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The fact that this is the world we live in NOW and not Adolf Hitler's more than 60 years ago is HORRIFYING to me. It makes me sad to see the world not learn from it's mistakes. It makes me sad to not see the proper amount of outrage and disappointment from the public over something like this. This is proposed killing and/or imprisonment of people over something that they HAVE NO CONTROL OVER! To say that they are doing this in the interest of protecting children is sickening to me. Because you know what? If Uganda cares about it's children so much, organizations like Invisible Children (www.invisiblechildren.org) wouldn't have to exist. And I can say that I was abused as a child, in more than one way and none of that abuse came from a gay person. The gay people that I had in my life growing up were my biggest role models. When I realized who I was in high school and was terrified and alone and had only a few gay friends to stand up with me against the closed mindedness of the town I grew up in, a gay teacher became one of my best friends. He shared stories and advice and music and comforted us when we thought we were the only people like us in the world. He is, to this day, one of the people who has touched my life the most. I have plenty of gay friends and none of them would hurt a child, or any other person for that matter. I am a gay person and all that I want to do is protect children so that they can have the childhood I didn't have. I would die for my nephew. I would do absolutely anything to make sure he has the childhood every kid should have. I want to teach him to love books and the Beatles and Jesus and other people. But I am the monster. I am the person that these misinformed people want to keep their children from when, if I can be totally honest, I feel like I am someone that could only be an extremely positive impact on a child's life. I'm not saying all gay people are saints, but I'm not saying all gay people are monsters. Just like straight people. People are just people. If you want to hate me, hate my purple hair or tattoos or the way I dress, because that is a CHOICE I made. To hate me, or any of my other amazing gay friends, because I'm gay is the same thing as hating me for being tall or having green eyes. If I hang out with your kid, it's not going to make them grow a few feet or have a different eye color. Just the same as me hanging out with your kid is going to "make" your kid gay. This was never a choice I made, it's just the way I realized I was. And I know people love me and God loves me, and God's opinion of me is more important to me than any hate monger waving a sign or signing a bill trying to make HUMAN BEINGS feel like they are less than people over something as mind numbing as who they LOVE. If you are preaching the bible to me, if you are preaching Christianity to me, I'm going to tell you that the Bible itself says that God's most important rule is to LOVE one another. And if I ever have a chance to be around any of your kids, that's what this monster is going to teach them.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
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