tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93070148403148700.post7671302536406872498..comments2010-01-17T12:08:56.774+11:00Maithrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17039947095595430108noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93070148403148700.post-67462229674384147922010-01-17T12:08:56.774+11:002010-01-17T12:08:56.774+11:00If it were not so fucking SERIOUS, I would laugh. Who in the fuck KILLS people for being GAY?! It is just...unfathomable.<br /><br />It is crapola, man.<br /><br />So the picture told a million words. Two KIDS, 16 and 18, were KILLED because they (may have) engaged in homosexual behavior? Who. Gives. A. Fuck? It is just ridiculous.<br /><br />Oh. And I LOVE the video. Making gay people straight?! Fucking please. God made every personn in His image. Go does NOT fuck up. So a woman loves a woman or a man loves a man? So fucking what? Is it Love?<br /><br />LOVE.<br /><br />It is NOT a four-letter word.<br /><br />The injustice of homophobia just really hits me like a nail being screached across a blackboard. Who the hell is ANYONE to tell another whom he or she can or cannot love, make love to, caress?<br /><br />It is--man. It is just unacceptable for people to KILL others for their sexual orientation. Just flat-out unacceptable.<br /><br />Some people wanr a cookie-cutter world in which men and women fall in to their &quot;assigned&quot; roles. Fuck that.<br /><br />Peace.Adamity_Bomb_Bombhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15099910386253671313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93070148403148700.post-47938836114031484142009-12-14T13:00:56.352+11:002009-12-14T13:00:56.352+11:00Maithri ... that photo stops my heart. <br /><br />Your insistence on love starts it up again.<br /><br />Bless you, faraway friend xoxoxoxo<br /><br />JaliyaJaliyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02868006713291780694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93070148403148700.post-64395467098183049072009-12-13T12:12:57.309+11:002009-12-13T12:12:57.309+11:00Thank you dear friends for your words so full of compassion.<br /><br />Together we will bring love and hope to the presence of fear.<br /><br />MaithriMaithrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17039947095595430108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93070148403148700.post-16437903294663347742009-12-13T08:36:17.394+11:002009-12-13T08:36:17.394+11:00Looking at that picture gave me chills. My friend Anakin was telling me about the uganda laws this week.<br />I feel people should be able to love who they want. Beating up, torturing and murdering someone one because you don&#39;t agree in their sexuality is wrong all the way around.<br />I wish we could all live in peace without judgment.Shellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11807876444563019161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93070148403148700.post-45020684987271167242009-12-13T07:31:25.031+11:002009-12-13T07:31:25.031+11:00Thanks Maithri. Amen! I also read today at thingsifeelstronglyabout.blogspot.com that the United Nations has denounced rights abuses based on sexual orientation. An excellent step!!! <br /><br />http://thingsifeelstronglyabout.blogspot.com/2009/12/united-nations-landmark-meeting.htmlMama Shujaahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15978662559579409259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93070148403148700.post-71212436571259612009-12-13T05:14:41.316+11:002009-12-13T05:14:41.316+11:00I don&#39;t know what sex has to do with anything, but sex.<br /><br />It has nothing to do with poverty, or the economy or the weather.<br /><br />Really, who cares? I think the ones who are fearful and clueless are the ones who are the biggest homophobics. If you are comfortable with who you are, why start picking fights with others? And how does what other people do, behind closed doors, affect them? It doesn&#39;t!<br /><br />Gay people are much the same as straight. Except for one difference.<br />LMAO!!!!<br />Love everyone I say....xoxoGillianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08845512494417503198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93070148403148700.post-37512563410704954852009-12-13T04:27:11.314+11:002009-12-13T04:27:11.314+11:00I have just finished reading &#39;The Oath&#39; by Dr Khassan Baiev, on the horrors of the Chechen wars and the injustices propagated by the Russians... knowing how Russians have suffered in their time, the circle of injustice seems never ending until you remember the good that balances it. There is a Russian saying, &#39;there is no evil without good&#39;.<br />Do you believe that? I guess we have to believe that to keep going.Shaistahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00259344471712162333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93070148403148700.post-15177437482578951372009-12-13T03:12:50.608+11:002009-12-13T03:12:50.608+11:00Maithri..we hold signs of peace and love... I have NEVER seen a sign with the word compassion . Compassion is a word, if lived opens the eyes to our responsibiliries as humans to create a world full of love and peace! I have always wondered at a world that defined the word NORMAL!leilanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07143465112275442843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93070148403148700.post-2658780008571064662009-12-12T23:54:46.239+11:002009-12-12T23:54:46.239+11:00thank you, Maithri. I am aware of this, listening to NPR...the extent of this persecution in other countries is well documented and so is the eking out of progress here where marriage is possible, at least here in Massachusetts....but, oddly, not in California and recently voted down in Maine, though the legislature passed the bill..... progress moves slowly......and you see so much of the lack of progress...<br /> what a horrifying photograph.melissashookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02398008713376655570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93070148403148700.post-29798463222401776152009-12-12T20:42:51.886+11:002009-12-12T20:42:51.886+11:00Amen, Maithri, Amen! It is particularly disturbing how often the persecution of homosexuals is done in the supposed &quot;name of God&quot;. Whose God??? Not mine. Not the one I was taught loved every being. <br /><br />One day we will look back at these acts of cowardice and inhumanity and shake our heads at the primitive, barbaric behavior of these times. <br /><br />Liebe Gruesse aus Berlin,<br /><br />R-Acurrentsbetweenshoreshttp://currentsbetweenshores.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93070148403148700.post-33770798737618454372009-12-12T19:53:14.558+11:002009-12-12T19:53:14.558+11:00I too had no idea that gays are so brutally punished and killed in so many countries and to think there is someone of power in the UN who agrees with this makes me ashamed of the human species. We are far out of line in terms of what we&#39;ve driven this world towards and into. We are off the map the universal consciousness laid out for us and praying that we right our course and get back on track is not enough. And when will enough people awaken to the rising consciousness and say enough is enough? I look toward to time when we evolve into more spiritual beings, living out of love not fear. Thank you for writing this difficult post. <br /><br />All my love, endless gratitude Maithri. ~ Lindsay ~ karmalizedgirlKarmalized Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07413217150739669149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93070148403148700.post-1186574721356595532009-12-12T17:03:11.470+11:002009-12-12T17:03:11.470+11:00Your voice is powerful my brother,<br /><br />Speak on!<br /><br />Janice from KingstonJanicenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93070148403148700.post-76106384833072335982009-12-12T16:50:19.834+11:002009-12-12T16:50:19.834+11:00ah, maithri, how i thank you for this. the photo made me sick. myself,where and how i live, so much advancement has been made in the last decade. i am totally comfortable being who i am, which was not always the case. but you are so right: by the luck of fate i live where i feel moderately safe . yet when one of us is not free, none of us are. <br /><br />thank you my friend. i hope you will indulge me for disagreeing with you about tiger woods....<br />:)<br />&#39;<br />always, love<br />kjkjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15122196887043345981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93070148403148700.post-83443682115976108222009-12-12T16:28:14.230+11:002009-12-12T16:28:14.230+11:00Fear and hate brings life to a grinding halt. Fear and hate disorients life. Fear and hatred casts clouds so we can&#39;t see things clearly. Only love can bring change. As you&#39;ve said so beautifully, Maithri . . . . Love the world into change.<br /><br />Thank you for your thoughts and for your post my friend. I&#39;m here standing for love, peace and human rights . . . . . . for everyone.<br /><br />Peace &amp; love,<br />T.Toddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982782361149974093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93070148403148700.post-66028059169374945442009-12-12T16:23:14.355+11:002009-12-12T16:23:14.355+11:00I continue to be horrified by the injustice towards gay people everywhere! Thank you so much, my dear friend, for speaking out! I, too, didn&#39;t realize how horrific the discrimination is in other countries as well as the US. We haven&#39;t executed people for being gay, but I do know there are many who would, given the opportunity and it sickens me.<br /><br />Thank you again, Maithri, for all you do!<br /><br />Much love to you,<br /><br />SylviaSylvia Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05484577678585907669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93070148403148700.post-54666471252790872582009-12-12T16:15:42.085+11:002009-12-12T16:15:42.085+11:00Thank you my friends for always lifting your voices for justice...<br /><br />What disturbs me is that the hate propoganda which is created in the &#39;western world&#39; is being used in other parts of the world to defend murder and abhorrent treatment of GLBT people...<br /><br />How many times do we hear someone spewing hatred, speaking about homosexuality being an &#39;abomination&#39;.. and we just change the channel...or quietly shake our heads... <br /><br />We all create ripples by what we do and what we dont do...<br /><br />We need to stand up for human rights and keep on standing up...<br /><br />Until our voices are heard,<br /><br />Much love to you all,<br /><br />MMaithrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17039947095595430108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93070148403148700.post-14771199311734605302009-12-12T15:05:32.447+11:002009-12-12T15:05:32.447+11:00I feel sick. I honestly had no idea. I get so angry at the discrimination directed toward gay people in this country... it never really occurred to me that it was so, so, SO much worse in other places. How narrow-minded and stupid of me. Thank you for bringing it to the surface... well, MY surface, anyway :) xoDianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16637670293642285740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93070148403148700.post-58737820388565426512009-12-12T14:46:58.675+11:002009-12-12T14:46:58.675+11:00thanks for speaking out on this onekyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08964475783207438103noreply@blogger.com