Jesus and The Gays
I have a true story for you. A friend of a friend of mine was disowned from his family over a decade ago when he introduced them to the love of his life. So they moved across the country to "spare" the parents "the shame and disgrace." His parents never once contacted him though he tried to reconcile with them. He was a service to his community, a compassionate friend, a devoted lover and he was gay. When he died, the parents took everything, including the house that he and his partner had built together and had lived in together for over a decade.
It's not an unusual story.
I was raised Catholic. We prayed the rosary every night during the month of October, my parents did volunteer work at our church, we had dinner with the priests, the whole nine yards. Of course I am not in anyway Catholic or even Christian now and what I do believe in is irrelevant in this ranting. That said, I'm quite familiar with the stories of Jesus, his teachings and his life. It's an amazing story really. I seriously doubt he would approve of all the hype and propaganda carried on in his name. But that's a whole separate subject. The story goes that he hung out with the "different" people. Prostitutes, tax collectors, the shady and weird type - they type everyone condemned, the type that would ban together the insecure, righteous folk who needed a subject to blame and abuse, a release for their own inadequacies. (Well, I'm sure a lot of the men didn't hate the prostitutes, heheheh - but I doubt most of them were treated as human beings.) He supposedly understood love on a level none of us can even fathom.
I'm pretty damn sure he would have voted NO for Proposition 8.
*edit: I talked to my dad about this and he said Jesus would have hung out with them and then tell them to "sin no more". But you know what? No one really knows for sure what he thought or even if he existed, so who cares and my post is just a silly ranting!
You know MY vote.
It's not an unusual story.
I was raised Catholic. We prayed the rosary every night during the month of October, my parents did volunteer work at our church, we had dinner with the priests, the whole nine yards. Of course I am not in anyway Catholic or even Christian now and what I do believe in is irrelevant in this ranting. That said, I'm quite familiar with the stories of Jesus, his teachings and his life. It's an amazing story really. I seriously doubt he would approve of all the hype and propaganda carried on in his name. But that's a whole separate subject. The story goes that he hung out with the "different" people. Prostitutes, tax collectors, the shady and weird type - they type everyone condemned, the type that would ban together the insecure, righteous folk who needed a subject to blame and abuse, a release for their own inadequacies. (Well, I'm sure a lot of the men didn't hate the prostitutes, heheheh - but I doubt most of them were treated as human beings.) He supposedly understood love on a level none of us can even fathom.
I'm pretty damn sure he would have voted NO for Proposition 8.
*edit: I talked to my dad about this and he said Jesus would have hung out with them and then tell them to "sin no more". But you know what? No one really knows for sure what he thought or even if he existed, so who cares and my post is just a silly ranting!
You know MY vote.