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The United Kingdom toppled a major social barrier last week in making gay marriage legal, but hate continues in the United States, where a group of students and their parents in Sullivan, Indiana want a prom that bans same sex couples. The group of high school students and their parents, who meet in the Sullivan Christian Church on Sundays, are requesting a separate, "traditional" prom with only heterosexual couples. They call homosexuality "offensive to them". While the Sullivan High School has explicitly stated that there is nothing legally they can do to allow the group to ostracize homosexual students from the annual dance, yet the team continues to fight against it.
I know Mrs. Hake said no swearing but... "What the heck?!" Culturally, it's this kind of backwardness and bigotry that prevents us from going forward. This is homophobia, clear as day. Some citizens of the town have spoken out, and rightfully so, because this kind of hatred should not be acceptable in America. "Love them as a person. The feeling of being loved and belonging is universal," said local man Jim Davis. I can respect this philosophy. You don't have to understand people who are different, and you don't have to agree with the people they are, but it's wrong to treat them any different than any human being.
I am bewildered by the fact that the protesting parents and student are Christian but can't tackle the concept of universal love which is like the main point of the gospels. As you (TJ) said this hatred is holding us back as a culture. However we know from history that time is the great healer so to speak; it did take about 200 years for blacks in America to be freed from slavery to being recognized as citizen (and longer for all women). I can only hope that we learn to accept this new group much faster than we have other groups in the past.
ReplyDeleteJack, just as you hope for the acceptance of others to be achieved quickly, I hope so as well. The problem is society and some parts of religion completely deny this hope. I don’t want to start any religious battles here, but religion is a moral and spiritual compass, every person has a mind that he or she can make up on their own. Religion should not make up your mind for you because it is only suppose to be a guide. Now about society, society has always tried to deem this what-is-different-isn’t-right statute that needs to stop existing in order to stop stuff like this form happening because that is a big problem, people should be allowed to do what they want in a FREE country, no segregation, people are people, whether they are white, black, male, or female, they are all still people. It’s ok that the people want to make a separate self run event separate from the prom, but using something like whether someone is gay or not is totaling crossing a line.
ReplyDeleteI'm one of those people that really don't care much over this issue either way. As much as our society teaches equality and fairness, the Bible still teaches that homosexuality is wrong and sinful. Although I have no problem with the people themselves, I have a great issue with the practice of it.
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