In reply to the Comments on the previous post.

Anonymous said...

It would be different if the kids at our school were writing "I am Heterosexual" on their shirts. They were in fact bashing homosexuals by writing "True Love" on their shirts with a boy and girl stick figure holding hands.

April 27, 2008 11:38 AM

Anonymous said...

Oh and gays aren't disrespecting anyone on day of silence. They were stating that they are people and shouldn't be looked down upon like animals.

(Not that animals should be looked down upon, either.)

April 27, 2008 11:40 AM

This word "bashing" seems way harsh for this situation. If the shirts were to have said "We should kill the gays" I would say that is bashing. Saying that Heterosexual love is true love is not actually a threatening and hateful message.All it happens to be is a poorly thought up rebuttal to the Gay Rights argument. While it is foolish to say that gay love is not "true" love, it is still not hatred. While the people wearing the shirts may have hatred in their hearts, on their clothes is only foolishness.
Truth be told, I could care less if it was a hateful message. I am a true believer in freedom of speech and expression, especially when the message offends. The fact that someones feelings were hurt, just shows that the people whose feelings were hurt are in opposition to the statement and/or have felt prejudice before in their lives. Yet if we are to ban offensive messages the fact that those who hate gays were probably offended by the day of silence would render day of silence offensive and it should then be banned. Just because your views are in opposition to the anti-gay ideology, it does not give you the power to silence them. Isn't that the whole message of the Day of Silence.....not to silence people?

The fact that you would call these people bashers however shows that you probably were either offended by the statement they made or you assumed that it was hateful.


Yet the most important thing I could tell you is that if you want to help society by proving that gays are moral people, one must only prove this with logic and reason not censorship. You can change a person from a gay hater to a tolerant person if you show them the error of their beliefs and not insult them into a state of closed mindedness.