Replies to '06/06 "I'm Gay, OK?"'

I know that I have done everything possible to NOT be gay, I have prayed, cried myself to sleep, begged God to change me, stayed away from anything gay, and worked very hard to make relationships with women work. I knew that I was not being fair to the women that I dated or fair to myself for denying my true orientation. I was saved in a Baptist church, where I announced my faith in God. I know that God loves me and forgives me of my sins, however God made me this way and God does NOT make mistakes. 

I know what the Bible says, however I can only interpret what I believe to be true about the Bible. 

We all know that man changes, alters, disregards, annihilates what he chooses. We know that in our history man has changed laws and religion to FIT his purpose. There were kings that had their wives beheaded because they wanted a divorce and the church would not allow it. There were kings that changed laws and religious views to fit their needs. 

I am not saying that the Bible is wrong, what I am saying is that the odds are that man has manipulated the Bible over the centuries and that the translations of Holy scripture has been changed to be "the best interpretation" of what the writer/translator understood. 

I know that when I die and stand before God for judgment that He will not ask me why was I homosexual and why did I live my life as a homosexual. God will have no reason to ask this question because He knows that He made me who I am and that I had NO choice in the matter of my sexual orientation. 

I live a good, honest, faithful, happy life and I know that God loves me for who I am because He made me who I am. 

For all the so called Christians out there that hate homosexuals, protest and fight against homosexual rights and gay marriage, what are you so afraid of. If you were truly a Christian then you would love me because God loves me and not fight against me. 

I have no desire what so ever to get married to a same sex partner, why would I? The straight community can't get it right just look at the divorce rate in this country? I do believe that my partner and myself should have the same benefits as straight couples, we are Americans after all. Why are the so called Christians and others so against gay rights? Are you jealous? I really think that in most cases where people argue against gay rights, the person has so little joy, fulfillment in their lives that they just have to stick their noses in other peoples business. 

I really hate it when people say, "I don't have a problem with gays as long as they don't try to bring me into their world or hit on me". Please, we are not stupid, horny for everything, crazed savages that try to jump everybody we see. We do have taste and we can usually tell when someone is gay. 99% of the guys that say this would not be hit on by a blind and deaf gay man, so don't worry you are truly safe from our advances. Now go out and buy that porn magazine and go home and tell yourself that you are ONLY looking at the women in the magazine and you didn't even know there were men in it. Wow talk about tunnel vision. 

If you are truly Christian, Jewish, or other religion, it IS your duty to LOVE EVERYONE, not just the people you choose to love. 

Well I guess I have preached enough and I know that not a single word that I have said will matter to anyone. 

However I did say what was on my mind and that is what matters the most. 

I know that the last few paragraphs of this message will get the attention of some that will make the message in first paragraphs pointless, however I am saying what is on my mind. 

I have accepted who I am and that part of who I am is a homosexual male. 

God doesn't hate ANY ONE or ANY THING. At least the "God" that I happen to believe in. Perhaps YOUR God is full of wrath and hate and vengeance. I was told that Jesus came to wipe away the "old law" (old testament) and replace it with a NEW law - Love God above all else, and love your neighbor as yourself. Love, Love, Love. No "hate" in there anywhere. My God loves me, because s/he CREATED me - perfect, glorious and beautiful in every way. I don't believe in a God that places me in a place of "sin" or anything negative from my beginning. But you see, this is all a moot point. We live in the greatest country on earth - a country whose forefathers foresaw this sort of conflict - and therefore built a country based on the separation of church and state... Which means that you can believe what EVER you want to about your God - you have no right to inflict those beliefs on ME. It's that simple. I can celebrate the God of DIRT if I want to, that's my right - but I have no right to inflict those beliefs on YOU. So in this wonderful nation, you and I are to have EQUAL rights. Sadly, some "Christians" have made this a JOKE, continue to make this country LOOK like a JOKE, because they are self-righteous and arrogant and self-obsessed, and seem to believe that their "belief" system is the system that the nation should adopt as a whole - regardless of race, color, creed or sexual identity. NO. That is not the country MY forefathers sought to create!!