October is National Anti-Bullying Awareness Month and I am quite passionate about this subject...always have been. I despise seeing someone being beaten up or picked on because some savage feels as if they are superior to them or knowing that each day there is a kid in the hallway that gets shoved down because they are too thin or too fat. My heart aches for the teen who gets harassed because he's too smart or wears glasses and the child that is ostracized for being poor. These are cruel acts perpetrated by cruel people. These are our images of "bullying". Images that are valid, heartbreaking, "discussion worthy". What about that young person though, who is tormented with the cruel words of a classmate, a parent, a PASTOR....calling them faggot or dyke...QUEER...shaming them because they are gay.... telling them they are doomed! Maybe this vision of bullying is not so.....clear? Maybe some are blinded to this vision of bullying because it is a reflection of their very own words or actions? Maybe so.... and just maybe.. MAYBE.. this is a GROUP of people.. maybe a CONGREGATION of people..
ALL you "Religious Bullies" who are "standing up" for what is "right" and BULLYING people in the name of Jesus....Guess what? You're killing people, (you almost killed me) MY Jesus saves... DO the MATH something is off WAY off! Just because you're hitting someone with a Bible doesn't mean that what you're doing is anything less than BULLYING....period
You know, as I was scrolling on FB today I came across a page that was "Christians Against Bullying" ,which is all well and good, BUT NOT ONCE was the LGBT community included in their fight against bullying...This was not a part of their "vision"....If you're going to take on a cause, ESPECIALLY this cause, you MUST take the whole thing and become THE SOLUTION and NOT part of the problem... It breaks my heart that people can be so blind to the damage they cause...their "light" shines so brightly that even they can't see--kinda defeats the purpose...don't ya think
Just Bb
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And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment. And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’There is no other commandment greater than these.”
Mark 12:30-31...enough said
Please THINK before you speak....Are you're words bringing LIFE or DEATH??
I concur!!
ReplyDeleteOkay, OKAY!!! I won't bully you anymore!!!! GAH!!!! :X
ReplyDeleteWow!! So let me ask you this, how do YOU what the "vision" was for that page you are referring to? Did you ask them? Uh NO! For someone who is so against judging you sure are casting alot of stones and how can YOU be against bullying when YOU are one. Except you don't do it face to face, you use your blog for that.
ReplyDeleteI'm not a bully I'm simply standing up for myself and others, advocating if you will, who have been bullied by "christians" for their sexual orientation and this blog was not against the vision of a page it was an attempt to raise awareness and to display the "image" of LGBT youth that are bullied...thats what I meant by "vision" if it offended you I do apologize but I think you read it out of context!
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