WeeManDan

This post needs a better title than that but I can’t think of one, I think I’m a little too angry to care about the title.

This story has been in the news a fair bit the last couple of days and I thought about blogging about it but decided against it plus I was busy with coursework (I still am but I need to vent this first). On the BBC there are many very interesting comments varying in severity and side but one that keeps cropping up is Christians who are more annoyed with their fellow Christians for creating a storm in a tea cup etc

I was going to leave this subject alone as one it doesn’t really bother me and two I didn’t see the need to add to it all, until I got an email through today.

A forward about a petition to sign up to in protest of the law.

We live in a democracy, we have ‘equal’ rights and yet as far as I can tell some want to be more equal than others. It is absurd.

I think that one of the main subjects of various seminars, talks and sermons is that God love’s us all, you, me the person over the street, God is love and yet that seems to have been forgotten as soon as the word gay appears it’s gone in a flash and that is sad, very sad. In fact it makes me worried. Very worried.

So what if a gay couple ask for a room in a Christian guesthouse? I don’t get it. A house is a house. Surely one of the main lessons we learn from Jesus is that He is the person who would open his door to anyone, absolutely anyone. He is God and so He is love.

By blatantly discriminating against someone is clearly not showing the same love that Jesus shows this world.

It’s the 21st century and if we as Christians dont want to be dismissed as much as it seems we are at the moment then we need to learn to love the sinner. Jesus did it, cant we?

Why is it that as soon as the word gay is mentioned that it is this elevated sin, a super sin? We are all sinners and yet we seem to have this human constructed idea of super sin. Don’t judge others, remember John 8:6-8 :

“They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him. But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.” Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.”

Nope, I won’t be signing up to a petition that promotes discrimination.

We are all equal and really it’s a bit sad that it takes a law for that to be put in place.

God bless, love

Dan