1 Million Moms? 1 Million Hatemongers, more like.

So I'm checking my FailBook feed, and I see this, posted by Wipeout Homophobia On Facebook (WHOF).

(First, let me just clarify some things.  1) No, I'm not gay.  I am one half of a "traditional" couple.  2) I AM a mother, so I feel I have at least some right to have a say on the subject.  3) I know I'll get some things wrong in my attempt to be an advocate, but please remember that it's not from a lack of trying.)

As a mother, this disgusts me.  I find it absolutely abhorrent, and if these are the things they're teaching their children, I honestly see it as a form of mental abuse.

Teaching your children that it's not only okay to hate, but to do so publicly, and to incite others to hate as well? With all that is going on in the world today, is this REALLY what we want our children to be?  So many countries and groups of people waging war against each other, and these "moms" want to teach their children the very values that are at the root of all these troubles?

I just don't get it, truthfully.  I really do not understand why these people are so threatened by the idea that there are people out there that are different to them.  And that's really what it boils down to.  They are different, therefore they must be hated, shunned, have their basic human rights taken away, treated as sub-human, etc., etc., etc.  Do they really think that JC Penney choosing Ellen Degeneres as a spokesperson is going to turn one of their children gay?  Are they really that stupid?

What is so wrong with acceptance?  And let's be honest: accepting people as they are - LGBT people in this case - is not the same as advocating for them.  One can accept a person without liking who/what they are.  I don't like religious nutjobs that attempt to turn every conversation into a Bible lesson, but I don't go around preaching hate to anyone who'll listen.  No, instead I accept them as they are and let them go about their business, as long as it doesn't directly affect me or my family in any way.

Now, taking that last sentence into account: how is having Ellen as a spokesperson going to directly affect anyone's family other than her own?  Answer: it isn't.  It really, really isn't.

It's funny: so many people say they wish for world peace, yet when it comes down to it, those same people continue to perpetrate hate and bigotry against people who have absolutely no bearing on their own lives.  They just happen to be different.  Until people learn to be accepting and tolerant of people - ALL people - we're  never going to come even remotely close to peaceful.

Way to teach your children to hate, 1 Million Moms.  Hope you're proud of yourselves.  Nobody else is.