Dropping Labels

What a good idea! Not surprising, it took a young man in the U.K. to start a campaign fighting the entire concept of attaching labels to a person and defning them by that label. There is an associated website at Ditch The Label if you would like to check it out.

From PinkNews:

An ambitious campaign that aims to change the ways in which young people label themselves was launched last week in the form of a funky teen-oriented website.

The website Ditch the Label (www.DitchtheLabel.com) was 'virtually' launched last Saturday night in a co-ordinated browsing of the new site, after being advertised via its original Myspace and the founder's personal Myspace sites.

The founder of DitchtheLabel is 17-year old student, activist and part-time model, Liam Hackett.

He developed the site primarily aimed at marginalised teenagers looking to break free from social stereotypes based on race, sexuality or gender.

The site aims to challenge negative stereotypes and provide a forum in which young people can share their experiences of prejudice and social labelling.

Based in Manchester, the prodigious teen first launched the website via Myspace in July 2007 and since then, the Myspace page has attracted more than 50,000 visits.

I'm happy to say that Hackett's MySpace site is already one of my Myspace site's friends.

The primary reason to attach a label to something or someone is to separate it from what is considered the norm, therefore relegating them to a lower standing and making it acceptable to ridicule and/or discriminate.

Since Jesus said we are ALL His children, labeling would seem to be against his will, wouldn't it? That's bad, folks. If we're all the same to Him, what right do we have to assign labels to our fellow humans?

Not much of one, I believe. As the site says, "you're a person, not a label."