Sorry, i know this is kind of random but, in my catholic ethics today, was the topic of homosexuality...and someone had said how in a park in the hometown of Mathew Shepard (a man who was brutally murdered, soley because his sexual orientation) some people wanted to get a statue that said the date he was murdered, and to go as far as to put that Mathew Shepard deserved what he got, and was going to Hell because he was gay. this sickened and disgusted me. the fact that people are -fighting- to get such a statue to be put up. the fact that they want to put it in his hometown no less, the one his parents still live in. Havn't they and him, and his name gone through enough? what happend to empathy, compassion, and humanity?
I guess this just hits me hard because, one of my closest friends (TJ- yeah the guy i traiend with in track) is gay. And he is one of the most wonderful and most caring people in my life, and just- i know people judge him. people that know. and im not saying you have to like, apprecaite, or even associate with his actions, or people that partake in that life style, but god damn, don't look down upon it and don't condemn it. It's not like it's a choice...and even it is, why can't it be respected?
So i guess that's where my own compassion fails me. Because i just can't seem to understand, how people could judge someone so harshly and so fast, soley on their sexual orientation. and i don't think i'll ever understand.
Don't get me wrong..I'm not tryign to say I'm better than them or people that have that view point, and I'm not trying to have a holier than thou attitude, I know that people have views such as those feel they have good reason,a nd stand behind them strongly.-- im just saying, I don't undestand it...