Controversy.
Okay, let's cut to the chase. Today was the controversial "Day of Silence" in support of gay rights and what have you. Now I'm not a member of the Gay-Straight Alliance or any of that nonsense, but I do fully support the choice of sexual preference. I wore a nice white ribbon.
Right now I'm pretty aggravated. I didn't mind the torn down posters or anything, but when I walked into the track lockeroom today and saw a petition to stop "the promotion of sexual oriented awareness and activities within the school environment," or whatever the hell it said, I got pretty pissed off. First of all, the person who wrote it made the point of specifically stating that they were against all kinds of sexually-related activities in school, not just homosexuality. Well I know the person who wrote it, and I know that's bullshit. If you're going to write a frigging petition, why don't you just outright say, "I hate faggots, and I don't want them spreading their twisted ideas around. I'm also a raging biggot." It's just so arrogant and close-minded, and it drives me crazy. I want to make this perfectly clear - I am 110% heterosexual, but I am sympathetic to those who aren't. Almost anyone who claims that they're against homosexuality because they are religious is full of shit too, because nobody is that religious in the year 2005. It's all a bunch of excuses. If you think it's "gross," that's fine, I'm not into it either, but at least I understand it. I bet not one person who signed that petition personally knows a single gay person who they actually care about. Would you still sign that petition if your brother, sister, friend or whoever was gay? You are the kinds of people who ruin lives and drive so many others to suicide because they feel that they will just never be accepted. Fuck that. And I don't wanna hear this shit about it being distracting to the school environment. Tell me one way how it affects you in school. The only person who goes around blatantly flaunting it is Peter Hurley anyway.
And that's another thing altogether. Some of these "GSA" kids do take it a little too far. The last time I heard, ripping down a poster is not a hate crime. You're here, you're queer - we get it. You don't need to throw it in our faces. Even Joe Walsh said that half of this stuff is ridiculous. I understand you're gay, and I accept it, but you don't need to harrass everyone else and accuse them of hate crimes and all that nonsense.
There is definitely a middle ground somewhere, and both sides are far from it.
And that's my take. Goodnight.
Right now I'm pretty aggravated. I didn't mind the torn down posters or anything, but when I walked into the track lockeroom today and saw a petition to stop "the promotion of sexual oriented awareness and activities within the school environment," or whatever the hell it said, I got pretty pissed off. First of all, the person who wrote it made the point of specifically stating that they were against all kinds of sexually-related activities in school, not just homosexuality. Well I know the person who wrote it, and I know that's bullshit. If you're going to write a frigging petition, why don't you just outright say, "I hate faggots, and I don't want them spreading their twisted ideas around. I'm also a raging biggot." It's just so arrogant and close-minded, and it drives me crazy. I want to make this perfectly clear - I am 110% heterosexual, but I am sympathetic to those who aren't. Almost anyone who claims that they're against homosexuality because they are religious is full of shit too, because nobody is that religious in the year 2005. It's all a bunch of excuses. If you think it's "gross," that's fine, I'm not into it either, but at least I understand it. I bet not one person who signed that petition personally knows a single gay person who they actually care about. Would you still sign that petition if your brother, sister, friend or whoever was gay? You are the kinds of people who ruin lives and drive so many others to suicide because they feel that they will just never be accepted. Fuck that. And I don't wanna hear this shit about it being distracting to the school environment. Tell me one way how it affects you in school. The only person who goes around blatantly flaunting it is Peter Hurley anyway.
And that's another thing altogether. Some of these "GSA" kids do take it a little too far. The last time I heard, ripping down a poster is not a hate crime. You're here, you're queer - we get it. You don't need to throw it in our faces. Even Joe Walsh said that half of this stuff is ridiculous. I understand you're gay, and I accept it, but you don't need to harrass everyone else and accuse them of hate crimes and all that nonsense.
There is definitely a middle ground somewhere, and both sides are far from it.
And that's my take. Goodnight.