Editor's Note: This article represents Antier's opinion on homosexuality. I strongly suggest you to speak with your parents/guardians prior to and after reading this article. As always, please remain respectful in the BBS.
This is a response to last week's article, "I Know My Rights", and the BBS discussion that ensued.
"I Know My Rights" was basically a message about gays and how they want to be accepted. Wwrlm lamented about how gay marriage is illegal, protested that gays should have the right to love who they want, etc. You've probably heard it before.
Well, as I stated in the BBS, I'm going to stick my neck out and oppose the article. Yeah, it's not PC, yeah, it's intolerant, yeah, it's unpopular, but hey, I'm Antier.
Let me get something straight. I do not hate gays. I am not afraid of gays. I have a gay friend. But do I approve of gays? No.
I am a Christian. I follow the Bible. It clearly states that being gay is immoral (Rom. 1:26-28, 1 Cor. 6:9-10). It is the right I have as a human being, the right I have to follow my religion, the right I have to believe that homosexuality is indeed immoral and a perversion. If you demand that I change my view, then you are demanding that I depart from the beliefs of my religion. My freedom to believe what I want, then, is imposed upon. Simple as that.
I don't want to hear a single sentence in the BBS even so much as hinting that I shouldn't be viewing gays as immoral. Unless you have an intelligent argument that refutes the paragraph above, I will ignore it.
On another note, if you wish to argue against the validity of the Bible, that is another article entirely, and nevertheless is besides the point. What I'm trying to show you now is that I have my right to believe that gays are immoral, depraved, and perverted.
I do not wish for the laws to be changed to allow gay marriage. If they do change the laws, then it is a direct affront to the beliefs of Christianity. It contradicts my religion by directly and purposefully allowing sin to enter even more easily into society. So do I not have a right to protest this law change? Do I not have my right to treat gays as immoral because my religion states they are immoral?
Gays can go be gay, yes, but at least stay in the closet. If you're going to sin, sin quietly and out of the way. It's when you start loudly proclaiming that it's normal, that it's not a sin, that you start pressing to have acceptance, not only in the society in which I live, but also with the laws that I obey. That is when it starts imposing on my beliefs, on my religion.
And it's more than a simple inconvenience. It directly and blatantly contradicts what my God says is holy and pure. Do you expect me to sit back and accept gays as if they're no big deal? I cannot, as long as I honestly follow the Bible. When you ask me to accept, to hire, to vote for pro-gay laws, then you are asking me to abandon my beliefs. That I will not and cannot do with a good conscience.
Antier
