I have no feelings about homosexuality. I do, however, believe that they are entitled to live their lives without being ridiculed, mocked, and belittled. I hear the pain in the voices of my mother, father, and grandmother as they speak to me about how the south used be. When they tell me about the horrors of segregation, oppression, and blatant racism. For people disecting the bible to use it as a weapon, the bible is the word of God. To pick and choose which parts suit your fancy is to essentially rearrange the words of God to serve man.
To address homophobia:
Speaking for where I grew up, a gay black man was something you didn't see. The men who were fixtures in households, and playgrounds fit into one or two categories: classic hunter gatherer or mandingo. The hunter gatherer works 15 hours a day makes an honest living and provides for his wife and children. The mandingo is an individual of vaunted sexual expertise and talents. No man dared veer away from that because of the certain wrath that would have followed.
As for verbal abuses, every race has them. Every race has individuals within the race that are willing to use them.
All these problems affect our race, and I don't mean skin color. These problems affect the human race and hopefully through honest and meaningful dialogue we can march hand in hand to the utopia of our dreams.
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Many are called, many are chosen, but only a few are PHROZEN!
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