tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-587902609826926070.post3518866160059736603..comments2024-03-05T23:31:44.106-08:00Comments on Gay Family Values: Where Do We Stand?....Tragedy and TriumphGFVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02950236433262366445noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-587902609826926070.post-2121226460340260942011-09-27T00:34:13.084-07:002011-09-27T00:34:13.084-07:00It seems like we have reached out to the right per...It seems like we have reached out to the right person, Lady Gaga is supporting Jamey and us!<br />http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/22/lady-gaga-vows-to-make-bu_n_975852.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-587902609826926070.post-16773581477838394762011-09-22T22:36:16.685-07:002011-09-22T22:36:16.685-07:00When will we understand that Tolerance is to be Ch...When will we understand that Tolerance is to be Christ - therefore intolerance is to be anti-Christ. <br /><br />I came out of the closet to my US Military commander on 17 December, 2010, the day before the vote - I came out in protest of the vote. I was an officer in the Air Force and they hid my story for the last nine months - I deserted the military because of how they were treating me after I came out. I spent four months in the US Marine Corps Brig next to Brad Manning, another gay teen... I resigned my commission and am now out of the Military. <br /><br />A gay officer deserted the military because of bullying by his commanders after DADT was repealed. Bullying is not just a thing kids have to deal with at school. <br /><br />Intolerance is to be anti-Christ. Tolerance is to be like Christ. It's that simple.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-587902609826926070.post-8107452140509422372011-09-22T13:34:54.763-07:002011-09-22T13:34:54.763-07:00After reading this I felt so heartbroken. I just c...After reading this I felt so heartbroken. I just can't believe that kids end their lives this way. No life should go to waste like this, everyone deserves to live. I'm glad that there has finally come an end to DADT. However, I still cannot believe that I am reading all of this in the 21th century! We no longer live in the middle ages!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-587902609826926070.post-29411118969582637382011-09-21T21:34:25.942-07:002011-09-21T21:34:25.942-07:00I'm a straight white male. I think the bigger...I'm a straight white male. I think the bigger question that needs an answer and a solution is WHY do kids BULLY at all? I was never really picked on much myself. Anything I received I handled as best as I could and I gave as good as I got, or at least I did my best. Any time I saw another kid being bullied I would try to intervene directly or at least just ask them if they were OK. I could usually tell that the kid being bullied was just glad that someone noticed them and cared about them at all. Bullying never made any sense to me at all. <br />Why would you treat someone that way when they never did anything to you???<br />Pardon my language - but the BIGGEST PUSSIES ARE THE BULLIES!<br />We won't stop gay teen suicide until we stop the bullying. Some people just need to GET A LIFE, GET A JOB, GET LOST, GET LAID, GET...SOMETHING!!!<br />GET IT?Michael Hardinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09610160406709197670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-587902609826926070.post-14383610889876074132011-09-21T16:30:57.944-07:002011-09-21T16:30:57.944-07:00Another wasted life but there's a 1000 possibl...Another wasted life but there's a 1000 possibly 10,000 kids all looking for a way out better than Jamey's. Mourne the loss of poor Jamey but then the battle must continue. We are where we are and that's riduclas and horrible but it is where we are and the only way to change that is to continue to change that. The repeal of DADT shows us things are changing, attitudes are changing. Not fast enough, never fast enough.<br /><br />It's sad to say that the "it's gets better" campaign was never going to be a cure-all. This day was coming, but think of the kids who are alive today because of it. They won't make the news but they are out there and they are surviving. <br /><br />The repeal of don't ask, don't tell needs to be celebrated inspite of Jamey. The community needs it's victory celebrations, needs to take a moment to say "look what we did". The fight is long and hard and people need to acknowledge the victories (so do you Bryan). Light a candle for Jamey but raise a glass to all the troops who can now say "I'm gay".<br /><br />Do me a favour... Go on YouTube and look up a group called Dire Straits and a song called Brothers in Arms.<br /><br />"Through these fields of destruction<br />Baptisms of fire<br />I've witnessed all your suffering<br />As the battle raged higher<br />And though they did hurt me so bad<br />In the fear and alarm<br />You did not desert me<br />My brothers in arms<br /><br />Think Jay might relate to this song too.<br /><br />Keep the faith <br />Holly xxHollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00927466610984994034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-587902609826926070.post-82553703297701750542011-09-21T16:21:54.100-07:002011-09-21T16:21:54.100-07:00I agree with you to Bryan, I can't believe how...I agree with you to Bryan, I can't believe how horribly cruel people are, and to say suicide is the easy way out is such a total lie. There is no easy way out, just some that are slower then others like drug abuse. Suicide is more accurately a sign that the person has struggled so much had so much strength and that that strength finally gave out. I mean I would hope that any one that has even seriously considered suicide would know that it is not any easy thing, let alone that the path that leads to it was not full of fight. It takes so much strength to fight for so long in so many cases while projecting happiness and normality to the world while on the inside you struggle fight and slowly die bit by bit inside. <br /><br />I don't care what others have to say, it is not a sign of weakness, and I can say this from personal experience, so fare obviously I have been lucky enough to have not killed my self, but I have seriously thought about doing so as in planing out how to do so and mentally working on suicide letters in my head, more times they I ever care to thing about. Depression is a terrible monster, and those that say otherwise are so willfully ignorant that it's absolutely disgusting. <br /><br />Sorry if this offends any one but as some one that has been that depressed and that broken (and almost certainly will end up that depressed and utterly broken down again, after all its only a mater of when not if) I can't stand such vial things being said about those who because of it are not even here to defined them selves.aNorthWestViewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03598507140332496283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-587902609826926070.post-13960853032441810942011-09-21T15:40:54.938-07:002011-09-21T15:40:54.938-07:00Dear GFV,
Thanks for posting what you did. Hopefu...Dear GFV,<br />Thanks for posting what you did. Hopefully something good will come from all of this. I like to believe that good things come from tragic events in our lives. As this is true with my own life. <br />However, let us all keep in mind and in memory Jamey and his family and friends as they grieve. I would like to think Jamey is in a very beautiful place now; a place free of bigotry, hatred and any kind of phobia. I will ask my own guardian angel, Michael to keep an eye on Jamey as his own spirit comes to all of us. <br />Peace to all, DavidAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-587902609826926070.post-43460889416864153722011-09-21T14:57:57.890-07:002011-09-21T14:57:57.890-07:00it grieves me deeply that the ugly bigotry consume...it grieves me deeply that the ugly bigotry consumed that boy's life. Iagree with everything you have said Bryan, and where do we go from here? How long before the dark path we walk on turns to a brighter path? We should move forward, but always remember many who have lost their lives. It's disgusting to say he was a coward. It's extremely disrespectful and ignores that he went through a lot of miserable pain.Timhttp://weareequallgbt.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com