Guest post by David Mixner: Permission To Hate.....
by: Pam Spaulding
Mon Oct 11, 2010 at 12:00:00 PM EDT
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/17600/guest-post-by-david-mixner-permission-to-hate by David Mixner, Live from Hell's Kitchen
Over the last month, hate seems to be in the air. The news is filled with acts of violence directed toward LGBT citizens around the world. Everywhere we look we can see hate toward homosexuals pouring out of the woodwork. Suicides, torture, riots, fire bombings and beating all have taken place within weeks. We have witnessed an epidemic of our young killing themselves, mobs roaming the streets of Belgrade, Serbia chanting "death to homosexuals" and the unspeakable torture of three members of our community in the Bronx.
These stories are the ones that get covered but the incidents of violence and hate seem to be growing by the day. Bullies feel free to push students to their death. Politicians use the results as a political football or, even worse, remain silent. Commentators, in a rush for higher ratings, escalate their rhetoric to extreme levels of hate without regard to the consequences. Outrageous proposals to separate LGBT citizens from the rest of society seem to be flourishing. The word '->-bleeped-<-' is used as if it had no power on other's lives.
