You're Not Required to be Gay

Mrs Raymond,

I once again find myself consuming Rolaids by the case full as I try to stomach the extremely hateful rhetoric you offer up in a blog that is truly an insult to the act of responsible writing. Your March 21, 2013, blog about gay marriage is perhaps one of the most disgustingly hateful things I have ever read in my entire life. Ironically, you title it "Love, A Many Gendered Thing."

The following paragraph from your article is so full of nonsense that I'm convinced you have been irreparably brainwashed and sent here in a time capsule by Constantine himself.

You say:

"Attacks on one man/one woman marriage are meant to strike at the very heart of the Christian religion.  Nothing could be more abominable to Bible believing Christians (and we are legion) than the thought of America, a nation founded on Christian principles, legalizing something that is in direct opposition to a foundational Christian teaching.  It could not be clearer that God does not approve of homosexuality.  Well, that’s too tame a description.  God detests homosexuality.

Please note: God hates the act of homosexuality, but not the person who is homosexual.  Christians should take the same stance."

To the contrary, your extremism is an attack on humanity. Nobody is requiring Christians to become gay. If you want to live your life according to your admittedly hateful prophecies, that's your choice. DOMA doesn't make it a law that you have to marry a woman, it simply allows those who do not judge a person's individual preferences to enjoy the same freedoms you have, and it's incredibly shortsighted of you to be blind to that.

(And your backpedaling statement of god hating the act but not those who commit the act is laughable and very, very weak. The two go hand-in-hand. By your logic, would it be safe to say that god hates murder, but not the murderer?) 

What exactly is it that frightens you about all humans having equal rights? Do you share conflicting tendencies? I'm sure some prayer will cure you of those "impure thoughts," right?

The irony for me comes in the fact that you cite the bible with exhausting redundancy, but you seem to forget every passage that clearly instructs you, as a Christian, not to judge. That everything is "God's" judgment in the end. Furthermore, Jesus Christ said that as you treat your neighbor, you surely treat him.

You are perhaps the most hypocritical Christian I have ever enjoyed reading the vitriol of. And that's a compliment, because there are so many just like you; absolutely blind to the fact that as they pontificate so much from the great book, they behave in complete antithesis of it. Or maybe you don't. Maybe you live just as perfectly hateful as your loving Christianity teaches you.

You offer another quote:

"And if you want to throw the Old Testament argument at me, Jesus came to fulfill the law (Old Testament) and His watchword was: love one another.  In other words, respect everyone no matter their gender.  Live in peace with them.  That is what Christians have been doing and will continue to do.

But, don’t ask for a redefinition of marriage.  You are overstepping.  It’s like asking for your cake and eating it too."

I suggest you spend some time with the term "cognitive dissonance." In fact, you are an expert at that. Live in peace with everyone, but hate them also? Just how conflicted are you. And, what gives you the right to self righteously define that a conscious and compassionate humanity is overstepping its bounds? You are a narcissistic, hateful woman who should be exorcised by your very religion for the demons clearly possessing your blackened soul.

Finally, people like you call to the ultimate support of our rights, while you suppress the very same rights of others. You enjoy your freedom of speech, but you take away that very right from others when they challenge your point of view. That tells me more than I need to know about your complete lack of integrity. You're too intellectually weak to substantiate your hate when challenged about it; and your self-righteous narcissism is only validated when people who share your extremely detached delusions pat you on the back. You continually remove my comments from your website, as you do others who take exception to your delusions.

Your blogs are archaic, feeble-minded, backwards, insubstantial, and lacking the objective critical thought they require because you're too much of a coward to allow your points to be challenged and to engage those of us who would clearly like to understand how exactly you feel justified to behave as intolerantly as you do.

Your dislike of a greater and more accepting humanity is not only disgusting, but it's also completely perverse to the greater Christian principles you seem to hold so dear. 

Finally, there's a reason your culture of biblical values is hurling down at "breakneck speeds" as you put it. Ironically, the reason for that is found in every thought you put to paper. Christianity is in decline because rational human beings are simply tired of listening to the insensible ramblings of the dogmatically brainwashed.