This is turning into an issue about homosexuality. Which it is not. And it is also turning into an issue about Christianity. Which it is not. And now there is a lot of hate flying around because of that, which doesn’t help anything.
AWARE is about women. ALL WOMEN in ALL permutations. It is about gender equality and non-discrimination.
Right now, there is a serious imbalance in the leadership of AWARE, and that is what I am fighting against. I’m not out to crucify anyone for what they believe, but I will fight to preserve an agenda that is devoid of religious, racial, gender or sexuality skews.
At the same time, I am heartened that things have come to a head because, without it, so many of us would have just carried on with life, not really knowing, not really caring. The recent developments at AWARE have served to awaken interest and vigorous activism from people I didn’t expect it to come from, and I am cheered by that. I also think that all this is happening at a time when people are more open-minded and vocal, and willing to fight for what they believe in. No doubt those dialogs will be colorful, even controversial, but they are key to bringing about change for the greater good of EVERYONE. It’s unfortunate that it took something like this to get more people to sit up and take notice and open their mouths to speak, but better that than nothing. Silence doesn’t benefit anybody.
A lot of amazing work has been done by AWARE in the last 25 years. Please don’t allow of that to burn at the stake.
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