Cristiano Ronaldo, sexy as hell

Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro was born on the 5th February 1985, on the small Portuguese island of Madeira. Named after Ronald Reagan, due to his father's respect for the man, Ronaldo plays for English Premier League club Manchester United and the Portuguese National Team. A two-time Premiership winner, Ronaldo won his first UEFA Champions League and was named the FIFPro World Player of the Year in 2008.

Considered by many as one of the sexiest football players in the whole world, his charisma and natural talent have put him on the top of his game and has become an international sex symbol along with his peer David Beckham.

Brad Pitt has no prejudice

It´s elections time in the United States and because denying marriage rights to same sex partners appears to be a regular political focus, many Hollywood stars have expressed their support to the candidates that best fit their preferences and needs. Some go conservative and others bet on progress, change and evolution.

Actor Brad Pitt and film Director Steven Spielberg are some of the major celebrities that are not afraid of change -nor challenged by their narrowed minds- that have donated important sums of money to groups fighting the initiative of passing Proposition 8 which would overturn the ruling and forever define marriage as between a man and a woman.

Mr. Pitt said, “Because no one has the right to deny another their life, even though they disagree with it, because everyone has the right to live the life they so desire if it doesn’t harm another and because discrimination has no place in America, my vote will be for equality and against Proposition 8.”

The biggest crimes in history have been committed in the name of God

Intolerance is the lack of willingness to accept other people´s points of view, beliefs or practices due the contrast with one's own beliefs. We all are a bit intolerant in different levels, but when this refusal to tolerate the other´s beliefs is supported in religious grounds, the problem takes a new dimension.

"Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble". -Joseph Campbell

In recent dates, latin actor based in the US Eduardo Verastegui, started a campaign supporting California's Proposition 8, which would amend California’s constitution to define marriage as between one man and one woman and overturn the judicial activist decision approving homosexual "marriage" in the state. Verastegui has also participated in advertisements in favor of California's Proposition 4, which would require parental consent for abortions for minors.

Eduardo has openly admitted his recent conversion to Christianity, and ever since has stood up for the most conservative choices, speaking up whenever possible in favor of christian dogmas, such as celibacy, which he admits to believe in and practice. And this is probably why, blinded by his mystical standpoint, he decides to support politics that limit our progress as a society and push back the fight for equal rights that thousands of people have fought for over the last decades, grounded on his religious interpretation of good and evil.





Before you get confident in your beliefs, maybe you should do some research.

There is a reason why a number of countries worldwide contain provisions within their constitutions expressly forbidding the state from engaging in acts of religious intolerance. Religion must remain apart from the government, and the proof for this can be found throughout history, in every period in which the different churches have been in command. Theologians are people who interpret the vocabulary of scripture as if it were referring to supernatural facts.

Allowing same sex partners to legalize their union as a right that should be common to all civilized human beings is not a threat to the heterosexual marriage institution as we know it and it should´t be interpreted as such.

Preventing the legalization of abortion won´t stop it´s practice, it won´t stop abusers and it won´t stop the irresponsible hormonal teens that get unwillingly pregnant every day. It will only endure its clandestine nature.

I can see where Eduardo is coming from, but fearing change and resisting social evolution is not the way. The social core that is the family must be nourished and protected from within ourselves, encouraged with the example. Children must be protected by speaking the truth, giving them all the information needed, paying attention to their needs, knowing their fears, talking to them, getting to know them, share with them, respect their choices and support their passions, showing them how to protect themselves, helping them develop a strong self esteem.

Social challenges are solved through love and compassion, not with hatred and intolerance. Live and let live.