Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: Hate Is Still Growing.

Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Hate Is Still Growing.

You think you know your neighbors and fellow employees, but you never know when one will turn on you and out you.

TRANSGENDER MAN FACES DISCRIMINATION IN MAINE COMMUNITY
Neighbors in Springfield, who were friends, outed Landon Fry for being transgender.
NBC News Center Maine
By Jackie Mundry
Published: 10/11/18

SPRINGFIELD (NEWS CENTER Maine) — Landon Fry moved to Maine with his family in December to "enjoy life" he told NEWS CENTER Maine.

They moved to a small rural community and volunteered at church and the fire department. They also made friends with their neighbors who lived right next door.

All that changed in September when the neighbor they became friends with, outed Fry for being transgender.
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Fry and Hill have kids in the same 6th-grade class at Mount Jefferson Junior High School. Fry said his kids are now being asked questions about their father's gender and being bullied because of it.
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Fry also said he was told that his family is no longer welcome at the Springfield Community Church. The pastor, Bruce Swan, told NEWS CENTER Maine "The church, we have an obligation to almighty God to follow the scriptures."

He had to get a protection order against his neighbor, he no longer feels safe in his own neighborhood.

Fry and Hill had a court hearing on this protection order and Hill has agreed to a nine-month protection from harassment order.

This protection order also protects Fry and Hill's children. They will be separated as much as possible in school and have assigned seats on the bus to ensure all the children are not being bullied and can receive the best education possible.

It is sad that just a couple of people can make our lives miserable.

I remember when I was laid off when the factory was being shut down by the new owners and one of my technicians outed me to the rest of the company. He went around the office telling everyone that I was trans and he thought that everyone would be disgusted but it backfired… he became an ogre and I got tons of emails congratulating me from my fellow employees.

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Quotes

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

A right delayed is a right denied.Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

Martin Luther King Jr.

No one is born hating another person… People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela

We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist
James Baldwin

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.
Newton Lee

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Albert Einstein

"The point is that there are always obstacles, whether they seem insurmountable or merely bothersome. The question is not how difficult the path, but whether in your heart, you wish to undertake the journey."
Zandru's Forge

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
You've got to be taught
To hate
And fear
You've got to be taught
From year
To year
Its got to
Be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to
Be carefully
Taught
You've got to be taught
To be
Afraid
Of people
Who's eyes are oddly made
And people who's skin is a different shade

South Pacific
Songwriters: Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rogers

Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Hate Is Still Growing.

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