Post Boy Meets Boy Discussion

After today's discussion on the book Boy Meets Boy my mind has definitely been enlightened. From my previous post you could see how I was facing a minor dilemma. I ended up not reading the book and not writing a paper about the book. Although I do not regret my decision I believe that I learned a lot during this classes discussion about GLBTs, especially during our book discussion and since I did not write a paper it gave me a chance to really just sit back and listen to what others had to say on the issue. During the discussion my great friend Ryan brought up a wonderful point that I never really noticed...the somewhat stereotypical rival between religion and gay people. Stereotypes are usually created when a few people in a certain group act a certain way, so if a few religious people disagree with gays because the Bible says so that all gays should burn and go to Hell, this belief then becomes the common stereotype for all people who are religious...they must hate gays...right?...not exactly true. The same can be said for gays since religious people dont like us...lets not like them...and it was brought up during the discussion that David L. almost pushed disliking towards one group (the close-minded, religious freak) while trying to focusing on accepting another group (gays). Instead of understanding and acceptance it turned into accept my group, but dislike that group because all of them dont like us. Hmm....