thanks for fetishizing my sexuality
boy tumblr is so progressive!!!!
So I got in a fight with my guardian’s husband over homosexuality
Bear in my that my guardian is a 60 year old Christian woman who campaigns for LGBT rights and was absolutely embarrass and furious at her husband at the end of this conversation, and would not stop telling me how sorry she was and how much she agreed with me on the car ride home.
He makes some remarks about his gay brother and sister. My guardian tells him that she and he have both known his brother was gay since he was two years old.
“Don’t give me that ‘he was born this way crap’,” he says laughing. “He wasn’t born with it, because if he was, he wouldn’t be so unhappy.”
“Why is he unhappy,” I ask. “Because of failed relationships?”
“Yeah. And he wants to whine about them, and I tell him, how’s that choice workin’ out for ya’? Ya wouldn’t be unhappy if you were with a woman.”
And I get out of my chair, in front of a room full of my guardian’s family who share her husbands views, and I say, “Were you born with hatred?”
“What?”
“Were you born with the hatred for your brother.”
“No.”
“So you chose it.”
“No, I developed it.”
“Fancy way of saying you chose it. Now let’s say homosexuality is a choice. Your brother would have chosen love, while you chose hate.”
“It doesn’t work like that.”
“Why not?”
“Because he’s the unhappy one!”
“Is he? Because I don’t hear him complaining except for failed relationships. You’ve been through two marriages, you ever complain about those?”
“Yeah b-“
“But nothing. You see, you’re bitter. I don’t know why, but you are. You are a sad little man who wants to whine and moan about his day. So how is your choice of being angry and hateful working out for you?”
“Oh so YOU can have an opinion but I can’t?”
“Excuse me?”
“You think it’s okay for you to say this stuff but not for me to disagree?”
“Do you love your brother?”
“Yes.”
“Would you go to his wedding.”
“No.”
“Then you don’t love him.”
“Yes-” and about this time his wife/my guardian cuts in, saying “Don’t you dare tell him that he is wrong because he is absolutely right.”
“Fine, then I guess I don’t love him.”
“But you want to complain because you think he chose love while you KNOW you chose hate?”
“If you have a problem with it, you can leave the room.”
“Let me tell you this. I am an atheist. I am happy. I am gay. I am happy. And I am a lot happier than you. And the next time you have to have surgery, or your car breaks down, or you wonder why people don’t like you, and you whine to me, and your son, and your wife, and your family? You remember that you chose not to love people. So I will leave the room. Take a good look at me. This is someone who has no shame in who they are. This is someone who is happy with themselves and doesn’t need to bring others down. You can kiss my big, fat, gay ass.”
And then I stormed off and sat in my guardian’s car for 45 minutes until she got done doing dishes and drove me home.
And the only thing she tells me on the ride home, aside from apologizing and agreeing with me is, “My husband is what is wrong with America and I’m so happy that you fight people like him.”
On the announcement of the X-Men gay wedding…
“Children desire to be just like superheroes,” reads a post on the One Million Moms website.
“Children mimic superhero actions and even dress up in costumes to resemble these characters as much as possible. Can you imagine little boys saying, ‘I want a boyfriend or husband like X-Men?’ This is ridiculous!
“Why do adult gay men need comic superheroes as role models? They don’t but do want to indoctrinate [sic] impressionable young minds by placing these gay characters on pedestals in a positive light.
“These companies are heavily influencing our youth by using children’s superheroes to desensitize and brainwash them in thinking that a gay lifestyle choice is normal and desirable. As Christians, we know that homosexuality is a sin.”
Um omg. What five year old is going to say “Mommy I want to marry another boy like this guy in X-Men?” Because if he DOES say that, chances are your kid is already gay.
I love how they can speak for the entire Christian community. I forgot that every church frowned upon homosexuality. Except, oh wait, there are thousands of churches in the US alone that teach the fact that homosexuality is not a choice nor is it a “sin”.
I mean..believe what you want…but you have no right to speak for EVERYBODY. People should focus on positive things instead of wanting to whine and moan about comic book characters.
If the biggest threat to your marriage or your religion are two fictional men marrying, then you need to get your ass in some marriage counseling and read your Bible more, because clearly, those two things are failing in your life.
North Carolina: That state that bans gay marriage despite the fact that it already banned gay marriage
Oh Dan Savage, really? You’re going to make a big deal about acceptance and then totally denounce people who are Christians? And Christians, what about you? You talk about how Jesus was all about love but God forbid two people of the same sex fall in love with each other.(Also, really, two women who love each other is a threat to the sanctity of marriage? You know what’s a real threat to the sanctity of marriage? DIVORCE.)
I swear, as a gay Christian, I am offended by both of my communities! What part of love don’t you people get? It doesn’t matter if you agree with it or not, it’s not your place to judge anyone! I swear, everyone is a giant hypocrite. Gay, straight, bi, transgendered, Satanist, Christian, Muslim, Atheist, I don’t care! I do not care! You can not go around talking about how you hate being judge AND THEN DO THE EXACT THING YOU HATE!
Good Lord, I’m just going to take an hour out of my day and pray for you all to get smacked upside the head with some common sense. Nobody wants to feel like a freak. They want to feel like a human being. Treat them like one. Think the Bible is a joke? Good for you, everyone has an opinion, but there’s a difference in insulting an idea and insulting people directly. Think homosexuality is a choice? Good for you, but if you go around bullying people(And yes, trying to get them “fixed” is bullying, as well as completely cruel, and so is being passive aggressive about the situation) you’re going to get judged just as badly as you think homosexuals will, because the Bible clearly states two things: 1.) You have no position to judge others.(Luke 6:37) 2.) No sin is greater than any other sin.(James 2:10)
I swear I’m not ashamed to be neither gay nor Christian; I’m just ashamed to be a human. I cannot understand how people can go around and just promote hatred and intolerance. That’s freaking pathetic.
National Day of Silence
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Today is the National Day of Silence, in which we take a vow of silence to represent the victims of LGBT bullying; the people who were too scared to find their voice, or the people who had their voice taken away from them.
I encourage you all to join the protest to honor the victims of LGBT bullying and bullying related suicides, as well as to promote awareness of your hatred for bullying. Whether you believe in LGBT rights is irrelevant; no one deserves to be silenced by others, so we must silence ourselves to spread the message that we will no longer stand for the verbal, emotional, and physical abuse people are forced to endure.
Remember that this a protest; if you are required to answer a question at school or work, then you’re welcomed to, but you can also take it one step further and communicate only through text or images. On your leisurely time is when most of you can do it, and that’s fine.
This is a non-violent day of action and a chance for your opinions of bullying to be heard—your voice will bellow louder without any sound.
If you see this message on your dash, please reblog and feel free to answer the following question with your story:
Why are you taking part in the National Day of Silence protest?
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I’m taking part in this protest because, being both gay and a devout Christian, I have faced my fair share of bullying through people I thought I could trust. I was told I was immoral, I was told I was an animal, a deviant, that I was defying my savior. And it hurt. But I defended myself to the point that my homosexuality has been accepted by most people at my church. I never backed down from the knowledge that I was created this way, and I fought to be treated as human being through means of verbal debates rather than physical action.
I know how it feels to be a victim. But I also know how it feels to stop being one.
And through my story, and through my protest, I hope I can encourage or help others to find their voice before it’s silenced for good. -Nick(damianmcgintleman.tumblr.com)
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If you are a member of the LGBT community and you are in a crisis or suicidal, please call The Trevor Lifeline for immediate support at:
1-866-488-7386
I want to remind my LGBT brothers and sisters that the churches who protest gay marriage, the people who take Bible verses out of context and shout them at you, the people who tell you that you’re sinning; those people don’t represent God. Believe in any religion that you choose, or don’t believe in any religion at all, but don’t believe that God is being represented truthfully by mankind.
