Bullying Stops Here

 

As I was sitting through my lecture today for my child development class, we were studying the effects of bullying and the role it plays in our schools and the effects it has on our youth. I couldn't help but wonder, why we put so much emphasis in our schools to "Stop the Bullying" when the emphasis should be in our society as a whole. Our society bully's the Gay community everyday by denying us our born given rights. We are forced to pay more money in taxes, which compares to a bully stealing lunch money from a student. We are beaten down everyday by the reminder that we can not legally marry, which can compare to a gay student being beaten for holding his partner's hand. So as we continue to make the school safer for our LGBTQ youth, shouldn't or don't we owe them the right as well as ourselves to put pressure on our government and society to "Stop The Bullying" in life in general. It's commonly noted that bully's do so because they are afraid, or feel less than others, and the only way to receive any sort of social value is to devalue those that are different. Well when you look at the world we live in, we as a Gay community are being bullied, and I'm sick of it. Just because I love with in the same sex, my love is not any different than anyone else. My heart beats just like yours, I bleed just as you bleed, and I hurt just as you hurt. It saddens me to know that it took the lives of so many of our youth to finally send a message out that this kind of behavior will not be tolerated any longer. And we as adults, should continue to take the stand, and fight against our Government's bullying against us. That we will no longer be considered less than, that we will not deny ourselves of the same privileges heterosexuals are guaranteed, solely because they love the opposite sex. We work just as hard and yet we pay more of a price. We're given freedom and yet we're confined to a cage of what's socially acceptable. We're literally chained by our ankles and wrists to keep from living a fulling life, because "Big Brother" is threatened by our lifestyle. We sing songs, we write books, and we televise of one day having the freedom to live life in all it's fulfillment, to be FREE ! A right that is given to us by birth. To be Bully FREE! Free of the chains, of the cage, of the restrictions, and of devalue. We are equals, and only as equals will we be at peace ! "Let My People Go!"

*TAKE A STAND *STOP THE BULLYING *