Gays on the Attack...where's my spear????!!

‘Conservatives say religion is under attack’ comes the headline from Jim Kuhnhenn of the
Associated Press. Honestly I near choked. I missed that memo...where is my spear!

The Christian right points to Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich’s decision in June to fire his appointee to the Washington area transit board after the board member referred to homosexuals as 'persons of sexual deviancy.'

The board member, Robert J. Smith, said he was expressing his personal beliefs as a Roman Catholic.

Well if the board member made that statement within his position then he deserved to be fired. If he said it outside of work in his private life then he didn’t. I agree that religious expression is an important core freedom of the United States….but not to the exclusion of all else.

How do we justify saying it’s OK for religious folks to deny freedoms to gay people, but it’s not OK for gay people to take religious folks to task for stepping over the line.

I don’t think so. Fair is fair folks but apparently not in the mind of the religious right. Their motto appears to be ‘what we say is fair is fair’.

To say that pastors and other men and women of the cloth will not be allowed to preach the gospel is ludicrous. Preach the gospel…but don’t preach it at work and don’t expect everyone to follow your teachings just because you want them too or because you think that’s the way we should think.

Christianity is NOT the end all and be all of this country and it is NOT the guardian of our morals or ethics. I’m sorry to clue you in gang but you’re NOT all that and a pretty white dress too. Frankly, some of the most unethical and immoral people I know are “Christian”.

I have to say, if “Christian” is supposed to be the ideal state of being…I think the country would be a pretty fucked up place if it was to become the dominant political force.

Keep your religion in your churches and in your hearts. I dare any Christian to really live up to the Golden rule. Think about how Christians are treating gay folks in the name of their God and their religion and then stop and think how they would be treated if the Golden rule were invoked. Suppose, for a moment, their requirement of adherence to the Biblical rules (aka the Holiness code) in Leviticus were imposed on them and their actions and their loved ones. Supposed they were greeted by people holding placards that said God Hates Christians. Suppose people spat on them and called them hateful names and beat them up.

This happened once you know. In the early days of Christianity, Christians were set upon and persecuted by the Romans. Now they hold up their holy book and use it as a shield to persecute people they hold in contempt. Christians have forgotten their past. They have given up their moral high ground by becoming the persecutors instead of accepting other people on equal footing.

You do not have to agree with someone’s beliefs to step out of the way and let them live their life in peace. In their holy book I seem to recall that someone said “Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s but render unto God that which is God’s”. ("reddite igitur quae sunt Caesaris Caesari et quae sunt Dei Deo") (Saint Matthew 22:21). Now who said that? Oh yes…that Jesus guy. As I recall he was a somewhat important figure in that holy book.

If Christians truly believed in the holy book of theirs, they will leave the judging to God. Christians need only worry about themselves. If the rest of us end up in hell, well that’s our problem.

It’s true that Jesus said ‘go forth and spread the gospels’ but he also said “judge not lest ye be judged’. I submit that Christians today should heed all of what Jesus said.

I have one question...why do Christians HATE so much? Is that the message of that holy book?

Thus ends the lesson for today.

Raven