Freedom...

As the past few days there's been a lot of media coverage on Chick-Fil-A. While I was laying in bed last night thinking, I wondered what people thought the owners faith & beliefs were. This company closes on Sundays just because of their beliefs & it seems like people are outraged at his belief. Yes they are saying it's because he's against gay marriage but that is his belief..Some people don't believe in marriage, or inter racial dating or marriage. What's the difference? Why aren't people outraged about that and boycotting people like that? Despite what everyone wants to believe this country hasn't grown up in that aspect we just learned how to adapt and mask how we feel because it's politically incorrect. I do claim to be an imperfect, sinful & very wavering faith Christian at times. We all are, there is no one out there that is perfect & without sin. Last I remember is that we aren't to judge anyone. That's not our job, we can't judge unless we are without sin. My children have an "uncle" that is gay. We absolutely adore & love him. He would give us the shirt off his back if we asked or even needed it. All I want is for him to be happy & that's that. He's a good man, yes we don't agree with some things but he is a GOOD man & good people are hard to find now days. He doesn't shove it down our throat but we don't also discriminate against him because him being gay. Why should we? That goes against everything I stand for & what God stands for. He says love everyone , even your enemies. As a mother of with children, I TRY to instill that we love everyone no matter what their beliefs, preferences or even race. The main reason I tell my children this is that we are not perfect & neither is anyone else. Judge a person for that person not by his religious preference, sexual preferences, or even by their race. There are good & bad people of every walk of life and that is how we should look at it. We live in a great country where we have freedom of speech & religion. We are allowed to exercise this to the fullest. Personally I think this country would be a better country if we can agree to disagree. We should be tolerate of different opinions, it would make this world a better place. My family & friends have died for this freedom the least we can do is respect that we don't agree & learn to be tolerate of each other. Above all things what are we teaching our children? Are we giving them tools to grow up & be able to show empathy,be selfless and loving adults? Yes it's good to know what you believe in & where your stand in your values but that is just that it's YOUR values & we should be able to show respect to others that don't share the same ones.