That’s what I heard someone say this evening.

I heard a story about a family. They are a Christian family and raised three now grown children. All of them grew up in the church and knew the Lord.

One day, the youngest son who was in college told the parents that he was gay, BUT the story continued that the other two children are “doing well” (whatever that means).

I was then told how it broke the hearts of the parents when they were told this by their son. How the parents went through what “all” parents of same-sex children go through… grief, denial, guilt (what did I do?), where’s God? They knew their son had put his faith in the Lord earlier, and didn’t understand how he could embrace this “lifestyle”.

They were counseled by their pastor, and they didn’t understand why God hasn’t changed their boy’s heart. Everything from there was about changing the heart of the son.

We as Christians are SO SURE about what we believe that we don’t consider that we might be wrong

There wasn’t a word spoken about changing the hearts of the parents. It was never even considered. The parents were right, the child was wrong. Only the CHILD (though an adult) needed to change.

And there you go, that’s where we are.

Let me start here with saying I’m NOT well versed in the whole Bible and homosexuality thing. But I’ll bet I’m better versed and most who never ever peeked into what the Bible might really say.

Based on what I KNOW about being transgender (which is NOT related to being gay), but also what I have learned about those who are gay, I can easily see how those who are gay are really BORN with a same-sex attraction. It’s how they’re wired, just as how people who are transgender are wired that way (and that I DO know about).

We as Christians are SO SURE about what we believe that we don’t consider that we might be wrong—never mind that we’re basing our theology on an English translation by people we don’t know of COPIES (because the originals don’t exist) of texts from cultures we don’t understand.

I’m not gay, so why do I even delve into all this? Because I know the general population and the Church at large puts we who are transgender into the same camp as people who are gay. Putting the “T” into LGBT only contributes to their confusion, but that’s for another post.

What saddens me the most about the story told to me was that I never heard how the parents said “we love you regardless”, “we love but it hurts”. In fact “we love you” was never part of the story. The story rather focused on the hurt of the parents, ignoring the probably lifetime of hurt the son felt before as an adult coming out to his parent, and the subsequent hurt he felt by the disapproval of his parents.

what do you do with people who believe just like you, but were created “different” in the image of God?

When our love and grace is only extended and given consideration in one direction, it’s not love and grace, it’s merely sympathy.

The way the story was told to me and based on the parent’s reaction (and the one telling the story) you would think that the son had sold his soul to the Devil, but in reality, he had come to Christ earlier and there was nothing to think he had departed from that, except that he told them that he was gay (which he was when he gave his life to Christ, his family just didn’t know at the time that he was gay).

I’m sorry church, but what do you do with people who believe just like you, but were created “different” in the image of God?

I KNOW being transgender isn’t a sin, and there are good theological arguments why being born gay isn’t a sin (again, that’s not my lane), but go ahead, consider it ALL a sin. Why are these sins so horrible to you? When you overeat, you drink too much, or heaven forbid you’ve had sex with someone who is not now your spouse in your past, why is that okay yet you condemn someone who is something you are not?

Get a grip folks! Even some of my friends who totally understand the concept of grace somehow find a way to put LBGT into the “rule book” of things you can’t do if you want to get to heaven. They won’t judge, until they can judge about this.

COME TO JESUS folks! He didn’t give us a rule book. He gave us a GUIDEBOOK! He taught us how to love others, and how to leave the rest to the Father.

In the United States, for the longest time blacks weren’t allowed (not by law but by practice) into “white” churches. That’s gone away. For the longest time, women had to wear dresses or skirts in church, that’s no longer the rule either (in most churches).

Well, hello church, this is next. You’re NOT going against God by welcoming LBGT people into the life of your church, you’re only denying others in your church of the blessing these people can bring. I feel sorry for you who won’t step forward, you’re missing such an amazing blessing—and you have no idea! To paraphrase that current theologian John Crist—Check your own heart!

-Blessings

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