I believe in the separation of church and hate.
Some things you must always be unable to bear… Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash; your picture in the paper nor money in the bank either. Just refuse to bear them.
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[Trigger Warning: strong anti-gay hate, language, and anti-gay murder]
On March 12, 2012, the hashtag #ToMyUnbornChild became a trending topic. People used this hashtag to “tweet to” their future child. Here are 100 real tweets from real people — all within 24 hours — saying they would murder their child if he or she was gay.
YESSSS!!!!
We’ve been waiting for this for so long. You know Michelle Bachman’s school district, the Anoka-Hennepin district in Minnesota that has had a suicide epidemic? The one where numerous gay kids killed themselves because the school environment was toxic, and the staff could say nothing about homosexuality, which ended up meaning that they didn’t protect gay kids? The one that this heart-breaking article in Rolling Stone was written about? Where the Evangelicals controlled the town and everyone told the gay kids that they were monsters who were going to hell?
Yeah. They finally changed the policy. Sometimes we win, you guys. :)
Like many 13-year-olds, Brittany knew seventh grade was a living hell. But what she didn’t know was that she was caught in the crossfire of a culture war being waged by local evangelicals inspired by their high-profile congressional representative Michele Bachmann, who graduated from Anoka High School and, until recently, was a member of one of the most conservative churches in the area. When Christian activists who considered gays an abomination forced a measure through the school board forbidding the discussion of homosexuality in the district’s public schools, kids like Brittany were unknowingly thrust into the heart of a clash that was about to become intertwined with tragedy.
This article had me in tears at points. It is very powerful and very important. Kids are not being protected, and few people are standing up for them.
Trigger Warning: Anti-lgbtq quotes, lgbtq suicide, depression, lgbtq bullying
“While the most vocal “Christian” presence at the parade was in the form of protesters with “God Hates Fags” signs, Nathan and a team from the Marin Foundation took a different approach… they chose to apologize.
The volunteers wore black t-shirts with the phrase “I’m Sorry” on the front and held signs with messages of apology, on behalf of all Christians, for the way the church has treated the gay community.”
The Gay Rights Movement
It’s very interesting to see how far we’ve come, and yet how far we still have to go.
Gay parents “tend to be more motivated, more committed than heterosexual parents on average, because they chose to be parents,” said Abbie Goldberg, a psychologist at Clark University in Massachusetts who researches gay and lesbian parenting. Gays and lesbians rarely become parents by accident, compared with an almost 50 percent accidental pregnancy rate among heterosexuals,Goldberg said. “That translates to greater commitment on average and more involvement.”
