Very soon I realized this was without a doubt one of the best albums of the year & by far the best album ITM has created to date. After thoroughly enjoying Blood, I was quick to purchase their 2014 album Black Widow last year. Immediately I was intrigued by the dark yet inspiring music created by this incredibly talented woman & her band. Sometime in 2013 I discovered the metal band In This Moment whose lead singer is Maria Brink. And what could possibly be wrong with that? As long as no one is getting hurt, why should any of us care who anyone else wants to sleep with? In the grand scheme of things, it’s really quite petty to obsess over such things. I just mean that at heart we are all the same: we’re all human beings who just want to love & to be loved & to understand ourselves & be able to express ourselves as best we can. I don’t mean that I am bisexual, lesbian, or transgender at all. I could not look in the eyes of a friend, someone I knew to be a decent, loving human being, & say to them “Your whole identity is wrong.” Furthermore, the more I studied gender identity issues, the more I knew I could never again stand against anyone who questioned their own identity or sexuality because the more I tried to understand these people, the more I realized they were just like me. Once I got to college & started meeting people who actually were gay & bisexual, I knew I could no longer believe that such things were wrong. I just can’t do it, even if part of me wishes I could just so life could be “easier.” It just didn’t make sense to me, even then, that this supposedly loving omniscient god would create someone a certain way & then say “Nope, that’s wrong, & you’re going to Hell if you don’t ask for forgiveness & change it.” That just made absolutely zero sense to me, & I for one have always struggled to believe anything that seems completely contradictory to basic logic & reason. I just couldn’t find it within myself to label something that seems such a fundamental part of a person’s identity as wrong. Once I was a teenager & started to question a lot of the things I was taught growing up, one of the greatest issues I faced was the issue of homosexuality. Props to the brilliant person who made this
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