I did so knowing that some of the people I'm friends with on Facebook aren't exactly open-minded. I knew it was entirely possible that the comments could devolve into a stupid religious debate about whether or not homosexuality is immoral. But even if that happened I assumed everyone would at least be charitable about it.
But nope. That didn't happen. The charitable part, I mean...
To be honest I was pretty upset about this last night. Remember, this isn't just some random person on the internet; this is someone I know personally.
The tricky thing is, I'm ultimately a recovering bigot myself. So I know that people can change and I know that simply returning insults does nothing to help that process.
And that makes it very hard to know how to reply, or if I even should.
