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Silencing Christians: The Gay Agenda

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From time to time the wife and I receive emails from the all powerful *eyeroll* Joe Solmonese and the HRC. Tonight the wife got an email about a nationwide special that the American Family Association produced called Speechless: Silencing Christians. I will go on and say that I have not read the book they reference every 10 seconds, After the Ball: How America will conquer its fear and hatred of Gays in the ’90′s by Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen. The AFA sponsored a mini series on the Inspiration channel called Silencing Christians. This nationwide special is that mini series’ bastard son. Thankfully, it wasn’t aired in many places–but you can watch the full hour long special by clicking the link above.

Throughout the entire video I was screaming at my laptop. Somehow, I feel like I should apologize to it. The entire video focuses on how we homosexuals and lesbians (since when are lesbians not homosexual?) use propaganda tactics to force Americans to accept our way of life as acceptable, normal, productive, etc. They take quotes from After the Ball out of context to prove their point. The AFA slams us for using propaganda to further ourselves….but that video is blatant proof that they’re doing the same thing.

Here are just a few things they mention in the video:

1) An “ex-lesbian” (with a horrible haircut) talking about how she found Jesus and stopped being a lesbian. She currently is working/volunteering on a hotline for other gay people to call for guidance on how to stop being gay. She said that we demand tolerance for our lifestyle, but that we don’t tolerate her story. She also said that anyone can be cured…that its the weak people who quit because it’s too hard. If she feels like she isn’t gay anymore and she’s happy being straight, who am I to say she is wrong? If the people calling her hotline feel that way, I can’t stop them. I know its hard to deny that you’re gay. I did it. I tried so hard ot be straight for my family. But in the end, I was miserable. I wanted to die. So no, I can’t understand how she is happy…how anyone who has been “cured” can be happy. But who am I to say they aren’t? I can only speak from my own experiences.

2) A christian man in Canada wrote an editorial to his local paper talking about how parents and teachers in the community need to open their eyes to the homosexual agenda and that it is NOT okay to teach their kids. He was charged with a hate crime in Canada. In Canada, they do not have the same rights of free speech that we have in America. This man blames homosexuals for his legal troubles. I think, before you publish an editorial, you should know the limits  on your freedom of speech. It isn’t my fault, or any other homosexual’s fault that Canada doesn’t have the same free speech rights that America does.

3) Gay people are seeking SPECIAL RIGHTS. Tell me, what special rights do we want? We want to be able to get married and for our relationships to be recognized under the law. We want to be able to adopt children. We want to be able to visit our loved ones in the hospital. We want joint health insurance. We want fair treatment at work. How are those “special” rights. Straight people enjoy those rights EVERY SINGLE DAY.

4) Marriage is a religious institution. If marriage is a religious institution, Atheists shouldn’t be able to marry either. Enough said.

As I write this, I’m getting more and more angry…so I’ll end here. All the video accomplishes is to prove that the AFA is a group of hypocrites. Its wrong for gay people to use any kind of propaganda to get our opinions out and to further our agenda…but its okay for Christians to do the same thing? I’ve considered writing to the AFA to tell them exactly how I feel. Whether or not I do it is still to be determined. I have their mailing address if anyone wants it :P

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That is funny (and infuriating!) that they would say that Homosexuals use propaganda tactics to “FORCE Americans to accept our way of life as acceptable”. Because that is EXACTLY WHAT THEY ARE DOING!!

If anything, the religious right forces their beliefs on Americans way more than homosexuals. All we want are equal rights, we don’t want to make all Americans gay the way that fundamental christians want to turn everyone into christians!

It’s religious people like that who converted me to be an athiest!

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by scantron on February 19th, 2009 at 3:05 PM

I get angry, too when I start to think, discuss or read these topics. I’m a Christian and I’m bi. My heart literally aches when people choose to place judgment where God does NOT give them authority. I’ve actually had to halt any conversations with my parents about this because we share two different views. To them, their way is absolute and as a Christian I understand absolutes. What I don’t understand is judgment and prejudice.

Religious opinions are separate from state. They were in Jesus’ day as they are today. You didn’t pay taxes to the church, you paid taxes to Cesar. Same today, so why does MY religion give me or anyone else the right to remove those freedoms from those who choose NOT to believe the same thing?

I love how people use the “teach the children” as a weapon when I was raised in a Southern Baptist home with Right parents. My brother and I grew up knowing “right” and “wrong” but knowing and choosing for yourself are two different stories. You can teach your children all they want, but it’s their choice. I’m not saying being gay is a choice but am referring to those Christian principals I grew up with.

Long story short, I hate this too. It makes it hard for me to fight when I feel like I’m getting beat down. It makes it hard to pray, but my relationship with God is between He and I. Not the guy in Canada, the girl who’s been “healed” or my parents.

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by Penelope on February 19th, 2009 at 3:08 PM

It. Makes. Me. Crazy.

CRAZY.

If the Bible is thrown at me ONE MORE TIME, I’m going to…actually suggest THEY READ IT.

I swear, using God as a means to further hate and discrimination is despicable. I have no problem standing before God and telling him I loved purely and honestly with the heart he made for me.

I DO worry about the people who have to stand before God and explain their arrogance – explain how they felt worthy enough to DO HIS JOB and judge people when often that time should have been spent 1) being faithful 2) coming out of the closet themselves 3) paying their taxes, etc.

I’m just saying…

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by Heather on February 20th, 2009 at 1:12 PM

Ooohhh, something to write about. I signed up for the AFA mailing list; this Silencing the Christians thing has been an opportunity for some incredible jokes. I just haven’t gotten there yet.

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by Chelsea on February 24th, 2009 at 11:54 AM

Question= Born Gay?
Answer= God Doesn’t Make Mistakes!

We hear much nowadays from the homosexual community about being “born gay.” TV talkshow hosts, the newsmedia and medical professionals have bought into the deception that some people are naturally born HOMOSEXUAL and can’t help it. Nothing could be further from the truth.

To say that some people are born homosexual is to say that God makes mistakes. If God creates a man (with a man’s reproductive organ), but that man has God-given natural sexual desires for another man, then God made a mistake. The Bible plainly states in Genesis 1:27, “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.” There is nothing in the Bible about two men getting married, or two women. Same-sex marriage is sinful in the eyes of God.

God doesn’t make mistakes! No one is “born gay.” God created male and female, and they have natural sexual attractions one for the other, because they have male and female reproductive organs, respectively. The very idea of two men having sexual relations is against nature. In fact, the Word of God states this in Romans 1:24-28. Romans 1:26,27 state: “For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.” Clearly, the Bible teaches that heterosexual attraction is natural; BUT homosexuality is abnormal and against nature.

God doesn’t make mistakes! No one is “born gay.” If you tell me that some people are “born gay,” then you are saying that my God makes mistakes, and my God doesn’t make mistakes. Why would God give two men a “natural” attraction one-for-the-other, but then they can’t mate and reproduce because they both have male reproductive organs? That would be absurd. If homosexual attraction is “natural,” then God made a mistake. God doesn’t make mistakes! The truth is that no one is “born gay.” It’s a choice. Homosexuality is a vile lifestyle of lust, godlessness and shame that one CHOOSES to live.

by name Eddie on April 27th, 2009 at 2:35 PM

THE BIBLE WASN’T WRITTEN BY GOD! IT WAS WRITTEN BY MAN! MAN, WHO CAN NOT BE TRUSTED. Who knows what was added or removed during the centuries MAN rewrote the Bible. It was all about power and control. And if you really READ the Bible, you’ll see that there’s a whole list of “abominations” and “sins” against God, that lots of heterosexual people do. There’s a lot, I’m sure, your guilty of too bubby. God created us with the ability to love, that’s right, the ABILITY to love, and he created us w/the beautiful gift of free will. It may be a CHOICE for some people, but it’s our free will, the He gave us, that allow us to make that choice. A choice to be happy in this life. How could it be against God to want to be happy and to love and make other peoples lives happy? It can’t. Homosexuality is not some new fad going on right now. It’s been around since the dawn of time!! It’s just who some people are. How do YOU KNOW ANYTHING! Don’t sit there and preach about what is right and wrong Eddie. YOU are NOT GOD! Remember those cool WWJD bracelets? What Would Jesus Do? Do you think he would turn his back on a homosexual whose about to be stoned to death for thier “sins”? No. “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.” I know where He and I stand, it’s not your place to judge ANYONE!
*that feels better:)

by Melissa on April 28th, 2009 at 11:38 AM

The worst sinners i have met have been other christians. These days i am disappointed at being a christian myself because they hate others unlike them (they say they dont)

by chester on June 27th, 2009 at 7:06 PM

Eddie is another one of those people who quote an ancient book to try to back up his rhetoric about homosexuals. It is so silly that an adult will believe what is written in a book by who knows how many people but will not believe what a homosexual tells him.

Eddie, read this carefully, several times if you must. I am a lezbian. I don’t date sex or fantasize about men. I have no sexually feelings toward men. I am a woman. I don’t want to be a man. I don’t act like a man. I simply do not desire men sexually. Accept and live with the fact that there are some women who do not want men sexually. The world has not stopped spinning due to that fact.

Reproductive organs are for procreation. A woman can have sex with a man and make a baby but that doesn’t mean she loves or even have feelings for that man. What world are you living in that you seem unaware of this simple fact. What about the sex organs. Should I let a man use my body for his pleasure? See how silly and unnatural that is.

If God doesn’t make mistakes as you keep saying then there is nothing wrong with people being homosexual. If no one is born gay, then no one is born heterosexual. And if you are heterosexual then you decided to be heterosexual and I decide to be homosexual. So why is your decision more valuable than my decision.

I am a real live human-being, a woman, who is not sexually turned on by men. According to you, I should give my body to a man or be alone because you don’t approve. That’s heterosexual crap. Once upon a time, and in some places it still happens, that females had no sayso in who they married. They didn’t have to like love or even know the men chosen for them. Well, in free nations women no longer have to put up with that abuse. We get to pick who we want to be with.

The only knowledge you have about God is what you read in an ancient book that has been altered so many times, yet you quote it saying it is the word of God. Well, I have one too and it clearly says that God told Moses, the mass murderer, that He will remove from His book the names of those who has sinned against Him.

People with working brains learn as they age but somewhere along the way some get stupid. Why are you stuck on what people do sexually when it has nothing to do with you. Or maybe you have a girlfriend / wife who left you for a woman or you think your gf/wife is gay because she just doesn’t respond to you sexually. Settle your own issues within your own house and your own heart. Stop pretending that you know God more than I do or any other gay person. You don’t own God. You don’t have anymore of a connection to Him than any homosexual who believes in Him.

Which God in the Bible do you worship? The God who kills people and favor one group over another or the God who loves everyone? You do realize that the Bible portrays God as good and evil. Try studying some more and read the whole Bible that you like to quote from. One line says thou shall not kill and another say stone people and kill people. Do you stone people because they broke some man-made rule. Why don’t you talk to the males who have sex with unmarried females. You do know what the Bible says about that don’t you? Go talk to guys like that and see what reaction you get. It’s weird how people seek out lesbian sites and quote what they think supports their rhetoric about homosexuality.

Your rheoric doesn’t stand up simply for the fact that I am a real person and you only go by what is written in a book.

by Salty on June 17th, 2010 at 5:23 PM

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