Ok obviously we as glbt folks don’t always live in the same place forever with the same neighbors that we’ve grown to love, right?

But when it’s time to move and you move into a new neighborhood……what happens?  Have any of you experienced any problems with your new neighbors because of who you LOVE?   And I do realize that it sound pathetic that we may experince problems because of who we LOVE (not hate, but love) but that’s the reality of the situation especially when it comes to the ignorance of people who obviously have their head up their asses and live in some world that does not and will NEVER exist.

My readers know that my partner and I just moved into a new home in an awesome development and in a neighborhood that I am REALLY, REALLY taking a liking too (I wasn’t so gung-ho about it before because it is completely different than where I’ve ever lived in my entire 35 years of living.)

Anyway…we have neighbors on our immediate right and immediate left that are awesome.  As a matter of fact, our one neighbor told us that whenever we needed any help with anything that we could borrow her husband lol  She said just tell me and I’ll send him over.  And he’s actually helped us out on a few occassions already.  (We had a problem getting our new weed whacker started one day and he heard us and came over to help….that was the first time…and he’s just been a sweetheart ever since.)

Sooo as I was saying…those neighbors and the ones on the other side of us are absolutely great.  Very kind, friendly and neighborly. However, we do have neighbors that live right across from us that won’t even look at us let alone speak to us.  Seriously, not even a look.  No wave, no smile, no nothing.  You’re probably thinking “who cares?”   And you’re absolutely right….I don’t give a shit about those people…they can ignore me and my family for the rest of their lives….doesn’t bother me one lil bit.

BUTTTT……my partner was talking to a neighbor (who gets shunned in the neighborhood because she’s getting divorced…) and it turns out the neighbors are talking about us.  Mhm.  But we all knew that was coming right?

Again…the neighbors can’t hurt ME or my partner by their words.  They mean absolutely nothing to us and never will….however……..this is where the problem arises….apparently a neighbor said to the other neighbor “Why do you let your son play with her son.  Don’t you know that we are questioning her sexuality right now!”  (ummm FYI neighbors there is NO QUESTION ABOUT IT!)   

The original neighbor said something to the effect of “why wouldn’t I let my son play with her son?  She has the same moral values and family values as I do and she teaches her son the same things I teach my son!”

AFKNMEN!  Bravo to the neighbor who said that!  But seriously, wtf is wrong with people that someone actually needs to SAY THAT TO THEM??   Do you know what I mean?

Here’s the problem I have….we live in a very religious, conservative, republican area (lol I know, I know) and I have no problems with anyones religion or political affiliation or anything…but I have problems with people who have NO fkn common sense and NO fkn sense of decency and respect for other people!  THAT pisses me off.  And unfortunately, they learn that bullshit from their church!  Yes, I said it….they learn it from their church, but I don’t get how.   I mean they read the same bible that I know of (I don’t read it…I believe in GOD not religion and the bible doesn’t fall into my GOD guidelines it falls into my religious novel guidelines) and I’m pretty sure it says “LOVE THY NEIGHBOR” in there and not “LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AS LONG AS THEY ARE EXACTLY LIKE YOU, THINK EXACTLY LIKE YOU THINK, FEEL EXACTLY LIKE YOU FEEL, AND BELIEVE EXACTLY WHAT YOU BELIEVE.”

I mean you folks who know your bible better than me might be able to point at that latter line to me…but ummmm I sincerely doubt it.   So it pisses me off that people want to hide behind GOD and the fkn bible, but yet they don’t REALLY live the way the bible tells them to.

Anyway back to what was said….again that doesn’t bother ME….they mean nothing to me so they can’t really bother me personally…..but what they are doing is eventually hurting the kids.   Yep…….hurting my partners youngest child eventually when certain people won’t let their kids play with him and they are hurting their own children too by not teaching them about diversity and by teaching them about HATE instead of love and acceptance.  And their kids are going to miss out on knowing a lot of good people in thier lives.  It’s very sad.

Honestly, what do these people think?  What do they think their kids will see when they come over here?  Us kissing?  Us fucking?  Naked pics of women all over the place?  A lovefest of women running around naked?  Us handing out brochures in hopes of turning all of the kids in the neighborhood gay?   Fucking come on.  If any one of our bigoted, hatred filled neighbors had the balls to come into our home….guess what they would find?   Yes, you all already know…they’d find the same exact things in OUR home that they would find in their own homes.  They’d find that we do the same exact things in OUR home with OUR families that they do in THEIR home with THEIR families.

God help thir children if any of them ever do end up being gay!  It’s time to grow up people…..it’s 2008 for goodness sake.  Go to church if you want to, read the bible if you want to, but don’t forget to teach your children at home about Common Sense, Common Decency and Respect for others!   It’s really not that difficult.

Has anyone else had any similiar experiences they’d like to share?  And if so, how did you deal with it?

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