I hear a lot of people saying how much they love gay people, before condemning their loves. And I have no doubt that they do love us. Or at least, some anti-gay people who claim to love us, actually do feel love towards those they don't agree with. But you don't have to hate us, in order to hurt us.
We have all accidentally hurt those we love, and been accidentally hurt by people who love us. So why would this issue be any different?
I really don't like the LGBT campaigns that say "No H8" and such like that, because the emotion of hate is not the issue.
Slave owners claimed to love their slaves. Segregationists claimed to love "Negros." Anti-suffragists loved their wives and daughters. But they all hurt people, and in all these cases, hurting people was considered biblical. The bible was "clear." But we as a society decided not to hurt people, and now conservative Christians are claiming credit for what in earlier times they would have denounced as liberal and unbiblical.
So please remember, every time you say something against us or try to pass a law that makes us miserable, that you don't have to hate someone, to hurt them. You don't have to wave a "God Hates Fags" sign or murder another Matthew Sheppard to cause harm. Most of the pain I have experienced has been inflicted by those who seemed truly loving. And many Christians have loved their gay children before losing them to suicide.
If I could, I would replace all of these slogans about hate with this one: You don't have to hate, to harm.
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