Originally posted by Daisy:
It's a celebration of their life in the face of death & destruction.
No Mam, Daisy!! No Mam!! Not by a long shot!
In my state right now, a celebration of one's life....a joyous fulfillment of being safe and alive does NOT come from parading around in the face of death celebrating your sexuality, be you homosexual or heterosexual.
Right now...a celebration of one's life comes from pouring water into the mouth of someone who can't hold the bottle without dropping it...
...a celebration of being alive come's from feeding the hungry and sheltering the homeless...
...a joyous fulfillment comes right this very minute from holding the hand of someone who doesn't know where all of their family is and being a "stand-in" for their loved ones.
My church is getting 20 people to live in our gym soon. We have scrubbed the showers and bathrooms with bleach, blown up over 25 air mattresses and made them up with donated linens, and collected enough food to feed an army.
We have partitioned our gym in such a way that individual families will have privacy.
We have worked harder than we have in years and it's has been a joyous time for us to prepare for these people. It's been a blessing to us.
And we have CANCELLED our women's celebration that was to have taken place this coming weekend. That celebration will not take place.
The youth have CANCELLED their back-to-school bash that was to have taken place this past weekend. The young people gladly gave up that party to help the adults prepare for these families.
We are celebrating being alive by preparing to take in families that can no longer live certain overcrowded shelters or motels.
That's a celebration of being alive. NOT parading down the streets and celebrating sexuality, a deviant sexuality at that, and actually participating in sexual acts in the street and ignoring the basic needs of people all around you.
That's not a celebration. It's a foul and selfish act.
Be they gay or straight, these people aren't being led by their hearts and minds into thankfulness for being alive....
...they are being led by what is between their legs into a blatant disregard for even a drop of human dignity or kindness.
Peace-
Scarlett O.
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