“Proposition 8 served no purpose, and had no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California,” the courts ruled today.
Reblog this post if you believe everyone should be free to marry the person they love.
President Obama last week announced his intention to appoint openly gay Reverend George B. Walker Jr. to the President’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities. From the Advocate:
Since October, Walker has been serving as vice president of strategic partnerships at the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund and Victory Institute. Prior to that he was the Victory Fund’s vice president of leadership initiatives, a position he held since 2008. He has also worked at the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy, the Human Rights Campaign, and the Center for Community Change.
Hooray for allies in high places! Obama’s really quite great at that, I must say.
So how many more teens have to commit suicide because of bullying? When is the wonderful government of our “free nation” going to do something serious about this? There is no excuse for this!
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You know what I like best about this picture? How gender plays absolutely no role.
Over the last year, teen suicides have been on an uprise due to bullying. What a shame!
From the time we are growing up and start attending school, we are subjected to teasing by our friends and classmates if we look diferrent, dress different, speak different, go to a different church, eat different, or even like someone these so called friends qualify as different. What these “kids” don’t realize is the emotional damage they are causing on another human being. Now, who gave these kids the right to judge others? Who did they learn it from? Home? Society? Culture?
So far I haven’t found the root of bullying but what I did find was that 20-30% of school-age children are involved in bullying incidents mainly as the victim. It seems that parents are scared to stand up to their children nowadays and so is the school system. When a kid is bullied in a classroom full of people including a teacher why is no one putting a stop to this? These bullying acts seem to be condoned by adults which are not realizing, or maybe they are, the message they are sending to the children. “It’s okay to hurt others!”
It is not okay to hurt others for no reason. I feel that bullies have to be held responsible for their actions and they need to suffer consequences. For all anyone knows, these bullies can turn out to be serial killers, rapists, etc. If parents, schools, authorities and the government don’t put a stop to this soon we will lose more helpless lives that are not meant to be lost.
Because I came out of the closet a little later than some, it didn’t go through bullying because of sexual preference but I sure did go through teasing and bullying for other reasons. The way I dressed, my weight, my religious beliefs, etc. After I came out of the closet, I did go through quite a bit of teasing and bullying because of my sexual preference and the way I dress. I’m not a femme, I’ve never been, because I feel comfortable in my own skin. It took me some time to accept who I really am because of my upbringing but I realized, as I got older, I am who I am and I was put in this earth for a reason and I am a child of God. I don’t personally care what preachers, priests, pastors, or ministers think about my lifestyle because I am at peace and I am who who I’ve always been. A kind-hearted, hard-working individual that wants fairness and equality for all because I was born this way and no one can change that.
And if any LGBTQ teens have the opportunity or take a minute to read this, please keep in mind it does get better. There is plenty of help for you out there, don’t give up because no one has the right to take your life away by making you feel worthless because of who you are.
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For preachers to accept the fact that according the bible, we should love one another.
For the federal government to realize that they are so unfair to the LGBT community by not allowing same-sex marriages to be recognized and DOMA repealed.
New International Version (NIV)
34 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
They talk about the LGBT community as the biggest sinners on earth, but then again who are the child molesters? the animal abusers? the rapists? the cheaters?
They claim to be christians, catholics, protestants, or any other religion out there but they have forgotten to live in peace and with love for others. The always badger our community because to them we are “different”, but how different are we really?
We hold jobs, own small businesses or large businesses, hold government positions, pay taxes, have children, adopt children, do volunteer work, stand up for our beliefs, vote, go to church, and support various charities. With that been said, are we really that different from the rest of the nation?
All the LGBT community really wants is equal rights and acceptance for who we are. I, personally, am a married lesbian who cannot have her spouse in her health insurance without being penalized by the IRS almost $400 a month because in our state our marriage is not recognized and because of DOMA.
Is this fair when the have multi-billion companies being forgiven taxes or having different tax rates when they can afford it? Is this fair when government officials, senators, and house representatives have outrageous salaries?
I feel that the Federal Government needs to really revisit this as well as these preachers that have forgotten what peace and love really is.
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT?
my towmater pez dispenser
“I guess it’s because of irresponsible owners that took advantage of our breed and that gave us a bad name…”
American Pitbull Terriers have been profiled and picked on for over a decade thanks to irresponsible owners that trained them in the past for dog fighting.
I had a loving and sweet pitbull for a few days recently and I had to give him up because my 20# dascshund wanted to snap at him every time he tried to play. My weiner dog is more agressive and prone to bite a human being than the pitbull. At no point and time while he was with us did he snap or tried to fight with our dog. On the other hand my other weiner absolutely loved the fact that he had a big buddy to play with.
People profile because of the “alleged attacks” these dogs have been associated or involved in, but is the media telling the whole truth behind the attack? what about the “victim”, are they really telling the truth? Are the writers and journalists honestly doing the necessary research? Probably not, because saying the attack was related to a “pitbull type” dog doesn’t necessarily mean it was a Pit unless they do a DNA test. You can’t tell what specific breed a dog is without testing the dog. Jsut because you see a stocky dog with a big head and a joker smile, doesn’t mean that it’s a pitbull.
So the real question is are pitbulls dangerous? The honest answer is NO. Like most other dogs, all they want is love, attention and plenty of exercise. They are so wonderful that they are service animals, therapy animals, and incredible companions.
The discrimination against Pit Bulls goes as far as a lady fearing her little boy touched a pitbull at a petstore. She then proceded to ask, “What kind of dog is that?” And I said Pitbull Terrier and she almost ran out of the store at that point. Humans have a blind fear against this breed because they need a scapegoat. The worst part of it is that there is no evidence that Pitbulls are vicious or dangerous.
This breed has many good traits but 99% of the issues with them have to do with idiot owners. If humans would stop training these dogs to be agressive and were a bit more open minded about them, maybe at some point they would stop being treated as a threat. They are almost like a “Super-Dog”.
Here are 6 reasons why Pitbulls are awesome pets:
So people, please give these loving animals a break and stop treating them as vicious and aggressive because they are just big lap dogs that want to be loved.
Thanks to reality shows like Pitbulls and Parolees and Pit Boss on Animal Planet, people have had the opportunity to learn more about this incredible breed.
Because “racism is the pits”!
