Working from a home office gets pretty quiet most days. That’s why lots of mornings I have the Today Show going in the background. And I do mean background, since I’ve moved my desk so that the TV is behind me. But just hearing those human voices alleviates the silence.
Today there was a story about the recent suicides brought on by bullying. My heart went out to those parents whose children had been so humiliated by other children that they felt there was nothing they could do but end their lives. No one should be subjected to that. No one should be allowed to spitefully target an individual that way.
Some people are calling for laws that will hold bullies responsible in cases like these. I think that there definitely should be a punishment involved for those hateful enough to destroy another person with their words and actions, the same way they would be if they were physically assaulting them. After all, abuse experts will tell you that the emotional abuse suffered by victims is much harder to heal than physical abuse.
It’s a fact. So why isn’t there a punishment for bullying?
I know there is going to be a whole chorus of voices saying that you can’t stop bullying, that everyone experiences it and that most people make it through it fine. That’s pure bs.
Sure many of us, me included, experienced bullying at some point in their lives, but just because we survived it doesn’t make it ok.
Others are going to say bullying is normal, after all you see it happening in kindergarten. Again, this is just a cop out excuse. But it should tell people something.
Acceptance needs to be taught early. No tolerance for bullying needs to start early. If 5 year olds are taunting each other on the playground, it should be stopped and addressed by parents and teachers alike. Teaching children to accept others differences should both be taught at school and at home. It should never be ok for one child to say something hurtful or spiteful to another. It should never be overlooked as normal childhood behavior.
It’s up to all of us to teach our children acceptance of others differences, whether those differences are skin color, religion, size, sexual orientation or any thing else that may be different from what they are familiar with.
Let’s help our kids make bullying the uncool thing to do, and standing up for others rights to be different what the cool kids do.
Sodomy is never acceptable. Neither is lesbianism.
What were those children doing having sex in a college dorm anyway?
The roommate of the boy that committed suicide should have been able to share a room without having to worry about things that are dangerous to him such as semen, bacteria, or other things that occur within a sexual encounter.
We should not have to accept someone’s sin. To accept it is to be an accomplice.
Rather than trying to teach people tolerance for sin, the homosexual community needs to signal each other they need to go back into the closet as decent people do not tolerate the abomination of homosexuality.
Filming the sex act was an invasion of the boy’s privacy.
However, if the roommate had filed a complaint with the Dean, would he have been listened to?
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I was tempted to simply delete this hateful, bigoted response to my post. But it’s such a prime example of why we have a problem that I chose to respond instead. Even though I’m pretty sure it’s just some ugly troll trying to get me (and others) riled up.
Have you ever noticed how those proclaiming to be against sin do the most hateful things, spout the most hurtful words and do it all in the name of “the Bible’. Funny how you and all those like you pick and choose the parts of the Bible they throw at people like grenades. I notice none of you ever abide by the part that says, ” Let he who is without sin cast the first stone” Didn’t quite like that bible story did you? Because in it Jesus made it abundantly clear that no one was without sin and no one had a right to cast stones. Not one person.
So you go ahead and pretend that your hatefulness and spite are ‘righteous’, you’ll be the one standing in front of your Lord God answering for the lack of acceptance and love for others that he charged us all with in his word.
And I hate to burst that self righteous bubble you’ve placed around yourself to try to justify your ugly hatred, but sex happens in college dorms, just as drinking does. I’m not saying it’s right, but it’s not like this was an unusual incident. Right or wrong, it’s not up to us to judge anyone.
I leave you with another passage from the Bible, since your so caught up in other people’s supposed ‘sins’. I know the Bible pretty well and can’t think of one place where the Lord tells us to humiliate and bully others to the point where they feel they have no choice but to end their lives. On the contrary I believe the following verse to pretty much be the theme-
1 Corinthians 13:13 “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”
Filming the sex act was an invasion of the boy’s privacy.
Nowhere in my comments do I state bullying the boy was acceptable.
In public, we must be respectful of the needs and customs of others.
We do not have to tolerate the sexual practices of others.
I do not walk around with my penis hanging out of my pants, gyrating as if I were performing a sex act to demonstrate my heterosexuality.
I do not want to participate in the sins of others; keep the flamboyant baloney private.
In this particular case, it appears the boy was not a show boating fairy, he pretty much was a conservative, well mannered young man.
He chose to be private about his sexual preferences.
The children that exposed his private life should receive harsh sentences for invading his privacy. This also would signal radical homosexual groups they can no longer “Out” someone that privately is homosexual.
Doing that is bullying. To the Nth degree.
My reputation in working with and for homosexuals in my capacity of authority speaks for itself; I just keep it private.
The people that are homosexual that deal with me are told to keep their sex in check, let’s deal with the matter at hand, then, hasta la vista.
They don’t seem to have a problem with that, and seek me out when they are in most need, even though I am back to being a nobody.
“Let he who is without sin cast the first stone”
Here’s another one for you, it tells what happens to us when we stand around doing or saying nothing:
The Prophet Zachary asked the Divine Redeemer: What are those wounds in the midst of Thy hands?
“With these was I wounded in the house of them that loved Me. I was wounded by My friends, who did nothing to defend Me, and who, on every occasion, made themselves the accomplices of My adversaries”.
Thank you for allowing the comment. It will be interesting to read the comments of others.
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