Homosexuality is a very controversial issue at best.  Talking about it is like walking on egg shells. We as a nation have become very PC, with a slip of the tongue you can lose your job as well as you reputation. This issue has come full circle, as of late, and taken over the airwaves:

  • Four teens kill themselves within a week
  • A school board member goes on a tirade against gay people

We as a people, as a nation, have to learn to understand our differences. I personally don’t agree with the act or the lifestyle but that doesn’t mean I’m going to march or picket against their cause. For the most part I believe in our personal freedoms and that we can agree to disagree.

If a certain group of people disagree with homosexuality the press represents them as homophobes but heterosexuals, on the other hand, don’t have to use disparaging comments about them either. No one’s lifestyle should be forced on another but tolerance is needed. But tolerance can’t be taught, it’s a part of our genetic make up.  Ostracising the church for its stance on homosexuality is confusing and while we don’t get into religion too much on this blog, the Bible does say a lot about the issue of this alternate lifestyle and considers it to be an abomination, the strongest word used.

Having said that, though, people must  be allowed to be free and although I personally disagree with gays getting married, I believe churches need to be more loving and use the old cliché  “Hate the sin, love the sinner.” If you keep kicking them (gays) in the head, they will never want to listen to your brand of love. You as a person can’t change anyone’s habit but you can  invite them in and allow the holy spirit to do its part.

Websites such as GodHatesFags, do nothing to bring anyone to their fellowship. If your preaching is full of hate and bias you make God’s word of no effect. God also has something to say about taking his word out of context.

I remember watching “Relax, It’s Just Sex,” a movie I caught  late one Friday night on HBO.  I hate to be a spoiler but I have to,  hell I don’t think ten people saw the movie. At the end of the movie a group of young kids were heckling a group of gays. One of the players from the group, an author, was fed up with being scared. He chased down and caught one of the hecklers; a young man.  He held him from the back and did the unthinkable.  After having been beaten up and bullied by this group; his action for the moment seemed legitimate . The young man’s worst nightmare had come to light, being over-powered by the one you’ve made powerless. Again tolerance is needed, we as a nation have overcome many issues and will survive many more.

Update: This just in… a Pentagon study backs an end to don’t ask, don’t tell policy, what will Congress do with this information?

John Jones

The  NON-Conformist