Friday, 10 October 2008

• Currently Listening WE SHALL OVERCOME By Jr. Martin Luther King see related

  that's so gay

  yesterday was national coming out day.

  i am a member of the gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, transgender and friends network at work.  our network put together an exhibit of the GLBT community's history beginning in the 1920's through current date.

  i went through the exhibit 3 times and cried through the entire thing all three times.

  did you know the upside down pink triangle that you see on bumper stickers and clothing patches first reared its head in nazi germany?  they labeled gay men in concentration camps with gigantic upside down pink triangles and gave them a special kind of torture for loving people of the same sex.  hitler was a fecalfeliac? that's right --he had a thing for shit...however, for some reason, loving someone of the same sex (which hitler ALSO did) was a heinous crime against humanity....

  there were photographs, videos, storyboards taking us through the lives of people who were tortured, beaten, ostracized and told the kingdom of heaven was not for them.  parents of gay men and women.  tortured.  children of gay men and women.  tortured.  HUMAN BEINGS.  tortured.

  it definitely celebrated the triumphs of the GLBT community as well and those triumphs were beautiful and breath-taking.

  but something that angered me to the core, was seeing sign weilding christians with words like "god hates fags" and "matthew shepherd is burning in hell" at the young man's funeral.

  really?  you have nothing better to do than picket a young kid's funeral?  or have your CHILD picket and hold words of hatred you believe GOD has instructed you to say?

  whatever your take on homosexuality is - whether you feel it right or wrong - whatever.  but promotion of hatred is NOT of God.  and do you really believe your "turn or burn" mentality is going to make any sort of movement in someone's heart???
  
  Love God.  Love others as yourself.

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