Amen!
 

WOW! What an amazing blog. Thank you for the info, and I am caling as soon as I get done writing this.

You know, it always amazes me that we can live in a country where progress is the first thing on everyone's mind, no matter who you are, but then be so hypocritical about it when it comes to other matters. My father (miss you daddy!) was one of the wisest men I will ever have the privilege of knowing. Believe it or not, he was a Southern Baptist Minister. I grew up in the Bible Belt, my friend. Now, with that being said, I also wasnt to add that this was also the man that taught me to LOVE everyone! This is the same man who looked at my best friend, who happened to be a gay man, and said, "I love you like a son!" and welcomed him into our family with open arms. Some of the most moving words I ever heard him speak were about this topic. If others judge merely because their lives and lifestyles are different, then no one will ever like ANYONE! ALL people have differences...and all people deserve to be portrayed equally. Ignoring the very existence of others, because they love differently, does NOT make it any less of a reality. It's the same as saying you don't want to see people with blonde hair on television...in other words, it makes no since! (I am of course adapting his words to the topic at hand now.)

No one should have to hide because of fear of judgment. It is that same emotion, the fear, that causes the small minded ones to hate. When others cave into the mentality that some divisions in society should be hidden away, when all they are guilty of is living and loving just like everyone else, then we have done our society a SERIOUS injustice.

Quoting my father again (bear with me here...this is a subject close to my heart) all we can do is teach by example. Show those that don't know how to love unselfishly that it really takes less energy to love and accept others than it does to hate them. What I THINK TPTB are afraid of is the backlash from the community. And just as you said, this has happened sooooo many times in the past. That is what is GREAT about our country. We are free to progress, and this is progression. The day my friends can walk down the street, be accepted as just another couple holding hands and kissing in the park at lunch time, be able to legally marry each other and have all the rights that every other couple in this universe has will be the day that my heart will feel full.

And here I go again....my last quote from my father... "All of us are God's creatures. All of God's creatures deserve the right to love and be loved without being judged." Is it fair to say that only some deserve a fair representation? I think not.

So, I am going to teach by example...even more than I already have.
 

This is awesome. You are awesome. That's all.

Thank you.
 

So well written, and so well argued. Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts on this. You've nailed it spot on!
 

I agree, i'm a huge Nuke fan and i think ATWT is getting alot of crap for trying to tell a story the way it should be told.
 

Great post! The only soap I followed from time to time was Days. I think there is an issue with what is presented on TV. We're in a real world and not the old time sit comsm which was not real life. I think emotions and relationships should be featured, but not all the gore and violence. The only times I see that is on TV shows or the news. The times I see people in relationships (loving, lacking, heartbroken, reuniting, forming new, whatever) is everyday.