It doesn't matter who wants to teach us about love, whether they're Priests, Pastors, Rabbis, Ministers, Clerics or ordinary people, male or female; if they cannot love as Jesus loved or refuse to follow Jesus' commandments then what right do they have to tell Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals and Transgender people whom they should love or what they should be allowed to do? Remember this country already did this to the African slaves that they bought, stole and incarcerated, unfortunately much of this isn't taught in our history books. Today slavery still remains alive in other parts of the world, as does sexual slavery.
Jesus is love and love doesn't know anything but loving, just as the sun doesn't know anything other than giving light, or shining; the wind doesn't know anything but blowing; the rivers don't know any thing but flowing; and the rain doesn't know anything except raining. Some of your so-called Christians like Archbishop Timothy Dolan would have you believe that it is wrong for you to love some of your neighbors that are Gay, Lesbian and others, but thank God that he and other like minded Priests, Pastors, Rabbis and Clergy aren't the ones that mandate God's love.
I would ask these Priests, Pastors and ordained ministers of God's written word to define and show their love, because I don't really think many of them really get what love is all about. I don't have any problem loving people; it comes natural and many other Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender men and women don't have any problem with loving others either.
You see there is what I'd call a rock in many so-called Christian beliefs, which interferes with their perception of the way God loves and the way they love. This rock that I speak of is the rock that they put between them and God's love; it prevents them from loving the way God loves. Many so-called Christians put this rock in place thousands of years ago; they weren't too enthused about who Jesus associated with or with what he said; many of them tried to stone him, called him names, a blasphemer and I'm sure there are many names that the Bible doesn't mention. Unfortunately this was the kind of turmoil that caused Jesus to be crucified. Archbishop Timothy Dolan called what the New York State Senate did in passing the Same Sex Marriage Act "detrimental to the common good" and a violation of "natural law." <http://answersforthefaith.com/2011/06/27/ny-catholic-bishop-speaks-out-against-gay-marriage/>
Some Christians are a strange bunch; some Christians have gotten into their own clicks by separating themselves from those that they don't like or would rather not be associated with and who aren't like them; this goes beyond gay people. You see we have some evil and some hateful people in our world, in our community, in our schools, in our governments, in our prisons, but unfortunately we have some of these evil, hateful, maniacal thinking and acting human beings in some of our Churches and other places of worship. With people like this in our Churches one has to ask where is Christianity and where is the love? You might get to pick and choose whom you'd like to spend the rest of your life with but if you follow the Biblical teachings, God's law and Jesus' commandments, then you don't get to pick and choose which people to love.
Though many Churches are very ornate in their clerical vestments, their elaborate robes, stoles, head dresses, pastoral staffs and gold crosses, doesn't make them like jewelry stores. Perhaps some Christian Churches put too much emphasis on their vestments and Church dà ©cor instead of putting more emphasis on loving everyone.
The Church needs to put aside the issue of gays and same sex partners and focus on the real issue of loving instead of being hateful and despicable to others. Many people don't want other people to have the same rights that the Holy Bible speaks of as marriage being between a man and a woman, the same way some rich people don't want poor people to have what they have. They refuse to move that rock and see beyond what God was and is talking about, love and loving each other. As human beings we need to move beyond our differences so that we can approach getting to and beyond the rainbow.
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