Born Catholic, and I will die Catholic, but man things just aren't as easy as the old days.
My dilemma:
Holding my beliefs about homosexuality that go completely against my faith.
I cannot believe that two people loving each other is immoral.
The beliefs that my faith holds come from a time when homosexuality was new and unheard of. Of course St. Paul and other early church leaders condemned it as wrong.
But two thousand years later, we evolved. We improved as people. We understand more now.
Friends and family I know that are homosexual, I just know it is not wrong. It is as much a sin as being born with a propensity against scrambled eggs and bacon.
But peers of my own in my faith who believe differently from me push the opposite side of the argument.
And it always seems to me that these people walk around, talking like they are right end of story. They are holier than thou and it makes me sick. I know you believe what you believe, but I believe what I believe as well. They walk around talking about "defending the faith" like they its is their crusade of faith. "Defending the faith from people that are wrong" is essentially all I hear.
My personality is one that does not push my beliefs on others, so much that I don't even really talk about it until heated arguments come up. With the people I love and am around that believe differently, they all push their faith hard, so much so that it makes me embarrassed how they act.
They push other people away and wonder why they are constantly "misunderstood" by the lay people of this world.
I am fed up with being treated by them like I am a second rate Catholic, nay, a terrible catholic, supporting heathen beliefs.
I believe in Jesus Christ, the Lord Father, the Holy Spirit.
I believe that Lord Father wants us to be our best people in faith, and I believe for those of us born homosexual or asexual or bisexual or transexual or heterosexual, no matter what we are inclined to do in our own bedroom, he supports and loves us because of the people we are not despite the people we are.
We were made sexual beings and I believe God not only understands but has a huge part in who we are sexually, among other things. He made us in his image.
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