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On Homosexuality
16 years ago
Let me tell you a little story.
There was once an old priest. He was a kindly old man to most people, but whenever he was in the presence of a homosexual, he would fly into a rage.
"Man should not lay with man!" he would condemn, waving his red-bound Bible and demanding that the sinners in his sight repent and rejoin His flock. "It is only in marriage that sex is allowable, and marriage between two men is impossible! God says it to be so!" This was how the man had been raised, and how his community saw the rest of the world.
One day, this old priest was traveling through a neighboring city when he saw two men holding hands and kissing as they walked down the street; clearly, they were a homosexual couple.
"Man should not lay with man!" he shouted, beginning his usual diatribe. "Leviticus 20:13 and Hebrews 13:4 demands that you two stop your sinful ways!" Startled, the two men stared at the priest for a moment, until one of them calmly asked,
"Why, Father, must we change our ways? What is so terrible about two people who love one another?"
"It is not right! It cannot be! It is against the very purpose of marriage to allow such a union to exist!"
"And what, then, Father, is the purpose of marriage, if not for two people in love to share a life together?"
"The purpose of marriage is to create new life! It says it in Genesis! There is no arguing with that. And since this marriage cannot produce children, it is a sin!"
"Oh," said the other man, disappointed. "Well, then, I guess I had better go have my sister divorce her husband." The priest looked at the man, puzzled. "You see, Father, she has a medical condition that has rendered her unable to have children. Her marriage is a sin." The priest was about to speak when the other gay man spoke up,
"Wait a moment," the man's boyfriend said cheerfully, "they can have a child in a test tube. In a laboratory!"
"Why, yes! Yes they can! The miracle of modern science!" The priest shook his head and waved his arms. He was ignored.
"That means that WE can have a child! There does not need to be a woman involved!" the gay man exclaims with mock excitement. The two men celebrate this revelation in front of the priest.
"If we can have children, then our marriage would be perfectly acceptable! Having a child born of a glass tube is what God intended!"
"Now, wait a moment, young men, wait one moment!" the priest shouted, having heard quite enough. "You two misguided souls are twisting my words! You are taking what I have said and gone and run amok! Your ideas are nothing close to what I was trying to say!"
The gay men glared at the priest, their patience for this old bigot finally expired. "Well, now you know how God must feel."
There was once an old priest. He was a kindly old man to most people, but whenever he was in the presence of a homosexual, he would fly into a rage.
"Man should not lay with man!" he would condemn, waving his red-bound Bible and demanding that the sinners in his sight repent and rejoin His flock. "It is only in marriage that sex is allowable, and marriage between two men is impossible! God says it to be so!" This was how the man had been raised, and how his community saw the rest of the world.
One day, this old priest was traveling through a neighboring city when he saw two men holding hands and kissing as they walked down the street; clearly, they were a homosexual couple.
"Man should not lay with man!" he shouted, beginning his usual diatribe. "Leviticus 20:13 and Hebrews 13:4 demands that you two stop your sinful ways!" Startled, the two men stared at the priest for a moment, until one of them calmly asked,
"Why, Father, must we change our ways? What is so terrible about two people who love one another?"
"It is not right! It cannot be! It is against the very purpose of marriage to allow such a union to exist!"
"And what, then, Father, is the purpose of marriage, if not for two people in love to share a life together?"
"The purpose of marriage is to create new life! It says it in Genesis! There is no arguing with that. And since this marriage cannot produce children, it is a sin!"
"Oh," said the other man, disappointed. "Well, then, I guess I had better go have my sister divorce her husband." The priest looked at the man, puzzled. "You see, Father, she has a medical condition that has rendered her unable to have children. Her marriage is a sin." The priest was about to speak when the other gay man spoke up,
"Wait a moment," the man's boyfriend said cheerfully, "they can have a child in a test tube. In a laboratory!"
"Why, yes! Yes they can! The miracle of modern science!" The priest shook his head and waved his arms. He was ignored.
"That means that WE can have a child! There does not need to be a woman involved!" the gay man exclaims with mock excitement. The two men celebrate this revelation in front of the priest.
"If we can have children, then our marriage would be perfectly acceptable! Having a child born of a glass tube is what God intended!"
"Now, wait a moment, young men, wait one moment!" the priest shouted, having heard quite enough. "You two misguided souls are twisting my words! You are taking what I have said and gone and run amok! Your ideas are nothing close to what I was trying to say!"
The gay men glared at the priest, their patience for this old bigot finally expired. "Well, now you know how God must feel."
this made me happy.