Hope for the future...

I’ve always been vocal about my support of the LGBT community and that they need to be treated just like everyone else b/c there’s nothing wrong with them. But I think that having Lola has made me even moreso vocal and outraged by the injustice – b/c I want to make sure she grows up to be accepting and I want to make sure that as she grows and learns who she is as a person, that she’ll know that I’ll accept her no matter what. She can be straight, gay, bi, hell she could decide one day she wants a penis and to be called Mort and I’m still gonna love her (granted, if she is transgender, I will sorely miss my little girl and have a hard time grasping her having a penis that I didn’t grow in my uterus when I grew her, but I’ll get used to it). I just hope and pray that by the time she finds herself, that the world is as accepting of her as I hope it will be.
I don’t understand how anyone, especially a parent, could ever have hostility towards the gay community or think that they shouldn’t have the same rights as everyone else – b/c once you’re a parent, you can’t MAKE your child be something he/she isn’t. If your child discovered he/she was gay, would you actually disown him/her? Could you live your life not having that child in it? Would you really think it was OK to not let your child legally marry the person they love? Not be able to be by the side of the person they love if that person were in the hospital? Not have the same rights that you, as a heterosexual human has? If so, I don’t think you should be a parent. I think you’re a sad, sad excuse for a human.
Defending marriage by saying it’s only for a man and a woman, is actually putting it down. Marriage should be about love and creating a lifelong partnership between those 2 people. Allowing people that love each other to marry, to share that bond, to spend their lives together, to grow old together, to be happy – THAT is defending marriage. The gender shouldn’t have a damned thing to do with it.
Every time I see another state legalize gay marriage, I’m so happy about it. It brings me hope for the future.
Every time I see one of those “it gets better” ad’s – it fills me with hope as well, that maybe, for my child, and for all the children out there – that when they find who they are, that it will already be better – and they won’t have to wait for it to GET better.