Our Children Are Listening

A fellow blogger and a freind, showed me what she had written in her blog. In that post she had a video and it spoke about how homosexuals were listed as a second class citizens. I happen to agree, they are not second class citizens. They are people just like you and me. In the same video, it also showed two people who were killed, either by homophobs or a teen who killed himself because he was bullied for simply being gay. OUTRAGOUS! This has to stop, it just has too. Here's some vidoes, including the one that my friend and fellow bloger shared with me. There are just two she had given me. The rest I went and found online to add to it.

Here's the other video she shaired with me.

Here is a vidoe from Prayers For Bobby, it's based on a true story and was aired on Lifetime a few years back.

This video clip from the movie is the most memorable. What she says in this video has truly stuck with me even from two yrs. ago when the movie first aired on Lifetime. What she says is right, we don't know what our children might be listening too. They may be to scared to say they may be homosexual because of what we've been saying. We make an impact on their lives and if we don't show compassion towards them, they may end up cutting their lives short because of what we say. We need to love them and tell them that it is alright to be gay. They need our love and support, if not then who will they turn towards for the incouragement to continue on. So reach out to them and support them if they do come out to you, don't turn them away simple because someone tells us homosexuality is a sin. Reach out and give them a shoulder to cry on, if they need to cry. Talk to them, if they need someone to talk to and most of all, support them if they plan on comming out to their family & friends. We really don't know how much of an impact we make on our children's lives by what we say and do until it's too late. Because we truly don't know if our children is listening.