Stop it. NOW!

I'm going to warn you that though I try to refrain from using obscenities in my blog, this post will have plenty. What will I discuss? How ANOTHER gay teen has killed himself because of bullying. In this post, I will get political, religious, snarky, rude, and dirty. If you're fine with that, keep reading. If not, close the window reading this quote from Lady Gaga who responded to the boy's suicide:


"Bullying should be illegal. It's a hate crime."

I'm a teacher. I'm an elementary teacher, and I'm openly gay to family, friends, and colleagues. I draw the line with my students. Still, I can't help but wonder what will happen to my 5th graders, especially the boys? What will they be like? How will they treat others different than them? Will they run away in fear and ignorance, or will they stand up for someone bullied and help to stop it? Will they be bullied themselves?

Last year, the nation's attention was given to a crisis in gay teen suicides. This got a hail storm of commentary from progressives and conservatives alike. Last year, we lost plenty of gay teens at such a young age, and I'm sure there were plenty more whose deaths didn't reach the media spotlight the way others' deaths did. Well, it has happened again. Yes, again. What. the. FUCK?! Have we learned NOTHING from last year? Yes, I know Dan Savage created the It Gets Better project, which is a godsend in social issues and suicide prevention. The Trevor Project exists for this very purpose, to prevent a gay kid from taking his or her life!

When I reflect on all this, there are so many things that come to my mind. So many things I want to say, so many people I want to tell off, so many judgments I make about others who SUPPORT anti-gay sentiments.

I remember reading an article about some fucking asshole in the Tea Party who actually said that gay bullying was "healthy peer pressure." What the fuck is this asshole smoking? I guess I better beat up his fat white ass and tell him it's good for him!

Will I put blame on people? Yes, in fact I will. I blame "Christians." I blame socially conservative politicians. If you vote Republican, you have a hand in this too. If you support conservative politicians, they fight against laws that would make life easier for us gay people...let me rephrase that - laws that would make us EQUALS to those hypocritical fuckers! They lecture the rest of us on the importance of ethics and morality while they're on their 2nd or 3rd marriage. Then they have the balls to tell us that gay people getting married will destroy the sanctity of marriage. Sorry, asshole, but you've done that already when you divorced your first wife and cheated on her with a prostitute!

I just want someone to explain to me why if you claim to love God, and chances are that Jamey's bullies came from conservative families (and conservative families typically have strong religious backgrounds), WHY AND HOW COULD YOU PUSH SOMEONE TO COMMIT SUICIDE?! WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?! If you drive someone to suicide, you do realize that the person taking their own life is someone's son or daughter, right? You get that, don't you? Your treatment of that human being was so grotesque and hurtful, that they could NOT cope and felt that death was a better option than facing you. How can you be so cruel and heartless?! This kind of thing is beyond my comprehension!

"Well, in the Bible it says..." Bull-fucking-shit! You use the Bible to justify all your hatred and prejudice. Get a fucking dictionary, and find a Biblical scholar and learn about the context in which all that was written. You wanna quote Leviticus? Fine. If you keep reading, unless you're not formally educated enough to read all those big words, you'd also see how it also bans eating seafood (shellfish) and playing football (pig skin)! Hell, you heteros aren't even allowed to touch a woman when she's on her period!

"Well, St. Paul said this in his letter..." Wait. Was he God? NO! He was a human being just like you. Back then, they knew NOTHING about what we know now regarding sexuality! Hell, even back then, some Greek men were fucking each other. Romans did it too!

To me, the most important part of the Bible is the gospels, you know, where Jesus is actually quoted. And nowhere...NOWHERE does he ever mention homosexuality. He never condemns it. The closest he ever comes, to condemning anything, in fact, is when that adulteress cries at his feet, and when she says that no one has condemned her, he says, "Then neither do I condemn you. Go now, and sin no more." Look it up. It's there.

I dare you...I *DARE* YOU to bully someone with Jesus right next to you. Oh wait...if you consider yourself a Christian, then you already believe that God is everywhere, and lives within us, right? So when you BULLY someone, you're DIRECTLY. HURTING. GOD!

So many of you Christians are so fucking backwards in your thinking! You treat this religion like it's some sort of elite club and you can be all exclusive and stay away from all the sinners. News flash: YOU'RE A SINNER TOO! And when you BULLY, YOU'RE SINNING! BULLYING IS A SIN because you're HURTING someone else! This automatically violates the whole Golden Rule that Jesus himself mentioned about loving others as yourself. And then you have the balls to tell your victim that THEY are going to hell? What the fucking fuck is wrong with YOU? You're a HYPOCRITE!

Every slur, every insult, every joke is another stab to the chest. When you bully, you're sending a message that your victim's existence is not welcome in your world. And you know what? Your victim had no control over their own birth. So why do you have to hate on them? WHY? What good does it bring about? You're not making anything better, only worse.

To anyone out there who's been a bully to someone else for any reason:

FUCK. YOU.