I think that whole 'trying to be trendy' thing is such a narrow-minded, cruel thing to say. Being trendy is the safe way, the conforming way of meshing into society. Pray tell, what kind of bandwagon do they think this is? These folks are taking a very frightening, very brave step in society. If anything, they are the most un-trendy of us all. They are taking a scary leap into a world that has not treated others like them very kindly in the past.
I long for the day when society doesn't get so frightened over what it doesn't understand or what is different and doesn't view it as wrong or subversive. I live in a very biased and prejudicial part of the world, and it sickens me how people around me go to Christian churches every time the door opens, yet show such disgust and hatred and animosity toward those who have a different lifestyle than they do. I truly am afraid that my state will never acknowledge same sex marriage, because here, church and state are not separate, and church says constitution is outweighed by Christian 'law'. It depresses me to be surrounded by such narrow-minded people posing as followers of Christ. They seem to be the first to cast the stones.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2014-06-23 03:46 am (UTC)I long for the day when society doesn't get so frightened over what it doesn't understand or what is different and doesn't view it as wrong or subversive. I live in a very biased and prejudicial part of the world, and it sickens me how people around me go to Christian churches every time the door opens, yet show such disgust and hatred and animosity toward those who have a different lifestyle than they do. I truly am afraid that my state will never acknowledge same sex marriage, because here, church and state are not separate, and church says constitution is outweighed by Christian 'law'. It depresses me to be surrounded by such narrow-minded people posing as followers of Christ. They seem to be the first to cast the stones.