In Which We Discuss Christian Virtues
Gays hear all the time that Christians love them. “Ex-gay” ministries, “pro-family” organizations, Mormons, Catholics, Baptists—they all claim to love homosexuals and to have their deeper interests at heart. Why, then, do so few gays seem to feel loved by these Christian groups?
Maybe because these groups never seem to mention loving homosexuals outside of the context of denouncing them as selfish, hedonistic or “objectively disordered” [1, 2, 3]. And maybe because, instead of going out and performing loving acts of kindness in the homosexual community, these Christians are guilty of slandering and defaming gays at every turn, of working to deny them rights on a local and national basis, of teaching young gays to hate themselves, of trying to break up and make invisible gay households, and of attempting to silence homosexuals who speak out against this behavior. In short, these Christian groups are guilty of hating homosexuals and doing them harm.
One begins to think that certain Christians have never read the New Testament. As I recall, a certain Jesus Christ came down quite hard on hypocrites.
To the gay-baiting, gay-hating Christian groups described here: Guys, you could try a little harder to hide the way you really feel about us. At least the Fred Phelps crowd is refreshingly direct.
You may be interested in this previous post on Christian “love”: Love and Respect, the Fundamentalist Way
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August 23rd, 2008 at 8:12 pm
well, *I* love you. even if you are morally decrepit, hedonistic, sinful, selfish, and, basically going STRAIGHT to hell.
wait… do Mormons believe in hell? I always forget…
August 23rd, 2008 at 8:31 pm
Aww, Kerry, I love you too, even though you are a heretic.
August 24th, 2008 at 8:30 am
Well written and on the mark.
Good job.
August 25th, 2008 at 8:44 am
Once again adorable nephew, you have made the kind of point I always wish I could. I may just have to steal your words and make them my own. This hate and bigotry has never been more evident than it is in California right now.
On a more positive note, we do have an awesome commercial playing quite frequently here about a bride trying to get down the aisle to her groom, and she is thwarted at every turn. In the end they are both held back, prohibited from reaching each other. At the end, a caption reads “how would you feel if you couldn’t marry the person you love?” Now that I have spoiled the plot for you, I found it on youtube…enjoy.
PS I love you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-lYoaY4tPU
August 25th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
You said it, brother! Recently, I have been getting my fill of those type of “christians.”
August 25th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
Oh, come now, you really expect we Christians to obey the big, obvious commandments (Love thy neighbor) when it is so much easier to obey the obscure, vague, and peripheral ones which we can twist to suit our needs (remind me, just exactly how does that scripture go)?
August 25th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Thanks, Tom.
Daisy, that TV spot is awesome. Several times while we were driving around Northern California I suddenly thought to myself, “Hey, this is my first time in a place where gays have equal marriage rights.” But it didn’t seem real. How awful if those rights were taken away again—and how awful to have to live through the current onslaught of negativity.
tasithoughts, these groups all seem to be coming out of the woodwork right now. And a little of them goes a LONG way.
Derek: To be honest, I only expect you guys to obey commandments I like, and then only when it is convenient for me. LOL
December 24th, 2009 at 7:31 am
It’s shocking how blinded to their own shittiness religious conservatives are. At every corner, they say horrible things about people in the name of Christian Love.
The quote in this post I wrote pretty much says it all: http://isitluck.wordpress.com/2009/12/16/religious-conservatives-vs-gay-conservatives/