Day of Silence

Today is the date of the Day of Silence this year it's being held in memory of Lawrence King. King was an 8th grade student who was murdered on February 12th by a classmate due to his sexual preference and or gender identity. It was a senseless tragedy that, sadly, could have been prevented. So many lives are affected when a thing of this nature happens, so many people have to live on knowing they did nothing to prevent this from happening to Lawrence King, I can only hope they are willing to take a stand now and try to help prevent this type of violence from taking another life too soon.

And now it's time for the rant.
My beef is simple: how can a people who have been systematically oppressed and denied basic human rights, see fit to do everything in their power to Jim Crow another oppressed people?
I love to hear our people(black people) say that you cannot compare being gay or trans gendered to being black because the former are decisions rather than conditions that we cannot control. Don't front, I know everyone has at least that one person in the family who you knew was playing for the other team since they were a small child. This begs the question is a 4 or 5 year old capable of making a "choice" that will cause them to be persecuted for the rest of their lives?

To take it further who would "choose" the type of abuse that comes with being gay or trans gendered?

Moving on, why are black folks so willing to stand for something as long as it's a cause that they look good supporting? How can we be prejudiced against gays(and the trans gendered) and behave in a way so similar to the way we were treated by southern whites? Why are we so quick to believe that God hates Gays when not too long ago we were plagued by the Good God Fearing Christians of the Ku Klux Klan? Their message was that God hates any minority group; thus making them inferior and favors the whites as a people.

And why does God hate gays anyway? Because it says so in the Bible? It also says in the Bible that women should not wear the clothes of man; and there are whole churches of people who think it's a sin for women to wear pants as a result. Now common sense tells me that men were wearing robes (basically dresses) when this text was added to the Bible, so does that mean that women should change their fashion according to what the men are wearing at that time? Pants if men are in robes, dresses if men are in pants etc. So yes, it mentions an abomination against God, BUT it can be agreed upon that the Bible is several different accounts of what God and Jesus did, said, and basically wanted us to know. The problem is that it was written by men, and people can claim forever that these are true accounts but the bottom line is that anytime there is a human involved there must be a reserve of skepticism. How do we know that the person writing the book that references the abomination didn't just break up with his boyfriend, or was abused by his uncle Leo? My point is that once man puts their hands on something it becomes more human and less God-like.

Jesus preached love and acceptance, so why are there ministers who go bananas with the fire and brimstone bit? If God hates gays why did he create them in just about every species of animal on the planet? God cannot hate gays because he is God and lacks the ability to hate based upon that alone. Jesus cannot hate gays because he preached love and acceptance and those cannot exist where there is hate. The Bible reminds us to judge not yet we be judged, so who are we to condemn a whole group of people because your(or your pastor's or even the person who wrote it's) interpretation differed from what God and Jesus taught and showed time and time again.

I'll jump down off my soapbox now, even if you don't agree with gay and trans gendered people, even if you think that God hates them, does that make it okay for Lawrence King to have been exterminated? Even if you don't protest with silence today, please take a moment and think of Lawrence King and say a 5 second prayer, he was some one's baby and some one's friend.



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