Ignorance Breeds Fear; Fear Breeds Hate

I started off this morning fired up. I was listening to a local radio program where they have a topic on their facebook page every morning for people to comment. The topic this morning read "An Arkansas grocery store put a 'family shield' over the cover of US Weekly featuring John Elton, David Furnish, & their son. This is the same type of shiled that would cover pornographic material. Thoughts?"
First of all it took everything I had not to call in and comment on the radio station. I was pretty mad though, so I chose not to. I believe that everyone has a right to their opinion, and this is a free country. So the grocery store had the right to put up a shield on that because that is their store to do with what they want. In the same respect, two people adopting, raising, and loving a baby should not be shielded as if offensive.
One of the comments on the page was that a mother did not want her 3 and 6 year old to be exposed to that at such a young age. This is the problem with our closed minded soceity: ignorance. If we choose to shield our children away from differences instead of explaining them, we are not doing them any favors. When people are ignorant to the differences around them, it breeds fear which in turn breeds hate. There are gay teens all over the country getting beat up for their differences. Maybe if the parents of those bully's would've exposed their children to these differences at an early age, they would be the heroes standing up for these gay teens.
I think that Elton John and David Furnish are great people for adopting and taking care of children that may not have had the best life otherwise. I believe we should honor the people that adopt children no matter if they are married, single, gay, or different from so many others. As long as they love that child and take the best care of them possible, it should not matter if it's two men. Before we judge we should put ourselves in the other person's shoes and think about how we would feel then.

*Steps down off of soap box*

In the beginning

This blog will be my outlet from life. Reading use to be, but I have hit a hard spot and nothing seems to do the trick. I am hoping expressing my feelings through writing will help. When I was in high school, writing helped me through a lot, so I am hoping it will help me through now. I will start off by saying my days are hit or miss at this point, so some posts will be hopeful while most will be hopeless. Sometimes they might seem completely random. Hopefully someone will read and enjoy or benefit from at least one thing I write. And hopefully I will heal through this process.