"Homosexuality: Hate and Love"
Here is an excellent video (length is about 5 mins) about the hate and love homosexual individuals have the potential to face on a daily basis. Before watching it, see its description below the video:
The video was created by a student at Abilene Christian University in response to the university's upcoming visit by the Soulforce Equality Riders (which occured 3/27/06), an activist group whose goal is, "freedom for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people from religious and political oppression through the practice of relentless nonviolent resistance."
The first segment of the video contains some very harsh speech that I, and others, find heartbreaking. Also, you may or may not agree with some of what the video says (such as first loving the LGBT individual before you can change them) -- I agree with "loving" the individual first (one of the most powerful messages of the video), but I am not sure whether I agree or disagree about "changing" the individual.
The video was created by a student at Abilene Christian University in response to the university's upcoming visit by the Soulforce Equality Riders (which occured 3/27/06), an activist group whose goal is, "freedom for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people from religious and political oppression through the practice of relentless nonviolent resistance."
The first segment of the video contains some very harsh speech that I, and others, find heartbreaking. Also, you may or may not agree with some of what the video says (such as first loving the LGBT individual before you can change them) -- I agree with "loving" the individual first (one of the most powerful messages of the video), but I am not sure whether I agree or disagree about "changing" the individual.
posted by Holly at 8:40 AM
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One day I was just sitting outside the post office, people watching as usual, when a thought occured to me. "What if everyone is fine... just the way they are?"
What if everyone, regardless of who they are, or what they believe in; what if they're the way they are meant to be?
For really the first time, I experienced No Judgment.
And at that very moment, both them and I were free.
The video is made by a religious person and thusly is riden with judgment. Regardless of how compasionate the feel they are being they are pious. They may not speak hateful (and we should be thankful for that at least) but the bias is the same.
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