Ok so I'm walking to work this morning and I hear bagpipes, so I follow the sound wondering what it is and I see this big red banner and these guys in crew cuts and suits with like red capes with big signs that say Honk if you support God's true marriage, handing out flyers. and something about it hit a nerve. I was reminded of the HJ, which may not be fair to these boys and men, but never the less, I was. I'm not gay, and I don't support Gay marriage or the Gay lifestyle. I wish it weren't an issue, I wish our society was not so fallen than we reached the point where sodomy is a-ok where it was a sin in scripture. I think all sins are the same and I think God does too, the main problem I have with the Gay lifestyle is that so many people think it's not a sin, it's not a problem, and that I'm ignorant for thinking it is. ( I got nicknamed hitler by a few kids in high school for my beliefs, not really what you want, but in the end I realized it was their ignorance of my beliefs that led them to that conclusion)
anyways so these guys are handing out pamphlets and talking up the one true marriage, btwn 1 man and 1 woman, which I believe in, so why was a so upset? I think it was the way they were doing it, all men and boys, dressed as I already described chanting the "truth" about gay marriage. I know gay people, I have friends who have chosen that lifestyle and while I don't agree or condone it, I know how hurt they would be at a demonstration like that, but then again, do some of that community take into account how I feel when they destroy my views on marriage and the family? It wasn't like they were standing out there saying they hated gays or that these people should be eliminated, I just wasn't sure if that was too far from what some of them might think. but again, I suppose I'm judging and I shouldn't.
The thing is I can't agree with people who say you aren't born that way. I've known too many people struggle with their identity and really struggle with the feelings they have for the opposite sex in much the same way I struggle with lust to think they just choose it. Do I think they sometimes choose the "easy way out" and rather than fight the urge, go along with it, and think it's ok? yeah, but then how easy is that choice really?
I guess I'm not entirely sure how I feel about those guys on the corner, I wish I could have a better understanding of it, could understand why we let ourselves let sin in to such and extent that it takes over our identity. but we're flaud and we need God, and I hope that message is portrayed in those pamphlets on the street. I hope it's spread mouth to mouth, I hope it's shown in how we live and how we love, but I don't think it is nearly as much as it should be.
