In Reply to: Re: pro-homosexuality? posted by Mr. Don on August 08, 2004 at 14:33:06:
I deleted my post to you called PRO HUMAN because the Lord spoke to me a different way after my own red neck cooled down a few degrees. Yeah, I might have a lot of education, but I've also got a neck that can turn as red as the dirt in Covington County, Alabama, which is where my family's homeplace sets. I didn't come to my position on this really tough moral problem over night, and I don't expect you to change how you feel just because I'm up here in Ohio blowing off about it.
See, I don't worry that much about what the God of Abraham, Isaac & Jacob did to the Sodomites, because I don't believe the Sodomites in the 3rd century BC Middle East and the people who call themselves homosexuals in the 21st century AD North America are exactly the same folks. I think there's a serious case of mistaken identity happening. Those Sodomites didn't want to marry each other, they wanted to rape angels and fornicate anything they could get their hands on. Their sin wasn't in who they loved; the way I see it, their sin was in violence and lust. After I looked at it that way, I realized heterosexuals can be just as violent and lustful as homosexuals.
As far as this political issue being a spiritual problem for me, I'm one of those folks who always likes to ask, What would Jesus do? Jesus had all sorts of things to say about sin, and he never said one thing about homosexuality. He made sure to say violence and lust are sins, but he never said loving a person of the same sex is a sin.
I don't know whether you care that much about what Jesus taught in the Sermon on the Mount, but I meditate on those teachings nearly every day and I take them to heart. I just can't believe Jesus would vote to deny a man the same civil rights and economic privileges that I have just because that man might be one kind of sinner, and I'm another kind of sinner.
I admit I purposely got in your face about this by singing that line from Montgomery Gentry's albumn. That song really spoke to me the other night on TV. If you think about what Gentry's saying, it's really that we all need to live and let live, even if you feel like you're the one who's mostly getting the shaft. Maybe you think if gays get something you've got, you will lose what you've got. That's just not true. Anybody who says you'll be paying more for COBRA health insurance because of what it costs to give domestic partners health care coverage is jerking your chain and telling you a dirty lie.