mangabaka777 wrote:
Day 19:
There are many forms of love in this world. We are not asked to experience all of these forms of love, but to merely accept that they are there. Even the Bible clearly states we are allowed to live however we want.
(Sorry if this one seems like a rant rather than words of wisdom, but one of my friends was recently seriously bullied because she was a lesbian, and among the insults were "God hates Homosexuality." Is it me, or are some people seriously incapable of accepting something they don't agree with?)
It's not you.
There are always some people that can't live with any variance from what they consider the norm. ( Similar to a part of P.T. Barnum's famous quote, "You can fool some of the people all of the time.". )
We all have a right to our own opinions, and a right to live our
own lives out based on those opinions. We don't have a right to impose those opinions on others by force, which is also an opinion which is imposed by force of law.
It's not a clear straightforward path, but it's the best one we have.
Mark Gosdin