heh, i had a moment of stupidity and thought i might try to speak logically to some wingnuts today:
in response to this post at humanevents.com:
Kevin Jennings: Unsafe for America’s Schools
let’s see how well this goes over…
Anyone who doubts how unsafe schools are for kids who show even the slightest behavior out of the norm (boys who aren’t great at sports or girls who don’t want to wear dresses in photos) should read Jenning’s memoir, “Mama’s Boy, Preacher’s Son”. Would you want your child spit on, shoved into and locked in lockers, even threatened with death, every day, only to have teachers and counselors pretty much ignore it, because “I know those kids. They would never do such things.” You’ve all been through middle and high school. You know most of the bullying doesn’t happen in view of the teachers. You’re hiding your head in the sand and hurting the kids if you pretend it’s any different.
No one encourages homosexuality anymore than they encourage blue eyes or shortness. Ask any kid who has known since they were very small that something was different. Ask yourself when you knew about your sexuality. Did someone have to encourage you? When could they have talked you OUT of being straight? Could they do it now, if they got you in the right mood, or the right moment? No, you know that’s bunk and that no one can “teach” someone else to be gay, straight, or otherwise.
Also, for all of you who claim to be Christians, but spout such hate, I remind you of 1 John 4:20:
“If anyone says, “I love God,” yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.”“Love the sinner, hate the sin” is nowhere in the bible and is BS* used by extremists to promote the kind of hate that hasn’t been seen in the country since the civil rights movement of the 60s. Find for me the actual words of Jesus that tell you to do these things, to speak such hate and disrespect for our President and your own children. Find me that and I’ll stop fighting against you.
*double heh: i had to replace “bullshit” with “BS” after the website so kindly asked me to “Please clean up your comment”. it’s okay to spew hate like linda blair’s soup around there, but only if you do it in a way your grandmother would approve of.
Well said, but I fear it’s casting pearls before swine.
oh, totally agreed. i just couldn’t stand that the FIRST link from google took me here, and the second to a similar site. this man is amazing – truly an inspiration to anyone who loves a good old-fashioned american bootstrap story, and he’s being slandered by bigots who wouldn’t know jesus if he smacked them upside the head with the cross.
Hah. My grandmother’s language is almost as salty as mine. ‘course, she’s more bigoted than me, so either way.
Thanks thanks thanks thanks for posting that on that site.
Reading the other comments made my neck cramp up in anger. If what you posted is even only considered by one person there — be it a straight person realising they’re causing harm with this speech, or a gay person realising they’re not actually evil — that could make a life so much better.
I expected the hateful comments in there, but I was pleased to see some that were actually along the line of yours – that’s somewhat encouraging. At least they’re hearing it from someone, cause you know they don’t actually know any Democrats in real life!