A Day Without a Gay

I noticed that gay activists have organized today as a national “Day Without a Gay”, a day when gays should skip work and should instead volunteer for community service.

Their goal is to demonstrate the positive impact gays and lesbians make in the workplace, and to show how much the country relies on them everyday.

One particular aspect of this event caught my eye. Many gays wrongly perceive all opposition to gay-rights as a personal indictment of themselves, and not their lifestyle choice alone. “Day Without a Gay”, for example, doesn’t even address gays' lifestyle – it instead addresses their basic worth as human beings and employees. Apparently gays (and most social liberals) believe that gay-rights opponents truly do hate them, and only use religion to mask their own deep-seated fears and prejudices.

And who could blame them? You could only observe so many brutal attacks against homosexuals periodically grabbing the headlines before you would begin to sense an omnipresence of hate. That, of course, is the essence of terrorism.

But while some are driven by hate, others are driven by love.

Gays may wonder how many people would risk death to save a gay person. Christians worship Someone who did.

God calls homosexuality sin. But God has already proven He loves all of His children unconditionally, because Christ died for all of us even while we were still sinners! God did not require us to do anything in order for Him to demonstrate His love. You can hate Christ, but He still died for you, knowing that you were yet going to hate him. This is so that you may have the confidence of first knowing where He stands.

And God desires to see all His children brought to glory. But because He loves us, He cannot allow behavior that He knows will be destructive, and He requires us to change, as difficult as it may be. His purpose is to perfect us.

If He didn’t love us, He wouldn’t care.

This change will be the most difficult for those who have built their entire personal identity on a false concept. I don't envy the unique challenges of those dealing with same sex attraction, but at whatever point God calls you, in Him you can find the strength you need. Through Him you can do all things.

Here's a nice source produced by my Church: http://breakingfree.ucg.org/samesexattraction/