Picture Perfect
August 28, 2007
Picture this: you have a son or a daughter and they are your miracle child; the doctors said you could not have children, but low and behold, here they are. They are perfect and no one will ever tell you otherwise. God gave you this gift and you will treasure it. You make sure this child is well-provided for, is safe, is loved, and is afforded all the things in life that they desire and can be given. Such is parenthood.
Fast-forward and your child tells you that they are gay. They have thought long and hard about who they are and are happier being with someone of the same sex rather than the opposite sex. It is hard news to hear because you know the sorrows they will encounter because of this. You begin to wonder what you did wrong, how this could have happened, and if it is just a phase. But you know it is not. You know your child. You know who they are just as much as they do. So you love them.
Now picture this: a jogger in the park notices something in the bushes and finds a human hand. It is connected to a body that is so beaten and tattered that it makes it hard to identify the race let alone the identity. You get a call at 5 AM from the local police asking to identify a body that may be your child’s. You arrive to a scene that is beyond imagination. They do not show this type of horror in the movies. It is the birthmark on the left ankle that assures you…this is your child.
This is your miracle baby. This is the child that you stayed up with when they were sick, cheered at every game they had, listened to when they wanted to lay their burdens down, and cried at their graduation. This is the baby that you gave to the world in hopes they would take as good care of them as you had. This is your child. This is the same child who looked into your eyes with fear as they told you they were gay. This is your baby. This is the same child who wept over the baby bird who died in your driveway, who helped the neighbor with her trash because she was too feeble to bring it to the curb, and who got beaten up in middle school for defending the new kid with a lisp. This disheveled body…this…is…your…child.
The imagery is vague and fictional, but for the woman whose Navy son was beaten so badly that the only form of identification she could use to identify his body with was a tattoo, it was a cruel reality.
Every person here is someone else’s son and daughter. Why is it okay to put another mother or father through the heartache of outliving their children when you would not want such an evil on yourself? If your children are attacked, abused, or hurting, would you not want to help them? Would you not want to do everything in your power to make the person hurting them stop or hurt themselves? Why then would you do that to someone else’s child?
It is the paradox of evil that is created. One fights another to avenge their brother, but then that other’s brother must avenge his brother. And so the cycle begins and never ends.
Tags: gay, abused, paradox of evil
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i dont get it…its about what?…injustice?…or just another way to say no to revenge?…we all know that evil breeds evil its nothing new…and i can understand that i mean the evil out of revenge…what i cant seem to understand is evil out of greed…our out of pure hatred…now you said gay and ive noticed another article where you mention gay something…whats up with that?…in this post the gay side doesnt matter at all…why did you say that the child was gay?…like at each 1 gay killed theres 100000 straight killed so why is it a bigger crime if a gay gets dead?…theres more junkies with that faith than gay people…
and speaking of gay…i dont like gay people…nope i sure dont…never did and never will…but i sure aint gonna do them no harm for just being gay…your gay - i dont like it as same as i dont like nike shoes or white chocolate or something…however i would do harm to the system that actualy supports and (dunno whats the word for buildboards and comercions and propaganda stuff im not a fluid english speaker)…you might say im not open minded i dont care…all im saying that homosexual behavior is not the same as heterosexual and should not be encouraged or judged…you are gay so fcking what?…stop screaming about it i dont want my children to take you as their roll model…
its a loooong discussion about this and i dont have enough skills in english to write about it as i cant seem to find the words that i need…but the point is that gay people scream about gay injustice black people about racism and jews about antisemitism…strange thing dont you think?…if we need to scream about injustice than injustice for all!…not for “our club”…
It says gay because the focus of the post was about gays and hate crimes against gays. It is directed that way because if I wanted to write posts about all the crimes (hate or not), I’d have to write an anthem, not a blog post. It is written this way because that is the main idea and the focus of the post. It in no way says that any other crime is less or greater. It in no way says there are no more other crimes. I do not condone violence of any kind towards anyone. I do not condone many things. That is why my other blog posts are about other topics. I take a point and focus on it for a blog post. If I want to talk about everything else, I will write a book or make another blog post about another position. I said the child was gay because the post was focused on gay hate crimes. How much sense would it make to say the child was straight when I am talking about gay hate crimes?
I’m not black and will still cry racism if I see it. I call everything like I see it. I do not need to talk about everything else wrong with the world in that same instance, but I will surely get to it. But what is also ‘funny’ about people that cry hate or racism is that they can say it when they please. When I say it, it is because it is real. I play the cards that are dealt and if someone is going to treat me a certain way based on my orientation, I am going to call them out for it. The whole point of this post was to put someone in another person’s shoes. Just as another blog post (http://censoredblvd.com/2007/entitled/), all I do is try to get people to see things through another’s standpoint. Regardless of what the topic is.
‘Our club’? Did you read my other posts? I’ve never had an abortion or had a friend that needed one, but I still speak on it. I speak on issues, not just stuff that relates to me. I speak on whatever I want to at the time. That is the whole premise of the blog: pure word vomit.
I have a few things to say on this issue…
As for the first reply… I am not gay, but I do know that gays are a minority… they are not a majority, straights are… so yeh, maybe more straight people get killed each day, but compare the percentages… also regardless of death alot of gay kids get beat up each day… I didn’t run any numbers but I am sure more gay people get beat up each day then straight… just from what I have seen…
I have no problem with gay people also I don’t judge people til I have met them and talked with them… it is then where I make my first judgments… I don’t agree with the idea of being gay, but it is a choice that someone else has made… Also just because they are gay, does not mean that they will immediately act up to any stereotype… as a matter of fact I have not met any 2 gay people that acted alike from the other…
As for the article post, all I can say is wow… that was well written… more people need to realize what violence does to those who know the person who gets beat up or killed, and those around that person…
I also don’t think this is about gay hate crimes, but if that gets more people to read it then go with the tag… I think it is more of a general anti-violence message…
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It’s true. I believe violence in general first off is never good, but even worse when it is based on who a person is or what they do/believe. I just made this specific post geared towards that particular hate crime.
I couldn’t understand some parts of this article Picture Perfect, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.
It’s merely a story. It was created out of fact and made into fiction. There is not much that requires more deeper of an understanding really. It’s just something to get people to think.
FYI (and others): I do not promote porn so I did take your web link out; any further comments with links to porn will be deleted without posting.