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[miss_padfoot]

My friend polarkat ran across a fantastic and heartfelt letter originally written by a mother in Vermont to a local newspaper. The subject, basically, is homosexuality and how it is not a choice. It's very moving. polarkat posted it in her LJ and made it public so that I could link to it.

Go read it. Now.

Comments

[rentmymess]

That is quite possibly the single most beautiful and touching letter I have read in my entire life.

[britlovessims]

I agree. It was just so well written...and stuff...

[bassoon_crazy]

*claps*

Wow, couldn't have been said better.

[ahobbeslife]

Yeah, but my cynical side still believes that nothing will come of that. The religious fanatics (yes, I can talk about this, for any of you PC thugs if you're reading this, because I'm religious, but apparently very liberal) just like to have easy decisions ready made for them. Instead of actually thinking about this "evil", they hide behind obscure scripture that is never even discussed in my church (Catholic, I should mention). All I've heard is about helping, accepting, loving, and so on. Not all this "Gay people are the devil, Harry Potter is a Satan worshipper and his friends will burn in hell, live according to my rules or suffer my ignorant ranting about things I don't understand

[cymothoecaeli]

I agree with everything posted thus far, and would, as a Jew, like to add: What Would Jesus Do?

Guess what. JESUS WOULDN'T FUCKING CARE. From what I've heard, he, uh, what was that line again? Oh, yeah, LOVED EVERYONE.

[windmelody]

I don't know why I'm tearing up. I don't normally do that.

Sometimes I pretend to myself that homosexuality is like what racism was -- people were biased (and stil are) but things will improve in the future. Once there was segregation in America and now there is none, and perhaps people will not be as homophobic in the future.

And then I despair and wonder why, when some people claim Asians to be 'backward' (how irritating this is!), people don't beat each other up or have protests yelling about how homosexuality is wrong. People just don't talk about sex because it's not their business. And that, at least, is true -- sexual orientation is not anyone's business. (Sex ed does exist though.)