Gay-Affirming Podcast
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| Gay-Affirming Podcast | Posted on Dec 22 2006 at 2:42pm by |
| I subscribed to your podcast after seeing a promo of you at an independent film house that features Sundance films monthly. I am enjoying the different perspective you bring to Christianity as a Punk Minister. Of course, I don't have tele access {whole other topic}, so I can't get the whole feel of what your topic is about and how you deal with homosexuality as a minister. I'd like to give my opinion, if I may. I am a Unitarian Universalist. I truly believe that my spiritual journey is my own and has been entrusted to me as my own. I was heavily involved in the Southern Baptist church until I was 17 and found many things about it hypocritical and ignorant as well as very scary. But one thing that disturbed me the most was how every time I was being preached to during my evangelical training was how Christians were at war and were constantly being prejudged and cast in a role of minority that we have to struggle through. But after reading about the life of Jesus and passages from the Bible, I understood my role as a Christian much differently. Isn't that he died for us originally? So how is it my responsibility to determine what is right or wrong with other people? I understood my role to be different in Christianity. And thus, I left the Baptist Church. I spent many years learning about Judiaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and many more and found that all of them, when read with an open mind - they all really say the same thing. Love. My views on Christianity have changed, I have learned a lot about myself through this journey and found Unitarian Universalism to be my match. My views and opinions in this world are certainly my own but they are not my own to force on others. Whether I believe in homosexuality or not, it isn't my call. Every human being deserves to be respected and dignified, no matter the color of their skin, their sexual orientation, or their past, along with so many others. Does this mean I have to agree or like them? No. But it does mean I have to respect their descisions in life, because it is theirs to do with as they see fit. When it comes to the end of my life, I want to look back with no regrets. I want to know that I treated others with the same respect and dignity that I have been treated with or did better. I am pro choice. Not because I believe in abortion, but because I believe in my right to choose, regardless if it is life. I am pro same sex marriage. Not because I believe in homosexuality, but because I believe that everyone should be afforded the same rights that I as a heterosexual am afforded. These are things that I have been looked down upon by old church mates. I am not hurt, but disappointed. It has been hard to look upon someone with love though they hate your guts, but I am human and not a robot. I have babbled long enough. I just found your podcast to be so interesting that I felt the need to comment. I hope you continue to do what you feel is right in your heart. | |
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