Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Current Event #2

Daniel Peirce, a 20 year old gay male, was disowned by his family after he came out to them as gay. They abused him both mentally and emotionally and told him to leave their house, in 2014. He lived in Georgia with his conservative family where he came out to his parents and recorded it. He then posted this video on Youtube named, 'How not to react when your child tells you that he’s gay' and within days he received thousands of views.
In this video, multiple family members are recorded, but the first says that she wants to disown him because he is unnatural; not of God's creation. He speaks to her calmly and tells her he will leave while she yells at him. The next appears to be another female physically assaulting him, where his Grandma is in the background cheering her on. This family is Christian and believes homosexuals have chosen this path and they furthermore didn't want the community to see that they are supporting homosexuality. Daniel set up an online donation site for himself to try and find a new place, and surprisingly he received over 50,000 pounds.
Love doesn't always have to be between lovers. It is between a parent and their child too, and this wasn't a symbol of love. Love is being able to accept the other regardless of beliefs. Its being able to allow their flaws and accept that they may not be what you want. Justice is treating everyone equally regardless of race, beliefs, or nationality. In this instance, the family is not only taking his safety away by physically abusing him, but they are showing injustice through not respecting his beliefs and kicking him out of their house. This event, I believe, is fate. He was assaulted by his family, and he probably believed that life couldn't get better. Fortunately for the kind people all over the world who sent donations, he is probably having a much better life than he ever did with his family. This was his destiny to follow this path and end in a much better place.
This relates to Romeo and Juliet because of the theme of acceptance and family. Romeo and Juliet were not accepted as lovers because they were of different families. Furthermore, their own family didn't accept them and thought they were choosing the wrong path, as Daniel's family did.

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