Due to the tragic passing of Tyler Clementi, a gay Rutger's student, I was thinking about some things. I was thinking as I watched the news this morning, no type of Christian Organization has denounced this. No one from a Catholic Diocese, No Baptist Preacher, no Methodist Reverend, no nothing. I haven't even seen anything from the pseudo-Reverend Fred Phelps of Westboro Baptist Church, saying that God is happy for this event... I have only seen people from the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered (LGBT) Community speak out against it. Now it could be because of the fact Tyler killed himself, which is frowned upon by many church entities. I don't know. I can only speculate about this. But I can think of a couple main points:
1.) Many Christians think that homosexuality is a worse sin then, say, lying. Truth is, in God's eyes, it is at the same level as lying. (I am in no way trying to shun anyone who is homosexual, or push my faith on anyone, as you will see later in my point.)
2.) Many Christians aren't living in accordance to Mark 12:30-31, where Jesus said when the Pharisees were trying to trick him on which of the Ten Commandments was most important. Jesus said : "Love the Lord, Your God, With all your heart, Mind, Soul and Strength. This is the greatest of all these. The Second is this, Love your Neighbor as Yourself." Similarly, they aren't living according to the Beatitudes, Where Jesus gave all the Parables, and clarified the 10 Commandments, and explained how to live your life for God. They don't love as God loved. They only love selectively. God wants us to love everyone, no matter what they are, or do.
Back when I first became a Christian, I was one of those "Fire and Brimstone, Repent or go to Hell!!" Christians. I didn't know what was what, nor did I really know what I was preaching in those days. I didn't have a mentor to guide me. Then I met a young man who was similar to my age, and he guided me and helped me to mold my faith into something that was more along the lines of what God actually wanted. And that helped me realize what I had done, how many people I had alienated, and how many opportunities I had blew to witness for Him. And now-a-days, a lot of Christians are doing the same thing. They are blowing opportunities to Witness, to follow the Great Commission, by hating. And this hate is vulgar. Hate is actually committing murder in your heart, according to Christ. God loves us for who we are, and gave His Son to die on the Cross for us. Whether we be gay, straight, black, white, Asian, Arab, British, Canadian, American, French, (you catch the drift) God Loves us. No matter what!
