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[aydenclare]

 10 reasons why gay marriage is wrong.

1) Being gay is not natural.
And real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning, tattoos, piercings and silicon breasts...

2) Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay.
In the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.

3) Legalizing gay marriage

Comments

[portorleans]

you're right, i haven't been reading your lj for a very long time. but ever since we added each other, i noticed a lot of your posts have been about this type of thing. i know you feel strongly about gay rights and so do i.
i didn't mean you shouldn't feel passionate about them or that you shouldn't be angry that some people are so ignorant and full of hate. it bothers me too. but what i've come to realize with age (how old are you btw? i forgot)
is that no matter what, there are ALWAYS going to be people who hate gay people and who hate people of different races and just people that are bitter and full of hate in general.
when i was a bit younger (in my young teens maybe up til about 17), i was exactly like you. i'd rant and complain and just in general be angry about stuff like this. but then i realized i was stooping to their level. I was angry, I was hating them, I was allowing their bitterness and ignorance affect me.
i realized that no matter how i felt about it, they weren't going to change. getting angry and lashing out so to speak, won't make them understand anything or be more open-minded. being angry only encourages more anger.
so what i meant was just accept the fact that some people are closed minded. that's totally their problem and not yours. let them hate. let them be miserable. but you should be happy! because you're not like them. you have an open mind, you are a good person etc.
don't fight hate with hate, that's all i'm saying.

[portorleans]

whoa i totally messed up the italics rotfl

[aydenclare]

I will admit that they have, but in all honesty my lj entries really don't give that big of a picture into who I am. I suppose that's mostly because lately I haven't been motivated that often into posting entries, and whenever I do feel motivated to post, it is usually when I am upset about something or find something on the internet that maybe someone else has posted about in a community or something, and I sort of go off of that. I'm part of a couple gay related communities (I bet you NEVER would have guessed) and quite a few of my lj friends are gay, so I often read about those topics.
I really am not a hateful person by any means. I believe hating destroys the hater more than the hatee, and I try to live by that. Believe me, I have learned that you can't change anyone's mind by attacking them because that just puts up there defenses. I've found that the best way to open people up to others is through really talking to them and getting to know them in turn. Most hate and prejudice is just a resultant of ignorance.
I'm actually embarassed that I ever gave off the impression to you or to anyone else that I thought anything different.
I just ask that before you assume that I really am that angry of a person (I envision a torch welding rioter...I hope that's not what you were thinking...) just try and get to know me better and not assume I am that way because of a few online blogs.

[portorleans]

i'm not saying you personally, are hateful. but i know that it's way easy to just get angry at people and be mean. it's harder to kind of bite your tongue and just grin & bear it. you know?
i'm not insulting you for writing about what you write about. it's YOUR journal. i just want to make sure you're happy i guess. because sometimes you don't come across that way. and i just thought that if you're going to be unhappy, be unhappy about something more worthwhile lmao idk.
fuck people. srsly.
and of course i don't think you're a torch wielding rioter! ahah

[aydenclare]

Well, I'm not exactly happy no. I don't want to make it sound like I'm throwing a pity party for myself because that's just not the way it is. I do feel depressed a lot of the time, but it's not because of these kinds of issues. I mean...they don't help of course, but there's a lot more to my life than just this.