I go on Yahoo Answers, and some idiot posts his ignorant, inflammatory, and bigoted remarks about homosexuality, and links to a Traditional Values Coalition site “exposing” various “myths” about homosexuality. “Myths” such as the number of gay teen suicides, that gays really want the right to marry (and not to destroy society), and that gays are targeted for hate crimes.
See, now I want to go punch something/someone. I want to slap each of the members of the TVC in the face and say, “What the HELL are you thinking!” What needs to be done is that they need to be called out on the real motivation behind all of their statements, be it on child molestation or the fear of a “thought police” on hate crimes (how ironic that they can repress gays’ thoughts but let’s not deal with homophobic thoughts). Their revulsion at gay people. They can act all respectful, and talk about facts and figures and societal consequences, but the underlying issue — it makes them retch to think of non-hetero affection between people. And they want to get rid of it. If mass extermination were socially acceptable, that’s what they would want.
But it’s not acceptable to hate a person, and it’s not Christian to say something like that, so they make up lies about why the problem is homosexuality, and all of its negative consequences. All an elaborate pretext to convince themselves that their reaction is okay. Cognitive dissonance at its worst.
Don’t bother visiting the site. I’m not linking to it. It’s a big waste of time and gets you all mad for nothing. I don’t know why I do this to myself, going to these sites and getting myself all riled up over some idiots somewhere.
April 12, 2007 at 9:28 pm
OK. I’m an evangelical Christian . . . and I accept the traditional view of the Scripture and the Church that homosexual behavior is a sin.
BUT . . . I am sick and tired of conservative Christians picking it out as “the sin of all sins” and somehow figuring it to be the great bane that is destroying their precious western, Judeao-Christian culture.
Here’s a thought: people should only be allowed to talk about; perhaps even pontificate about a topic only if they personally know and are involved in a relationship with someone who has been impacted by that particular subject/problem/sin. A lot of conservative Christians would have to shut their mouths about a wide range of issues. Hiding behind the brick walls of the church in Bible studies and committee meetings keeps us from interacting with people in the very ways that Jesus interacted with them and also calls us to interact with the folks around us. It becomes much harder to view something in such black and white terms when its mixed with the life of an actual person you care about. In fact, when it gets mixed up into the life of someone you know, you just might be driven to find out what real love looks like!
April 13, 2007 at 4:22 am
Yes, well said! Just look at Jesus — he hung out with Samaritans, women of ill repute, and tax collectors. And then look at the Pharisees’ reactions to that.