God and Gays (A Letter to the Editor) What do think???

Question

We need to learn to be open minded enough to discuss this issue based on rational grounds. I do not feel that homosexuality is a manifastation of a deficit in character or emotional or mental ability. A person who is gay or has gay tendencies may be "wired" differently from birth. I know this is a throw back to the nature versus nurture argument.

We must come to grips with the reality that the human sexuality is the most complex of any animal. This is probably because we as humans have the most complex and higly evolved minds. Therefore, unlike most species our sexual envolvement is not simply an act of procreation but it is also an expression of love and communication on a very intimate level. Sometimes our interest or connection with others does not come in the package of the opposite gender.

In addition, the psychologists "Freud and Erikson" suggest that the lines human sexuality are not clearly marked. (Most people are not 100% heterosexual or 100% homosexual) Most people are some where right or left of center along a continuem.


Culture, tradition and religion has created taboos that have discriminated against certain groups based on unrational grounds. We all know that homosexuality will never be normal or normative behavior in western and especial American culture. However, homosexuality should not be viewed as an act or a transgression against God and Humanity.

I know that many of you are going to tow the line with a literalistic interpretation of scripture from the Old Testament to the New Testament. However, I will caution you, that the same scriptures were used to justify African/African American oppression from Leviticus, to the Letters of Paul. So I do not think that we should use, misuse and abuse the Sacred scriptures to justify anyone elses oppression; homosexuals.

We must be broad minded enough to look at the big picture. The cooresponding theme from the Old Testament to the New Testament is a theme of Liberation. In a literal since, in the Old Testment, the Bible talks about the Liberation of a wayward people who are looking to a Messiah to help them re-establish the Kingdom of Yehwah and deliver them from their multiple international enemies. The Gospel shares with us a Savior who will bring this Kingdom down through an act of LOVE, which led to His death on the Cross!!!! (John 3:16)
(Yes, Jesus died to liberate his people and all people)


I believe that we should share in the mission of the Long awaited Messiah. We should embrace God's Kingdom, expressed through Jesus Christ and share it with others. Abernachy called The Kingdom, "God's Beloved Kingdom."

One way to share in the Kingdom of God is to untie ourselves from the cultural and religious chains that oppress other people. We need to fight for the cause of liberation of everyone even if it leads to our own cross and blood shed.

To me the topic homosexuality is not a issue of sin, but it is a issue of SOCIAL JUSTICE. GOD'S PEOPLE ARE BEING OPPRESSED THROUGH DRACONIAN LAWS THAT PROHIBIT THEM FROM LEGAL MARRIAGE AND THE ABILITY TO ADOPT CHILDREN IN MOST STATES.

WE NEED TO SHARE GOD'S BELOVED KINGDOM TO ALL WHO ARE OPPRESS AND THIS INCLUDES HOMOSEXUALS.

Answer 1

Patience, patience.

The history of America has always been a struggle between its higher ideals of justice and tolerance and the uglier side of anti-intellectualism, superstition and ignorance.

Less than 50 years ago, blacks were being hung by vigilantes in the South, and books deemed "pornographic" were being burned by police and postal authorities---books today that are read in most colleges and recognized as great works of art. J Edgar Hoover was drawing up a list of 12,000 "traitors" to be arrested with benefit of due cause or evidence

So progress in the perfection of humanity is one of two steps forward and one step back. This cycle is very recognizable in American history. The Civil War was one of these, the end of child labor another, womens' sufferage, benefits for veterans, etc. etc.

In 2007, we are in the "one step back' period of fundamentalism, fear, superstition and lack of education.

None other than Ulysses S. Grant himself said that if another Civil War were to be fought in America, it would not be about states rights or self-government or economics, but rather a struggle of enlightenment against superstition and ignorance.

let's hope that doesn't have to happen. But even if it did, the morally superior side will win out, and America, after much pain, will again be a better place than it was, living in ignorance and superstition.

Amen and a Merry Christmas to all, white, black, brown, straight gay smart stupid beautiful deformed liberal conservative rich poor legal illegal--this is our boat and we are all in it and all are the children of creation.

Answer 2

"God's people are being oppressed through draconian laws that prohibit them from legal marriage and the ability to adopt children in most states". This statement is wrong on nearly every account.
Homosexuals are not "God's people". God's people are those that believe in God and LIVE BY HIS TENANTS.
Homosexuals are not oppressed. If same sex marriage is "normal", why can't they reproduce?
Scientific data shows that children do better with a father and a mother, thus the adoption restriction in some states.

Answer 3

I accept as true with you one hundred%. The hassle of homosexuality isn't relavant to God's kingdom, or so I consider. I consider that God made us homosexuals that approach, and after ENORMOUS quantities of research, I have come to the perception that the Bible is relatively transparent that it's NOT anti-gay, as we understand it at present. And I discover it EXTREMELY ironic that Lion of Judah says that folks quote verses out of context, after which does EXACTLY that with Leviticus (which in context outlaws pagan gay rituals)! I relatively want a few folks could spend time studying the Bible and letting the spirit advisor them, than effortlessly no longer taking the time to realize the problems and context. I wager they simply choose the convenient approach out

Answer 4

You say being a queer is not an issue of sin !!! WRONG ! Queers & lesbians commit the utimate abomination of sin when they choose that lifestlye , and "NO SIN" will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven !! For those who say "being queer is natural " , then I say to you if that were true then there would be no more lesbians & queers as they cannot reproduce their own kind and would have become extinct after their first generation . Which that being true means that queers & lesbians would be the only 2 specis ever known that cannot reproduce their own kind ! Queers and lesbians` will only get into heaven by removing themselves from that sinful lifestyle and asking for forgiveness from God ! It`s not about what you "think" is fair , and it` not about " what you think" period ; it`s about what God has said , and being queer is against God`s Design of Nature !!!

Answer 5

Being a pervert is not normal.... PERIOD. Why do liberals and butt pirates want to teach young children that it is an alternate life style. It is sick and should be kept in the closet! Your disgusting sexual sexual practices do not produce human life (there are rumors that it produces liberals and criminal defense attorney's), most people are sick of your types trying to justify your perversion as normal, it isn't. Live your own life and stop pushing your way of life on the rest of us.

Answer 6

I give you props for putting your view onto paper in a nice letter. You have several spelling errors so I would go back through it carefully to weed them out. Personally, I still think homosexuality is 100% wrong because God clearly states that marriage is supposed to be between a man and a woman and he damned the transgressions of the people like Saddam and Gamorrah. But the letter was pretty good.

Answer 7

Well, for one thing, I think the letter is rather long, dry and repetitive.

Also, the [G]od stuff is over the top.

You make some very good points, and actually I agree with you. But this reads like an academic paper until it gets to the [G]od stuff, and then it gets overly emotional.

Try making it shorter, making it read more like a magazine article that you'd find in something like "Newsweek", and leaving out the [G]od stuff, and you might get it printed.

Answer 8

I agree with much of the sentiment.

I do not agree that bloodshed is a legitimate or practical way to reach a resolution.

If this is really a draft Letter to the Editor, to be sent to some publication, please review and correct spelling and punctuation, and get your capitalization under control. (And the expression is "toe the line," not "tow the line.") Get help with that if you can't do it reliably yourself.

Answer 9

So what you are saying is that those of us who believe homosexual acts to be a sin, should be willing to give up going to heaven just so we can make people happy here on earth.

Answer 10

Interestingly David criticizes you for your spelling yet he blatantly misspells the name of the city of Sodom.

If we look at history we find that homosexuality is okay in some societies while others it is taboo. Ours, because of our very conservative and does not allow for anything but toeing the line very strictly. As we learn we find ourselves becoming less strict and more loving and forgiving of our fellow humans. We find that one does not need to be homosexual to allow others to be so. As long as each does our own thing and worry about what we do and not try to make others like us we get along much better.

I am not homosexual but if someone else is, for whatever reason, that is THEIR business not mine. So long as they don't try to include me in their sexual activities, subtlly or otherwize I don't care.

Churches are often slow to catch on to new ideas and scientific facts. But that is okay because they are faith based not necessarily fact based.