RE: Oregon School District forces LGBT kids to read bible as punishment
May 14, 2018 at 1:06 pm
(This post was last modified: May 14, 2018 at 1:07 pm by vulcanlogician.)
(May 14, 2018 at 11:56 am)RoadRunner79 Wrote: I don't think that articles sounds like anything like that was occurring, so I think you are trying to blow things out of proportion.
RR, how can you make statements about what was or wasn't occurring? Are you saying OP was misrepresenting the article? (I disagree.) Or are you saying that the alleged victim of bullying is making misstatements? (How can you know that?)
It's safe to say that if the claims in the article are true, that's bullshit! I live in the Appalachian mountains, and I've seen gay bullying first hand. It does happen, and grown adults do participate in it. One of my best friends in the world is gay, and when he lived in my hometown with me, he internalized a lot of bullying that was heaped upon him. He even got engaged to a woman at one point thinking that was a way to resolve the issue. He had a master's degree in computer science but was wasting away in the middle of nowhere subjecting himself to the judgments of lower lifeforms. At several points, he confided in me that he was contemplating suicide.
But one of his friends invited him to live with him down in DC. He got a good-paying job, a boyfriend, and began going out to gay clubs. When I went to visit him, he was like a new person: optimistic, happy, and with a future ten magnitudes brighter than when he was tending bar in the middle of ignorant-ville. Now he makes six figures, has put his nephew through college, and is preparing to do the same for his niece. He is a giving, caring, self-realized person who IMO outclasses every single ignorant redneck who judged him for being gay--(by the way, about half of them are either in prison or addicted to opiates right now--ie. the opposite of putting their nieces and nephews through college).
Gay bullying is destructive any way you slice it. If Christians were half as moral as they pretended to be, they would never condone treating anyone in an ill manner simply because they are gay. They would realize that, even assuming a gay "lifestyle" is self-destructive (which it isn't) that it isn't nearly as destructive as abusing and ostracizing someone because they are different. My friend is a perfect example of this.
