Grab Some Tissues And Watch…Just…Watch
I don’t surf the net much. Hell, I don’t even watch television much. I’m too busy reading, so I may be the last person on the planet to have seen this video. Okay, maybe not the last, but nearly three-million people have seen this video before me, so yeah, I’m a little slow on the uptake.
This is the story of two men, one from right here in Indiana, that should cause everyone who opposes Gay Marriage to sit back and take a good long look at that position, though based on some of the comments on YouTube, the ignorant and bigoted are still determined to out themselves publicly, every chance they get.
This story is tragic and heartbreaking but has also become the catalyst for a project by Hollywood producer Linda Bloodworth Thomas that one can only hope will advance the march toward equality for everyone who wants to formally commit themselves to the person they love.
Shane and Tom’s story is difficult to watch, but well worth the time:
I don’t think people understand how much their hatred and fear extinguishes love… but it still burns. It can’t ever really go out.
God, I see stuff like this and am sitting here bawling my head off and wondering how people can hate like that. How could anyone look at the loving relationship those two men had and see anything but the joy they radiated just being together? I’ll never, ever understand where there’s room for hatred in something that pure.
Lisa – I saw this video several months ago and several times since. It still hurts. How people can be so mean and hatefull. Sad.
Oh Jay, ::hugs:: I’m still choked up over this and can’t believe I haven’t seen it before now.
It makes me sad and angry, but most of all it makes me feel so helpless, as I sit here in my little suburban neighborhood, that I can’t do more. I wish there was a magic solution to cure this blindness that exists in a world where people refuse to look beyond gender and see the loving people who’ve made a commitment to share their lives together.
And you know, as a parent myself, the ones I always end up being the angriest with are the parents who turn their backs on their children. They don’t deserve the gift of those sons and daughters.