Opinion on the LGBTQIAPK+ community?

Throughout my entire life I haven't really been able to formulate any opinions on this subject because I never really had any interaction from people of that community. Recently however that's changed a little bit, I've had a lesbian high school teacher who was frankly awesome who got married midyear, a gay classmate, and another non-binary classmate.

All of these people were essentially the same as everyone else. These things were just part of their identities, and it didn't make them any better or worse than anyone else. If I'm honest though these attributes sort of are the defining thing about them. I sort of just affiliate and go "oh yeah he's gay" or whatever else, but that isn't something out of hatred, it's simply because I never really had any interaction with people of the specified community and it's something that sticks out to me.

I'm not going to lie, there are some things that personally I feel a little iffy about. I'm not going to get into specifics, but some of these identities and stuff feel like they have very blurred lines and it's frankly hard to me to understand how they work and where the boundaries are drawn, and because of that I don't 100% agree with it. But that doesn't mean I have any hatred towards people who identify that way, it simply just doesn't make sense given the amount of knowledge I have currently obtained in my 18 years of life. That again can likely be attributed to my lack of interaction with people who identify like this. Maybe if I were to meet someone who identified that way, I would understand more, but as of now some things just don't connect the dots for me.

Speaking of which, I'm noticing that things get very...heated...when subjects like this are brought up, so I'm just going to leave my two cents. There are people that are for the LGBT+ community. There are people that are against the LGBT+ community, or are confused or don't necessarily agree with some parts of it. And I don't think they're in complete wrong to think that way. Maybe they're like me, who simply haven't gained enough knowledge. Or maybe they truly have hatred in their hearts against them. This is just how they think. Maybe they're fucking old. Maybe they grew up in a time or location that wasn't so accepting as the time we're in now. The sad truth is, it's very hard to undo life experience. If you take a little kid, and all around him people talked and said: "___ is bad. ___ is bad". They tell him: "___ is bad. ___ people are bad.", and for 20 years, 40 years, maybe even 60 years that's all they heard, and all they thought. It wasn't fueled by anything, it was simply a fact of life at the time. Then all of a sudden things in society change that contradict everything that they have heard in their entire lifetime. It's going to be pretty fucking hard to accept that everything you have known for your life is now considered wrong.

But the thing about life is that it ends. We're all going to die eventually. And with it, we'll take our thoughts with them. Maybe I'll never gain the knowledge to truly understand some parts of the LGBT+ community, and if so when I die I'll take those qualms with me. That's why I believe that rather than tearing at each others throats, people who have had their mentalities already set in stone with many years and decades of experience, it would be better to influence the new generation to make a change over time, and have them pass that knowledge down to their descendants, and so on. I understand forum members might technically under that category, but I'd say most of us are in high school/college and starting to become self sustaining. We're at the point in our lives where we're starting to understand ourselves and setting the basis of our ideals and beliefs in stone. And maybe those ideals were influenced by fucking old people from the point of conception in their mother's womb. Who knows?

Change isn't something that can be forced to be made in a few days. It's something we have to gradually work towards. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe they're wrong, and maybe you're wrong. That's right, YOU person reading this. But we're all going to stand up for what we believe in, and I think as long as we don't kill each other it's fine.

So back to the topic at hand, I don't necessarily "support" the community, I rather just acknowledge them as people like I would as anyone else. I support them in the way I would support any other human being.

why am i writing so many essays today

#prayforparis

There are issues in the LGBT+ community as there are issues in any community. Its like comparing gamers and athletes or Buddhists and Christians. There are differences and not everyone agrees with their opinions or cultural practices. As long as their community is not affecting me in a negative way, I'm fine with them. They're aren't hurting me so I won't hurt them.

Yeah. It just doesn’t make sense to me. They’ll say “god gave us free will” how can you call free will being able to do something that if you do you’ll be tortured for eternity and never accepted by society or by “god’s kingdom” or whatever?

If god really “want’s us to be better” why would he make us bad in the first place? To “test our will” or something? If yes, why if the test fails he sends the person to burn for all eternity? Doesn’t he believe in redemption?

If that god is “love”, why is so much hate involved in his story and what he tells his followers to do?