Feb 17, 2006 13:03
~ I'm not going to get into the politics and my personal beliefs involving homosexuality. I just want to point out the fact that we as Americans are so conservative and culturally behind when it comes to this topic. Look back to ancient Greek and Roman civilizations, they celebrated homosexuality. To them it was cosidered perfectly normal. Just think about how many other things we take from them, architecture, political and writting systems, etc. That was as far back as five THOUSAND years ago! Why are we as Americans so stuck in our ways that we can't accept people for who they are? I was channel surfing one day and just stopped for a minute on the Ellen Degenres (spelling?) Show and my dad walked in and flipped out. He quickly grabbed the remote, turned off the tv and exclaimed that NO ONE would watch any sort of "lesbian show" in his household. It's scary how often we hear that sort of thing in our society. Like I said, I'm not going to preach my own beliefs and on the topic. I just want to ask you to learn to accept people for who they are and what their own personal beliefs are. We need to bring our focus back to who people are and not what they are. Thanks for listening to my rantings, Julie Ann~
Homophobia is wrong.
What is wrong with the world:
I am the girl kicked out of her home because I confided in my mother that I am a lesbian.
I am the prostitute working the streets because nobody will hire a transsexual woman.
I am the sister who holds her gay brother tight through the painful, tear-filled nights.
We are the parents who buried our daughter long before her time.
I am the man who died alone in the hospital because they would not let my partner of twenty-seven years into the room.
I am the foster child who wakes up with nightmares of being taken away from the two fathers who are the only loving family I have ever had. I
wish they could adopt me.
I am one of the lucky ones, I guess. I survived the attack that left me in a coma for three weeks, and in another year I will probably be able to walk again.
I am not one of the lucky ones. I killed myself just weeks before graduating high school. It was simply too much to bear.
We are the couple who had the realtor hang up on us when she found out we wanted to rent a one-bedroom for two men.
I am the person who never knows which bathroom I should use if I want to avoid getting the management called on me.
I am the mother who is not allowed to even visit the children I bore, nursed, and raised. The court says I am an unfit mother because I now live with another woman.
I am the domestic-violence survivor who found the support system grow suddenly cold and distant when they found out my abusive partner is also a woman.
I am the domestic-violence survivor who has no support system to turn to because I am male.
I am the father who has never hugged his son because I grew up afraid to show affection to other men.
I am the man who died when the paramedics stopped treating me as soon as they realized I was transsexual.
I am the person who feels guilty because I think I could be a much better person if I didnt have to always deal with society hating me.
I am the man who stopped attending church, not because I don't believe, but because they closed their doors to my kind.
I am the person everyone thinks is confused because I am attracted to men and women.
I am the person who has to hide what this world needs most, love.
"repost this if you believe homophobia is wrong."