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30+ Day Challenge, Part 27 – A Photo That Makes You Angry or Sad
Back in the winter I decided to take on a multi-day challenge of writing on a specific list of topics in order to keep me writing even when I didn’t have anything I wanted to post otherwise.1
I ended up sort of letting it stall. Mainly because of this particular topic.
My OCD would not let me skip it and move on, so I had to find a photo that fit the bill.
I have a fair amount of photos on my computer: a good-sized collection of Hugh and Jake pics; football images; pix of fellow bloggers and twitter friends; and the like. In other words, things that make me pretty damned happy.
But, finally, I ran across this photo on the internet.
You have to click to see it. I don’t want something like that defacing my blog. Plus I won’t say the name of the group pictured because I don’t want to be associated in web searches.
The photo angers me, of course, because of the message it promotes. It would anger anyone who rational, feeling human.
But I am also angered at the use of children, who, only a few years earlier, were born with no instincts other than to eat, sleep, poop, and love.
That’s the way it was for all of us. Truly born that way.
Like Gaga says: “God makes no mistakes.”
Any intolerance or hate we have (and we all suffer from it on some level) was learned.
Or even worse, taught to us.
That doesn’t make me angry.
That makes me sad.
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From South Pacific–”You’ve got to be taught” still rings true.
You are so right. It’s very sad.
Funny, that a group with the first name of your blog and a small mexican donkey can have and transfer so much hate. I really love the Matthew Shepherd story where the people dressed up like angels with giant wings and blocked all the protesters from view. There is so much good in this world including you. Especially in a kilt. lol .
It is very sad, yet I see you and hear of your life and it lift’s my spirit, (among other things). Keep the faith!
Just remember, human nature is what we we’re put on earth to rise above.
It truly makes me wonder………. If this hatred will ever end? Being a christian and a gay male I know what the tenants of my religion tell me, but I also know that God could never hate his children. And to use children to pass that message along is utterly a disgrace.
I have a co-worker that was working in the town that “they” are based. He had to drive by their “establishment” twice a day. He said that he would flash them the “number one” sign each time he drove by. I found this to be quite humorous, coming from a straight, republican, Mormon.
I feel so sorry for the kids! They are being filled with so much hate, at such an early age. I hope that someone comes into their lives soon, to erase that horrible bile that family spews out.
Hate is not a family value, but some family’s do value that ugliest side of human nature.