Religious Bias

In mid February 2012 we heard that the New Jersey (NJ) Senate approved Gay marriage but Governor Christie vetoed it saying the people should vote on the issue; not a handful of politicians. Right after this incident, Maryland became the eighth state to legalize Gay marriage. On February 21 on the View they said that Tennessee has a bill that says ‘don’t say Gay’ that restricts schools from talking about homosexuality until high school; the bill referenced the show Modern Family saying it’s inappropriate for kids to watch it because they’d learn about Gays in the world. On March 1 the Washington DC Archdiocese said refusing communion to a lesbian at her mother’s funeral was against church policy (this suggests that the priest who had done so doesn’t know their policy). 

In an interview with Piers Morgan on March 3, Kirk Cameron, former Growing Pains star, said he does not support the idea of Gay marriage and said homosexuality is unnatural, detrimental and ultimately destructive to so many of the foundations of civilization; if one of his (6) children revealed he was Gay that he would say that there are all sorts of issues we need to wrestle through in our lives and just because you feel one way doesn’t mean we should act on everything we feel; Stephen Baldwin supported Kirk while Tracey Gold on March 4 wrote that she’s a strong supporter of the LGBT community and believes in equal rights for all, no H8, Love. On March 5 Alan Thicke said on Twitter that he’s getting him (Kirk) some new books; the Old Testament simply can’t be expected to explain everything.

On the March 5 episode of the Talk LaToya Jackson said – there is so much hatred in the world today and when you find people that truly love each other we should respect and honor that; she also said when she left the Jehovah Witnesses that it opened up a whole new world of understanding for her. Sara Gilbert said - he should be aware of the people he’s hurting by saying that – the attempted suicide rate is 30-40% among young teens dealing with who they are and no one is fighting more for marriage than Gay people and if you want to talk about what’s detrimental – it’s passing judgment. Sheryl Underwood said - if he is to be Christ like then where is the love that Christ would have shown - this argument makes it seem that there was no love in what Christ taught.

On March 6 on the View I heard that the group American Atheists have put up billboards written in Arabic/Hebrew/English targeting Jews and Muslims in New York and NJ saying – You know it’s a myth and you have a choice (all religions are false).

As I’m sure I’ve already said, I am not an Atheist or a believer in organized religion but I am a believer in God and the 10 Commandments. Being raised a Catholic I’ve always had issues with the Church’s hypocrisy - go to confession – get communion – and start your dirty tricks all over again. I’ve also found it interesting that the Romans murdered Jesus Christ and the Catholic headquarters is based out of Vatican City near Rome, Italy. I repeat that I have a problem with the Catholic Church believing that it has right to forgive a person’s sins when the commandments clearly say it’s God’s right and no one else’s; this coincides with the church’s belief that they can decide if a Gay, Communist, or any other person with political or other issues that the church doesn’t believe in can receive last rights – yet they continually give them to murders, sex offenders, thieves and more that have violated the 10 Commandments.

If Christians believe in Jesus who said in John Chapter 8 (to the crowd that was going to stone a woman to death for adultery) – ‘He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her’. As a result the men left and Jesus said to her –‘Neither do I condemn thee; go, and sin no more’. It’s time for the Catholic and other Christians that are full of corruption (break any of the commandments) to stop throwing stones. The various individuals and governments that are throwing stones with their comments or by implementing bills that go against God’s will or those like Governor Christie that prevents God’s will from being done only feed hate and not love. They fail to consider the kids that are different and committing suicide; they fail to teach goodness in reacting to those that are different.

I realize in America we have freedom of speech and we are all allowed to have a difference of opinion. I support this freedom and I get that they don’t want to talk about Gays, bisexuals, and transgenders in sex education (personally I think sex education doesn’t belong in public schools) but parents are supposed to help their kids grow and I hope all of this foolish contradiction is a wakeup call for the American people. If we take a minute to think I believe that we would find that the US Constitution provides more of an opportunity to promote God’s love than any organized religion.