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Friday, April 29, 2011

Those Whispers

About  a couple months ago I walked into my homeroom and there was a friend of mine wearing makeup. I didn't think anything of it. This wasn't the first time he has done anything out of the ordinary. He had showed up with green spikes on his head and covered his binder with woven duct tape. Out of the ordinary was his ordinary, it's mine too. That's how we became friends in the first place.

I started  hearing the whispers in the hall "You know that kid John? He's gay", I didn't believe them. It spread one whisper at a time, in less than four hours it was known throughout the school. He had always been made fun of, always whispered about,  but this was a new low. He had always known. He didn't have any enemies, he had a handful of friends.

He didn't show up for school the next day. I found out he was made fun of so much that he wanted to be home schooled. As a Christian I don't approve of being gay but I'm not letting it effect my friendship with him. He is a son of God just like you and me. He is still they funniest guy I know and the friendliest. Shame on those people who picked on John. Shame  on the whispers. Shame on those who turned their backs on him and joined the laughing crowd. The Bible says  that to the extent you judge others, others will judge you to the same extent. Shame on those who judged him. All those whispers drove one of the smartest, nicest, funniest kids from school because he told his handful of friends he was gay. Shame on the person that back stabbed him and gave him a label. Shame on all those kids who let that label define him. Shame on those that whisper about him today.Those whispers will never be forgotten.

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