Gays, Lesbians, Christians and Others

Here's my take on the gay/lesbian issue (as though you asked for it, which you didn't):

First, it is LESS than what God intended for humanity
      Point A:  so is predatory heterosexual behavior
      Point B:  so is gossip, backbiting, lying, cheating, treating other humans with less than respect
      Point C:   so is the behavior of pastors/priests/imams and other religious leaders who bully, etc.
      Point D:  so is bullying in marriage, cheating in marriage, doing the minimum in marriage, etc.

LESS than what is intended by God also includes:
      being born with a birth defect
      being less whole physically, mentally, emotionally, work-ethic wise, etc.
      being born to abusive or absent parents
      being born into nasty neighborhoods
      doing your best to take people's freedom from them


OK -- who have I left out.  You might be able to add to the list.


Assuming God INTENDS wonderful, well-adjusted humans, most of us fall short.  Some more short than others, but SHORT.


The anti-gay folks assume that their shortfall can be redeemed by God even when they have to live with their shortfall every day of their lives, but that people whose sexual orientation is homo rather than hetero MUST NOT and CAN NOT live with it, and God cannot love them.


Hmmm!  VERY faulty spiritual logic. 


I'm nearsighted.  I seem to have been born with a defect (or 2 or 10,000).  Perhaps I cannot be redeemed and welcomed by God.  Is that my fault or God's fault?


Some will use the story of Sodom and Gomorrah to excoriate homosexual behavior.  But they don't get the story. 

    First, the host of the "angels" offered his virgin daughters to be raped by the mob.  That's OK???
    Second, the mob was guilty of many things the the BIG thing was failing to show hospitality to strangers and failing to HONOR the person who did show hospitality.  It has nothing to do with their weird sexual preferences.    Hospitality is a BIG, BIG thing in the Middle East, and was especially so at that time in history. 


So, whether or not anyone cares about my take on this, I have come (years ago) to
    a)  not identify myself as homosexual
    b)  not believe I have any right to exclude people based on sexual preferences
    c)   not believe that child abuse of any sort is right
    d)  not believe that predatory behavior of any sort, hetero or homo, physical or mental or emotional, is right.  It fails the agape' test 100%.

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