True Story. A religion teacher assigned her class an essay on what
makes a good Christian. One student wrote about praying nightly, say no
to abortion, banning gay marriage, and donating money. The other
student wrote about talking to God and allowing people to enjoy their
lives, and supporting gay marriage. The day the teacher was to hand the
papers back, she called up the second student and told him she would
pray for him when he went to hell. The student asked why would he be
going to hell, and why he got an F on his paper. The teacher told him
that Catholisim is against gay marriage. The student looked at her for
a minute, then said aloud, "I'm gay." The teacher kicked him out of
class as if he had said fuck or worshiped Satan. A girl in the back of
class who had a boyfriend and was obviously straight got up and left
too.

If you would leave the classroom, repost this. It doesn't
matter if you're straight, bi, or gay. It doesn't matter if you're
catholic or not. Everyone is a human being and deserves happiness.

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You know, I read this…and honestly I have several of my own things to add along. First let me explain things. I’m Christian, probably not the best example of one, but I am. I go to church as often as I can. (Though recently it hasn’t been very often.) This, Christian ‘thing’ as some have called it is very relatively new to me, and the feeling it brings at time is overwhelming, and much appreciated and wanted. All of the people whom I have met in Second Baptist are amazing and do everything they can to simply bring a smile to your face and make you feel wanted, and so on so forth.

Now, as most of my friends know I am a very big realist as well. My past life was nothing but real. My entire life I lived on not judging people, regardless of gender, race, or religion, and even sexuality.

I remember during the first few weeks I lived Texas I was standing outside with a few people, (I will not give names.) Kingwood graduation had just ended, and while we where standing outside a couple walked by holding hands, laughing and smiling, both where men, and apparently gay. A few of the people I was with began talking about how being gay was wrong, and gay marriage was wrong and so on so forth. Mind you they are all Christians, and during this time I was not.

I sat there and listened to them go on about how wrong it was. And All I could think about was the fact that, just because this pair of men where different, because what they did was going against what the bible said (I am going to get someone yelling at me for this.) that they couldn’t just leave these men alone and allow them to be happy. In Tucson I had countless Bi, Gay, and Lesbian friends. I thought nothing of it, and still don’t.

See, simply stated. Why should I allow something, or someone to bother me, and upset my life just because they are different and do not believe in the same thing I do? And why should I judge them off of their beliefs and their choices when I know I wouldn’t want anyone to do such a thing to me because I am a Christian.

I remain passive for a very large amount of reasons. Regardless of my choice in religion I will not allow someone else choice in sexuality to make me feel or think differently of him or her. They are simply people, who made a choice to be who they are and believe what they believe in. Just as I did that wonderful day at Beach Retreat 2005, and it is something I do not regret.

I know I have gone on quite a bit about this. But I want to leave off on this note: Don’t judge someone because they’re different from you. Don’t hate them just because they made a choice to live a certain way. Don’t let meaningless crud get between possible friendships. Just think about it this way. You wouldn’t want to be hated for being who you are, and neither would anyone else. Don’t let simple differences affect how you see another person, their just trying to do the same thing everyone else is. And that’s being Happy.

I would love to get feedback on this, either by a comment or by a private message of some sort. Thanks for reading this hope I didn’t confuse anyone or bore them to tears.

-Kevin