Today is Spirit Day and GLAAD ( Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) has asked that people wear purple today as a call to attention towards the six young teenagers that committed suicide on account to harassment for their sexual orientation.
It bother's be a lot that teenagers would commit suicide like this, but what almost bother's me more is the fact that is was the harassment and abuse from their peers that pushed these teenagers to this brink of suicide.
Homophobia was the bullet. Hate pulled the trigger.
This needs to stop.
The reason that these children have this hatred towards homosexuals, is most likely because this hate is being taught. No hate just exists for no reason, hate is taught. We are all born innocent knowing nothing of the world and around us, from our teachers, parents, and friends, we learn how this world should be formed. It's too often that we use hate instead of love to form our world. It's not right.
These teenagers were so young and had so much of their lives that they could have lived but instead they exist as only memories to those that loved them and ghosts to those that taunted them.
These suicides could have happened to just about anyone. Harassment and bullying happens to kids because they are gay, because they are a different color, because the look strange, because they have a different religion. This is HATE. Hate can only cause Hurt, it does nothing to make our world a better place.
Today as I wear purple I remember peace and equality.
Purple is the color of balence, it brings together two very different colors with two completely differnt personalities together to create something beautiful and new, it's the color of peace and comfort. Purple is the color of harmony. Purple is the color we should use to paint our world.
Today I ask for you to teach your children LOVE.
God created us all equal and beautiful,
We are all special,
We all deserve to be loved.
and Love creates a better world for us all.
Today remember the type of pain hate brings, and bring in love to fill what hate has rotted away from our world.
XOXO
Riah
Awesome way of putting it!! :)
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