You can’t go
a day without seeing something about homosexuality on the internet. Whether
it’s about marriage, religious doctrine, a teen prom, or another suicide we are
surrounded by this topic constantly. There are people on all sides of the
fence. People actively fighting for equality, people on the fence trying to
figure out what’s right/wrong, and people trying anything and everything to
keep religion in politics.
My focus is
on those individuals who are hiding behind religion to further their agenda.
You know the people I’m talking about. The ones posting pictures about the
sanctity of marriage, saving America from God’s wrath, bringing morality back
to America. I know you. I used to be you before I ripped off my blinders.
The worst
thing about Christians is their stubborn belief that they alone have all the
answers. That what they have chosen to believe in the bible is the way we
should all be living. That we should run, not only our country, but the world
according to a book written thousands of years ago by man. I ask you this
Christians, why are you allowed to pick and choose what you believe in the
bible to be true and expect us to follow along with it? Do you not see how
damaging that behavior is? You don’t want to follow your religious dogma to
it’s full extent any more than we do. If you want to quote Old Testament
scripture as a reason to not let all mankind have the same equality you enjoy
why are you not following that very same book yourself? Why are you allowed to
pick passages out to condemn others but to save yourself?
Why can you
look at someone who is amazingly beautiful person and have no problem
condemning them to eternal damnation? Have you stopped and truly thought about
what you are condoning? Eternal agony, torture, pain, and anguish just because
someone fell in love with someone of the same sex. How does that sit well with
you? How can you believe that the same god who made EVERYONE after his likeness
would want to send them to burn in hell with satan? The same god who inspired
this verse from Jeremiah 29:11. “For I know the plans I have for you,“ declares
the lord, “plans to prosper you and not harm you, plans to give you hope and a
future.” How can you tell the rest of the world that that hope only applies to
a select few that man has chosen?
Why are you
so willing to dismiss your hate under the guise of hating the sin and not the
sinner? Do you really think that makes people feel better to hear? Oh, you hate
the sin of loving someone unconditionally and therefore have made it impossible
for me to marry them? It’s totally ok now that I know you don’t hate me personally.
Completely asinine. You do realize that in god’s eyes ALL sin is equal right?
All those so called little sins you commit daily are just as disgusting to your
god. You are not better than anyone else. The fact that you knowingly sin and
are hateful because Jesus “will never leave you nor forsake you” Hebrews 13:5
is appalling. Is that your answer? We all accept Jesus into our lives, continue
in sin, and go to heaven? I don’t think it’s meant to work that way.
So, onto this
so called scripture that tells us that homosexuality is a sin and they deserve
eternal damnation for it. The scripture I see quoted most often is Galatians
5:19-21. I hate to burst your bubble but it’s not in there. Here it is “Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality,
impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of
anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things
like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things
will not inherit the kingdom of God.” Sounds like nobody on this ever loving
earth is going to heaven much less inherit the kingdom of god. You may want to
rethink your stance on all of this because if you’ve ever felt or done any of
the above you are doomed to hell.
Keeping up with
this kind of thinking is only harming our country. We are destroying lives
while we argue over a thousand year doctrine that not one single person follows
in it’s entirety. If you did you would be labeled an extremist and hated just
as much as Osama Bin Laden. If you are of the female gender you especially
should want to distance our laws from religion. You will have zero freedom, you
will be beneath men, and you will be an object that can be thrown away if your
husband decides you have done something immoral. 1 Timothy 2:11-12 “Let a woman learn quietly
with all submissiveness. I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise
authority over a man: rather she is to remain quiet.” Genesis 3:16 “I will surely multiply your
pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall
be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.” 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 “The
women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak,
but should be in submission, and the Law also says. If there is anything they
desire to learn, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a
woman to speak in church.” Women have fought so hard to have rights, which are
still not the same as men, and yet are fighting to have our laws reflect the
laws of the bible. Our ignorance in what truly lies in the bible is what is
destroying us.
When we are
having a bad day we turn to the scriptures that make us feel better. God having
planned our future, Jesus coming to save mankind, brotherly love, etc. That is
all well and good but we can’t gloss over the nasty parts just because we need
some comfort. We need to open our eyes and see the black and white. See that
holding on to religious dogma is harming our youth. Harming our country.
Dividing us beyond repair. When you start spouting verses about sexual
immorality and aiming them at our youth you are telling that young man or woman
that they are an abomination. You are telling them that they were created only
to serve as an example of satan’s power and what to avoid. That their lives
aren’t worth saving. That god created them only to burn them for all eternity
when they die. That is why the suicide rate is higher for LGBT youth vs the
general population. Why wait for your eternal damnation to start when it’s hell
on earth for you every day? Why suffer through bullying day in and day out to
become an adult who still has no rights and feels hated? Why suffer the pain,
shame, and anguish of telling your parents that you have fallen in love with
someone of the same gender when you know they will disown you? Death seems to
be the easier option because at least there is some question as to whether or
not they will in fact suffer eternal damnation.
I am fully aware
that this post will not change the popular opinion. I didn’t write it for you.
I wrote it for all those men, women, boys, and girls out there who feel alone
right now. Who feel that death is a better option. Who feel like they were born
an abomination. Who feel that they somehow did something wrong and don’t
deserve to be treated the same as everyone else. I want you to know that you
are not alone. You are not an abomination. You do deserve to be treated
equally. There will always be hate in this world. It’s one of mankind’s many
flaws. I believe though that there can be change. We can move forward and we
can better ourselves. We can look past the spiritual and focus on the human
behind the debate. We can decide to put equality before an outdated doctrine.
We can decide to love our fellow man and lift each other up. We can decide to
stop the violence, hate, and bigotry towards these men and women. We can take a
stand. I am and I hope you will too.
