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This video is from West Virginia in response to gay marriage legislation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vQm0hJ8Dd0

I really wish that organizations such as this would be as passionate about poverty, mental illness, lack of housing, child welfare as they are about gay marriage. If churches like this (i say like this because I don’t think it reflects all congregations) concentrated even 10% of the money and effort they spend into combating gay marriage into poverty, can you imagine what a difference that would make?

It’s unbelievable to me that fundamentalists spend so much of their energy on abortion and homosexuality. It seems so misdirected.

From a different perspective, watch this video.

http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/s/divorce

I had a conversation recently and asked this person, who is a supporter of LGBT individuals, about my own biases towards those that are transgendered. I told her that it’s hard for me — and I recognize this — to see it as okay and that they’re ‘normal.’

She said that’s completely okay to admit. And then she said something that really stuck with me:

“It is hard to understand where everyone comes from. Especially when someone else is so completely different than your life experiences.

But when I see someone that is forward and exuberant about who they are, I want to give them a high five. They are so courageous for being honest and open about their sexuality, their personhood.

There’s enough people in this world that will pass on judgment. Most people wouldn’t be honest about who they are. Enough will judge them — I want to support them.”

I wish we’d spend as much time talking about our neighbors struggling with making ends meet, the man or woman on the street asking for money, the single parent that’s at his or her wits end as we would abortion and homosexuality.

-jpeg

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