MY TURN: Anti Pride = Pro hate
What a beautiful celebration for our LGBTQ community last week in the City Park. Coming together to celebrate our differences always creates so much joy and unity within our community. Our differences do not make us weak. They make us stronger. Unfortunately, that is not the opinion of a few bad apples in our community who chose to go out of their way to express their disdain for people who are not carbon copies of themselves. When you go out of your way to be “anti-pride” you are actually being pro-hate.
Pride was started as a protest against hate. Pride exists to show everyone that it is OK to be yourself and not judge others. I know that growing up gay in North Idaho is not easy. You worry that your family will not love you, or your friends will not support you, or a stranger will try to incite a confrontation. I remember wanting to be brave to myself and to other closeted kids in school, so I chose to go to my prom with my boyfriend (CHS class of 2000, go Vikings!) My mother was actually worried about my physical safety because I chose to attend my own prom. No one should ever have to worry about being attacked, especially a kid. Thankfully, my family are true Christians with hearts full of love who continue to choose to be good people. Unlike the letter from Cheryl Teague dictating from her purely narrow heterosexual perspective that I have a mental illness. The only mental illness I have, Cheryl, is empathy.
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