Homophobia In The Modern World Essay

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Homophobia in the Modern World: A Rant for LGBTQ Acceptance What really grinds my gears is seeing homophobia in the modern world. Yes, I acknowledge that it is seen as a sin—especially in the early times when people believe in witchcraft. Seriously, it’s 2016 and we’re having a little fit over who uses what bathroom? We’re having worse things going on! We have ISIS, we have a potential war coming up, we have school shootings and gang violence, and worse of all we have the possibility of Trump being our president and people are losing their marbles over who uses what bathroom? It’s just a bathroom! If it makes you so uncomfortable to go into a bathroom that is gender neutral, then don’t use it! Simple! Being a gay boy in school made me uncomfortable going to the boy’s bathroom/locker room. I grew up in a small town—Oroville, WA—where homosexuality wasn’t really seen, and some people felt uncomfortable by it. I hated going to the boy’s bathroom/locker room because I constantly felt I didn’t belong with them, but I didn’t belong with the girls either…I didn’t know where I belonged. I felt if I went into the boy’s bathroom/locker room, then they would judge me or feel uncomfortable with me in there—I used to think that boy’s hated me in there because they felt that I was looking at them or checking them out …show more content…

Thinking of Kairos as time, my rant is directed to have the time of 2016 when homosexuality is being talked about. I suppose I could say that this rant is supposed to be Kairos itself. What I try to say that this rant is directed to the current time period where we all have to start accepting these lifestyles and it relates to kairos because the moment of this rant is NOW and the hopeful outcome is to have some sort of impact on the thought of homosexuality. If my rant fails, well then I suppose I’d be in metanoia because I failed to seize this moment through my

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