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So i was reading an article about a Presbyterian Minister changing his opinions and the way he views homosexuality now. You see, as a Minister of a church, and being brought up in an environment whereby homosexuality is seen as a sin, i would say it's reasonable for some people to hate it blindly. Blindly with misguided faith.
Many a times, you'd realize how many Christians or Catholics or any other religions might use bible as a source of reference for the "homosexuality is a sin" debate but have any of them actually sat down to read and research into the true meaning behind each sentence in the bible?
Liken to an article i read at: HUQueerPress
It's actually an interesting site i stumbled upon when i was reading tweets about how Harding University (whereby the students who created the site are from) blocked this very website just cause it contains homosexual contents. And for god's sake, these homosexual contents has nothing but words and recounts of gay students at the university and how they deal with issues. Nothing sexual, nothing offensive and definitely nothing worth blocking.
If anything, it should be publicized, considering how this site and the posts it contains, will help gay youths to discover themselves, deal with the issue themselves (for most of them are much more alone than you think they are sometimes) and thereby, handle their coming out much more appropriately. Considering the hike in suicide cases of gay youths, i would say this website is definitely an aid.
It's really worth reading. Fucking interesting piece on Bible interpretations on homosexuality, which will come in handy if you'd love to argue with bigots when they quote on the bible. ;)
What caught my attention was this article which states how each interpretation about homosexuality being a sin is actually misread, or taken at literal value. The bible is an article, a literature relating the words of God. Why would such wisdom be spoken in words meant to be taken literally?
Also, to take into mind the context of the situation whereby the words are being said, it was in ancient times where certain situations made sense and certain words made sense. But these words only made sense if it's spoken in that context and during that era.
I shall not spoil the article for you, go take a peek: http://huqueerpress.com/the_zine.html
Anyway, back to the article on the Minister claiming he was wrong for preaching against homosexuality.
His article made me think. Why do you believe in your religion? What is the basis of Christianity, or any other religion for that matter? Why do you go to church for? Is it for a sole purpose of hatred and a communion of people with the same goal of going against homosexuality? Or is the very purpose of your religion, of going to church, stemmed out from something positive in the first place?
The funny thing is, how much money is wasted by Christian organizations during the fight against homosexuality when the very basis of these organizations was to help the poor, feed the hungry and provide shelter for the homeless. When these money can be used for greater good, they use it for a fight against homosexuality. Indeed, you might believe homosexuality to be wrong, but from what it seems like, these organizations seem to exist now just for the sole sake and purpose of going against homosexuality, which doesn't make sense or good anymore. It loses its good nature and seems to exist for a reason of hate. Digression into fighting against homosexuality seems to now be it's greater goal in mind.
You don't go to church just to riot and vote against homosexuality. Do you even remember why you visit a church for? For prayers, for gatherings, to give thanks and to seek forgiveness. You don't go to a church to find hate. You don't go to a church to spread hate. You certainly don't go to a church to condemn someone. Someone you probably never ever taken a single minute of your time to try and understand. Someone you were told to hate ever since you grew up and you don't even have a legitimate reason to hate. Someone you never knew. Someone whom you judge as someone not deservingly as important and as significant as you are. Someone who probably don't even know why he/she was hated so badly and don't even know what he/she did wrong.
And another point raised up by the article, was how straight couples have their issues of marriages. Divorces. Divorces certainly don't uphold any sanctity of marriage. Should these people be condemned too? (Personally i don't think so, people make mistakes and mistakes, so long it's learned and amended, should be forgiven.)
Lastly, i love the theory that the Minister in the article believes. He stated how homosexuality was judged because it was easier to be judged. Let's say, if people are being judged by lust or greed, as a societal and religion benchmark, many people would certainly have fallen below the bar, considering that most people actually struggled with these issues. However, if i'm straight, it's easy and with definite confidence for me to say that i'll never have to struggle with any odds of "going gay", and thereby, judging the homosexuals would be an easier job cause it will then be definitely about them, and not myself. Get it?
It made perfect sense. People are not perfect. We all have lust, greed and all the heck of other sins we're committing each and every day. We make mistakes. But sometimes, when some people would like to cover up their tracks and their faults, it's easier for them to do so by directing the attention unto someone else. And whether or not that group of people have made any mistake, the first one to call always wins. And in this case, these people called "homosexuality a sin" before anyone else has a say and judged it.
Homosexuality is not a sin. But hatred and spreading of it, i believe, is. Stop spreading something about someone you don't even know a thing about. Take your time, we understand, to understand us first. Maybe you'll see we're not any different from who you are.
Jallen
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