I've actually befriended a gay thirteen year old boy recently (gay as in - he enjoys the company of other boys/likes seeing them naked, not as in sexually active | as far as I know|) I've sat him down and stared him deep in the eyes and told him about these events, he hadn't much to say except a long silence, which is actually saying a lot. I told him that if he EVER get's bullied (period) but especially of his sexual orientation, to tell his mother (obviously, about the bullying, regardless of what it's about) and if that somehow doesn't work to talk to ME, and I'd personally deal with it.

I know here in the USA, we seem to have tolerance problems. More specifically, what to be tolerant about. It makes sense to be intolerant of a religion (Islam) whom it's radical believers pitted a terrorist attack against our country, and now a Mosque is supposedly being built near the site of the attack, which in Islamic understanding - basically claims victory over the United States. My relevance here is - these people had a choice.

Now jumping back to the original topic. This is just wrong. A THIRTEEN year old boy DOES NOT CHOOSE to have feelings. The entire subject surrounding this failing of logic makes me sick to my stomach. Thirteen comes after twelve. It is a child, as if finding yourself/being a teenager isn't hard enough! That a thirteen year old see's no way out of his pain, then a bullet through his head. This ignorance and illogical hatred against a false assumption that we choose our feelings - is what we need to be intolerant of.