Hello readers! So today I decided that I'm going to start a new corner of my blog. Where I will discuss topics that are popular and will share my point of view. I wanted to start this because recently I have realized that I have a lot of opinions on certain topics and would like to share them with y'all, but to distinguish it from my normal blog where I discuss my personal life and whatnot. SOOOOO, 1..2..3...LEGGO~!
Okay so recently, if you don't know, the Supreme Court ruled that same sex marriage is a right to all citizens, and that no state can discriminate and not allow a same sex couple to become legally married. Which is awesome, because it is a step that pushes America into real equality. Now this is a topic that can cause a lot of people to get emotional about. So before I fully begin, I am sorry if I offend anyone. That is not what I want to do, I just want to simply put my opinion out.
I was raised as a Roman Catholic. Meaning, from what my catechism classes taught me, being homosexual is a sin. It is not "natural" for a man and man, or a woman and woman to be in a relationship, let alone be married. That homosexual people are destined to go to hell, and that is the end of the story. HOWEVER, by my junior year of high school, I left the catholic church and just became a Christian. Now that might not make a difference to a lot of people, but for me there is a difference in the title, even though my relationship with God hasn't changed.
In this culture and society, it's hard to not have at least one friend or to know at least one person who is homosexual. Honestly, I know and am friends with many of them and I LOVE THEM! They are some of my closest friends and my life would honestly be dull without some of them in my life. I am unbelievably happy for my friends who are now able to be in a legal binding relationship. Where the government and workplaces are now forced to treat them like any other legal binding partnership. However, because of my personal religious beliefs, it is hard for me to view and call it a marriage. I would rather call it a legal binding partnership, because through my personal religious views, a marriage is between one man and one woman.
Now the day that the bill was passed, my friend was visiting my hometown to see his boyfriend and invited me out since we hadn't seen each other in a couple of weeks or so. Of course, them being a couple and being gay, we went to fourth street in Austin, which is the gay bar area. As we were standing outside waiting in line to enter one of the clubs, two men were "preaching" (aka yelling) at people in the line saying we were all damned to hell, that we needed to repent for our sins, and that we should feel ashamed. No offense, but that guy is an a-hole. FIRST of all, no where in the bible does it say that homosexual acts are any different from any other sins. A sin is a sin. Second of all, God states that he wants us to love each other. Show each other understanding and compassion. Where in the mix does telling someone that they're a disgrace and a spawn of devil fit in that? There is no love in those words. and lastly, I know God wants us to share his word, share him with others, but to go and preach to people who are out to have fun, to be with friends, to go where people who are (for the majority) homosexual, really the right time and place to do that? Especially when in reality you aren't truly sharing his word, you're just telling people that they are wrong and horrible people? I'm not God, but I don't believe that God would want us to condemn people in order to "share" his word and bring them closer to God. Instead God would want us to show the people through our actions, his compassion, care, understanding, and true love. If we were to show people, not only homosexuals, but every one, God's love through our actions wouldn't that be a better way of bringing people to him? As a relationship grows, you begin to ask each other questions and begin to flourish your friendship, and through that people can see how you live and how God affects your life and would want to follow suit.
Now, just to clarify as well. Being homosexual is NOT a choice. I'm pretty sure if it were a choice, people would not choose to be homosexual. For most people, if they come out, they are faced with discrimination, hate, inequality, on almost every corner of their lives. It isn't a disease either. It is just something that is a part of them. Homosexuality has been around for thousands and thousands of years. It isn't something new, but it isn't something that needs to be fixed either. Being a homosexual is not something that people should be afraid of and sadly many people are afraid of being homosexual. It's a sad thought, that people aren't truly being their amazing selves that God created because of their fear of not being accepted by loved ones. God created each and every one of us the way he wanted us to be. Some of us just aren't the "normal" that society thinks.
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