tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post3020391635808622328..comments2024-03-29T06:37:40.071-04:00Comments on Bless Our Hearts: My Daughter May And What She SaidMs. Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09776404747858099919noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-55692920405036557892016-06-15T17:08:53.728-04:002016-06-15T17:08:53.728-04:00Thank you for this. I've been feeling complete...Thank you for this. I've been feeling completely unmoored and hopeless about humanity. Steph(anie)https://www.blogger.com/profile/01345590378662641435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-35821064985373440012016-06-15T10:27:21.696-04:002016-06-15T10:27:21.696-04:00I was a bit confused. Did May write this? All th...I was a bit confused. Did May write this? All the words from your kids have hit me hard. I don't quite know what to do with myself but try to take more action and tell those I love how much I love them. I am so tired of these massacres. I hear the killer was gay himself and had so much rage inside himself for what he could not accept about himself that he commit this act of horror. So he kills everyone else? Not his father? I am so sad and mad and hopeless.Joannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08015888228309968515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-3886851098321076962016-06-15T02:28:07.082-04:002016-06-15T02:28:07.082-04:00I don't know what to say. I just feel so bad f...I don't know what to say. I just feel so bad for the ones who died, the ones who lived through the horror, the parents, and all the LGBT community throughout the world whose security was also shaken, no matter how far away they live. The destruction is enormous.jenny_ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15475480579733466963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-7040195443514818822016-06-14T23:22:29.972-04:002016-06-14T23:22:29.972-04:00Thank you, Mama. I love love love you.Thank you, Mama. I love love love you.Mayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06396261526086383849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-65209311891227811282016-06-14T15:29:56.947-04:002016-06-14T15:29:56.947-04:00Yes. The word "shaken." We are all so ve...Yes. The word "shaken." We are all so very shaken.Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03313726816776097840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-58374166731345274162016-06-14T12:55:50.244-04:002016-06-14T12:55:50.244-04:00Steve, he's definitely a victim too. And ill -...Steve, he's definitely a victim too. And ill - I agree with Mary - no sane person desires massacre. Johttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08988685736635515808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-49115379829342498862016-06-14T12:54:41.875-04:002016-06-14T12:54:41.875-04:00He was murdering himself. His original culture pun...He was murdering himself. His original culture punishes homosexuality with death. His religion generally agrees, even in its modern incarnation. <br /><br />I think his soul was deeply conflicted, he was filled with rage and self hate. <br /><br />That this is what we're creating, instead of just letting love be free... this is the deep tragedy of the human condition. Arbitrary rules and the crushing of the self. I suspect he was made as well as born, a product of society's messes. He wanted to wipe out what he was; someone who desired other men and also what he could not be; someone who could love them freely. Johttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08988685736635515808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-30726813928272315502016-06-14T09:37:56.459-04:002016-06-14T09:37:56.459-04:00Thank you for this, Mary. And also what Steve said...Thank you for this, Mary. And also what Steve said, today and yesterday. 37paddingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12400464105403622384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-77453181330210470852016-06-14T09:34:02.082-04:002016-06-14T09:34:02.082-04:00I'm sure you've seen the reports since tha...I'm sure you've seen the reports since that Mateen had been to the club before and had been active on a gay dating app. His ex-wife says he may have been gay. If so, it would explain a lot -- his anger and apparent self-hatred, driven by his own guilt and the uncompromising position against homosexuality demanded by his religion. Not to diminish his actions, but in addition to being a perpetrator, he may also have been a victim -- of religious homophobia. It will be interesting to see how this story unfolds.Steve Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11684120060438252945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-23299867591189713372016-06-14T09:32:46.517-04:002016-06-14T09:32:46.517-04:00religion is just fucking evil. religion teaches t...religion is just fucking evil. religion teaches that only certain expressions of human sexuality are natural and normal. it teaches that anything else is not just weird or hard to comprehend but an <i>abomination!</i> something that must be despised and wiped out. war is an abomination, torture, hate, allowing citizens to own military assault weapons, mass fucking murder. that is the abomination. not two people of the same sex who find love or any of the many permutations of human sexuality that are natural because they appear naturally in nature (I mean really, how simple is that). that man learned his hate from his father and his religion both of which taught him that his violence was not only acceptable but demanded.ellen abbotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00535475792150335186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-19804451475793472642016-06-13T23:36:28.095-04:002016-06-13T23:36:28.095-04:00I made a light comment on my blog last week about ...I made a light comment on my blog last week about a client saying he went to the United church "until the queers took over". At the time I was angry but now I just feel outrage. He and his wife spout love for everyone but it isn't true. It is just fucking self-righteousness. Birdiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03479872783727855901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-44136983411262578092016-06-13T21:36:17.928-04:002016-06-13T21:36:17.928-04:00your one sentence--'a cancer within ourselves&...your one sentence--'a cancer within ourselves' is right.<br />i dont know why or how our country became this way, but it has. <br />I will adhere to "who am I to judge?"<br />The Pope is right, leave it to God not man.<br />I sure wish everyone else would too.Sierra Suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13186604356895964837noreply@blogger.com