Gay All The Time

I wonder at times, is it right to push one viewpoint over another? Where does the line get drawn between ‘bashing‘ and simply forceful debate, forceful differences of opinion?

Take the whole issues of Religion and Homosexuality.

The Head of the Anglicans has asked that no new Bishops be consecrated, if they are homosexuals. It is a desire to avoid a schism in the Anglican wing of Christianity, and I wonder, is that request a blow to Gay Rights, or simply an attempt to let nature take its course?

“A fellow Christian may believe they have a profound fresh insight. They seek to persuade others about it. A healthy church gives space for such exchanges,” he told the 650 bishops at the meeting in Canterbury, England. “But the Christian with the new insight can’t claim straight away that this is now what the Church of God believes or intends.” (source - USA Today)

It makes sense to a point, but I wonder really is this about having space to debate the issue, or is it really a veiled attempt at keeping the opponents of same sex marriage, preachers, Bishops, happy? Is this appeasement, or truly an attempt to open a dialogue free from pressure? And should there be such a cooling off period, such a moratorium?

What one believes in, what their faith is, is rather a personal thing. I don’t know if any Organized Religious Group can truly alter how any single member feels. Does having a Gay Bishop matter to the man whose child is suffering from Cancer? Does a woman who’s been raped truly care if two guys can be married in her Church?

Is what a Preacher says on the pulpit going to really make a Gay Man deny his homosexuality, or suddenly become Heterosexual? Will the sermons of Hate about Gays really change, even if the hierarchy allow same sex marriage? I know that the story of the Wandering Jew is still preached, even when Popes have said it is a wrong message. I know that there are still many who preach about separation of races, and yet in society, race segregation isn’t tolerated.

The belief of racists didn’t stop the Civil Rights movement, even when it was led by the same style of Preacher and Politician that we have today, so does it really matter if some major religious group supports or opposes Gays in their Church? Most Religious Orders believe in Compassion, are supposedly INTOLERANT OF HATE, and yet that is exactly what they do. Despite all the sermons about loving one’s neighbour, one’s brother, it is clear that their sermons really have no effect, so why should we fight so hard for them to accept us?

Does it matter if the Bishop over in Texas of California accepts us? Isn’t it more important that we believe that GOD does? And really until HE comes down to Earth, to tell us we are Sinners, or Not, it is simply a personal belief. No Pope, no Bishop, No Rabbi, can change how WE BELIEVE IN GOD.