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Normal Pride Day

What’s the harm in joining with a crowd of people

United around a rainbow and a passion for equality?

 

If it’s true that

God Hates ****

Then we’re in real trouble

Under the colours of His great judgment on the party of depravity

Entitling the parade as

Pride

Which goes before destruction

 

If it’s true that

God is Love

Then let’s not be offended

There is no need for

Straight Pride Day

Unless I missed the memo

Threatening the death penalty for love and marriage

 

Is it not the case that the driver for Gay Pride

Is that some are treated differently, judged by their inside

When the rest of humanity can step up and take Pride

In their efforts and achievements, and not what they confide

In their most trusted friends so as to dodge that stereotype?

 

So why has the parade become the world’s greatest collection

Of the loudest, brashest versions of the most extreme ideas

When almost every gay person I know is almost disappointingly…

Normal?

 

My Gay-Proudest moment was when I gave a job

To an LGBT chairman, who stood out from the crowd

Not because of his leaning and not because of pity

But for being the best fit and better-skilled than the rest

 

The Day on which we can be

Gayest and Proudest

Will be the day when there’s no need

For Gay Pride Day

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Written by
stanuel
Published
Jul 7, 2017
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33·231
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Gay Pride Day has such a polarising effect on people, and the story told in the media seems to be either one of hatred against homosexuality or passionate love for the parade. I'm all for equality and I'm not convinced that perfectly normal men dressing up in the twinkliest ball gowns does much to help those filled with hate to realise that being gay doesn't have to be A Thing.

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#gay#sexuality#homosexuality#pride#politics#religion#god#love#relationships
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