gay anti gay?
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The wholesale lack of understanding here in regards to human nature, right and wrong is amazing to me.
I have absolutely no problem hanging out with, working with or getting to know gay people. There are no gay people in my current office, but if there were I wouldn't treat them any differently. Back when I waited tables in college, some of my co-workers were gay; we used to hang out and drink beers together, no worries.
My question: do you all consider it homophobia if I am perfectly comfortable around gay people, but still consider the lifestyle wrong? I would say the same thing to my friends who choose not to wait until marriage to have sex. Being gay is no worse, it's just another deviation from what sex was originally meant to be – not according to me, but you know Who.
Thing is, if I had any close gay friends, it would be a while before they heard my take on homosexuality. I'd rather let them see that as a Christian, my number one priority is love, and that means building solid relationships. Also, I have my own thorns in the flesh, and plenty of shady things in my past. I guess the rub is that some people see nothing wrong with being gay, and some people do. Unfortunately, the people who think the lifestyle is a wrong choice – but still choose to treat gay men and women like anyone else – get lumped in with the ultra-conservative, bigoted, chaw-spitting types who are the actual homophobes. You know – the ones who make awful gay jokes, harrass them, even do physical harm to gays. I hope people can learn to see more clearly through the haze of vitriol that permeates gay-rights groups etc. – see that it is possible to care for someone without judgment, even whilst disagreeing with some of their lifestyle choices.
- Politely disagreeing is fine. Believing you have a right to dictate how others live (who they marry, if they raise kids, etc) is quite anotherlocustsloth
- You obviously do the formerlocustsloth