A few days after my sorority's formal, I sat in bed watching "Friends" and scrolling through Facebook as I came across fellow writer Natalie Purser's Odyssey article that week. In her article, she talked about her formal and the disgust she and her girlfriend received for dancing with each other. As I came to the conclusion of the article, I began to seriously contemplate my hypocritical generation: why are some of us so incredibly intimidated and downright fearful of homosexuality?

I'm not going to start out by saying something along the lines of, "I'm straight but I have gay friends!" or "I'm not scared of the gays," because that doesn't matter. My sexuality is not what is relevant to this article, but rather the fact that I've noticed an increasing amount of millennials who scatter at the thought of a homosexual living their life like a normal person.

While every generation has its faults, and bashing my generation is not my sole intention while writing this article, I have noticed that the word "hypocritical" is an understatement when it comes to my generation. I'm so incredibly lucky that both of my parents worked long jobs with tedious hours in order to send me to a Catholic elementary school and a Christian-based high school. As I grew older, I began to notice some of the wrongdoings of my generation, though they continued to spout how they were good Christians. Throughout my high-school years, more of my peers began to understand their various sexualities and become more comfortable with expressing them as they got older. It was mainly my senior year of high school when I noticed many of my "friends" would speak horribly of my friends who had come out as gay.

I tried to constantly be a type of support system to any of my friends who had come out as gay, not only because they did not receive much support from the people they called friends, but because they're human beings. People seem to think that if a person feels love towards a person of the same sex, they suddenly lose all of the qualities that made them a human being. All humans are capable of love, and some humans were born loving people of the same sex. Did you get that? They were born loving people of the same sex. That means that contrary to what everyone in the south seems to believe, being gay is nota choice.

It constantly continues to baffle me that many millennials believe that it's morally right for them to criticize whom someone else loves. My generation will fill their Instagram captions and Twitter feeds with various Bible verses but will simultaneously fail to see what the Bible actually teaches: how to love one another, just as God intended. They will make the argument that "the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin," but that's not the case. Having come from a strong religious background, I know that the Bible does not strictly speak about homosexuality, but rather strictly speaks about love. Here are some Bible verses that my generation seems to toss aside and fails to comprehend the true meaning of:

Romans 12:9
"Love must be sincere. Hate is what is evil; cling to what is good."

Mark 12:31"
The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’There is no commandment greater than these.”

Roman 13:10
"Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law."

Proverbs 10:12
"Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs."

Therefore, love your neighbor as you love yourself. Homosexuality is not a sin, nor is it something to be afraid of. You can't "catch the gay," because it's not contagious and it's not a disease. This generation is so hypocritical and will preach to let others live their lives as they please, but will fail to continue that line of thinking when it comes to someone loving who they love wholeheartedly. So, fellow "Christians" and millennials, get your heads out of your a** and put it in a Bible, or learn to keep your mouth shut.

Also, to the girl who said my dear friend, Natalie, was "gross" for dancing with her girlfriend, shut up. Go home. Stop hating on someone who found love just because you can't get a date. Bye.