You know, recently, I've become much more frustrated with certain types of people. Mostly religious people actually. Mostly because 90% of them make no damn sense.
Years ago I stopped going to church regularly. Years ago, I needed to talk to someone that I could trust because I needed to share a secret that I couldn't share with my parents. Years ago, a youth pastor betrayed me, called the police, and caused me an unimaginable amount of pain.
I know you shouldn't judge the majority based of a few in the minority, as evidenced by the muslims in the Middle East. But at the same time, I have to wonder, how can you not judge the majority, when it's the majority judging you. I don't go to church anymore because I feel like I'll be judged for who I am. I've realized I'll be judged for something every day of my life, but why I should be judged for something out of my control is a bit beyond me.
When it comes down to it, I can handle that. Call me names, make jokes about it, talk behind my back if you will. I can and will continue to deal with that. But honestly why should I have to? If Christians want to remain relevant in today's world, perhaps they should stop pushing the LGBT community away. Perhaps they should focus on the core tenets of inclusion and love. Jesus hung out with the worst of the worst, and he included them. He took ordinary people and turned them into holy followers. Explain to me why so many Christians now think that exclusion is a good thing? I'll bet you can't.
And I am aware that there are people who say love the sinner and hate the sin. They are, in my opinions, almost worse than the people who will be straight with their hate. These are the people that say they love a certain type of person, but hold themselves higher than the homosexual, or the gluttonous one, or the prideful one. These are the people that won't be straight with their hate. I have dealt with these people, and honestly they are the most annoying ones simply because I hate it when people have a problem with me, but won't tell me to my face. In short, they are snobbish.
Recently I was making plans to go over to a friends house. Plans were made, and I was getting ready to eat a pizza and leave. My friend texted me back saying that his dad found out I was gay and couldn't come over. This in and of itself was not necessarily unexpected. I knew if I was going to have trouble with coming out, it would've been that family. What gets me though, is the dad didn't want me to know what he was saying about me behind my back. Thankfully my friend is more Christian than his own father, and was honest with me. Ever since then, I've known that though his father is exceedingly polite to my face, he hates me, and talks trash about me behind my back. So this is what the average Christian has come to: Gossip, Slander and useless Backstabbing.
Another thing about religion; it is a personal matter. You go be a Christian all you like. I won't treat you any differently, and honestly I still consider myself a Christian. However, your job is not personal. A job is a professional service you provide to everyone. So no, claiming religious exemptions for baking wedding cakes shouldn't be allowed. That is discrimination, whether you like to paint it as such or not. Everyone, gay straight, black white, purple and green has the same human rights in America. This means you don't get to choose who you serve, because that is inherent discrimination. That goes for everything from baking wedding cakes to officiating marriage licenses. If you don't like your job, quit. Otherwise, get off your high horse and provide your professional service to everyone. That is the definition of equal. And to put it simply, if you don't want people to be equal, fine, you're an asshole.
Rant over, for now at least. Wanted to get this off my chest though. Needed to rant a little after a day of work and thought.
That actually made me feel a little happy/emotional/thing. Thanks for that :3 Nice to know that even after the years apart, you still read my stuff too XD
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I see so many Christians anymore, that try to use the argument of preserving the "Sanctity" of marriage as an excuse to deny LGBTQ+ people their rights. So to them, I'd like to say this: Sanctity of marriage my ass!
40 to 50% of marriages in the USA end in divorce. We have TV shows marketing men and women off to some 40 year old fuck that has never been able to hold a stable relationship in their life. We even had a show once, where women were essentially marketed off to a dwarf.
The problem with marriage is in the straight couples' hands, not ours. We haven't had enough time to affect any of the statistics, so 39.9 to 49.9% of those divorcees are straight couples, yet you want to blame them on us?
I don't know what exactly you think we want to take away from heterosexual couples, but I'll tell you now, I want nothing to do with taking away rights from anyone. All I want is to marry in peace, just like the rest of the nation. Like interracial couples who once couldn't now can. Like heterosexuals can.
I do have to say though, it's pretty funny seeing these kinds of videos, and comments, and etc etc et al, where the person acts as if we want to take something from the definition of marriage, when all we want is to be able to access it. It's not like we're even changing or redefining it, though you'll see many try and put it that way for simplicities sake. All we want are the same rights, and no that does not mean you can call it a civil union; equal but separate is not equal.
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