Freedom of speech. 

Good morning. I'm on the bus, tapping away patiently using my only free hand. It's important to discuss this topic. I've been quite shocked by all the responses I've been receiving! More like horrified actually. Ahaha. /mirthless laughter. So, today I'm going to talk about the wear white movement/ red dot family movement. Sighs. I've been receiving odd/ absurd responses left and right from people around me. I feel this odd urge to laugh but??? No it's not funny. 

So before I begin, let me just ask you: what do YOU feel about the wear white movement?

1) I fully support it!
2) I sort of support it! 
3) I'm neutral with it. Nothing's wrong. They can do their thing. They are entitled to freedom of speech. 
4) I hope it'll cease. It's wrong! 

Because if you agree with 1/2/3 (UH lol typo previously) your opinion is invalid and ridiculous. (Well, yes, you seldom hear me saying this).I can understand why certain people fall under those categories but. It's still an invalid opinion. It's hard for me to give a systematic argument because I'm too used to responding to the most common arguments put forth by my friends/ random people! (Also too lazy) So I shall use that familiar format in this post. (I had to stop myself from inserting *sighs* about 10 times in this post) 

I feel like I should apologize in advance because many of my good friends' opinions will be refuted here quite bluntly. But. Well. I mean. Just don't take it the wrong way?

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Aren't they entitled to freedom of expression? I mean, just look at Pink Dot! 

No. They are not. There is no complete freedom of expression. We all know that. You shouldn't and (hopefully) don't insult someone without reason, simply because you have "freedom of speech". Sometimes other freedoms and rights precede freedom of speech. In the same vein, the LGBT does not remotely harm society. Tell me, do they actually affect you? This is a discussion I'll continue later in this post. Back to my point, we don't have the right to trample on their right to seek equality, etc via systematic campaigns targeted at squashing people's attempts at fighting for a more inclusive society (refer to wear white movement). Quite obviously, these people should not be accorded the right to broadcast hateful, intolerant views simply because they /stubbornly believe/ the LGBT community is undesirable in our society.  When you throw your weight behind such campaigns, you are essentially stripping LGBT of their rights to be treated as equals. You are also entrenching the existing, unwarranted persecution that they receive.

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But wear white / red dot does not imply that! It just means we want to promote and maintain the healthy nuclear families in society!

Do you hear yourself? Not explicitly expressing your belief that gays and lesbians are undesirable doesn't mean that you aren't implying that. You can sugarcoat your ugly words but your intent will still remain obvious. You don't want them to be treated as equals. Please don't play God. You have no say in this. Remember when you do this, you are impeding society from achieving (more) equality. You are also spreading your ugly, unacceptable beliefs to other people. 

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Why should they be treated as equals? God did not create these people!

There are many interpretations of whatever religious text you're reading so you have to accept the possibility of a different meaning. Above all, religions teach us to love. God/ gods would never want us to hurt others, especially those who have done nothing wrong. Whatever secular reasons you have, they're invalid too. 

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Aren't LGBT undesirable in society?

No. Please don't broach the topic of how they're going to shrink our population because. I don't know where to begin.  They don't remotely affect us. We only feel affected because we place ourselves in cages by forcing ourselves to believe that they are damaging to society. We would all be much happier if we begin to accept what may be new to us. 

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That's all. I'm quite tired and I think my post is long enough. I've repeated this many, many times, over the past few days. Don't ever forget that most importantly, no one wants to be hated for being him/herself. (No we are not going to re-trigger the argument of how they were not born this way okay.) 

If you choose to not ACTIVELY champion their rights, that's fine.But if you choose to support+propagate anti-LGBT movements and sentiments OR approve that the above are OKAY, then you're committing a mistake. 

Let me clarify. By condoning anti-LGBT movements, beliefs, you are also contributing to the problem. You have a moral obligation to (at the very least) not amplify it if you are already informed. Well. If you are still unpersuaded, please talk to someone who could give logical input on this issue. 

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