Activist Tip: Reversing Anti-Gay "Christian" Talking Points
Next
time you hear anti-gay forces try to speak their "truth",
let them know how hypocritical their philosophy of hate and misunderstanding
really is.
Religion is a lifestyle choice, homosexuality is not.
The religious-right often says that homosexuality is a choice,
when clearly the science and common sense is in that nobody would
choose to feel ostracized, be a minority, or lead a life where
they weren't given equal opportunities.
Judgment and hate are sinful, loving gay couples are not.
The people who use the Bible as a tool to preach anti-gay hate
often point fingers accusing gay people of being sinners. What
they fail to realize is that the Bible is not to be taken literally,
homosexuality is no more a sin, than being left handed, it is natural
and God given, it is people in the context of an ancient culture
who misunderstood homosexuality that wrote these verses. For those
who take a literal interpretation it is ironic that they rail against
LGBT people while failing to remember the Bible says not to judge
or to hate, but to love thy neighbor as thyself.
To walk in the way of Jesus is to reach out to LGBT people.
Jesus Christ made it his mission not to follow religious dogma
and authority, he did not seek to reach out to the rich or those
in power. He set out to befriend and assist the poor, the weak,
the disabled, and disenfranchised. Jesus would clearly be reaching
out to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.
Religion seeks to recruit people into its lifestyle, LGBT people
don't.
Right-wing elements within organized religion often claims that
gays are trying to "recruit people into their lifestyle" but
last I checked one cannot alter a straight persons orientation.
We seek to educate, dialogue and gain equality not in an effort
to turn people gay but turn peoples hearts and minds into seeing
that we share the same hopes, and fears, and love that everyone
else does. If anyone is on a mission to recruit people into their
lifestyle it would be organized religion and their missionaries.
These groups seek to convert people into their way of thinking,
which they see as the only way. The beauty of this Earth is that
there are many ways to find inner peace and spirituality, and that
there is a diversity of thought and of culture and to find God
or to have no Gods at all.
by Queers United Blog
Originally Posted Wednesday, March 11, 2009 12:32pm
