Many people struggle with the idea of right and wrong. How you should live, what is considered a "sin." This gets especially complicated when the Bible is brought into it.
In the Christian religion, the Bible dictates what is right and wrong. Many people who are anti-gay use passages like Leviticus 18:22 and Corinthians 6: 9-10 to combat gay activists. But the Bible also says other ridiculous things like men should not trim their side burns (Leviticus 19:27) and we shouldn't eat pigs or rabbits but we are allowed to eat crickets and grasshoppers (Leviticus 11:4-7 and 20-22). Many people who are both Christian and gay, struggle with the Bible's dictations throughout their life. As both a lesbian, and someone raised Methodist, I have come to conflict with the Bible on a few occasions, and am constantly battered with its verses by my father. As a person, a woman just trying to figure life out, I am utterly confused by the daunting prospects of right and wrong.
I was arguing with my father one day about how gays are just people and they love the same sex the same way heterosexuals love the opposite sex and he had a very good point.
Yes, we should love one another regardless, but we were made to procreate with the opposite sex and we should choose to be with and marry the opposite sex.
Many gays argue their attraction to the same sex is natural and they are made that way. I know my attraction to women is not a choice, but me decision to peruse the attraction and to be with a woman is my choice.
So my battle with myself begins; would I be happy with someone of the opposite sex? Is it right for me to be with someone of the same sex?
The lines to right and wrong are awfully blurry, but I hope someday I will be able to clarify them enough to find peace with myself and the partner I choose.
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ReplyDeleteFor what it's worth this idea of a line between being attracted to same sex and acting on same sex attraction is something that Christians have invented so that they may love the sinner and hate the sin. It assumes that two same sex people being together is a sin. Homosexuality being a sin wasn't even a topic until Aquinas got all upset about it, and there are plenty of sins in the Bible that Christians completely ignore. There is a great website I think it's called God Made Me Gay and the Baptist minister who write it is named Bruce something or other. Anyway, I just happened on your blog and I hope that you take my comment as it is meant to sort of let you off some crazy hook that isn't real. I'm posting as anonymous but my email is w.dervish@gmail.com Good luck to you!
This is a great post, and I heartily agree with you. In fact, it is this post that brought me to your site. Anyways, I found your blog, because I am starting up a networking community for writers, readers, and supporters of the LGBT community called Everything LGBT. I would love it if you would joing and share the link with whomever you can. I might even like you to do a guest post on it, once we get up and running. Thanks.
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