Fostering Acceptance

While this video isn't real, these types of scenarios are being played out all across the United States every day. I don't care the color of the skin of the child or his adoptive parents, but if the child is loved, cared, and provided for then that's all I care about. Skin color is the last thing I worry about. Dr. King back in the late 1960's kept repeating his I have a dream speech to where not only the blacks were listening, but so were the lower income whites.

The churches I have attended in the past have been really hateful of the LGBTQ+ community. I have had to sit through the sermons uncomfortably as the preacher was laying down the law on how homosexuality was an abomination. Jerry Falwell said all of the right words to make this gay boy squirm in his seat. I mentioned I wish Jerry would mind his own business on our way home. That drew a look of condemnation from my father.

I have never discriminated against any color, race creed or sexual orientation. But how am I going to make up for how things were done to me as an LGBTQ+ youth. There are simple things I can do such as a donation of a certain amount of my sales proceeds to the Trevor Project a group that advocates for LGBTQ+ youth to end homelessness. I could also offer a certain percentage in donations to help feed the homeless in the LGBTQ community.

Until 1969 you didn't know homosexuality existed in America. If you were suspected of being gay you could lose your job with no recourse. I could go out on a talking tour and give the audience the same deal as I give the Trevor Project. The above video shows the ignorance and intolerance of the woman who jumped to conclusions, rather than to seek out the information on her own. Then to make a statement like wouldn't he be better off with his own kind? To me that showed her racial intolerance right there.

How about we do what we can to help those who had been convicted of child pornography crimes get their lives back on track? Or how do we help victims of child pornography crimes? Another group that really needs help and that would be inmates being released from jail. I know with me, I have a hard time finding housing because of the reporting requirements as a registered sex offender. There are so many groups out there that need help that there aren't enough funds to help them all.

Colorado expects me to pay for housing in Colorado plus an apartment inn Virginia so my probation can be transferred back to Virginia. Plus pay a 100 dollar fee for the application to transfer. These are the types of groups that need the help the most. Me being a gay man attracted to young boys and just recently released from jail with no where to go. Where is our compassion for these people? We wonder why they end up back in prison for failure to register? When they can't work any where in which a child would other wise dine, or be at then what hope is there? How can we help this group of people?

Instead of throwing money at projects such as affordable housing for low income, families how about housing for those who can't live in an apartment? Why not build housing for ex-convicts and sex offenders and pedophiles. We build housing for others in society who don't stand much of a chance, why not those who could have potential but we don't know yet.