themattscott are you listening yet

For some years now you have viewed yourselves as championing the cause of Pro-Marriage legislation, which is more plainly stated: Anti-Homosexual legislation. You have felt the turning tide of public appeal fall favorably on Gay marriage, and see this trend as an affront to your very core being. Your leaders have imposed if Homosexuality were to be found out as a genetic predisposition, they would break their moral and ethical values against abortion to stop a homosexual child from being born. In saying this they have shown that making humanity fit within the narrow confines of their ideal image is more important than the protection of life itself.

For years they have silently encouraged their children to degrade homosexuals by calling them derogatory names, they are complicit in their silence and lack of condemnation for such acts. For years they themselves as well as many of you have even fallen to the levels of using these same derogatory terms to describe homosexuals. You, yourselves, have used the very term “Gay” as a negative word; much the same way that Jews in the day of Jesus used the term Samaritan. You have subjugated homosexuals to a lower level then yourselves by denying them the right of marriage, claiming it a sacred system, which you yourselves have utterly desecrated with your divorces and affairs.

The treatment you have brought upon homosexuals is not the first of its kind, nor will it be the last. Your ancestors have just as vehemently protested causes such as women’s rights, civil rights, and acts against institutions such as apartheid, yet progress persevered. In the end the overwhelming tide of equality has persevered over the diminishing forces of inequity and bigotry.

You cannot claim to be both the protectors of the Bible and deny its very core message of equality. You must see that the God of the Bible is a God of change, a God who loves all, and a God who will not abide such bigotry that has been shown throughout the past decades against homosexuals. Perhaps your most grievous act is this ignorance of this progressive theme that the Bible portrays.

Your misunderstandings have caused immeasurable hurt over the years. Where you should be sowing seeds of Justice, Equality, and Love, you have created a field that is full of the weeds of pain, suffering, and injustice. This act has cast, in the eyes of those who do not hold to the cross, an ill shadow upon the Father who became flesh that all may be reconciled and equal.

My friends, this tide will not be turned back. You may delay it, you may attempt to ignore it, you may fight it will all of your might, but this tide is strengthened by a God who will not be turned back, nor denied. Join us, champion the cause of equality, truly live out a life freed of legalistic oppression, and see true change in the reconciling name of Christ.