Wednesday, April 20, 2011

movement

 On April 15, 2011 I spoke to the class about the day of silent, which after I spoke about what the day of silent means I felt very proud of myself. Do to the fact that if I was back in high school I would not have the strength to speak in front of my classmates of a gay movement . I was afraid to protest or speak up for myself because in high school so many teens make fun of each other and put others down. That feeling s very painful even though one is not getting hit psychically words can really damage a human.  Now that I’m in college I have not been scared to speak up for my rights. Also taking this history class has really open my eyes that one most do crazy things in life so that others respect you or give you the rights that one is fighting for.  The class went on with speaking about the gay community and religious beliefs. Being a member of the gay community and having many gay friends when speaking about religious believes many of them take it as a joke. However I was born into a catholic family and I do believe in god I do pray every night and I do believe that god loves me for who I’ am not for you I love. Many of my gay friends take religion as a joke because religious people see us as sinners and evil humans because we are going against the bible. That is way many of them do not believe in the bible because humans that are very religious see us as aliens. When in reality we are just humans try to live a happy and make our dreams come to like everyone else. It’s very heartbroken when religious people and our own family look down up on you and even ask you how do you live with yourself knowing that you’re doing something evil in gods eyes? I’m very glad that the government is bring educating every student in California about the gay history because we to are heroes.  

1 comment:

  1. It was interesting to read this in light of conversations I've been having with some of the sisters here on campus this semester. What is cause for hope and optimism is that even some Catholics do see the human experience as you describe it. I think one of the most difficult combinations today must be to be a gay person of faith because the major faith traditions seem so to exclude and judge the gay community... but there are pockets of acceptance even in the Catholic church and we are fortunate that the sisters of Notre Dame are very thoughtful in this regard.

    ReplyDelete