What Matters!!!

The other day in my human sexuality class, we ended the class with the statement "spread love, not hatred!"

I know that I can be "cheesy" sometimes, but I really mean what I say to my students.  :)

As a society we need to learn to be accepting of others!  We have learned through our culture and our social norms that, if you don't fit in the paradigm that society has "invented," than you are wrong, or a sinner, or abnormal, or weird.  With this as part of our background we almost instinctively try to conform to the norms of society, whatever they may be. 

But what happens to those that do not, or cannot conform?  Those that society sees as outcasts? 
Well.... that is when discrimination, prejudice and hatred may come into place.  
We have become entitled to judge others and to believe that everyone must agree with us on everything. However, by thinking this way, we may have lost the perspective that the beauty of the world is in its diversity.  We don’t all have to share the same beliefs, and my conception of what morals and values are, may be very different from someone else or from a different society……. And guess what!!!  That is OK!  It is OK to be different; it is OK to be yourself!

It should not matter if you are white, black, green, yellow, or if you are gay, straight, bi, or Catholic, Muslim, Baptist, all that should matter is, that fundamental characteristic, that one that society seems to forget the most.  Are you a GOOD human being???  This is what should matter!!!!

Somehow we have forgotten what is really important.....