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Rick Perry Drama
14 years ago
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I'm sure you've seen it somewhere, I'm on Tumblr where it is crazy active. So hey, I will copy and paste what I put on there, and I'd love to hear your opinions on it!
“… there’s something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can’t openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school. ”
Rick Perry doesn’t like the gay lifestyle, and wants to openly celebrate Christian ideals or whatever you’d call them in schools. Okay, that’s fine with me. Now I can already hear the “Oh god she’s a racist, oppressive asshole”s. Don’t get me wrong, Tumblr, I am all for the gay lifestyle. That’s how you are born, and you can’t do anything about it. But why is it fine with me, when I’m strongly against these views? Because that’s his opinion. He is entitled to his opinion (as shitty as it is), and so are you.
I think we should be able to openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school. Why? Because everything is so politically correct that kids won’t be able to do the same things that we did when we were growing up. I celebrated Christmas in school, but now it’s offensive to do so in schools. Now I don’t support doing a group prayer every day, but if someone wishes to pray that is 100% a-ok with me. If you want the class to pray as a group, send them to a Christian school. But honestly - if a cross or the Christmas holiday is offensive, when the cross is just a symbol and Christmas can be treated as something where you give and receive gifts - what’s the next thing to be considered offensive? Be sure to remember that being a white, straight, Christian is offensive already.
I’m not voting for Rick Perry. I am not “Anti-Gay” nor am I Christian. I disagree with most of his opinions, but he is allowed to have it. Like I said before, bashing someone for their opinions doesn’t make your opinion seem any better.
TL;DR: I think it’s okay to have an opinion even though it’s shitty.