Imagine suddenly being rudely roused from your bed and hustled off into the night.
You sit in a small cell wondering what is going to become of you.
Later, when you are released, people revile you on the street.
You lose your job, your house, and are denied all contact with your friends and family.
You have not been convicted of any crime, but you have already been charged, tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television.
This is a reality in our country, the land of the free, the home of the brave, the place where gossip mongers seem to enjoy other people's misery and so-called good Christians leap at the chance to be holier than thou.
People don't have to be proven guilty for a community to turn against them, especially if they are not white heterosexuals living carefully within the boundaries of barely civilized bigots.
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