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I am a professed Christian, unashamed and willing to defend my position against anyone. I was not born a Christian, Christ was a revelation. Once realized, Christianity became a reality in my life. It became stronger than any philosophy I have ever come across and more substantial than any other point of view I've held. I believe that the guiding force behind Christianity is the concept that God is not some vengeful force of nature hell-bent on collecting mindless souls. This is not God and do not believe anyone who tries to convince you of this. God is Love, plain and simple. Often times, he is so simple, he's almost impossible to describe. In a way, He's like the color blue. If you can see, you say, "It's blue." But if you were born without sight, "It's blue" is meaningless.
Also I'm not a homosexual. It's not because I would be ashamed to be one, it's just I don't have those urges. But the more I think about homosexual marriage, I am coming more and more to the conclusion that not only is homosexuality not a personal choice, marriage between homosexual people is a spiritual imperative. If homosexuality was merely a loveless sex act aimed at relieving carnal urges, I would have a big problem defending the marriage of two people of the same sex. However, Marriage has absolutely nothing to do with sex; though sex can be a very important part of marriage. Marriage is the joining of two souls who proclaim their Love and ask God to be bound in Holy Matrimony. In this ceremony, the Priest, Preacher, Imam, or whoever has taken it upon themselves to lead others to God, offers up two souls and asks the Lord Almighty for his blessing and his help in seeing that they keep their most solemn of vows. Yet, today in America, we have Men who think that they can take this decision out of God's hands and through some legal writ, deny God his rightful place as the Lord of all heaven and Earth.
Do you know something, God does not let things that do not please him flourish for very long. True, evil has survived and flourished for a while but the course of history has proved that Good always conquers evil. The reason this is so, is simple. Good adds, evil subtracts. Good things build, evil things destroy. Evil is a parasite on Good; ever feeding yet destined for death if the host dies. Evil may prevail for a time but let me assure you, Evil is not stupid. Evil lusts for life just as much as Man, even more so actually. Evil seeks to be able to live outside the boundaries of Good, yet it can't and it never will. If evil were to prevail, all things would die and all life would extinguish. The wickedness evil strives so hard to foster would cease and with nothing left to destroy, it would cease to hold any meaning. Evil would die and God would rebuild.
Yet Homosexuality is not evil. It is not immoral and it is not a sin. The Devil cannot work his work through Love. A house divided cannot stand. Furthermore, you cannot commit an accidental sin. Sure, you can accidentally shoot someone in the face but in absence of malice, there is no sin. God will forgive you as so will the laws of Man. For Homosexuals to commit a sin, they would have to knowingly and willfully be in violation of God's law. They would have to forsake Love, for God is Love, and do evil in the face of God. Yet, how can one look at a couple and judge the existence of Love? How can one measure the level of Love they share or the depth of commitment? If you look at our current divorce rate, if we be the judges then one must question our wisdom.
Marriage is one soul joining with another soul through the power of Love and the Grace of God. The Bible said that Woman was created for that purpose but it did not say that was the exclusive right of a female human. The truth is, we do not know if God is opposed to Gay Marriage. We do not have the slightest idea if this is his will. If God blesses a union of two souls, they will flourish because God makes everything grow. If a Slave of God offers up these two souls and God rejects them, then they will not be bound and they will fail. This is the Will of God. The role of Man is not to make decisions for the Lord, it is to follow the Will of the Almighty God or suffer the consequences (and it will be worse for those who say, "Yes, sir" but do not go out into the field to work). Our job is to do what Love instructs us to do, we must try to emulate love, to follow Love and ultimately become Love for all eternity.
So what is God? God is Love. What is Love? Ask Paul...
If I speak in human and angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, love is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.
It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing; if tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing.
For we know partially and we prophesy partially, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I put aside childish things. At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. At present I know partially; then I shall know fully, as I am fully known.
So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
In the Book of James we are told, "Every good thing bestowed and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of Lights with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow." If we offer up two souls and we hold the Grace of God in our hearts, will he damn us for our offering? If the blessings truly come from Heaven and we act to deny these, are we not committing a sin? If we Love someone that the world does not approve of, would God not still punish us for turning away from Love because we were afraid of what Man might think? To Love God with all your heart and soul and to love your neighbor as you would yourself is our highest Commandment, and yet some are saying, "Deny God his due for we do not find this Love pleasing and scorn those who we do not approve of!"
In the Song of Solomon it says, "Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like a blazing fire, like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot wash it away. If one were to give all the wealth of his house for love, it would be utterly scorned." Can this be a clearer warning? If you cast out Love for Politics, what will God do to us? Who are we to define what the Lord made? Who are we to say, "This is the Will of the Lord?" Only God has such a right.
In Ecclesiastes it is written, "Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up. Again, if two lie together, they are warm; but how can one be warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him." Yet, you are saying that in some cases One is better than two because their good return is pleasing to Man. Still others are saying, some should act against nature, defy the call of the soul or live alone, unsafe, weaker, and cold without Love. Only a demon from hell would say such things, only a demon.
What the hell are these people thinking? If a person does not Love a person of the opposite sex, then who are we to tell them they cannot Love a soul whose body is of the same sex? Who are we? Were we given the right to deny Love? Are we God? Did Man create God in his image? Woe to the fool that believes that. Man cannot create, we can only manipulate and discover. Only God has the power to create. Man can only make dead things that perish in time and to worship that thing that is dead is an affront to our most heavenly Father. If you attempt to create a God, you bring the harshest punishment God can devise, an eternity without his Love.
I warn you, do not do this thing. Do not pass this Amendment and bring this accursed thought devised by greedy men into being. They seek to glorify themselves and take the rights of God into their hands by denying his Will. God is testing us by offering up Love in a view we do not find pleasing and saying, "Will you deny me now? Will you turn your back on Love as your ancestors did when I walked among you?" God walked the earth as Love and our ancestors nailed him to a cross. Do you want to be the one to pound the hammer or hoist the load this time? Render unto Caesar what is Caesar but Love is God's right and God's rule, not a political pawn to be used by Man. I will have no part of this nor will I ever willfully remain silent in the face of such blaspheme.
Shame on these wicked Politicians and shame on those who claim to hold the Love of Christ in their hearts and allow their tongues to serve Satan. Repent you wicked sinners for you know not the place nor the hour but when he comes you risk eternal damnation! I will kneel at the feet of my Lord and say, "Lord, Lord, though I may have been wrong I tried to increase your lot." Will you stand there and say, "Lord, Lord, I buried your coin so that it might not be lost." Fools, blind stupid fools. Don't you know that God is real? Don't you read the words of the Lord? You have eyes but do not see, ears but do not listen. Oh Lord, forgive them, forgive these foolish blind souls. Your will be done.
For all those who have no idea what I'm talking about, this is a secular version of the same argument:
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
-- William Shakespeare
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