It Wasn't What You Wished it Was

In war, people die, so, in this sense, you are right. But the war you say is being waged is not against family. "Family" is not dying. It's not even changing. Love is love and what makes a Family? Who is dying? It's the people you say are waging war against your constructs. It's the junior high and high school students, adults who do not have anywhere to turn to cope; who plead for acceptance, love, understanding; who you declare are declaring war. They kill themselves - maybe they're already dead, having to struggle inwardly with what no one wants to talk about openly. Or they are murdered for being different. I have not waged war. My bisexual friends have not waged war. My gay friends have not waged war. Yet we are bombarded by ridicule, judgment, and claims that we are attacking you and your lifestyles. Do you hear yourself?
The term War is overused in our society. It makes for a deadening of the word itself. Its overuse causes us all to believe that war is easier than it is and, frankly, to say that the LGBT community is waging war within the context of the terrorists killing thousands of people (the email I received, subject line: Real War in America, Sept. 10) is extremely offensive and irresponsible.
You know the Bible, possibly better than I do, but to use it in defense of your cause while ignoring the other parts that talk the same way about eating bloody meat, eating shellfish, wearing clothing that is made of two different materials - you know this list is very long - is to pick and choose what suits your mission. It focuses on a single group of people and casts them as outsiders, sinners - and truthfully, there are many other issues that Jesus himself did condemn that you tend to ignore and refuse to distinguish as Biblically sinful. Why? I don't know. What I do know is that no one is trying to change you or others, but pleading for what Jesus did actually talk about: peace, love, and understanding. What you go after is based on your presumptions.
You cast your sticky net over the group of people with whom you disagree while ignoring the people Jesus disagreed with: the rich, the violent, the lawmakers and crooks. No one is attacking you. Stop pretending you are threatened. Dismount the high horse from where you hurl your remarks and get your hands dirty understanding the people who suffer from the remarks you hurl. Maybe, hopefully, you will realize that love is greater than your own cause; but if you cannot do this, please, at least recognize the absurdity of calling homosexuals' request for acceptance a War.