Pride

So in recent days the following has been circulating Facebook:

_{So, let me get this straight... Charlie Sheen can make a "porn family"; Kelsey Grammer can end a 15-year marriage over the phone; Larry King can be on divorce #9; Britney Spears had a 55-hour marriage; Jesse James and Tiger Woods, while married, were having sex with EVERYONE. Yet, the idea of same-sex marriage is going to destroy the institution of marriage? Really? Re-post if you are proud to support equal rights.}

Being a supporter my whole life of gay rights, I decided to post it on my wall as well. I then decided to randomly poke around my friends' posts to see what kind of things were being said to this. Being as naive as I am, I only expected to see support.

I was very wrong.

I didn't get any of that bullshit on my wall. My friends all know better. If anyone were to post any of that on my wall, I would be ashamed to call them friend or family.

I have gay friends and gay family members. I even knew someone who tragically killed himself because his parents wouldn't accept him for who he was. The thing is, it wasn't until I was older that a label such as gay was put on to these people. I just saw them as the same as me. Not once growing up did I question one man loving another man. I just saw them as a couple, just like my Mom and Dad. Even now in life, my best friend is gay and engaged. The two of them are an exact mirror of my husband and I. The treat each other as we treat each other.

And to those who are against gay marriage, how about this: Marriage is for the purpose of a man and woman to have children. I can't have kids and I'm married. I was married after I knew I couldn't have kids. Is my marriage a sham in your eyes?

So, as my stamp here says: I have pride to share the love, not the hate.