I Watched MILK Today

I've never understood how people who believe in Jesus and a loving God can believe so strongly that God and Jesus hate homosexuals. When I was in Sunday School I remember the church always stressing that Jesus said to "Love thy neighbor as thyself." I was raised on the golden rule, "do unto others as you want them to do unto you." I do not understand how people can call themselves Christian while at the same time persecuting people and trying to strip them of their civil rights. It goes against every tenet of Christianity that I was taught growing up. It's one of the main reasons that I don't like to affiliate myself with any one religion. For some people, it seems that they cannot feel safe in their beliefs unless they put down people who do not share them. Myself, I believe that if you feel strongly about something, then it shouldn't matter if nobody else agrees with you. Nobody can make you be gay. Nobody can make your children gay. It is not something that is taught or caught like a virus. Allowing others to live their lives as they wish and to have the same rights as you will not destroy families or marriages. It's the most ridiculous notion in the world to say that allowing homosexuals to have civil rights will destroy the sanctity of marriage or family. The only people who can destroy a marriage are the people who are in it. If you study history, many of the arguments that are being employed against the gay rights movement are the same ones that were employed against African-Americans and Women a hundred years ago. And look, women have been voting for, what, 90 years now. And the world has not come to an end. The government has not come crashing down around our ears. I hope that in less than a hundred years time, the arguments against gay rights sound as ridiculous as the arguments that were posed against African American and Women's rights a century ago.