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RE: Is Steemit ready for the LGBTQAI community?
Great post! It is very true that our community still needs a lot of healing. I too have been scarred by the way my family and Church community talked about and treated homosexuality. I identify with feeling as though your whole life is “sinful” and that there was something wrong with you. For a long time I begged God to change me, to take away these feelings of love I had towards my best friend and now wife @betterbeing. I was told that it was just a sinful addiction, that I needed to repent and cut the relationship off. But in the end love won. And that is the message I want to spread. Love and acceptance should always be the priority and this should ring true in all nations and communities.
Well said! I know that none of these people in the churches mean to do wrong, they are all acting from a position of thinking that's the right way. Unfortunately in many cases they are not open to learning from others that see things differently than them. I have relatives that haven't cared to look into their beliefs so they still are totally against being gay. My parents however are stuck with me and they knew that they had to look into things that challenged their beliefs. I'm lucky they did, there are many parents out there that completely disconnect from their children because of this.
So true. I have a great deal of respect for the Christian community and I know most of them are very well meaning and have nothing but good intentions. Unfortunately, sometimes misguided beliefs can cause deep wounds. I spent most of my life as an avid believer and shared the same sentiments about homosexuality until I realized that it just didn’t make sense. Sometimes it takes a very real, personal experience for someone to change their perspective.
Absolutely, unless it's not very deeply personal why do they even have reason to consider challenging their beliefs? And one thing that so many people misunderstand is that they think their beliefs are absolute truth. No... they're just beliefs, and although they might seem right, they might not be.
If I was told that the sky was yellow my whole life and had never heard otherwise... I'd most definitely think that a person telling me it was blue was crazy. Just because you believe it, doesn't make it true.