Blablahb said:
Don't doubt me, the grim reaper came to my house, I threw his ass back outside.
And as explained in another post, I was pissed when I wrote that reply; while what all I said was true, I focused a bit too much on myself.
Anyhow. . .a story.
Those insecure religious kids are the best. When they avoid direct confrontation, it becomes a war, and like a war you can't win it yourself; all you need are a few friends. I helped a bi friend in Junior year fight back a group of Christian bigots.
A group of them were doing what you describe, spreading lies and hate for no reason other than "the bible says it's wrong."
You can't win an argument with a Christian, mostly because the bible says so.
So all we did was start our own lies and rumors, nothing bad or serious to start with but just the seeds. Focused it on the leader of the little group. My friend did nothing, he got to wait and take part in the grand finale. Me and some others did the grunt work, we started spreading our own rumors and lies focused right on leader of those assholes.
*lets call the bigot john*
The sheeple at school were so easily lead to believe the homophobic hate, and like sheeple, they started to spread our rumors around simply because we spread them.
Our story, nothing special, just a rumor that john himself was a closet homo, and all his hate mongering was to cover up the fact. If my friend was directly verbally attacked by any of the homophbes, he would redirect with something like, "give john a kiss for me." "tell john i'll meet him at our usual place after school." "Did john say that? I love it when he talks dirty."
John and his group responded with more hate, even had one try to win my friend over to Christianity. *we hate you and constantly say you will die and burn in hell for eternity. We spread lies and hate about you openly, but please come join us; we will still hate you but god loves you! And apparently that makes it okay. Here is a romans road pamphlet.*
This went on for a few months, the christian kids tried to get there parents involved at one point but the school, as usual, didn't care. We started using facebook, listing my friend as in a relationship with john, posting on his wall until blocked us. But the internet is a magical place, once something is on it, it never leaves.
But the grand finale, what ultimately got john and his group to stop, is a moment I will never forget as long as I live; right there after 5th period, first building between H3 and H5, to the left of the computer lab.
My friend walked up to john and his group in the middle of the hall, he slapped john on the ass, turned him around grabbed john's crotch and kissed him full on the lips before he said "My place, tonight."
I have never seen a more disgusted, horrified, confused, and embarrassed look on someones face before. The whole hallway was drowned in the sound of laughter, and the same homophobic comments once directed at my friend were now being poured onto john.
Poor john just ran and hid in embarrassment. He didn't tell teachers or his parents, and honestly I wouldn't have either. But it wouldn't matter, everyone in the hall saw that, the news spread like crazy, by next period the whole school knew.
A week later, and I almost felt sorry for john, his parents caught wind of it...they heard he had kissed a boy in the middle of school and the rumors of homosexuality. Apparently he not only had his parents on his case, but also the pastor and other families at his church. And no one at school left him alone for the rest of the year.
He was kissed full on in the middle of the hall and groped, as far as anyone who saw that knew, all those rumors we spread were true. You can't live that down or talk your way out of that. He transferred schools the next year.
John never bothered my friend for the rest of junior year, and the hate on my friend died off after that because, and I quote from a senior, "That was the single most hilarious thing I have ever witnessed in my life."
It was brilliant, all their hate just added fuel to the fire.
It wasn't something easily pulled off, or something that was guaranteed to work; but god damn it was worth it too see that little shit go down in flames. I remember the bible saying something about reaping what you sow.
Okay shared my little story. And no, I haven't personally went through the bullying homosexuals receive, but I helped end some. Just a change of tactics.
But I still stand by my original stance of man up. Because no one will fix it for you. My friend weathered the hate while we laid the groundwork; and then knocked john off his high horse and right down into the mud he had been slinging. If my friend hadn't been man enough to stand up to the hate, all we would have accomplished was spreading empty rumors.
