by Adam » March 3rd, 2007, 10:11 am
Let us see a post about a former WallMart customer who found Jesus and decided to give up a life of credit card debt; now there's a decidedly unChristian lifestyle that ruins families and lives. Let's see such a story circulated and celebrated.
After I took my vows, there was a period of time where I actually looked down on heterosexuals for being so assured and unthinking in their "lifestyles" of sex, usually abusing and perverting what is a blessing and a privilege and rarely considering what it could teach them to abstain. But I grew out of such a spiritually immature and self-centered perspective on faithfulness and have come to realize that different people express their obedience in different ways.
This woman clearly has a sharp learning curve ahead. And quite frankly, anyone who isn't themselves pledged to celibacy shouldn't have a single word to say about it; you speak so easily from such a comfortable position that you embarrass yourselves and don't even realize it. If you really expect practicing homosexuals to take your evangelism seriously or to give real consideration to a celibate life, the best thing you can do is sit quietly and let us work it out in our own communities. If you feel moved to do more than that, then pray. But when you speak, you join chorus with this woman who unwittingly works to undo the work we are trying to do in our own community. Heterosexuals and the married have plenty of trouble in your own house to attend to, and only the homosexual can understand how truly conflicted and tormented this women truly is, even more so now that she feels the need to shame us to ease her own shame.
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Adam on March 3rd, 2007, 10:16 am, edited 1 time in total.
"Love is the only art that poorly imitates nature."
