Andrew Shirvell, a Michigan Assistant Attorney General set up a hate blog against student body presented of Michigan State University. Chris Armstrong was elected by his fellow student as the Student Body President. Shortly after Armstrong was elected Shirvell started the hate blog and admitting to following, and tracking facebook comments of Armstrong and his friends and family. Shirvell has a restraining order against him from the Michigan State University. Armstrong is a 21 year old kid wanting better things to happen at his college, the reason why he is getting so much attention because Armstrong is gay. Shirvell, an “adult” has been attacking his putting Nazi swastikas on pictures of Armstrong, videotaping his house and following him around. Another elected to office that supports the people of his state. Can you by day support people that live in your state and by night attack them to their core. Shirvell saying that he is doing God’s work because Armstrong is Satin’s representative on the student body. Shirvell is “hating” on the persons of Michigan that he was elected by to represent.
What is worse is that Andrew Shirvell’s boss Mike Cox, State of Michigan Attorney General, has allowed Shirvell to continue his actions. It is not enough that Shirvell has been on a big hate campaign and his boss Mike Cox is allow hate to infect his employee, and his office, and will continue to spread. This is not the conduct of an elected office in our society.
I wish Chris Armstrong great safety and strength for this situation and a quick resolution so that he can live the life he wants and not be bullied by Shirvell.
In the last bit of McCance’s attack and in Shirvell’s attack they mention their Christian Beliefs, as many Christian protesters and organizations do against those persons that are different, as a justification and permission for their actions and comments of hate. More of this hate comes out with the argument of legalizing gay marriage. Some believe that it will end the sanctity of marriage. Let us just do a quick review; greater than 50% of marriages end in divorce, that is only heterosexual marriage since homosexual unions are not legal and thus not recorded and not part of that statistic. How can the assertion of love between two people be ending the sanctity of marriage? Maybe divorce is the destruction of the sacred belief of marriage. Divorce means just that, the declaration of dissolving or ending a marriage. People are allowed to get divorced and that is fine cause that is not the problem with marriage…the gays are.
This goes against anything that I have learned as a Christian. I do not believe that in my relationship with God and his son Jesus Christ that they would hate like that. It saddens me that I may be grouped with these people as a person against myself. It is also disappointing that the Church saying it will support its people may actually leave them for dead as according to Andrew Shirvell and Clint McCane. I really truly challenge that these people are Christians and have actually read the Bible and know what it teaches.
Here are some comment from another Blog written by Levi Poulter about the Church and Christian beliefs, he put it brilliantly (you can find the whole blog at http://www.miamilevi.com/blog under the FUCKING LOSERS! Post on October 29, 2010),
“Like so many Christians let’s ask ourselves…what would Jesus do? Push someone to the breaking point of taking one’s own life??? Another question I will answer for you…NO…he wouldn’t. He would put his arm around them and shield them from harm and tell them they are loved.”
In the Bible it says, “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking. It is not easily angered, it keeps no record or wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.” (1 Corinthians 13: 4 – 7)
“A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born from adversity.” (Proverbs 17:17)
“My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Great love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.” (John 15: 12 – 13)
“Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbour as yourself. I am LORD” (Leviticus 19:18)
Those do not seem to be the words of a God that wants it people to hate and judge. A sin is a sin so it does not make you a better person just because you are calling yourself a Christian. Action speaks louder than words. Christianity is an act of love, peace and support both inside and out, it is not a judgement. Whether you are Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, Kabbalah, or what every you belief in there is not
I do use a lot of sexuality examples but it is not a gay problem it is a hate problem in these backwards times we live in.
Why are people like this?
Why do people do this?
What are they thinking that justifies their hate actions?
In the last couple of years there has been main babies coming into my life with Family and friends starting families of their own. Spending time with them and their young kids it is hard to believe that we has humans are capable of hate. They are always happy and when their world comes to fall down they get over it very quickly and move on to being happy again. It makes me wonder and pretty sure that we are not born with the capacity to hate. It does not seem to be party of human survival to hate. Does that mean the hate is learned? Where do we get hate from? These kids would not know if parents. Are we passing hate onto the next Generation? These kids are learning from the examples (or lack thereof) of their parents or guardians.
In general we really are all the same. We as people are all from the same basic design with some variations of course. We all have a cranium that houses a brain. We all two arms and two legs, which has one hand and one foot on each limb respectively. Some of us have are male and some of us are female. We all have flesh and blood. There are degrees of variation in skin color, height, width, and weight. Does that make each of us really that different? If that is the case than hate for others is hate of ourselves.
Are there no better places that we as a species can better spend our time and energy? It takes energy to hate. Hate does not move us forward. We do not gain anything from hate. Hate does not cure cancer or hunger, hates does not help the sick or poverty. Hate does not bring peace; it is not loving or caring.
Remember that every minute of hate and anger we harbour is sixty seconds of joy, happiness, and laughter we will never experience.
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