This doesn’t make me angry. This is way too far gone to make me angry. Now all I feel is…sadness. This kind of hate isn’t born, guys. This kind of attitude…it’s learned. I refuse to believe that any human being is born thinking this way. I can’t pretend to know this person’s background or how they were brought up, but to live in an environment that teaches this kind of belligerent, violent prejudice…I want to vomit just thinking about it.
I’m very fortunate that I grew up in a family that encouraged me to learn as much as I could about people that were different from me. If someone was black, it was just the color of their skin. If someone was Latina and only spoke Spanish, that wasn’t their fault. That was just where they were born. So when I started learning about people loving people of their own gender, I didn’t think twice about it. It was just who they loved and it was their choice to make.
At the risk of sounding vain, I wish everyone could have been brought up that way. My father struggles with the remnants of his own racism, sexism and homophobia. I would never call him a hateful person, but he’s bias because of the environment in which he was brought up. This person is like that, taken to a horrific extreme, and at this point, I don’t think there’s anything we can do. I honestly don’t. We can track their IP address, send them hate mail and messages, but in the end, this is how this person thinks and I don’t think we can change it. There are some things we can’t fix, no matter how hard we try. This person is one of those things.
I truely believe anything this person could have had that I consider human must have died long ago.
Nothing gives someone the right to tell someone to take their own life.
Nothing gives someone the right to be hatefully mock their sexual orientation.
Nothing gives someone the right to kill for the sake of killing, to harm for the sake of harming, and to hate for the sake of hating.
This person mentions ‘sinning’. I can’t pretend to know what God this person believes in, but the one I believe in, doesn’t kill people just because of who they love. The God I believe in doesn’t hate people just because of who they love. The God I believe in looks down at people like this and turns away in shame. The God I believe in doesn’t care if a person is heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, pansexual, transgender, genderqueer, what have you. Who you sleep with and what gender you identify with doesn’t mean anything as far as who you will grow up to be.
As wise teacher once said: It is our choices that show who we truly are, far more than our abilities.
Let your choices speak for you. Do not let people like this intimidate you or frighten you. They have made a choice to hide behind an Anonymous button and hate. You have the choice, right now, to defy them. In other words:
Be who you are and fuck the rest.
There are no words for how upset this made me.