Firstly I want to apologize for the many grammatical errors that i’m sure this post has, and for it being the messiest post that you will ever read as well. I totally suck at writing, please bear with me.
So In light of everyone and their moms rating my previous post as shit, I figured i'd spend a little more time on this post.
We Christians here in America believe in the Bible and what it says. Most Christians believe the Bible is the inherent word of God. A lot of American Christians also believe that this country of ours was started by Christian men to escape from religious persecution and to have the freedom to worship God as they saw fit according to the Bible. Most of the people in America at that time believed in God and so naturally He was incorporated into our government, it wasn't ever even disputed in those times, but slowly and surely America has become "smarter" and no longer believes in this God. We don't need to because we have science to prove everything now. Well shockingly as it may be, there are still some of us dumb fucks around that still believe in God, and that Christian morals should still be incorporated into the government and that Christians can’t be tolerant of rulings that go against the Bible.
It's amazing to me how much everyone talks about Freedom to make a personal choice, but then you make one and everyone hates you for it and gladly expresses to you how stupid you are for making that choice. No one is allowed to speak against things they think are wrong anymore. Especially if it's against gays, evolutionism, or any widely accepted thing, that not so long ago wasn't even questionable. If you do, immediately you can be charged with a hate crime against that person and are stamped as someone that is a hater and just hates everyone. Just take Houston Texas for example. The mayor of Houston, Annise Parker, attempted to subpoena 5 different Houston pastors. It stated that any of their sermons dealing with homosexuality, gender identity, or the cities Equal Rights ordinance that were to be preached had to be approved by herself before they could legally be preached. It was soon dropped because of the absurdity of the subpoena, but a lot of people backed her in this. Later Governor Abbott signed a Pastors Protection Act to protect pastors freedom of speech and fundamental rights as an American. That means that homosexuals are so much protected that you can’t even express your thoughts on the subject without the people that disagree with you fighting you legally. Talk about freedom being abolished right there.
So for me, my parents raised me very differently than most of you were raised. They raised me to believe in the Bible and that it is the Inherent Word of God. In this book it states that one man should not lay with another man, and a women should not lay with another women. So that is what I believe. Fuck me, right!? Now a lot of you have stated the verse that says that the second greatest commandment is to love your neighbor as yourself. And that by doing so you should accept everything that your neighbor does and agree with him in doing so. That is not the case nor is it what that verse means. Now before I explain what this verse means according the the Scriptures, let me remind you of the verse before that and what God says is the greatest commandment, that being to Love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, and soul. That means that you must grow close to God and Love Him. As Christians we do this through His Word and prayer. In the Bible it sates that homosexuality is a sin. Therefore if we truly love God then we as Christians cannot tolerate what he does not tolerate. Homosexuality falls under that. Now moving on to the next verse. Let me explain this point for so many of you that have quoted this verse. I am called by God to love everyone with His love. That's very hard to do and for me as a Christian I believe it is my greatest struggle. How can I love everyone in the world equally? And even if I can what does the word "Love" truly mean? For me as a Christian I must look at it from Gods perspective as best as I can. So I turn to the Bible and pray to God for answers, as a Christian that is what i'm called to do. Most of you that do not believe there is a god are thinking this guy is a fucking tard at this point, but please for my sake keep in mind this is how I was raised and what I believe today. From what I have found Gods love is much greater than I can imagine as a finite human being that I am. But what I can tell you is that I strive to do my best to Love everyone equally no matter what they are, or what they do. Now the world has the interpretation of Love as being something like no matter what someone does I will support them and I will accept their actions and beliefs, and I will fight for them in what ever they do. I have as a Christian have a different interpretation of Love. I cannot agree and just blindly follow what everyone says or does. I have a sister that thought she liked girls at one point and had a girlfriend. My dad was very upset about it and didn't want to accept her in my family anymore. This is the wrong reaction, and I still to this day tell him that it was wrong of him as a professing Christian to do something like that. I and my mom (my mom is my role model in life BTW) on the other hand talked and saw my sister as she had a girlfriend. My conversations if they ever lead to it were always that there was nothing she could do to stop me from loving her, and having her in my life, and I mean it. Now at the same time I expressed how I did not believe she was living how God would want her to live, and that you cannot enter into a relationship with Christ openly and proudly in sin. In the Bible it says Homosexuality is a sin, so that is what I believe. Fuck me for believing that, right? At the same time I have a brother in jail for 35 years for raping a 10 year old girl over the course of a year. This one is very hard for me, and when I mean hard I mean I am in sin because I, at this point in my life, cannot love my brother despite what he did. I haven't spoken to him since he was found out. My mom on the other hand still speaks to him and the girl he raped, and they both know this. Now don't confuse the fact that my mom talks with my brother as accepting him and what he did, because she doesn't. And even she has a hard time with it, but she knows as a Christian we are supposed to be representatives of Christ and His love. So she writes him and talks over the phone with him when he is allowed to. My mom is the only person outside of jail he has spoken to since he has been in there and it has already been several years. My dad refuses to talk with him and openly thinks he should be shot over what he did. Again, not the right reaction. Here in lies something that I believe everyone in the world is bad at. The thought that "I" am better than my brother or the next person. Sadly I am not. I am just as capable of sinning just as much as he is. Maybe not in the same way, but in other ways. Like I cannot love my brother. That is a sin, and it's even a sin that I openly put aside and think I am justified in. This is a problem for me, because now I cannot call myself a Christian in this aspect of my life. So all of this was for me to try and explain my thinking, as fucked up as most of you will see this, it is how I was raised from birth and it is what I think now. Jana being a lesbian doesn't make me hate her, I cannot hate someone for their actions if I am a professing Christian. Hate is a sin as well. I am however supposed to share with her and everyone else in the world Gods love, and in that I cannot stand with some peoples actions or decisions. Again just in case you lost me in there that doesn't mean I hate them or even dislike them. So when the few of us speak up and say we do not agree with the decision of allowing Homosexuals to be legally married is because we see that as an open sin, and we as representatives of Christ must make it known that we cannot agree with rulings like this. I work for a Fire Department, and when I first started I worked on the ambulance. When you work in this service long enough you start seeing a lot of people multiple times, mostly with the same complaint every time. One of these people was an open lesbian. I can't say exactly how many times I have taken her to the hospital, but I can remember 5 right off the bat. Do I care that she is a lesbian? Absolutely not. I treat her with just as much respect as I do everyone else. The fact that she's a lesbian doesn't even come up.
I think my point thus far is pretty much explained. I am not trying to convert any of you nor am I trying to make any of you change your thinking. All I am doing is trying to explain my point of view and hope that you will understand me a little better and not think i'm just a southern turd that just hates everyone that doesn't believe in what I think everyone should believe, because that isn't the case. The reason I stay here is because I respect what you believe and I feel that I can learn a lot from all of you. And I hope the feeling is mutual. If you made it this far, Thanks for reading!
