Let’s call it hate, because no other word seems to justify an act to deny the rights from another human being. Hate is a simple thing, acting upon hate is easy. Too often we try to intellectualize hate and begin to identify it with names ending in phobia or ism. Hate is learned and hate is hastened by people who fear themselves. Hate is enhanced by a religious leader, who believes that without hate his or her God might be found to be an empty vessel; hate feeds the need to pray, to keep the God from being insulted by the mere mortals that God had been supposed to create. Hate is human, but often times enhanced as a Godly power if you do it God’s name.
The flight attendant from United that decided on his own that a Same-Sex dad was laying his arm too closely to the boys genitalia as the boy slept, so this crew member had the Gay dad stopped and detained in front of the child. Why, responding to that question was the ams-sex partner. “This is not something that anyone should have to worry about happening to them on a flight just because someone might not like the looks of them.” The paid to play current Secretary of Education, a Born Again Christian Woman, Betsy DeVos has decided that LGBT children no longer need protection in public schools, and thinks if states wish to do so, it will be okay by her. Betsy DeVos hates but does so because she wants the Kingdom of God to be the real Department of Education.
I am a man who happens to be Gay, who happens to be Jewish, who happens to be white, who happens to be 67, who happens to be an American. In the last 6 decades of my life, I have witnessed, the power of the most simple of words hate. I have heard men and women describe why hate is okay, justifying it as something God intended. The current trend in the world of hate is the LGBT community…be it tossing men from roof’s in the Middle east, to torturing men in Chechnya, invading village homes in Africa to stabbing, assaulting the homosexual on the back roads of Alabama, Colorado or the the streets in Tampa…hate is alive. Wherever the hate lives, its flames of devastation are Always caused by two things, “Doing It For God”, or “Self Loathing and Self Fear”. I don’t know you and you don’t me, so why hate me, why not discover what we have in common!
