What Should Christians Against Homosexuality Do About Gay Marriage?

Forget for a moment that Christianity is a religion based on tolerance and forgiveness. Lets explore the deeper question of what to do if you sincerely have a religious problem with gay people getting married.

Apparently, the deeper question of morality keeps getting swept beneath the carpet according to those who fought to pass the religious freedom laws in Indiana and now Arkansas, so we shall tackle it now.  Given that these two new variations on the theme have attempted to protect the right of religious bigotry more than any similar law before, it should be clear that some Americans think we are all heading to hell in a hand basket- and its primarily for our acceptance of things like abortion and homosexuality.  Forget, for another moment, that humans are divinely ordained with free will and have chosen to engage in every sin that the bible warned about- including the sin of judging others.

Early Christian Americans experienced similar concerns over the years of this country's existence while watching the onslaught of liberal influence, especially in the realm of religion.  Puritans sought to impose their view of religion by legislating tough social standards upon one another.  Citizens considered outside of the mainstream were immediately assumed to be demon possessed and a risk to the social fiber of puritanical living.  Since the religious people of this time overwhelmed popular opinion, they also dictated the community response.

If you need to be intolerant because of religious views
then you might need to follow the leaders of intolerance.

We might have stopped burning you heathens, but religion has never been far from the framework of our nation and it has often been used as a tool for social engineering or as an excuse for the failures in this effort.  When America could not endure the stench of slavery, WE needed to legislatively degrade blacks (3/5's compromise) in order to further the abuse against them.  Nothing changed overnight, but eventually the laws and signs promoting racial intolerance came down and the face of racial intolerance covered up in embarrassment.
But it did not go away.

Ushered on by their insistence in a religious justification to their behavior, racial bigots in America who couldn't abandon their hate decided to hide their faces and press forward.  They quickly realized that America was no longer tolerant of such intolerance, so it became necessary to express their protected freedom of speech minus the risk of exposure and retaliation.

In America, bigots are totally free to be bigots.  What they are not free to do is force you and I to buy into that bullshit.  Literally.

What happens if you can't tell their gay?

Homophobia is still alive, but it is far from well.  In fact, its getting green at the gills and sucking for air to breath, but finding very little.  Less than a decade ago you could almost assuredly walk into a Christian church and hear a sermon against drugs, guns and gays, as if homosexuals were threatening to destroy America as much as our culture of  addiction or violence does.  Today the sermons have subsided a bit, but only if you stay away from red state pulpits.  In many of our conservative leaning churches of America, God is punishing us all for allowing gay people to exist so comfortably. In other words, God needs each of us to put on a hood and push those gays towards their own communities and not into the general public where good, God-fearing Christians live and work. Indirectly, the message becomes one of limiting gay freedom and not one of expanding religious freedom at all.

That Klan Man had a plan to go mainstream.

Maybe we should never hide the face of gay disgust but boldly parade it before the electorate of America as an alternative against those who continue to allow for the ruination of America.  David Duke came out from beneath his sheet so that proud bigots could profess their need for white supremacy efforts, since blacks, Jews, gays and somebody else that I can't remember right now, were stealing America away from the white man.

Yet, this effort is different in some ways.  Our history of intolerance has made us indignant towards the things we insist on tolerating (religious freedom) but even more so towards the things that need to change, like intolerance of all kind.  Way too many Americans have found themselves on the bad side of intolerance to allow new intolerance to be ignored.  When the AIDS epidemic reached a peak, it was often said that we will soon live in a world where everyone knows someone who has the disease.  As gay closets open across the world, we already could say the same for homosexuality- meaning that the face of intolerance is frowning at US all.

Few people in the world live untouched by homosexuality.  Some are furious about the role it has in our lives, but few are unaffected.  If everyone is truly touched by someone gay, homosexuality becomes more than a buzz word, but a difficult lifestyle that OUR friends and family are living.  Those who could be more normal and less shunned by the world at large would likely welcome the change.  So the question becomes, who needs to change?

Who Needs To Change?

What should a devout believer who reads the word and understands the statements against homosexuality do?  If they run a business and really feel awful about making a wedding cake that says "Congratulations Adam and Steve" and not Adam and Eve, should they be allowed to reject that customer?  Before gay weddings became the religious discussion, this was an access to contraception debate. Should businesses be protected by their state for ANY religious view they profess towards OTHER people and their lifestyle?

Governor Mike Pence and Indiana said yes- and they did it without a hood on their head or anything to protect them from the outcry. Now they get to deal with the retribution of those who abhor social intolerance.

The message to Indiana, and Arkansas, and everyone in search of freedom of religious bigotry is that WE have already decided on how these things will work out and we draw the line at the marketplace. Religious Bigots are totally allowed in America, but sometimes they need to put on a sheet to avoid marketplace retribution.  Outside of the marketplace everyone can believe as they choose. Inside of the marketplace, you will believe as your customers dictate.  If the religious bigots of  Indiana and Arkansas believe they can survive outside of the American marketplace, they should stand firm behind these new laws.


Otherwise, you bigots need to change. Not US.