine serpents with various names and attributes, there are two of great note here; Ungud is said to be androgynous or transgender while another Rainbow Serpent Angamunggi is transgender. 

 In Armenian mythology the rainbow is the belt worn by Tir a sun god of knowledge.

 In Aztec mythology Xochipilli is associated with rainbows and is the god of homosexuality.

 In Greek mythology Iris is the personification of the rainbow and works as liasion between gods and men.

 In Hindu mythology the rainbow is the actual lightning arrow shooting bow of the god Indra. 

 In Japanese mythology rainbows are used for ancestor spirits to travel the realms.

 In Maori mythology the Moon goddess Hina created the rainbow to allow her mortal husband to return to the mortal world.

 In Navajo mythology rainbows are seen as paths that allow holy spits to travel between the mortal and divine realms.

 In Norse mythology the rainbow bridge connects our mortal world with the realm of the gods.

 In Sumerian mythology the gay Gilgamesh from which the ark story originated, the rainbow sanctioned war and was associated with life and immortality.

 There are of course many other instances of the rainbow used in non-christian mythology. His misrepresentation of the facts show Ken Ham has very little knowledge of religion and probably shouldn't be consulted on spiritual issues.

 

 Obviously Ken Ham is just attacking the LGBT community is a publicity stunt to re-engage with his bigoted homophobic base and to try and bring attention to his failing ark model. 
 The Model has previously been criticised for its dodging of taxes, low attendance, highly questionable claims and discriminatory hiring polices.

Congratulations to the USA for being on the right side of history.

The World Celebrates

It was a decision a long time coming, but the American High Courts have rules that all men (and wemon) are created equal. That same-sex marriage is just as important and opposite- sex marriage.

And people are celebrating. Facebook created a little app to allow users to easily add a rainbow filter to their profile picture. Sadly I couldn’t get it to work for The Drop Bear Growls page profile picture. 

It makes it easy to see who supports the cause and who doesn’t, just look to the right of your Facebook page at the chat thing. Make sure to check when the person was last on, and allow for those who may not have the technical skill to click that link. Mine shows pretty much what I had suspected; none and I repeat none of the family on my Facebook changed their profile picture. After all the hate I have experienced from certain members in my family, it really does say a lot that the rest couldn’t show their support for equality with what two mouse clicks, sigh.

On to more happy things, America now has marriage equality, let’s just all stop and absorb that for a minute. 

 What were you doing on USAMarriage day?

Social media erupted with congratulatory posts and the internet was covered in rainbows. It was truly a proud moment, lying in bed with our tablets; my partner and I were just amazed. We slid through all the posts with smiles on our faces, occasionally showing the other one that was just too awesome to keep to ourselves. It wasn’t just the cold that kept us in bed that morning; we both wanted to sustain the moment.

The always fabulous George Takei summed the experience up with this picture.

Of course there will be dissenters, the quiet homophobes will not change their Facebook profile pictures, and the more confident bigots will post nonsenses about the fall of civilisation as we know it and gay werewolves taking over the streets at night.

But no American can ever again say that “marriage is between a man and a woman” as that has been proven wrong in the high court. If they, those who fought against clarifying the legal definition of marriage, really did care about marriage, they must now support and fight just as equally for this clarified definition of marriage or show their true colours as noisy bigots. 

The repercussions in Australia are a shining light (rainbow coloured of course) of hope in the distance. 

Embarrassingly our prime minister has come out saying that he hasn’t changed his opinion, I am assuming that he supports the changes to marriage that occurred in 2004, not the opinion that he wants debate on it, or that he will allow a conscience vote if he is (he was) elected. It can be difficult to determine, he says so many contradictory things.

Congratulations to the USA for being on the right side of history.