O LAWD SAVE ME! I am a homosexual sinner.
I can't accept a religion that champions missions of intolerance - to "save" the homosexuals, atheists, and all else who have other views. What of the people who really need saving? What of the poor, the dying, the starving? We can do that without religion. I have my own moral code, and it does not involve intolerance. I don't need religion to tell me how to be a "good" person.
I got a book from the library called Leaving Homosexuality - A practical guide for men and women looking for a way out. I thought it would be good for a laugh, but, it just pissed me off.
Instead of helping people overcome their fears of not being accepted and telling them that yes, homosexuality is ok and good, the book reinforces that no, homosexuality is wrong and that these terrible sinners should embrace Christianity. By doing that, their homosexuality will go away. Somehow?
There was a woman in the book talking about her struggle with lesbianism. She basically described her relationships with other women as "emotionally dependent" and that most other lesbian women's relationships were similar. She also said that most lesbian women had sexually abusive childhoods. So, let's think here...women become lesbians because they had a sexually abusive childhood? Is that correlation without causation? I did not have a sexually abusive childhood! I am absolutely A-OK! She also mentioned lacking an authority figure in her life, because her father wasn't very involved in her life. Uhm, so, the only authority figure in your life can be your father?
Also, she tried to pull in some psychoanalysis as well. She said that by being involved with other women, it satisfied a need to have a close relationship with another women because she was never close with her mother. "We then attempt to become the women we wish we were by connecting emotionally and sexually with other women who possess the qualities we want or who will embrace us the way we wish our mothers had. What we're left with instead of love and appreciation for women is an internalized hatred of our idea of women or of the feminine."
Uhm, wow, that was pretty Freudian.
She also encouraged lesbians to dress more femininely, because that would make them feel more feminine, because, gosh, you know, all lesbians are big butch bull dykes with mullets.
I just...I give up. I am not going to be humored by this book.
I got a book from the library called Leaving Homosexuality - A practical guide for men and women looking for a way out. I thought it would be good for a laugh, but, it just pissed me off.
Instead of helping people overcome their fears of not being accepted and telling them that yes, homosexuality is ok and good, the book reinforces that no, homosexuality is wrong and that these terrible sinners should embrace Christianity. By doing that, their homosexuality will go away. Somehow?
There was a woman in the book talking about her struggle with lesbianism. She basically described her relationships with other women as "emotionally dependent" and that most other lesbian women's relationships were similar. She also said that most lesbian women had sexually abusive childhoods. So, let's think here...women become lesbians because they had a sexually abusive childhood? Is that correlation without causation? I did not have a sexually abusive childhood! I am absolutely A-OK! She also mentioned lacking an authority figure in her life, because her father wasn't very involved in her life. Uhm, so, the only authority figure in your life can be your father?
Also, she tried to pull in some psychoanalysis as well. She said that by being involved with other women, it satisfied a need to have a close relationship with another women because she was never close with her mother. "We then attempt to become the women we wish we were by connecting emotionally and sexually with other women who possess the qualities we want or who will embrace us the way we wish our mothers had. What we're left with instead of love and appreciation for women is an internalized hatred of our idea of women or of the feminine."
Uhm, wow, that was pretty Freudian.
She also encouraged lesbians to dress more femininely, because that would make them feel more feminine, because, gosh, you know, all lesbians are big butch bull dykes with mullets.
I just...I give up. I am not going to be humored by this book.