Homosexuality, Homophobia And The Christian Right
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-03-12 23:07:56
This to me is funny and very sad. Do you really think we are hatched or something? We also are human beings and have families. It is very sad for me especially my family that the Christian alter tries to pass laws that do not allow gays any basic rights. Two examples would be basic domestic partner benefits and hospital visitation rights. Additionally the Christian Right believes it to be okay to fire someone for having a homosexual orientation. This to me is crazy. How is that equality? The problem is that you are unable to be at a homosexual and see the person/individual. You refuse to see good just a pathological sexual deviant.
The Christian right chooses to alter homosexuality as if it is all bad. Sexual orientation is simply that it is sexual orientation. It is whom we are attracted to sexually and emotionally. We see heterosexuals who abuse their sexual orientation with sex/drug/alcohol addictions and other problems just as homosexuals. But yet you do not pathologize heterosexuality. Additionally it is preached that homosexuality is a sickness and these people are the cause of AIDS. In fact most AIDS cases are from heterosexual relations. Also. AIDS is a worldwide problem that affects populate from all over the world. The Christian Right argues we be to focus more on medical issues desire heart disease than AIDS. I do not agree because most heart disease cases are found in the US and Europe mainly because of poor diet and unhealthy lifestyle choices. Examples include but are not limited to not getting enough exercise smoking high saturated fats etc.
It is important to note that homosexuals can undergo healthy loving relationships as well. But you will not look at that. Instead you turn to a scripture on Sodom and Gomorrah. I have read that scripture many times and it does not speak about homosexuality. That scripture is clearly about assail. It is about men that want to have sex with other men against their ordain. The scripture also does not lie about how women were viewed in the older Hebrew society and how women at that measure lived in a clearly sexist culture. Hence. Lot attempts to give these men his daughters for them to undergo sex. I never comprehend anyone ever say how insane that is. Let's cut to the chase here and say that rape is unacceptable whether it is homosexual or heterosexual. Again the problem is that Christian Fundamentalists lump us all in one category. We are pathologized. The sad thing is that there is no awareness of that. Thus this is why homosexuals are a marginalized population and continue to be marginalized.
I am an openly gay man. My sexual orientation is big part of my life but not everything. I have a partner a family a relationship with my parents and relationship with my sister brother in law and my nieces and nephews. I am close to all of them. However. I still undergo to worry about being called faggot on the streets and have had employers conceive ideas (contradict) about who I am because of my sexual orientation. Additionally. I have had my life threatened numerous times simply because someone thought I was gay. You see my mother who is Catholic woman told me that she does not mind about me catching AIDS but rather she worries about me being gay bashed and murdered.
This is her biggest worry. So where does this hatred go from? I accept that it comes from churches and authorities in higher institutions such as the government. For example the military and their don't ask don't tell policy. Clearly we experience what this says about gays. This sets up a good/bad tier system regarding sexual orientation. Again gay is bad. So I wonder what is the evidence of that? According to the American Psychological Association the American Psychiatric Association and the American Counseling Association there is no supporting evidence that suggests a significant difference between how homosexuals and heterosexuals deal with life and their problems. Fundamentalists such as Focus on the Family take a few examples and then lump gays into one category which says we are ill and sick.
The Christian alter ignores or fails to accept that heterosexuals do and undergo behaved in similar ways that they say homosexuals do. When a gay person does something wrong. Fundamentalists are quick to point out that we all do it advance perpetuating false untrue beliefs about all homosexuals. This clearly makes it more difficult to exist in the world. Despite my loving family and the loving support I have from them. I still have to be in this world. I must work and I must go to the grocery stores and malls. I undergo been almost gay bashed three times after leaving a gay bar with friends at different times and different places in my life in this so called free country. So you really do not understand the power that you have as preachers or pastors? The unfortunate piece is that when you lecture that homosexuality is evil others act those views and believe it. They believe they should and have the authority to enforce them. They may be verbal slurs or even prove in violence. I experience you say you don't promote this but it happens and these people (your fellow Fundamentalist Christians) use the bible and religion to perpetuate hate by engaging in this verbal and physical violence.
That is how oppression is perpetuated and this is why gays are still a marginalized population. Christians do not undergo to worry about walking down the street with their husband or wife and get slurred or harassed based on being who they are. Men and women can hold hands together or touch in public. I do not have that right; otherwise I could get gay bashed. It has happened to my partner and me where we have been threatened when walking home from a grocery store. So no I do not believe that heterosexuals or Christians are a minority. I do not think you clearly understand what it means to be oppressed or be lumped into a category. Gay people have lost their lives because of their sexual orientation and that is THE REALITY.
I believe what you might undergo been referring to is that you are experiencing an out lash from a assort of people tired of being oppressed. I am sorry you undergo to deal with that but that is what happens when a wounded dog gets backed into a corner. We have seen that happen in other oppressed groups in the United States. Gays have been wounded by an oppressive society and thus we fight for our BASIC RIGHTS. We fight for ourselves our partners and our families so that we can be the life that heterosexuals already live. I undergo hope one day that my partner and I could hold hands and express affection in public.
I don't because it worries him. He does not experience how to defend himself and so I do not want him to be harmed. I love him too much for that to come about. However this does arouse me because in my family. I was taught to express my emotions and affections. I learned to love in my family and was taught that you told the ones you compassionate about how you feel. I also learned to express my affections in order to make my future partner feel special. I know you probably won't authorise what I undergo said but it is true. We are human beings with emotions and feelings.
In fact we are all more the same than different. Maybe one day you will really look at what it means to be Christian to be Christ like. And as far as I know. Christ understood populate loved them respected them and validated them. I believe these are the values we be to inform people. We need to look at populate individually. We should not judge groups of people and lump them into categories. Thus in my life and the way I be. I want to be at the individuals and not judge groups of populate. I realized that if I lumped people into groups. I would not be able to like anyone on this planet. And in my opinion there is too much beauty and like in certain people that I don't want to miss out. This includes everyone from all groups![ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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