Mar 19, 2010 -- 12:53PM, voluptuary1 wrote:

Mar 18, 2010 -- 9:49PM, Myownpath wrote:

Demonized.  There is no love in the way they treated this girl.

Right as you are, the shocking, scary thing is that the people who did this probably believe unironically that this was the most loving thing to do.  If I lived in that town, I'd throw her a prom myself. Then again, if I had lived in that town, I'd be long gone.

One Humanist group has already stepped in to help; here's the link. Two humanists  have offered a grant of $20,000 to hold a prom for the school.

I am convinced that Christianity in the South is one of the most hateful and barbaric things out there.  I'm gay myself, and I can tell you: I've never had problems with anyone but Christians, who felt it was their right to tell me their "loving" god would torture me in hell for eternity unless I "chose" to become straight.  Every single anti-gay ordinance I've ever seen has been bought and paid for by Christian groups, and the leader of the local Baptist church (and this is in Dallas, hardly some small town) did a month long sermon series last year about how "god" hates gays.

This poor girl is just another victim of these people and their agenda.  Since one grows up hearing your church telling you that gays are sick and evil, that they "chose" to be that way (which nobody in their right mind could ever believe) and that "god" wants you to hate them and cast them out, you really do not see them as human and it's easy for people to behave this way.  Of course the people commenting against this girl on this case are going to litter their posts with Bible-stuff; that's where they learned their hate, and since they don't really think for themselves, they just parrot what they already learned.

I do indeed.  The scary thing is, as someone already pointed out, that these people really believe they are doing the "loving" thing.  I had another gay friend who, when his uber-Christian parents found out he was gay, allowed them to send him to a "Christian" therapist to try and pray the gay away.  Now he's on handfuls of drugs and probably permanently insane after being brainwashed into thinking he was a "sinner."  He's still gay, but can't have a relationship because he's afraid "god" will "get him."  Other friends of mine have been completely cut off from their parents, and two friend of mine killed themselves after their Christian parents disowned them and told them God hated them.

It's as I've long said: extreme forms of Christianity and Islam are nothing more than hate groups, dressed up as religion.  I don't think because they claim knowledge of a god that their beliefs should be free from criticism, and as such any other philosophy that preached such endless hatred (of gays, Jews, other denominations, "witches," etc) would be soundly condemned.  It's terrible watching families ruined forever because a few of them hold superstitious beliefs and are willing to condemn their children to death over them.