Conservative nut-job says Minnesota anti-gay bullying program only creates more gays!

I read this in the Star Tribune today.

http://www.startribune.com/local/18846129.html

If this makes you mad, write a letter to the Star Trib.

http://mpls.startribune.com/dynamic/feedback/form.php?opinion=1

I wrote this in responce:

            "Oh, here we go again. It seems the “gay agenda” is on the move, and this time those gays are targeting our poor, defenseless, good Christian children into saying it’s okay for people to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or allied (GLBTA), or even (*gasp*) it’s okay to be GLBTA themselves. Give me a break!

            Katherine Kersten is off her rocker again. She seems to think that by implementing a pilot program about anti-bullying, specifically anti-gay bullying, this will some how turn our children into respectful, open-minded adults. Maybe the world would be a better place then. That would be just horrible!  

            Guess what Kersten? The world is full of all different kinds of people, including women who love women, and men who love men; men who were born as women, and women who were born as men, and everything in between. I guess, according to some “bible” somewhere, although not the one I have been reading for close to 20 years of my life, this means that these GLBTA people are somehow less human? Didn’t Jesus teach us to love thy neighbor? Didn’t Jesus teach acceptance? Wasn’t Jesus hanging out with the outcasts while he was preaching about acceptance and love? I would like to think that if Jesus were alive today, he would be hanging out with all of us filthy gays, loving and accepting us as the wonderful people we are.

            Children, especially ones from “Christian” households, need to be taught the actual love and acceptance that they aren’t being taught at home. If more programs like this were implemented around the country, tragedies such as the slaying of 15-year-old Lawrence King, or the more well known murder of Matthew Shepard, would not have happened.

            Our society tells us that the only people who are worthy are those who are white, Christian (preferably evangelical or born-again), live in the suburbs, drive mini-vans and SUVs, make $70,000 dollars a year, are attracted to the opposite sex, have sex after marriage, pop out 2.3 kids, and vote the “right” way (which ever way that may be). Unfortunately for many people, our society is made up mostly of people who don’t fit one or all of those characteristics.

            Human beings come in many different shapes, sizes, intelligences, sexes, genders, sexual orientations, ethnicities, faiths, and economic backgrounds. It’s time to teach our future generations that all human beings are valuable, no matter what. Isn’t that what pro-life means?"

What do you guys think?

BTW: A little background info on myself, I'm a 19 year old college student at St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud, Minnesota. I'm actively involved in the SCSU GLBT Services office. I'm a practicing Catholic and an out lesbian. I'm a proud Democrat and am studying to be a high school government teacher. I was luckily never bullied in school for my sexual orientation, though I know kids who were. I never want my students or my children (one day) to be bullied because of their orientation or presumed orientation.