funny, despair and bliss feel the same, just opposite

[demotu]

I had a moment of absolute, gut-wrenching despair last night. While doing the dishes, as these things are wont to happen, and fortunately B was in the living room or I might have taken out my frustration on said poor, blameless dishes.

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[bodlon]

*hug*

Thank you for writing this.

[demotu]

*exhales*

I swear, I almost threw a glass at the wall I was so unexpectedly furious last night.

You're welcome. *hugs back*

[such_heights]

♥ Yeah, the whole thing is ridiculous.

Funny you should post this today, actually, because DO I EVER have a story for the flist about what happened to me last night, which I'll post in a while. I've been seething on and off about it all day.

[demotu]

Join in the seething! This was in part triggered by a post I read on DW, something I think people would refer to "a fairly sane post by a Christian who feels gay marriage is a sin", but I am so over that. There is no such thing as a sane post with that subject.

[lavena138]

A-fucking-men.

I am right there with you. I am fucking tired of it. It is not acceptable. It is not understandable because of one's religion or the way they were raised. It is HATE and it is WRONG, plain and simple and I hope that someday in the not too distant future they will all look back and be fucking ashamed at the things they said and did.

[demotu]

It is not understandable because of one's religion or the way they were raised.

Because it's not okay if you're racist because "that's how you were raised" or any other such ism, exactly. This isn't okay either, and I wish some of the dialogue would stop making it sound like it is. "You're entitled to your opinion" bullshit. Sure. You are. But you are not entitled to make it law, a-holes.

*breathes out*

Sorry. Still in rant-mode, apparently.

[lavena138]

No need to apologize, your feelings are totally understandable and clearly shared by most of your flist. Slowly but surely the tide is turning. But it's hard to be patient when intolerance affects yourself or people you love in a very real way. So yeah, rant away. Lots of people share your outrage, myself included.

[santousha]

I often get angry, depressed or just frustrated at people for their 'isms'.
I see a woman holding up a bible going on and on about how this and that is a sin, and I can't help but ask myself if she is not aware of the misogyny within said bible.

I am a christian, but I do not read the bible anymore. I refuse to base my religion on a book that was put together to solidify the political power of a man. I know the book is biased, I know it is filled with hate and bias. I also know god is love and would never allow another person to kill in God's name.

Sigh, people are so stuck in their ways, they cling to what they know because there is nothing more frightening to them then the unknown.

[demotu]

Religion is even less of an excuse (as if it ever were one in the first place) because there are plenty of Christians like you - like I was, like the ones I was friends with - who are complete LGBTQ activists and can't stand this anymore than I can. I wish, I wish people could see their own bigotry for what it is, rather than washing it up in "it's what God requires of me".

Good for you for knowing that the Bible is not flawless. Part of why I left the church was accepting that (I never thought it was flawless, my church didn't ever talk that way, but at some point I came to the conclusion that too much of the faith was tied up into a book I didn't agree with, and that was one thing among many that made me leave. That said, there's a lot of good in it I miss - kudos to you for finding a balance that works.)

[paragraphs]

Having grown up in a town full of hard-core Southern Baptists, this attitude is what is normal to me...I encounter it all the time. Despite this, over the past few years, I have seen change. Attitudes of the type you speak of and have no tolerance for (and, frankly? I feel the same) are being replaced by acceptance, by a growing, more-vocal human attitude

[demotu]

*sigh*

Yeah, I know it's better. I really do. But I feel like sometimes we get stuck in the "but it's so much better" and stop seeing how truly awful it still is. Even here, where there's now same sex marriage, and sexual discrimination is in our charter of rights and freedoms, because I remember being afraid to come out to my friends as bi at 16 because one of them said, offhandedly, that lesbians made her uncomfortable. Because I still have arguments with - otherwise beautifully loving - Christian friends that no, gay marrige is not the beginning of the end. Because there was only one girl out in my high school, and even she kept it on the down-low from anyone who might not approve. And none of that is okay, even if the law is better.

(I hate the Westboro people, because my neighborhood is Westboro Village, and it totally ruins the name for me. :P)