Contributed by Charles Dean Walker
This homophobic bigotry needs to die out in our community.
Being a hateful bigot isn’t Christ like.
To be a Christian is to try to follow Jesus’s example and teachings.
Where in the Bible did it tell us to try to change people’s sexuality?
Where in the Bible did it say it was alright to spew hateful rhetoric?
We Christians may fail God, we may fail other believers too.
But I’m not ashamed to love my Queer friends.
Even in the view that they are sinners, coming to their aid from hurtful people.
Is what Jesus would do. Mary Magdalene was a prostitute, Mary Magdalene was Jesus friend and follower.
If we were kinder to the LGBTA, and showed we weren’t hateful, more would want to come to Christ too.
But this hate that we let preachers preach, well, we know not what we do.
Some will probably think I’m not Christian, or question how can I call myself a Christian.
Because even though I don’t think the Bible was talking about two male or female lovers.
I can’t sit here as a young adult Christian and not help the marginalized.
Christ can come to the aid of a sex worker, I should come to the aid of homosexuals trying to love.
It’s not too late for our community to become better, in fact people are trying.
Homophobia will always have a place in the WORLD, but it has no place in the Kingdom of Heaven.
I am a heterosexual, I am a Christian.
You will not, can not shame me for spreading love to these minorities you hate.
People can curse my name, but I choose to do what Jesus would truly do.
To love my queer friends.
