Corey N. Warner  

   Ms. Nicole Short 

    Composition 1 

        Fall 2019  

Thursday, September 19, 2019                    

 

                     Thou Shall Not Honor Homosexuality, but Love and Honor All..

 

 Society is calculated,sly and cold. Throughout generations and eras there are so many translations of information, ideas, values,and much more.Such as our traditional values of a homely abode and what’s that painted like.  I think we all know what a perfect home should look like right? I think we know what are traditional values should be and how we are supposed to portray ourselves so, we won’t become public enemy number 1 known as the opposition. Well I know at least. The perfect home is a wife and kids. A man and woman relationship where women are the step stool to men because that’s how it’s supposed to be. Us men are the patriarchy and that’s all that matters. We are what matters. But let me not lose sight of how of what the real value should be and how God made us to be. Man and women together are destined. Man and woman that’s it. Adam and Eve was all there to it nothing more ,nothing less.  There’s no other way, any other combination is wrong and it just means you are succumbed to hell. Men and women’s lips should be the only ones that touch, they are allowed to lay with one another because that’s how God wants it to be. A woman can not have a “third leg”. A man and another man is just sick and outrageous and quite frankly, would only cause you doom. It’s bad to be a “fish” it’s against the norm to be a fairy. It’s not allowed in society. We don’t want our traditional values to be corroded with evil and therefore we repent in the name of Jesus against the people who have lost their way to God’s kingdom. Well… at least that’s what one out of thousands translations of the Bible taught me.  

You know that feeling where you read a piece of info and there’s a line or a quote that strikes your mind into an oblivion, no matter what the feeling is, it can be awe, disgust, hatred, happiness, and sadness. When you read a piece of  literacy there’s one objective, catch the attention of the readers, make them feel something. There’s three ways to do it such as :pathos, logos, and ethos. I guess ethos is the one I kind of related to, the Bible connected with my emotions ranging from confused to scared. There was a bible for kids, well at the time it was kids like me. They had all these pretty pictures of animals and Jesus, it was nice. Who wouldn’t want to live in the world and having such a blessing like Jesus to stand before you? He created the world and he created Adam and Eve.

 But that’s it,  that’s when the confusion striked me like nails scratching a chalkboard. I wasn’t attracted to Eve. I was attracted to Adam. That’s where it started for me. Even the kids bible depicted of what tradition is supposed to look like, they took pictures and put them in these kid bibles to brainwash them, to brainwash me. But, you can’t erase a feeling. I remember when I got my first bible I was excited I wanted to know what the deeper meaning of why there was only Adam and Eve, why that became normal and everything was foreign. Then soon my eyes were glued to the paper just collecting each word and its meaning, and it just retaining in my mind. To be a good Christian you can’t sin and if you do you must repent. Being myself and laying with another man was not christian-like; it was a sin. That’s what I learned from the Bible. This great piece of literacy an “art” form that led you up to heaven if you know every word like you seemed the Bible together yourself. It preached honor thy neighbor, love your people, because love is love and that’s what God embodies, but was the same piece of literacy that it’s hypocrisy rejected and stood against another form of love. “Honor thy neighbor and cherish your                          family and friends” was what God was about, but this awkward translation of the Bible goes against that. We’re supposed to honor thy neighbor that fits into the category ,you have to read in between the lines of these scriptures, the fine print, even the Bible has strings attached like a contract. 

As I grew older I realized my family lived the bible, we would go to church every Sunday, pray every morning when we are on a journey in the car or right before any meal that’s about to be fed to us. They were christians, and jamacian, so I knew from that moment that it was all downhill for me. I knew I was riding a constant slope, i knew i wasn’t the complete epitome of a man, when my aunt would say to me “toughen up”, “you have to be a real man”. I would always think, well what is a real man?because if a real man  can’t be comfortable in who he is and have emotions then I guess i’m not one. She would always say to me being a real man must be able to work for his household, be able to hammer a nail, support his wife and kids and that’s how God envisioned what humanity would be and that’s the end of the discussion. When she said that constantly to me a pit would turn in my stomach, a wave of nausea would hit me because I would feel anxious and start to shake my leg and bite my nails and have the constant whisper in my head about where my soul would go after I die: Heaven or Hell? I knew the words she was spewing was beliefs that my ancestors before and translations from earlier times of the bible told her to believe. I just couldn’t believe what I was hearing from her mouth to what my pastor preached at bible study. I know what I read in the Bible from the time I was a kid to my early adolescent years, but there was a gap in the bible, the words the message behind them to me felt weirdly one-sided. I thought there is no way that eons and eons passed that every person felt this way, to me it simply meant the majority won, even in the bible. The bible obviously shows and outlines the clear depiction that God made Adam and Eve the first humans. That’s not something I won’t try to argue with its the point in the story since Eve was made from Adam’s body that they were to be together, and that God made them the first humans because woman and man were to be together. But if you realize if you go to  church or a gay pride and in the section they have all the hatefull protesters with their signs saying “Adam and Eve not Steve” and you ask them they yell at you that we are condemed to hell and that God made Adam nd Eve, but they never say God made adam and eve to be together because they can’t becasue where would that assumption come from. Where in the bible does it say that Jesus said that he made adam and eve for the sole purpose of being together, where does it say that. Or was it did it come from the assumption that since Eve was made from Adam that not only one that Eve was adam’s property and that they had to be together. When I read the Genesis chapter which means beginning, my eyes has never fell to the paper and have read to myself that god said it should only be manbe a man and a woman based off of Adam and Eve. It lifted a weight off my heart because that’s how I knew there was soemthing missing in the message, the communication, the translations were from one perspective and that I would break down the bible part from part and actually read carefully the meaning of the words so it can stop being used against my people and make me feel less ashamed to be gay. I find it funny how the church can be so hypocritical of homosexuality or even homosexual acts and say that it is written in the bible  and that it preaches against homosexuals, but my question is to the bigots who believe in this so called word of the bible, what does the bible say about one of the church’s highest officials being a predator to kids and molesting little boys and girls? That would be my question to the Churches’ who’s motto is “Pray the Gay Away”. The hypocrisy of the Church to say that it is not safe or it is dangerous for kids to be at gay pride supporting it because we, are exposing our children to the devils work, but yet it is safe to be in a Church and get inappropiately touched by someone who claims to be doing the work of god and follows the bible. Is that the bible’s doings? Is that what God wanted one of his children to be doing? Answer that for me and try to come up with a logical explanation for it, homosexuals are looked as the predator but the real predator lies within the Cathedral’s walls. I thought the bible was a holy book that really conveyed God’s message when I read it, it was to the point that I felt ashamed, and always told myself that I was straight. When someone asked me, “can I ask you a question?” I already knew the question and the answer because it was my life on script. On repeat. The bible made to believe that Adam and Steve was not possible or even forbidden. For a long time, I knew I was gay but, could only picture myself with a wife and kids because, any other reality wasn’t real and it felt weird to me. I subjected myself to a lie and therefore and wore a mask titled: Bisexual. Because, it gave my christian family that “I like boys too” part was a phase and that I would be with a woman like Adam and Eve and like Mary and Joseph.  The bible is a piece of literacy no matter how you want to view it, it was made to influence and give a system of beliefs and pass those beliefs from generation to generation. That is exactly what it did, but the thought that dawned on me was “How do you know actually what God wants? What gives you that power to pass down your perception? People tend to mistake and forget that God didn’t actually write the bible and if he did, the pages we read today, the version we read today is exactly that. A version. The bible has gone through many translations, therefore how can we determine what the truthful version is? We can’t. The first person who scribed and translated the bible had a percceptionperception of what Jesus wanted, but in today’s society we cantcan’t always trust one’s perception. Think about it, the bible was made by Jesus who was nothing but love and loved all of his children including gay people, and that is something Chrsitians, catholiocs, etc. cant argue with. Sinec that is the case why are pastors spreading the message that God hates gays, but also preach that God loves his children. Being gay is not a choice you are born with it, God made you that way. ReligousReligious people always tend to leave out the part that everyone is seen as equal in God’s eyes, that we are all sinners and that we are loved and blessed by him. I highly doubt God made people he hated, and that he would just want erased from the Earth, but yet again that’s my perception.  The bible tells you that we must love and protect our brothers and sisters, I didntdidn’t know torturing homosexuals in camps that sit them into a chair with a device on their head ticking into their brain and turning their thoughts and feelings onto themselves. Or even electric shock therapy because, maybe we can shock the “parasite” of the devil out. Some religousreligious people would probably argue that they were protecting them by doing that, they were proctectingprotecting them by the devil. I mean I mustvemust’ve never read the bible because, where does it say in the bible that we must protect our brothers and sisters by hurting them, physically and menatlly. Those camps drove people to suicide, but yet we are protecting one another. Throughout my experiences I have met some religousreligious people who aren’t as ignorant as others try to defend ythemthem by saying itsit’s the people that take it to the extreme.  I say to that ,There there wouldn’t be noan exrtemeextreme to go to without the bible. If the bible wasn’t translated a certain way, then people’s perception wouldn’t run wild and go to that extreme. It’s because of the bible that made these religious people ignorant, and he ignorance was passed down like the bible. The bible criticizes homosexuals and the gay culture in Leviticus Chapter 18 “thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination”. Reading this confuses me because, how can the bible, say that about one type of love, where did this claim of another man to lay with another man or another woman laying with another woman is wrong and is an abomination, where did that stem from? It will always come back to the point if the bible is truly God’s word. Or is it another man beliefs passed down as God’s message. I can’t wrap my head around the fact that God made me only to hate me and make me perish, I know I’m not listening to the devil. I believe that the bible this great piece of literacy is corrupted my one man’s perspective, and I believe that the people who preach the word of the bible ignorantly are hypocrites and that the word of the bible can’t be taken seriously, because it says one thing and it is preached another. I am a christian gay man and I have read the bible, I have went to church, I have prayed, I have repented, but I can’t believe in the word of the bible if it says to love one another but also tries to forbid others from being loved by whom they choose to love with. I can’t believe in the word of the bible if it’s hypocritical and it contradicts itself. Sometimes I can’t trust literacy. The bible has affected my life so much, it has given me a new perspective that you can’t always choose to believe someone else’s belief. Someone else’s perception is not yours. Literacy will always be either or, there will be no inbetween, no middle ground, I feel like there will always be a side that you must choose, or what it is trying to influence you to. That’s why I said I can’t trust literacy, it’s a story, and i will never know which story is the truth, or which “truth” is being manipulated. In this society I feel like literacy will always be apart of the majority covering over a minority. Homosexuals will always be looked as God’s wrongdoings or demons of Lucifer because of the bible. The LGBTQ community can never live in peace, because of the bible and the so called “truth” within it will not allow us to live in peace. We can love and honor thy neighbor, thou shalt not love or honor fairies. Adam and Eve get rice and the ceremony of jumping the broom, Adam and Steve get their souls condemned.