3: Sexuality and Religion. Are they Oil and Water?

I get religion thrown at me all the time as an excuse for why I am wrong and why I am going to hell for even thinking that I am gay let alone ever acting upon it, here are a few ways I deal with it.

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[rd1999]

so what about living prophets who say it is wrong. Do you pick and choose what you will follow the prophet on? Don't go stray.

[Yudanashi]

I don;t pick and choose what to follow, but when everything that they say comes only from the same scriptures that are at best ambiguous, and not from revelation from God, then I have to follow my own personal revelation.

[AuntieMamiesBlog]

You are gay and religious. They can deal with it.

If they can't, their loss. Keep searching for yourself, embracing your life and challenging people to accept you for who you are.

And please give your loving husband a big hug and a kiss from all of us too.

<3 <3 <3

Your Auntie Mamie

[Yudanashi]

Thanks! I don't have a husband yet, but if I ever do have one and am excommunicated I will still go to my church.

[NerdyMcCool]

I read somewhere 'God gives his toughest challenges to His strongest children.' I think He made people like you and me and everyone else who still holds onto their faith despite what some religious leaders say to prove that we're not evil or sick and that we have as much right to the Kingdom as they do. Good video!

[Yudanashi]

Great Comment! I believe that the strongest of His children were saved to be place precisely where we needed to be.

[robert13111]

Naja, ohne Brille ist es o.k.

[rd1999]

@YudanashiI would love to hear LDS authorities give an explanation of their understanding of the purpose of Gay folk. Clearly God is not a fuck up so he must have a place for them. They clearly serve in society to enrich our lives; Heaven would be a boring place without them. If they are expected to be cut off from their sexuality you better have an explanation. LDS leaders seem clueless

[MIS315]

@orlovna2 So, lather, rinse, repeat, got it! thanks!

[g0ysorg]

g0ys -spelled w. a zer0 does an awesome job of answering those questions & has a BRUTAL scriptural study about the issue. G00GLE g0ys (spelled w. a zer0) for more info. They've done a great job of showing how the Scriptures do NOT speak negatively about same-gender affections, but the BIG PRINCIPLE is love does not work ILL toward it's neighbor. Awesome references that challenge most perspectives.

[orlovna2]

PART VII

God doesn't hate you, young man!

(He just hates what you "do", and what you have "accepted", for yourself.)

Note: If heterosexuals stay "decent" (not become whores & do what is wrong), then we say that they are "decent people". If queers were to do the same thing--and not act out their/your filth--then they/you would be accepted, too. I don't think that is possible, for you, though...

[orlovna2]

PART VI

So, you automatically are seen (by God) as being in rebellion against Him!

If you have "any" tendency towards religion, at all, BE ADVISED that you will never be acceptable to HIM, as long as the "story of Sodom and Gomorrah" is there, in the Bible, to show you--unambiguously--that God hates your filth! Period!

Go, and "sin no more".

Otherwise, why would God hesitate to destroy "other" Sodoms, around the Earth!

(There is a reason, for this: to let you show who you "really" are...)

[orlovna2]

PART V

And, finally--back to Sodom (and Gomorrah)--God destroyed those two cities (after the "aliens" had blinded all the queers who were banging on the door of Abraham's nephew, demanding to send out those "visitors". (It seems those "visitors" were fully capable of taking care of themselves!)

So, Lot (Abraham's newphew)--the only one NOT a degenerate, in Sodom--was commanded to leave the city, so God could then wipe those queers (and other degenerates of other types) right off the Earth...

[orlovna2]

PART IV

CORRECTION: "Queers never got a chance to 'come out'...!"

GOD ordained & sanctioned "marriage". God joined Adam & Eve together, in the Garden of Eden. (And, if this is merely a "fable", it is a "good fable", with an object lesson, attached to it). God created a "helpmate" (old English), for Adam: a "helper" who was acceptable, for Adam. God didn't ask Adam what Adam's "orientation" was; God did not offer "sensitivity training", to Adam: just in case Adam turned out to be queer...

[orlovna2]

PART III

I will not embellish nor somehow "sanatize" your lifestyle, by calling it anything but what we called it, in 1960, when I was a student, at school. (I was not a strong kid, physically, but we all had an understanding that, when a queer kid came out of the closet, that we would call an upperclassman over, so that he could "pound that queer right back into that closet!").

Queers never got a change to "come out" of that closet! Unlike that lesbo Ellen DeGenerate...

[orlovna2]

PART II

There is actually "nothing" ambiguous about what happened to Abraham's nephew, in the Book of Genesis. The nephew had gone to live in the city named SODOM (you know the one: it is the place name from which our English word "sodomy" is derived). And, this man was visited by "aliens" (they were called angels). The queers, in the city, all rushed to the door of the house of Abraham's nephew, and invited them outside, so that they could "know" these "aliens": acting out their queer-dom..