LGBT People and God

"Oh, how I love your Law!
    all day long it is in my mind." (Psalm 119: 97)

There are many right wing Christians who make the assertion that if we are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered that we must have forsaken God all together.  From this kind of thinking comes every excuse imaginable to portray LGBT as evil in every way.  The reason Don't Ask, Don't Tell should be repealed is because if LGBT are allowed to serve openly in the Military, heterosexual soldiers will be raped or there will be widespread HIV/AIDS.   What is interesting about that kind of thinking is that over the past years there have been many cases of heterosexual rape and sexual harassment in the Military, yet no one is making statements about heterosexuals not serving openly in the Armed Forces.

The reason that the Employment Non-Discrimination Act should not be passed is because transgendered men will rape women in the bathrooms, asserts organizations like the Family Research Council or American Family Council.  Even though there has yet to be a case in which that has happened.

LGBT people are thought to be brainless, moral less and hopeless unless we change our sexual orientation.  And so that is suppose to be a good reason for suggesting further violence, prejudice and a continued environment of non-equal rights? 

There are many of us who are LGBT, myself and my partner included who meditate on the law of God on a daily basis.  We work together to make a good life together, to honor our neighbor as ourselves.  Like everyone else, we miss once in a while.  Like anyone else, we work hard to pay our bills, we go to church once or twice a week.  We take care of our cat and we participate in the world around us.   We do not condone pedophilia, rape or molestation of any kind.  There are many other LGBT couples and individuals like ourselves, who are just looking to live life, love God and participate in the world around us.  What is so wrong about that?

Perhaps one of the things that many LGBT Christians need to do is be the best Christians we can as LGBT and let God do God's work through our lives.  We need to continue to speak up about equal justice and rights all over the country and world, in the Church and society.  We are right to speak up about the terrible consequences of the gulf oil spill, Arizona's draconian Immigration law and the push to not read arrested terrorists their Miranda rights.  As Jesus was a voice for the marginalized of society, so must we raise our voices on behalf of ourselves and all who need to know of God's unconditional and all inclusive love.

Keep, O Lord, your household the Church in your steadfast faith and love, that through your grace we may proclaim your truth with boldness, and minister your justice with compassion; for the sake of our Savior Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. (Proper 6, Book of Common Prayer, Page 230),