  urlLink Monument From Hell - Make room for a Matthew Shepard hate monument in a town square near you. By Emily Bazelon While I said I wouldn't be blogging as much, it's a slow day here and this news from Slate.com sickens me, especially after the urlLink Law & Order SVU I saw last night (Season 5, Episode E4410 "Abomination").
Where does this kind of hate come from? It's beyond ignorance and beyond religion and beyond anything I've ever encountered. More and more it seems to be that just because people disagree with an issue or a characteristic or ANYTHING, it gives them fuel for hatred. Not dislike, not general disdain, not even indifference...but full on flames-of-hell wrath. Even something as simple as smoking. On the urlLink Ban the Ban blog , some of the pro-ban people's messages directed at smokers are downright offensive.
I perfectly understand why some of my friends support the ban, and we choose to disagree. But hating someone because they light up? Please! It's like hating someone because they are from the South, or because they choose to wear purple, or they have body piercings. I'm not saying smoking is good for you--no one is arguing that--but I'm not saying you should be gay, or that you should do or not do anything...
I don't know what I'm saying anymore. I'm just incredibly sad for the world right now. 
