So yesterday I was listening to NPR and the host was talking about the family. For those who don't know the family is a 'christian' group of politicos who lobby for things like anti-abortion, gay marriage, pro family, etc causes. Ya know, the sort of folks who send you emails about America going to hell and have arrived at the hair brained conclusion that they can actually do something about it.
Anyway
This particular show was about a politician in.... Africa somewhere (I know but this is blog not journalism so deal with my fuzziness OK)... who is attempting to pass a law which would make "chronic homosexuality" a crime punishable by death.
No really.
Anyway this particular Mr. Niceguy is a member of the family and is doing so for... uh God I guess. So after throwing up in my mouth a little I got really bent about this. The thing is I am a conservative Christian and I am sick ad naseum of these folks attatching the name of my Lord to their bigoted cause.
And yes it is bigotry. You wanna know how I know?
Simple, the political pukes who pound their desks and holler about family values and how gay folk are taking them away have not read their Bibles. Scripture does condemn homosexuality, which they are oh so fast to point out, but it also condemns any and all sexual activity apart from marriage. Scripture lumps gays, the high school jock and the cheerleader, the twenty something live ins, and the common law folks all together and declares them equally guilty. This means that those politicians who pound the lectern with a Bible in one hand a flag in the other while giving tearful hand wringing speeches about the family and the children are, in all likelihood, just as guilty of sexual sin as the gays they are so very concerned about. For that matter, these good ol boys are probably sipping scotch with some lobbyist chatting up their son who's popping the finest girl in private school with their chests puffed out as they say things like, "Manly" and "Boys being boys."
But somehow when these folks decide to speak of crumbling morality and God and country they never seem to be able to confess that Scripture only knows two kinds of sex, that which is between a married man and woman and that which is sinful.
Funny thing is the Bible makes it abundantly clear that all such behavior can be repented of and ammended, but somehow these guys don't seem to be really interested in mercy for gay folk or for morally lax folk. Ya know like guys who accidentally solicit sex from undercover cops in airport bathrooms.
No instead when these yahoos get together and start throwing around words like sexual and sin they only seem to have eyes for gay folks. Why? Because they are personally offended by gay folks. They just don't like gay folk that much because gay folk are a 'them', and anytime you single out a 'them', you're a bigot.
And frankly I am sick to death of having God's Name come out of the mouths of bigots and having my faith be associated with bigoted men and their bigoted causes.
I know a lot of folks are predicting the dems will get swamped in the midterms and maybe they will, I am not a lib so I can't say I would mind too much, but oh my goodness if I have to hear one more hack holding a Bible telling to be afraid of all the 'thems' that are stealing America I'm going to freak.
Scripture tells us to not oppress the poor, the fatherless, the widow or the alien in our lands. As a Christian I am pretty sure that makes the republican party a 'them' to me from a Christian perspective.
Be afraid... or ya know don't and be a person in stead
Hal Wrote
ReplyDeleteI completely understand your point, and cannot support the kind of exclusionary condemnation that you speak against, as I am sure you understand, because of
my own experiences with one I loved. Do you think that your adamant emotions
come from your own love for someone who is the focus of that kind of hypocrisy?
Of course. 'Nuff said.
Yep
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