just wanna offer a few thoughts... humbly
there's this big debate whether homosexuality is in-born (no
choice..born this way) or it's active acknowledgement by the
person..
consider the following scenario 1
Z is a female, but when she was brought up. Perhaps the father has
been a violent person, wife beater.... and hence Z is totally
disgusted with males. hence find comfort in her female
counterparts.. and let's say she's from a single sex school and as
she grows older.. she finds tht females are more attractive in tht
sense.. and just doesn't like guys.
senario 2
say this male, Y assuming he was born with more female hormones
(correct me if i'm wrong? never took bio~~ ) and as he grew up, his
mannerisms were more femmenine and..since young he just din like
hanging around with girls... since there were so many in his
family..and ya just begin to have an attraction for males.
ok.. pardon me for the 2 very stereo-typical-and-lousy
scenarios.
just wanted to make a point. person Y in tht sense can say.. "i'm
born, like this... it's natural for me... why CHANGE me? "
if change is needed for Y, wat change is tht? change tht is
acceptable in societal norms? so Y's perspective of normal and
societal's norm is different. is tht wrong? is tht sin?
...for Z becos of maybe her background and past hurts.. tht led her
to make a choice such as this. to abhor males, to dislike
males.
so, being caught in this, led to Z liking other females.
is this wrong?
may i quote.. from the bible:
Romans 1
25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and
served created things rather than the Creator--who is forever
praised. Amen.
26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their
women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27In the same
way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were
inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts
with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for
their perversion.
wat's the sin here tht's mentioned.... is it the "lust, indecent
acts" in 26. but i can argue and say "i only like him/her wat... i
never do anything physical or commit any thing.. just like... wrong
meh?!"
let's pause here.. and consider then. wat is sin.
is lying sin? yes. is being greedy sin? yes. is worship of idols
sin? yes. is murder sin? yes.
is having lust sin? yes. watching porn sin? yes. is masturbation a
sin? yes.
so basically if u wanna put it extremely.. everything tht's not for
God. it's against God.
den why is there this stigmasation tht as though there are some
sins tht seems more "serious"... for e.g... u lie... "oh.. it's ok
lah.... white lie... u know... ho hum.." as compared to "eee.... u
watch porn !!! u disgusting creature." or "oh my gosh... tht so and
so is gay!!"
funny how it seems we can givee more empathy to say a drug addict,
who's is trying hard to turn away from drugs... say a period of 6
months.. den he goes back to his heroin/pot.
and here we have a HS, who's trying to change... and pple shun
him/her... eee... tht gay/lesbian.. dun wanna associate with
him/her... and finally after months of trying.. gives up. goes back
to his/her way of living.
for the drug addict..the normal response would be... "oh ppoor
thing .. he cannot help it.." wat about for the HS who's trying
geniuely to change... have we made it harder for them? by even not
being welcome indifferent to them?
friends. in the christian perspective. Sin is defintely something
tht cannot be judged. nor is it because i commit less sins tht seem
"graver" or quantatively i commit less sins than u.. i'm so much
better than. sin is just a condition. there's was this " oh u
christians are so uppity and snobbish.." if anyone of u had certain
experiences of christian bigotry.. i appeal to u and just wanna
clarify tht not all christians are the same.. just as no 2
fingerprints are identical..
Matthew 7
4How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of
your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5You
hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you
will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.
coming back to the point. wat den in homosexuality is sin.
i believe it's the refusal of being "normal", and what our Creator
has intended for male and female. saying this, i want to apologise
if i offend anyone... but my take is i don believe in the
"homosexual gene" or "i'm born this way"
IMHO, there must be a point in life. where u feel tht u can choose
ur sexual orientation, even though circumstances may force u to go
otherwise.
then, there's this big hoo ha about wat PM Goh said.. and the
multiple responses. i feel tht some of the responses .. have been
misintepreted.. and not exactly worded correctly/ perceived
correctly
just wanna use the analogy of smoking and drinking.. no offence to
any1 k? ( i have loadsa party animal friends.. and i enjoy their
company and loyal friendship Ü)
just go down the streets and ask like 10 pple..
a: "u smoke?" b:"yup" a: "oh ok cool =)"
a: "u drink?" b: "yup" a: "ok cool"
let's say u can give sg a hard reset and u had a choice.. would u
bring in alcohol and cigarettes for tht matter? or if u just give
birth to a baby. would u introduce him to drinks and cigarettes as
he/she grows up. my point is... with now the acknoledgement of
homosexuals, this is a first step in the change of standards.... i
forsee tht perhaps in the next 5 years, MAYBE (assumptive) therw
would be gay/lesbian laws.... just like the US... so perhaps 10
years or dunno how many years down the road...
a: " u gay/lesbian" b: yea. a: "oh ok.. cool"
i feel maybe the church council has tht concern... tht the govt has
taked tht very first step.. baby step...towards the US
culture.
so wat then should my response be? for me. i have no problems if u
are gay/lesbian wateva. just as the most cliche phrase hate the sin
love the sinnner...or modifications... love the smoker, hate the
smoke.....bla bla
ultimately if u have geniune concern.. love thy neighbour as
yourself. never be condescending and bigot.
3The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman
caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group 4and said
to Jesus, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.
5In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you
say?" 6They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a
basis for accusing him.
7But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his
finger. When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and
said to them, "If any one of you is without sin, let him be the
first to throw a stone at her." 8Again he stooped down and wrote on
the ground.
9At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older
ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still
standing there. 10Jesus straightened up and asked her, "Woman,
where are they? Has no one condemned you?"
11"No one, sir," she said.
"Then neither do I condemn you," Jesus declared. "Go now and leave
your life of sin."
thanks for hearing me =)
