RE: A Christian group showed up at the Chigaco Gay Pride...
February 3, 2012 at 8:24 am
(This post was last modified: February 3, 2012 at 8:29 am by Whateverist.)
In actual fact gay youth in the world too often grow up hating themselves for what they are because they have been indoctrinated to feel as you do about it. They don't grow up and decide to join the hated group, they would never choose that given the what they've been raised to believe. It's just that they happen to be born gay. Being young and seeing no way out they too often choose to side with societal intolerance and end their own life.
Expressing the opinion that homosexuality is not okay has consequences. There certainly are more important matters in the world to concern ourselves with than the debate over the status of homosexuality .. but not to these gay suicides. You'd have to agree that for them this was the most important thing of all. So as long as it truly is so low on your list of priorities, perhaps you could deign to agree not to contribute to the atmosphere of intolerance which has this sad side effect. I won't ask you to join me in decrying the open expression of your homophobia as hate speech, but I think if you were a follower of Jesus instead of a bible driven Christian you'd make that choice yourself.
Expressing the opinion that homosexuality is not okay has consequences. There certainly are more important matters in the world to concern ourselves with than the debate over the status of homosexuality .. but not to these gay suicides. You'd have to agree that for them this was the most important thing of all. So as long as it truly is so low on your list of priorities, perhaps you could deign to agree not to contribute to the atmosphere of intolerance which has this sad side effect. I won't ask you to join me in decrying the open expression of your homophobia as hate speech, but I think if you were a follower of Jesus instead of a bible driven Christian you'd make that choice yourself.
