Recently we were told here at ULC that we did not know who we are, that our pain is not real, only imagined and that by saying we had experienced or felt certain things that somehow we were reading too much into a situation. There is an old saying that many religions agree on and that is the adage that until you have walked in the moccasins of another one should not even pretend to know what their life is like.
We can only hope that God will grant us the grace to forgive those who have spat upon our family here, insulted and humiliated us in front of our friends, not by disagreeing with us but by telling us that we couldn't possibly have experienced what we have gone through, felt what we feel or lost the things that we lost or suffered what we have suffered simply for being who God created us to be.
If the opinions that others express can lead to neglect or abuse of others based on hatred or simple misinformation, then we intend to and will continue to say so, regardless of whether others have the capacity of understanding the harm in their words and callousness. Words which support stereotypes that bred hatred and incite actions that lower the quality of life and threaten the safety of entire groups of people, are words which are way over the boundary lines set by society for "freedom" of speech.
MAY ALL OUR WORDS BRING HARM TO NO ONE.
In Prayer for Peace for us all,
Mother Nanhi & Father Leslie
