The president of our awesome nation Uganda categorically declared his ill feelings towards the gay community on international television. He said so after he’d signed off on the “anti-gay” bill.
Years ago, if I were asked whether this was right, I would, in my bigotry, condone and fully give of my entire resources to back this, our dear president up on grounds of my faith and the understanding there in.
To me, the concept of homosexuality was nothing short of a piece of hell on earth topped with disgust and abhorrence. I just simply couldn’t understand or give ear to the repugnant notion that homosexuality was anything but what I knew it to be. Filthy, revolting acts of disgrace that minimizes the importance of sex and reduce it to their levels of nascent behavior.
I in fact challenged a dear friend on this blog who was questioning the non-tolerance of Christians towards the gay community. I let her have it, poor thing.
While my feelings toward the sexual act itself haven’t changed one bit, everything else has. Yes. I may receive banter from the more conservative of my kind after this goes public but I must be clear on this. As a Christian, I am growing in the word and I understand it better. It is on my Christian moral principles that everything I am going to say here is based.
Whereas our dear president and all those he represents are right about the repulsive acts imbedded in homosexuality, while they are right in condemning it as un natural, I find criminalizing an individual, on grounds of their sexual orientation a tad bit much. It is one thing to be a criminal in terms of sex offenders, rapists, solicitors of juvenile prostitution, child trafficking and the rest of hell’s customs- completely another being thrown in jail because one has the proclivity toward the “forbidden”. Not to sound like an alarmist but it does bring a bit of fright my way to think that the state can determine, lawfully which sexual orientation one must fall under or be crushed by!
I am not an advocate for gay rights. ( to put to rest the minds that may have termed me as such already) I do see the sacredness of proper sexuality in light of the state. But the idea that I can dictate by law what orientation someone should be is a stretch. Just because I am uncomfortable with it doesn’t mean you must go to jail for it. Now I know the law is under amendment and there have been many inaccurate generalizations concerning it. But it is my hope that it protects and promotes the rights of the people, gay or not.
As a Christian, it is believed that ‘all have sinned’ and not one is righteous. It is believed that since the fall of mankind, SIN entered into the world and has remained to date. It is a common Christian belief that people are born SINNERs-People with a proclivity to endless sin and immeasurable evil.
If this is true of us, if one can be born a sinner, then I wouldn’t put it too far from truth that one can be born GAY. For we live in a fallen world with all its depravities, how would we know which evil is natural and which one is made… does it even matter?
“We don’t hate the Human beings, we hate the state of being.”
If we can be born with the possibility to be thieves, robbers, haters, prostitutes, liars and the like, then it is within the gays’ ballpark to be born that way.
I wouldn’t disagree with a homosexual individual that confesses how this is what he has always known.
I would treat them as I am called to treat any other sinner in need of the saving grace of our lord and Savior…
the conqueror of sin and death.
Eloquent Silences 