I hate how people think being gay or lesbian or transgender or bisexual is a choice. If you were ask a member of the gay community when they first knew that they were gay, often they answer somewhere around elementary school age. Now my question to the people that think being gay is a choice is why would a child choose to be different? If you think about children in school, you know that they can tease and bully the children that are different. So why would a child willing choose to be different and risk being teased and bullied? I read an article a few years ago about a boy in middle school that committed suicide because he was being bullied and teased everyday in school for being openly gay.
My father-in-law posted on this picture earlier today and said "When will people in churches realize that their very Jesus was killed because of people's prejudices and petty tribalisms?" My father-in-law is a member of a church and a minister. He and his wife are very active in their church. Now I'm not very religious but I do know that the church teaches that God created us all whether we have a different skin color, a different religion, or a different sexual orientation.
I hope that my children will stand up for a child that is being bullied for their sexual orientation and that more parents will open their minds and teach their children that just because someone is different does NOT make them a bad person that deserves to be treated like shit.
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