Just putting this out there because it'll eat my soul if I don't.

[brak666]

I am a homosexual. I am a Christian.

I have been mocked, degraded, and dismissed far more often and with much greater vehemence and regularity for being the latter by atheists and Pagans, than I ever have for being the former by Christians, and homophobes. The Far Left really annoys me sometimes. All their talk about tolerance is just so much bullshit. They think they're so much better and more compassionate than the Far Right. They don't realize that they do the exact same thing all the time. It is possible to have a different opinion from someone and still show them respect.

Comments

[natlyn.livejournal.com]

::nods::

I have frequently thought the same thing and consider myself neither homosexual nor Christian (except in the loosest cultural way [Christian that is, I don't know that one can be culturally homosexual]).

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

From this outsider's perspective, a very ugly fringe of Christianity seems to have taken over all media presentation, and define themselves as normative Christian.

And foolish people have believed them - and there is much foolishness on all sides.

It's a shame the name of a religion has been co-opted for such purposes.

[carolinecrane.livejournal.com]

All their talk about tolerance is just so much bullshit.

Truer words were never spoken. The Left doesn't want to look any further into Christianity than the loud-mouthed Moral Right majority currently spewing hate everywhere, and therefore they miss out on the basic tenets of Christianity that make it a beautiful religion like any other.

I identify as bisexual and Christian, and while I have my problems with the church, I don't condemn Christianity wholesale because of it. It's sad that so many people do, particularly in the generation behind mine (I'm 35).

[zvi-likes-tv.livejournal.com]

You're collapsing sets of not terribly comparable things. The set of all Christians is not really comparable to the set of all homophobes. And the set of all Far Left (do you mean Marxists? Communists? Anarchists? Libertarians? Supporters of abortion rights and gay marriage? People who believe in progressive taxation and universal healthcare?) is not the same as the set of all pagans and atheists.

[brak666.livejournal.com]

In my anger I may have been conflating two things that were pissing me off.

[molly-o.livejournal.com]

When I was in grad school, my best friend there was Mormon and gay (I think he actually identified as bi at the time). Our grad school circle was all progressive intellectual types who marveled that he still hung out with his Mormon friends.

And then I went to a potluck dinner at his house, and I was the only grad school friend there -- the others, who'd gone so far as to tell him what dish they planned to bring, just didn't show up. But all the Mormons showed up, and were very welcoming to me, and seemed more disturbed by his views on astrology than by any reference he made to his sexuality.

I stopped wondering why he hung out with the Mormons.