No sympathy for Mary Griffith.

"The most horrible thing about Christianity (and most hard core religions, actually) is that it is all brainwashing. That's important to understand. Sigourney Weaver's character believed what she had been brainwashed as a child to believe; homosexuality is a sin and you're going to hell for it. It's changeable. It's perverted. It's evil. When this is repeated over and over and over again in church and prayer camp and Bible camp and dinner prayer, kids will stick with it, even if they don't know WHY they believe it."

I agree, because it's what I was taught growing up as well. However, after 18 years of being a homophobe, and nine more years of accepting my gay friends, but not accepting homosexuality (but wishing it was okay), I've finally decided to accept the whole enchilada.

I felt like a hypocrite acting like I accepted it (I think I really did in my heart) and then turning around and saying I didn't behind closed doors.
I hated how it made me feel.

I was raised Baptist, and now consider myself Progressive. I now feel like I can accept my LGBT friends with my whole heart without holding anything back.
It's a great feeling, but it's also really lonely.
I live in Kentucky and my husband does not agree with my new views.
He's not homophobic my any means, but he feels like he can't accept homosexuality completely because of what the Bible says.

I am aware of what the Bible says about gay sex, but I also believe that those verses have been misinterpreted for centuries. So many Christians take those verses at face value, and they don't take into account the context in which they were written.
I believe that some verses (like half of Leviticus) applied to the times, but don't apply to today's society.
I'm reading Exodus now and today I read about slavery. Well people don't own slaves nowadays so those verses don't apply now.

However, some people would say "then if they don't apply, then why not throw them out?"
My opinion on them is, that instead of throwing them out, that they should be looked at as history.
The history of Judaism and the history of Christianity.

My husband mostly goes by the verse in the New Testament that says "homosexuals will not enter the kingdom of heaven."
But what about John 3:16?
That's kind of a contradiction, isn't it?

Anyway, that's my two cents.
P.S. I didn't mean to paint my husband in a negative light...he's a wonderful man, really. He was raised even more traditionally than I was, and he's been trying to get above his upbringing. He's so smart, and I wish he could see it the way I do.


-Amanda


"She will remember your heart when men are fairy tales in storybooks written by rabbits"