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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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I think that people have a really twisted idea of what Christianity is supposed to be, even Christians themselves. I myself am a christian. If this was not the internet I would not have even bothered. I would only talk about this irl if i was in a group of close friends and the topic was brought up by someone else. But this is the internet and this only takes a matter of seconds for me to type.
As a christian with who still goes by the bible I get a lot of hate from people because I believe that marrying(even for believing that only married people should have sex gets me looks of discrimination from people)
a person is supposed to be one man and one woman and not two men or two women or two men and a woman or whatever other combination is out there.
Now you don't see people bullying Christians nearly as badly even fractionally as bad as the group focused on in spirit day, In the US.
But just ignore all that up there and here is what I really want to say. I won't bully you, I won't harass you, I won't discriminate against you. No matter who you are or what you do. Now I ask that you do the same. Not just to your friends or friends of friends. To people you don't even know. I don't ask that you show respect where it hasn't been earned but to show civility. Even when you and they can't agree upon different ideas, values, beliefs, lifestyles, anything at all! No one should be made to feel any lesser because they might have a different mindset, not just one group of people, but all people.
And all these come together as one big banner: Against bullying.
All bullying is equally awful, though, and really does happen to anyone
Not that I disagree, because really, I don't, but there are a lot of kids who are in general nice that are mean to the LGBT community. (My sister was like that, for awhile.) It's just a more... specific problem. Easier to target. Bullying itself is a very wide topic. I think most people are very focused on finding the alleged 'reasons' for bullying, and target those. Anyway, I agree, there should be a pure anti-bullying day. (Write Love On Her Arms Day kinda fits.)
I'm guessing that Spirit Day is more of an offshoot of LGBT acceptance propaganda than it is an anti-bullying thing, though the two are related.
I understand what you're saying, really, I do. I just don't like being called a "straight ally" against bullying when I'm just straight and against bullying. I still don't see why this artist couldn't just write "I am straight and against bullying" - it doesn't change who the bullying is against or the message of Spirit Day. I suppose it's a petty gripe in the grand scheme of things, but it makes the heterosexual individual on this array of posters the outsider, the "different" one, the one who doesn't belong in this stand against bullying. Isn't that counter-intuitive to the whole message? =\