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I'm at my dorm, eating some DQ that's still warm after 30 minutes, and I'm reading statuses on Facebook. I know usually that status updates are usually full of insanity, strange beliefs, and drama, but these statuses were a little darker than the norm.
Recently, my sister had come out of the closet, citing personal reasons as to her own decision. My grandfather initially teased her about this, but the storm eventually calmed for a time until this recent weekend, when my grandfather secretly expressed a desire to keep my sister away from her friends because of his religion-and-stereotype-fueled homophobia. He claimed that they were all bad influences, which angered me but not enough to stay home. I thought he would get over this - until yesterday.
My sister was invited to one of her friends' houses for a sleepover (by that time, this friend, whose name shall not be dropped out of privacy concerns, was engaged to a man and had merely experimented with bisexuality as part of typical teenage curiosity) and, since yesterday was devoted to me just going back to college, she politely asked to go over. Gramps said no, citing that my sisters all had to ride with me up to Dahlonega. I had a suspicion that he would cite his homophobia and, on the way, he did. Right around when we were pulling out, they were in a loud, screeching, and heartwrenching argument that makes me realize how perverted the Christian Right has become. I have lost faith in religion, but not faith in God.
In my beliefs, I'm bi leaning towards straight and I believe in a God that loves everybody and would not cite some orientation as "an abomination" just so he can stir up a bunch of hate that "followers" of him would propagate all for "the greater good". You know what this bullshit reminds me of? The neighborhood watch from Hot Fuzz: thanks to some silly accident, some guy became hellbent on trying to preserve some bullshit and completely superficial tradition in ways that are ultimately just plain horrendous (killing reporters with some questionable quirks; murdering gardeners just because they expressed feelings to move out) but somehow, the people - through threats, stripping of individuality (what the Apostle Paul inadvertently did), and hate groups posing as rehabilitation (Exodus International, which comedians David Cross and Bob Odenkirk lampooned amazingly and spot-on) - were all brainwashed to believe this. This, in turn, led to the theory of the "white man's burden", the usage of blackface to enforce stereotypes rather than making it a tool to show the wonders of other cultures, and homophobia, "the worst disease".
If homelife is as bad as my sisters claim it to be, then why doesn't anybody speak up and express why being conservative is ultimately going to lead to the destruction of our entire world as Bill Maher predicted in Religulous? I don't want people to give up God - I want them to give up the "tenets" of how to live according to "God".
To anybody who feels a love for someone the same sex, go ahead! Love them! Ask them out! Come out! Don't bottle it up and pervert it into pedophilia - that's what Todd Solondz spoke against in Happiness and Life During Wartime.
To anybody who feels discontentment for their religion, give it up, but don't give up that something out there created this entire collection of multiverses. There's too much order for complete chaos to have created.
And to family members who think that it's their duty to turn my sister straight, I love you all, but this hate is unwise. Even Solomon would have to agree.
Recently, my sister had come out of the closet, citing personal reasons as to her own decision. My grandfather initially teased her about this, but the storm eventually calmed for a time until this recent weekend, when my grandfather secretly expressed a desire to keep my sister away from her friends because of his religion-and-stereotype-fueled homophobia. He claimed that they were all bad influences, which angered me but not enough to stay home. I thought he would get over this - until yesterday.
My sister was invited to one of her friends' houses for a sleepover (by that time, this friend, whose name shall not be dropped out of privacy concerns, was engaged to a man and had merely experimented with bisexuality as part of typical teenage curiosity) and, since yesterday was devoted to me just going back to college, she politely asked to go over. Gramps said no, citing that my sisters all had to ride with me up to Dahlonega. I had a suspicion that he would cite his homophobia and, on the way, he did. Right around when we were pulling out, they were in a loud, screeching, and heartwrenching argument that makes me realize how perverted the Christian Right has become. I have lost faith in religion, but not faith in God.
In my beliefs, I'm bi leaning towards straight and I believe in a God that loves everybody and would not cite some orientation as "an abomination" just so he can stir up a bunch of hate that "followers" of him would propagate all for "the greater good". You know what this bullshit reminds me of? The neighborhood watch from Hot Fuzz: thanks to some silly accident, some guy became hellbent on trying to preserve some bullshit and completely superficial tradition in ways that are ultimately just plain horrendous (killing reporters with some questionable quirks; murdering gardeners just because they expressed feelings to move out) but somehow, the people - through threats, stripping of individuality (what the Apostle Paul inadvertently did), and hate groups posing as rehabilitation (Exodus International, which comedians David Cross and Bob Odenkirk lampooned amazingly and spot-on) - were all brainwashed to believe this. This, in turn, led to the theory of the "white man's burden", the usage of blackface to enforce stereotypes rather than making it a tool to show the wonders of other cultures, and homophobia, "the worst disease".
If homelife is as bad as my sisters claim it to be, then why doesn't anybody speak up and express why being conservative is ultimately going to lead to the destruction of our entire world as Bill Maher predicted in Religulous? I don't want people to give up God - I want them to give up the "tenets" of how to live according to "God".
To anybody who feels a love for someone the same sex, go ahead! Love them! Ask them out! Come out! Don't bottle it up and pervert it into pedophilia - that's what Todd Solondz spoke against in Happiness and Life During Wartime.
To anybody who feels discontentment for their religion, give it up, but don't give up that something out there created this entire collection of multiverses. There's too much order for complete chaos to have created.
And to family members who think that it's their duty to turn my sister straight, I love you all, but this hate is unwise. Even Solomon would have to agree.
