WTF America?

Alright, I had every intention of writing this week’s blog about a Pentatonix song, but I am far to upset about something else entirely. As I have mentioned before, I have a few members of my family that are LDS (Latter Day Saints). I was in the car with a few of these family members yesterday, and they said something that really bothered me. They were talking about how their church is passing a new rule saying that they will excommunicate any member who isn’t heterosexual. This really bothers me.

                The LDS church teaches quite a bit about Christ. In one of their meetings they even asked all of their members to be more Christ-like. What I don’t understand is how it is Christ-like to tell someone they are unworthy of the love of Christ. That’s ridiculous. It’s often the people who deserve help the least that need it the most, and this goes beyond just one religion’s tolerance, or intolerance I should say.

                I hate prejudice in any of its ugly forms. I don’t care if it’s based on sexual orientation, skin color, hair color, or sock color. It just isn’t right. You can’t discriminate for any reason. You don’t see people with blonde hair throwing fits about being in the same room as someone who has brown hair. You can’t discriminate based on something that people were born with. Now, some will argue that gay people weren’t born that way. That it was a choice or that something/someone made them gay. Codswallop. I don’t ever remember deciding that I liked boys over girls. It was just something that made sense to me from the beginning. Same could be said for others that fall somewhere on the sexuality spectrum. I am a God fearing woman, and I don’t believe that God makes a wrong person. He made you the exact way he wanted you. You are beautifully, wonderfully, and fearfully made. So, why is it acceptable for these people to deny others their religion based entirely on their sexual orientation? I’m at a loss here. Help me to understand the twisted logic, internet viewers. As I have said earlier, I doubt anyone cares what I have to say, and I am festively certain that no one other than my grandparents read this anymore, but I had to get this out. I had to cry out at the injustice, and I’m not even Mormon.

                I don’t even know that the lesson from all of this is. I just want to ask you guys…no to beg you guys to stand up for any injustice that you see. There that’s the lesson. Don’t sit idly by while others are being discriminated against. After all if Martin Luther King Jr. had sat on his hands we would live in a very different world. We need to fight for the world we want to leave behind for future generations, and I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to leave this world broken and bleeding.