No offense, but is this what our opinion section has
been reduced to? I haven’t seen a gripping opinion piece
in quite awhile. Or at least not one that stirs students
to actually interact with the paper. So, that being said,
here goes …
I find myself pretty much where I am every year at
this time. It starts getting a little warm outside and apparently
that incites stupidity. Now, I am all for freedom
of speech, but you also have the right to remain silent
. please use it occasionally.
Once again, the religious zealots decided to stir a
ton of controversy in the middle of VCU’s campus.
Now it’s all cute that they want to have their little
demonstration, but why on the compass (for those
who don’t know, it’s that area in between Shafer Court
Dining Center, the Hibbs Building and James Branch
Cabell Library)? Try the plaza where you aren’t in front
of the main buildings (the library and the University
College Campus Learning Center), where people are
actually trying to add more to their education, are
studying. This year has been a little more ridiculous
than years past, though. I actually had a friend who is
married with children yelled at by one of these people
who called her a lesbian and then proceded to tell her
how much God hates homosexuals.
Now, I personally don’t get that whole thing. I am
not religious by nature, and this is the main reason. I
can’t stand the hypocrites involved in organized religion.
Everyone is telling everyone else how they should or
shouldn’t live, yet not one of them is without their own
“sins” of whatever kind. You have one side telling you
God loves everyone, but then these people telling you
God hates homosexuals? I thought God was incapable
of hate. At least that’s what the Sunday-school teacher
drilled in my head when I was a child. God loves
everyone, right? So either these people are really wrong
about God or the Bible is.
Hmmmmmm. There’s a tough choice for you. Am
I to believe that the guy standing in the rain in a
three-piece suit yelling at a married woman who has
children about how God hates homosexuals is more
accurate than the one book that almost every Christian
religion follows? I kind of doubt it. If God exists, and
these people believe that God is all-loving, then how
can God “hate” anything or anyone?
Usually, I stop and ask these questions, but if there is
a God, he apparently gave me the sense not to stand in
the cold rain. That being said, here’s one for everyone
who thinks they have the right to say who is and is
not “accepted”. Let he who is without sin cast the
first stone . I am guessing the rocks in Richmond
are safe tonight.
-Katie Puffenbarger