Disapproval is not hate, tolerance is not acceptan

Does God hate gays? NO! Is it okay to be gay? NO! The radical homosexual lobby and some members of the religious right both need to get a clue in this area: disapproval is not hate!! Not embracing someone’s lifestyle is not hatred. Jesus NEVER told his followers to hate anyone. His attitude was to hate the sin but love the sinner, oppose the sin but show compassion to the sinner. And in this case love does not mean attraction but benevolence. It is true that the bible indicates that God created sex for marriage and makes it clear that marriage is to be done between a man and a woman. Of course God will not use a double standard on judgment day, heterosexual fornicators, adulterers and rapists will be condemned by the same standard as gays. Macho jocks who hate gays but themselves are promiscuous and are turned on by lesbians will find themselves in for a shock when they stand before God and are judged as harshly as those that they hated. I sometimes see footage of rallies where people on one side hold up a sign saying “ It’s okay to be gay” and on the other side someone else holds a sign that says, “ God hates fags”. Both signs are wrong!! It is not okay to be a homosexual or lesbian. Vertebrates are almost universally structured for heterosexuality so anything else is a disorder, whether humans, bonobos or penguins, vertebrates who exhibit homosexual or lesbian tendencies are suffering from a disorder. After all, animals get cancer and diabetes, why would they be immune to sexual disorders? Being gay is not like being left handed, it is more like being schizophrenic or anorexic or bulimic or a cutter. It is ludicrous to treat a disorder as if it was normal, but no one should be persecuted or oppressed for having a disorder either. I am schizophrenic; I have a brother who is a homosexual and another brother who is bi-polar, bulimic and a cutter. None of us were born that way and we didn’t choose to be that way either. These are disorders, forms of mental illness. We should not be punished for something that we did not choose, but it would be silly to say that we are normal either. It is not normal for a man to be sexually attracted to another male, it is not normal to hear voices in your head telling you to kill people (I don’t do what the voices tell me because I know the difference between right and wrong), It is not normal for a woman or girl to starve herself into emaciation and look in the mirror and think that she is fat, It is not normal for a woman to be sexually attracted to another female, It is not normal to eat a large meal and then deliberately induce vomiting ( and in a world where people are starving that waste of food is as obscene as sodomy). There is a difference between a disorder and a sin: homosexuality is a disorder, sodomy is a sin. Schizophrenia is a disorder, killing sprees are a sin. Some people will probably bring up David and Jonathan in the bible so I will deal with that now: they were not gay, nor were they bisexual. They were two heterosexual men who had an intimate friendship. Not all intimacy is sexual. In our culture it is more common for heterosexual women to have intimate platonic friendships than for heterosexual men to, but in some ancient cultures men could have an intimate platonic relationship as well. When the apostle Paul told Christians to “greet one another with a holy kiss” he was referring to a platonic greeting common at that time. (And how many people have a clue what “ holy” means these days, it has nothing to do with sex and it has nothing to do with fesces either.) There is a difference between a holy kiss and a romantic or sexual kiss. A kiss that would make someone uncomfortable would not be holy, in our culture heterosexual men don’t greet each other that way. In the gospel according to Matthew 19:5-12 Jesus taught on human sexuality and endorsed only two sexual lifestyles: heterosexual marriage and the asexual lifestyle of a eunuch. According to His teaching there were three types of eunuch: those who are born that way (due to a deformity in the testacles which prevented sexual function) those who are made that way by men (through castration) and those who make themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of Heaven (those who give up sexuality to pursue a spiritual life more fully.) Obviously there is a difference between homosexual and asexual. I personally don’t believe that anyone is born gay or lesbian, most of the homosexuals that I have known became that way because of a lack of natural affection from their parents, emotional rejection from their fathers or sexual abuse from another male when they were young. Most of the lesbians that I have known of became that way because of sexual abuse when young. I don’t believe they are stuck that way either, no one could accuse the Kinsey Institute of being part of the religious right but they did a survey in which a number of both heterosexuals and homosexuals responded saying that they had changed their orientation multiple times in their lives. While I oppose the radical gay agenda I believe that most homosexuals and lesbians need compassion and understanding rather than persecution. Most don’t choose to be that way anymore than schizophrenics and manic-depressives did. I am heterosexual but I would rather be monosexual (exclusively attracted to the one woman right for me) and asexual towards everyone else. That way I could admire women’s bodies without desiring them and admire the human body for it’s pure aesthetic quality just as I admire (in an asexual way) the beauty of animals, plants, machines (for example: sportscars), art, architecture, or the beauty of the cosmos: the full moon, starry nights, rainbows, sunrises and sunsets, etc. The only being that I want to desire or lust for is the one woman that God has destined for me.

I have a brother who is a homosexual and he has attended his share of gay pride parades. While I must reiterate that I oppose unprovoked violence against homosexuals and lesbians some things need to be said: No amount of legislation, no parade, no amount of “education” will ever change nature, homosexuality will NEVER be equal to heterosexuality. Schizophrenia will never be equal to sanity; anorexia and bulimia will never be equal to proper digestive health. Once when my brother was at a gay pride parade I had a conversation with Spiritsfire and a woman that we both know. We jokingly discussed the various ramifications of such an event. The conversation that followed will no doubt be offensive to some but I will say it anyway. What if I organized a schizophrenia pride parade: we could march down the street chanting slogans that we hear from the voices in our heads. Or an anorexia pride parade: several emaciated women marching along bitching about how fat they are. Or a bulimia pride parade: mount some toilets on wheels… the less said about that the better. Or a lycanthropy pride parade: they could march along occasionally sniffing the ankles of people on the sidelines and howling. My point is that while no one should be persecuted or oppressed for having a disorder it is idiotic to pretend that it is natural or normal to be that way and showing pride in having a disorder is ludicrous to the

extreme. Pride (that is to say, haughty arrogance) goes before a fall and the judgment of God will be most heavy on those who wallow in their sins and are proud of it. Homosexuality is a disorder, sodomy is a sin. What if other people had parades to show their pride in their sin: think about a pride parade for murderers or thieves or embezzlers or (this would be extremely offensive to anyone with any amount of common sense or decency) pride parades for rapists or child molesters. How long can America continue to give God the finger and get away with it? I oppose oppression of homosexuals and lesbians but at the same time we need to realize that tolerance and acceptance are NOT the same thing; while we should be tolerant of people with disorders we should not practice acceptance of things that are not right. God does not hate homosexuals, lesbians or bisexuals but does hate the lifestyle that they are trapped in.