I hate Hate

I don’t understand why there is so much hate in the world. I also don’t understand why people who preach peace and love are some of the worst culprits. Today there was a huge same-sex marriage rally in Times Square. Across town on the east side were blocks of thousands of people shouting slurs against gays and shaking their bibles in the air. It made me so angry. I realize people have different opinions and views and that not everyone is going to agree all the time, but there is absolutely NO reason to resort to heckling and hate. It shows complete irony that these very people shouting anti-gay slurs were the ones shaking their bibles in the air. In case they forgot, in their view God created everyone with love so their argument is counterintuitive. If God created someone as a homosexual then that is obviously what he wants them to be. So these people are essentially arguing against their own god.

And then there was Obama’s commencement speech at Notre Dame. While he stood there talking about how there needed to be understanding and an open conversation on both sides of the abortion issue, some people resorted to heckling and calling him a murderer. Shouting and name-calling is not going to help anyone understand the other side. Maybe if people could learn to sit down and talk to each other like civilized beings we could be a much more peaceful people. But, looking around at all the war around the world, that seems like it may be too much to ask for.