A WORLD WITHOUT
THE CONCEPT OF DIFFERENT
One
of my sister’s good friends and an avid reader of my blog sent me an article
that gave me so much hope. The story was
of a 7 year old boy who came out as gay to his parents. He didn’t understand that liking boys instead
of girls was different. He didn’t know
that some people in this world believed that he was an abomination to the human
race or that he could be arrested for stating these views in some
countries. All he knew was one simple
thing, that he liked boys and not girls and he was not afraid to say it.
This
boy had no fears about his sexuality, and in fact he probably doesn’t even
understand the term sexuality yet. But
this 7 year old has given me so much hope. The fact that someone can grow up
knowing that their parents will accept him for exactly who he is and take him
seriously even at age 7, is absolutely inspiring to me. This child has no idea how amazing it is to
have such understanding parents yet, but I hope that someday he will.
I
am so hopeful that times are changing and that being gay is viewed as
normal. For this boy to not even have a
concept of being different is astounding to me.
I want to someday live in a world where children cannot fathom why being
gay is a reason to hate someone. I’d
like to think that hating on gay people will someday be viewed the same way
that slavery or not allow the women the right to vote does in our nation’s
history classes today. We will look back
on the gay rights movement and wonder why people had such a hard time understanding
that they too are people; tax-paying citizens who deserve equal rights under
the Constitution of the United States of America. I hope that every student in their history
classes will understand that the equal rights of people is something that we
should never stop fighting for and that we are all more alike than we think;
that difference is not as clear as we originally thought.
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