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Well, in case you’re locked in a bunker somewhere and don’t know…it’s Pride Month.
I’m sitting here writing this from my Greenwich Village apartment in Manhattan, and I’m looking out my window at – I kid you not – probably 25 different rainbow flags flying from the various brownstone buildings and businesses.
The entire country is gearing up for the Pride Parade. Companies like Coca Cola, Chipotle, Nike, Disney, Dr. Martens, Bud Light and just about every other media/consumer conglomerate have adopted rainbow logos, LGBTQ+ positive slogans and campaigns. It’s as though there’s a competition to see who is the most “woke.”
And as someone who lives a hop, skip and a jump from the Stonewall Inn in NYC, believe me when I say I fully respect and understand the importance of June 28, 1969.
I’m going to be really honest: every Pride Month, I’m faced with this internal battle of: do I dare address the topic on my blog? Or do I just let it go? And every year, I cower back, afraid to touch this topic with a 12-foot pole.
But not this year.
Because this year, more than ever, it is so apparent:
We are worshipping at the altar of our own sexuality.
And believe me – this, coming from a heterosexual virgin…the irony is not lost on me.
This year, more than ever, it seems that there’s been this explosion of identity: people are, not so nonchalantly, making known their individual sexuality. “LGBTQ” is no longer adequate nomenclature. In 2019, it has expanded to: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Transsexual, 2/Two-Spirit, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, Ally, Pansexual, Agender, Gender Queer, Graysexual, Demisexual, Polysexual, Cisgender, Bigender, Gender Variant, Gender Non Conforming, Demiboy, Demigirl, Genderfluid, Onmigender, Non-binary, Nonmonosexual, and Pangender. Among others.
We have made idols out of our labels. We’re so hungry for identity, and to set ourselves apart, that we have literally created a new language and social ideology to do just that.
And before I get into why I believe that is, I think it’s important to just pause for a moment here to address something vitally important.
I think it’s really easy to look at that list of identities and, since most are – let’s be honest – probably a foreign concept to a lot of people – it’s easy to think in terms of “us” and “them.” But it’s important, as we continue this conversation, to remember that there are people — someone’s son, daughter, friend, cousin — who identify as such. And even though we, ourselves, may not fall into that camp, or have any personal experience whatsoever with that – it’s important to have this conversation with compassion and with love — recognizing the personhood, dignity and value of each individual. And to remember that there is no “us” and “them” in this conversation — there is only a “we.” A human race, children of God, who are all together on this journey towards Heaven.
But back to the why.
Why are we so hungry for that identity? Why are we so desperately trying to distinguish ourselves that we’ve created a culture that worships our sexuality?
It’s because we have strayed so far from our true identity in Christ.
We, as a society, have wandered so far into the desert of godless culture, that we’re believing the mirages we see pop up in the sand.
Now, I’m not saying that these unique sexual attractions that people feel aren’t real to that individual. Not at all.
Having same sex attraction is a very real thing. And people — no matter who they are attracted to — are all children of God. They are all worthy of love, and acceptance, and compassion.
That’s not what’s coming into question here:
It’s the sharp left turn from, “I am a person with same sex attraction,” to elevating our sexuality to deity-status. And glorifying and worshipping the labels that we’ve created to express that attraction.
And that’s where the danger lies.
Our culture has chosen to drift far, far, away from the truths spoken into us by the Father. Truths that we are unique creations of God, and loved beyond our wildest dreams. Truths that we are made for more than this world, with a plan set before us by Him. Truths that we are heirs to the Kingdom of God. Truths that we have intrinsic value, and that our lives were purchased through Jesus’ incredible mercy and grace on the Cross.
We’ve abandoned those truths that *truly* identify who we are at our innermost core.
And so as a result, we’re turning to our own carnal nature, and trying to write our own biography. And surprise, surprise — it’s distorted. Why? Because we are products of The Fall.
And because we have a distorted sense of love.
Love is no longer a self-giving expression of marriage, that mirrors Christ giving His body to the Church on The Cross.
It’s distorted. It’s a self-serving act of pleasure. Look at the multi-billion dollar porn industry. Look at the sex-robots that are now a reality. Look at the dating app, “swipe right” hookup culture that is now the norm.
We don’t love people, we use people. Use them for pleasure, for security, for fulfillment of a physical/emotional/relational/social/financial need, to alleviate loneliness. Hell, for rent money! It’s become a commodity exchange. And our grasping for some sense of sexual identity is a reflection of that.
So where does that leave us? Where do we go from here?
Because spoiler alert: the answer is not locking the shutters and throwing a poo-poo party on the parade goers, celebrating sexual identity.
It’s to be beacons of truth. Take every opportunity to remind people of their true identity in Christ — through the love, dignity, compassion, and respect you show them.
Real truth is hard to find these days anymore. But when you do discover it…it changes you.
Be that truth. Be that person that reflects one’s true identity back to themselves.
Because that is the definition of true love: pointing the other back to God.
It’s wanting the best for your partner, and ultimately, that means journeying together, towards the Father.
Be that to everyone you meet. Today, tomorrow, and for every Pride Month to come.
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As always thank you for your heartfelt posts. I would however disagree. We are not worshipping the sexuality but raising it so it is seen. In London recently we have had 2 women beaten up because of the voyeurism of a group of teenagers. Without Pride this crime would, no doubt, have been ignored. The press mindful of Pride splashed it on the front pages of the media. If we don’t acknowledge the pain of ‘coming out’ for the LGBQT community then we don’t share as humanity. I am not concerned just how many letters are used in the acronym : it beautifully expresses God’s creation. As a minister, I welcome the community: let;’s be radically inclusive. Jesus never spoke of homosexuality – the word wasn’t even coined until 1867 and not in the Bible until 1946! The 6 or 7 verses of the 31000+ in the Bible which speak of same sex relationships all have one common theme : they are not loving relationships. They all need to considered in context – taking them out a verse at a time doesn’t allow them to be understood when they were written, to whom they were written and why they were written. In the UK we are currently looking at same sex marriage with many people citing the Bible as saying that marriage is for one man and for one woman – ignoring the fact that there are at least 5 different forms of marriage quoted, again many, non-loving. As a cis-het individual I welcome Pride to reverse the 2 millennia + of patriarchy and heteronormatity.
I accept your point that our identify comes from God, but cis-het’s need to welcome all, demonstrably, and not hinder the acceptance of all to God’s kin_dom. Apologies, I really like your blog posts but this one, as an LGBTQ ally and a Father to a Trasngender child, really stokes that passion (with a twelve foot pole 😉 ).
Blessings Bob
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Hi Bob, thank you so much for sharing your heart and your powerful perspective on this issue. It breaks my heart whenever I hear of the violence or persecution shown to those in the LGBTQ+ community. I definitely am all for welcoming, accepting and loving all people, no matter what! And i hope that came across in my post 🙂 so glad you stopped by! big hugs xox
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I acknowledge your possible reticence with this blog. It breaks into areas, especially when coupled with faith and Scripture, that can cause angst for many. Our theology may differ: belief in the Fall etc but our love for all remains. Thanks Carolyn. x
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Caralyn, my apologies!
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Haha no worries!
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Our love for all remains. Amen
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BBB,
Thank you for having the ‘balls’ to write about this. Let’s speak frank. I’m not going to pretty it up, because I’m not the one mucking it up and dressing it up to look pretty to begin with. Sin is sin. No matter what we want to call it, nor how beautifully embroidered it is.
The issue is people are such superficial thinkers. They they their choices make them people. So they get offended, and all butt hurt when somebody declares their choices are wrong or right.
Excuse me BBB, let me step out of your blog site for a minute and let it rip:
Look, light is light. dont’ pretty it up, blindfold me and tell me I”m walking in the light when I cant see a f thing. While wearing a gay colored blindfold. Yall want to be offended, go ahead. It dont change the sin to light. It never will. Darkness is at the other end of the spectrum.
HO
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cont’d sorry- how dare these arrogant aholes, get offended to begin with, look when I’m in the wrong. what possible ground do i have to stand on? This may be strong talk for someone. But Truth hurts, it always does.
Revelation: WE as a society have come to accept gayness, homosexuality, and all the other perversions as ‘tolerable’, you know why ? I’ve done the research and spent much time trying to figure out how it is possible that people are born gay! How is there a God then, if this is true? How could God condemn someone to this? How then could the bible be true where it says ‘no robber, no liar, no thieve, no muderer, no homosexual shall inherit God’s kingdom?’ How can this be true… if people are actually being born gay? As a friend told me, he was wired this way. And I believe him. So i ttried to make sense of it.
Here it is. Since early on, People, Spirit, Angels, we all want to be something we are not.
Many want to be God, and if they could they would. They’d toss Him right off the throne and sit in His seat. Because they are f idiots who think they know better, when they dont know the first thing about creating themselves, much less about ruling over themselves. Let me apologize about the length here BBB, this point I truly helps someone who is gay, and those that arent, understand why this is happening, to make sense of how someone is born gay.
So we have imitators, who want to Shine brighter than God. Who is top of the list? The enemy. Satan, and I suspect we all have a little bit of him living in our flesh. for the flesh is darkness which is why it carries a shadow. but that’s another subject. Back to the fathe of lies and who is father of mass production of cheap inferior chinese products.
Look his game is this. For every move God does, every command, every decree, every command, every order, ever rule, everything natural ,every institution- example marriage- The enemy comes in with some unbelievable hidden strategies that are F$$### genius plans to remain hidden right under the noses of the masses.
DNA modification/Gene Alteration Experimentation. AKA cheap chinese products. Is that not what it is when we take a gorgeous genuine Rolex or genuine Louis Vutton purse and spit out a cheap imitation ?
What am I getting at? well what happens when we wind up being suckered in and we buy one of these inferior products? it comes at a price? the quality is not up to par, is it? rips, tears, they stop working, unexpected unforseen things, and imagine what happens next? It lessens the quality of the real product. They become so wide spread that people become to see them as normal. They tolerate them.
To all those thinking they were born this way, maybe you were, but let’s make one thing crystal clear. You weren’t gay until you decided to lay down and have intimacy with someone. And secondly, why were u born gay? Don’t blame God. You never thought of perhaps other powers are at play here. You see BBB< I know you are big on abortion, and just like us humans practice on fetuses, unborn babies still in the womb, why do you think we do this ? simply put- because we can. Speaking of those who chose to. Simply because they have the knowledge, hell in some cases they don't, they have to practice to get it, but ultimately because they can , they do.
And guess who? That brings us to DNA modification/GNA alteration, we think this is new stuff? Yall better wake up. This has been having before we ever read about it in Genesis 6, 1-7.
And guess what the object or objective is? To cause doubt in the masses. To cause doubt in God's Word. And guess what? We are all living breathing witnessess to the success these crooked mfkers have had. I call them that not to offend readers, not to offend you BBB, but because I dont like liars. I dont like those who take God's Word and twist is, call God a liar, or think He gets thinks wrong. He doesn't. Ever.
WE DO.
I DONT THINK YOU WILLL, BBB, BUT DONT DO WHAT FACEBOOK HAS DONE TO YOUR POSTS AND CENSOR THIS. PLEASE. LET THE AUDIENCE, OUR READERS KNOW, THE TRUTH.
so these spirits, higher powers, experiment on human dna, to cause ripples, to cause mutations, guess which ones? well probably all of them, but we are focused on the genes related to SEXUAL:ITY.
"if we tweak these enough… we can increase the probability that a human will be 70% more likely to be attracted to the same sex"
And there you have it. And from there, all other doubts , spring forth. By the way, I'm just a regular ole guy. You think I came up with this myself? You better think again.
God bless.
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Look all this Pride nonsense is just that nonsense just like all the PC crappola or what they teach kids in public schools now; that everyone is a winner for just showing up because saying anything other than that, someone is going to be a snowflake and get offended! Sorry in the real world things have to get done and people have to grow up to know the difference between right and wrong or how to be successful in anything takes hard dedicated WORK not holding hands and pretending black is white and white is black; it won’t cut the mustard at all one must see and know reality, and deal with it head on or you will lose every time! Like Ben just said, SIN is SIN!
To the minister in London; I don’t know what teachings you have had in Holy Scriptures but it is abundantly clear what God expects of His children in order to enter heaven with Him, and same sex marriage and same sex sex is not tolerable at all. In fact any and all perversions of what God intended something to be or how it should be looked upon is an abomination straight from Satan! He Satan was the leader of all rebellion and that is what all this nonsense is REBELLION! Just because the Scriptures don’t spend an exorbitant amount of time on these topics doesn’t mean it is not a big deal, or if it was a big deal God would have made sure it was in many books of the Bible; that too is a false assumption! No need for the topic to be elaborated on extensively because again what is SIN is SIN and He did say clearly that these behaviors are a departure from what His purpose of sexuality was meant to be in the first place; and no arguing the point is going to change it! Read on some of the evidence I have gathered for us to examine!
“What does the Bible say about homosexuality? Leviticus 18:22 says, “[Men] shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination.” Leviticus 20:13 says, “If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act.” God’s Word says the homosexual act is detestable; it is an abomination.
Some people say, “You Christians pick and choose which verses of the Bible you want to obey. The book of Leviticus also prohibits what you can eat and prescribes animal sacrifices. Why do you disregard those rules but adhere to these rules?” There is a simple answer. The only rules of the Old Testament that apply to us today are the rules that are repeated in the New Testament. We don’t live under the old law. We live under the new law of God. The New Testament says nothing about dietary restrictions or animal sacrifices, but it does repeat the commands about adultery, premarital sex, and homosexuality.
In Romans 1:26-27, Paul said, “For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.” The Bible says homosexuality is against God’s natural law with severe consequences. You can be forgiven of homosexuality. You can be forgiven of any sin. But to be forgiven of a sin, you must admit you have sinned. The Bible prohibits homosexual behavior.
The New Testament also prohibits homosexual marriage. Jesus talked about this in Matthew 19. The Pharisees said, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason at all?” (v. 3).
Jesus answered, “Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate” (vv. 4-6). Jesus was saying, “If you want to know the answer to the divorce question, then let’s look at God’s original plan for marriage. Genesis says marriage is one man with one woman for a lifetime.” By affirming God’s standard, Jesus was saying that any deviation from that standard–not just gay marriage but any deviation, such as adultery, premarital sex, or unbiblical divorce–is sin because it doesn’t measure up to the perfect standard of God. Jesus said marriage is one man with one woman for a lifetime.”
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Sorry to burst anyone’s bubble but if you live by the sword you die by it and if you sin in God’s eyes then you have transgressed God and will be separated from Him and all that is good for ETERNITY; unless you admit your sins and REPENT! Unholy cannot be with or in the presence of Holiness, this is all so simple but these days people are trying to pretend that truth and reality are not so, and that they can be what they want it to be! The BLIND leading the BLIND is all they are!
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Lawrence Morra, Thank you for commenting. Boldness is not seen anymore, instead shyness and timidness is. While Pride of our sin rises.
Check out my second comment under this thread.. I think you will appreciate the comment.
WE must share the knowledge, because so many who live in sin attempt to rectify or justify it, and they sometimes do have good points..
Like #1 I was born this way. And if you know a person like this, they truly believe this. So in my comment I touch on this.
#2 There are example in nature of animals having intercourse or mating with the same sex.
There are two of the hardest I have had to spend much time asking God to reveal the Truth of the matter.
Please let me know what you think.
Have a blessed day.
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Ben, as far as some aberration or things that animals are observed doing in nature in rare instances, it is simple, God made man in His image and likeness we are human beings having an immortal soul with the higher capacities of thought, intellect and knowing or understanding the difference between right and wrong or good vs. evil. It is our task and responsibility therefore to discern and make choices based on our capability and knowing full well what God expects from us in our behavior and love of Him, always wishing to do His will and serve His purposes; say just like as a child we learn to follow our parents lead or rules that they teach us to keep us safe, happy and more importantly to survive, while along the way showing us what morality is and the higher purpose of our human lives. If we as humans and children of God know a certain behavior is not appropriate, wrong or not compliant with what our Father in Heaven intended something to be, we are then deliberately transgressing His will and that is SIN! Animals are all beautiful creations and creatures of God’s too, but they are not made in His image or meant to be acting in accordance with the same framework that God intends us to operate from or by, they are innocent not having the capacity to know God’s will and make a decision based on that and they don’t therefore have any of the burdens and responsibilities that are placed upon humans; they only function on basic instinctual mandates or principles to carry on and survive in accordance with nature and the environment that they are part of! Here too we can say that people that go awry and not act in accordance with the will of God may very well be subverting to basic animal instinctual behaviors that we possess being partly animal beings to live here in the physical material plane that we now occupy. Just because we can act on those basic impulses and pervert the purpose of them in the first place doesn’t make it right or good by any stretch but is instead transgression because we then break away from our responsibility to discern and act in accordance with God’s will for us His children.
So don’t struggle with this, you have the capacity and good will without a doubt in my eyes to try your best to see things as they are and as God intended them to be! Discern and let your own conscience be your guide! While maintaining this Scriptural edict: “Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.” Proverbs 3:5-6
Lawrence
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Lawrence, I dont think you found my second comment under BBB’s Thread.
I will include here. and sorry BBB. I’ll take further comments to your page Lawrence. I appreciate your words and direction, but I asked you to check out the comment because I wanted your feedback, thoughts regarding the explanation I was led to about those who use NATURE as a excuse.
here is what i have discovered.
cont’d sorry- how dare these arrogant aholes, get offended to begin with, look when I’m in the wrong. what possible ground do i have to stand on? This may be strong talk for someone. But Truth hurts, it always does.
Revelation: WE as a society have come to accept gayness, homosexuality, and all the other perversions as ‘tolerable’, you know why ? I’ve done the research and spent much time trying to figure out how it is possible that people are born gay! How is there a God then, if this is true? How could God condemn someone to this? How then could the bible be true where it says ‘no robber, no liar, no thieve, no muderer, no homosexual shall inherit God’s kingdom?’ How can this be true… if people are actually being born gay? As a friend told me, he was wired this way. And I believe him. So i ttried to make sense of it.
Here it is. Since early on, People, Spirit, Angels, we all want to be something we are not.
Many want to be God, and if they could they would. They’d toss Him right off the throne and sit in His seat. Because they are f idiots who think they know better, when they dont know the first thing about creating themselves, much less about ruling over themselves. Let me apologize about the length here BBB, this point I truly helps someone who is gay, and those that arent, understand why this is happening, to make sense of how someone is born gay.
So we have imitators, who want to Shine brighter than God. Who is top of the list? The enemy. Satan, and I suspect we all have a little bit of him living in our flesh. for the flesh is darkness which is why it carries a shadow. but that’s another subject. Back to the fathe of lies and who is father of mass production of cheap inferior chinese products.
Look his game is this. For every move God does, every command, every decree, every command, every order, ever rule, everything natural ,every institution- example marriage- The enemy comes in with some unbelievable hidden strategies that are F$$### genius plans to remain hidden right under the noses of the masses.
DNA modification/Gene Alteration Experimentation. AKA cheap chinese products. Is that not what it is when we take a gorgeous genuine Rolex or genuine Louis Vutton purse and spit out a cheap imitation ?
What am I getting at? well what happens when we wind up being suckered in and we buy one of these inferior products? it comes at a price? the quality is not up to par, is it? rips, tears, they stop working, unexpected unforseen things, and imagine what happens next? It lessens the quality of the real product. They become so wide spread that people become to see them as normal. They tolerate them.
To all those thinking they were born this way, maybe you were, but let’s make one thing crystal clear. You weren’t gay until you decided to lay down and have intimacy with someone. And secondly, why were u born gay? Don’t blame God. You never thought of perhaps other powers are at play here. You see BBB< I know you are big on abortion, and just like us humans practice on fetuses, unborn babies still in the womb, why do you think we do this ? simply put- because we can. Speaking of those who chose to. Simply because they have the knowledge, hell in some cases they don't, they have to practice to get it, but ultimately because they can , they do.
And guess who? That brings us to DNA modification/GNA alteration, we think this is new stuff? Yall better wake up. This has been having before we ever read about it in Genesis 6, 1-7.
And guess what the object or objective is? To cause doubt in the masses. To cause doubt in God's Word. And guess what? We are all living breathing witnessess to the success these crooked mfkers have had. I call them that not to offend readers, not to offend you BBB, but because I dont like liars. I dont like those who take God's Word and twist is, call God a liar, or think He gets thinks wrong. He doesn't. Ever.
WE DO.
I DONT THINK YOU WILLL, BBB, BUT DONT DO WHAT FACEBOOK HAS DONE TO YOUR POSTS AND CENSOR THIS. PLEASE. LET THE AUDIENCE, OUR READERS KNOW, THE TRUTH.
so these spirits, higher powers, experiment on human dna, to cause ripples, to cause mutations, guess which ones? well probably all of them, but we are focused on the genes related to SEXUAL:ITY.
"if we tweak these enough… we can increase the probability that a human will be 70% more likely to be attracted to the same sex"
And there you have it. And from there, all other doubts , spring forth. By the way, I'm just a regular ole guy. You think I came up with this myself? You better think again.
God bless.
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First let’s thank Caralyn for this post and opportunity to create a very strong dialog which may stray here in some minds from what they think it should be; but just like homosexuals want to be accepted by all of society and not blocked out so too all worthy thoughts and expressions here should be valid in this forum of the topic at hand.
I also want to clarify a point I made about a loved one who was suffering very badly for a long time where I mentioned one component of that suffering was a chemical imbalance which is only true to an extent because what I was referring to was damage that was done to the brain from strong medications wrongly administered and prior to that a severe trauma to the head in the military, all of which added difficulties and circumstances that were heaped upon him by the man-made system and corrupted individuals in it!
I see what you mean Ben, but first thing that comes to my mind is that anyone male or female that is able to care for their self and is a rational mature adult is perfectly capable of relating to God’s word in the Holy Scriptures! Many humans don’t know about them for sure and many more choose not to bother reading them let alone abide by them! But in reference to the many points you have brought up here no matter what is happening to our DNA or who might be playing us and manipulating this world each of us as an individual must use our conscience hopefully along with God’s word to ascertain what behaviors are acceptable healthy things to be doing. I think we can all agree to some degree that anyone exploiting another person for sex is wrong that is not a kind or good thing to be doing on any level. As I mentioned earlier about Hugh Hefner being the master of an empire built on that premise of sexuality and its exploitation and how that is the worldly way and not of God no matter how one slices it. So too, I believe someone saying they are born a certain way and can’t help it they just want to be with the same sex for intimacy is a conscious willful decision to do so just as you said, because where does it say they have to act upon any desire or impulse good bad or indifferent? Along with that the Holy Scriptures do speak clearly to this matter of sexuality and intimacy between individuals and outside of marriage it is sinful, and marriage is supposed to be between a man and a woman, that is just the plain truth of what God has said. Everything else is people doing as they please and not abiding in God and His will. Just like a parent caring for their child God knows exactly what is best for us always, and like you said so many put themselves above God thinking I know what is best for me, and would even rebel as far as pushing God aside and taking His throne when we know diddly-squat or jack in the bigger picture context! Coming right down to it we are peons and barely able to get a leg up without God first giving us all the gifts and opportunities He has and still does! But, many just go on rebelling and cursing at God for their shitty mess they live in or stupid behaviors which all stem from sin or corruption of the original intended purpose of one thing or another.
I see you sent me a longer commentary referring to another major point which will need some closer examination before I can respond in kind but there was something I wanted to add to previous dialog that fits in here and elsewhere but for now I add it here to this point to hopefully give further positive thought to others who might be questioning and looking for clarity in these matters!
John 15:18-25
The World Hates the Disciples
18 “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. 19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. 20 Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’[a] If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. 21 They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the one who sent me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 Whoever hates me hates my Father as well. 24 If I had not done among them the works no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. As it is, they have seen, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. 25 But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated me without reason.’[b]
This clearly illustrates that God in the person of Jesus Christ said that some are not going to be willing to know Him Jesus and in so doing not know His Father in Heaven; their own choice, so to me there will be many who are doomed by their own actions and even their thinking. We either believe in Him and His truth or we may as well reject it all! I say to you now that if anyone is not doing God’s will and continues to live in sin willfully, I really hope that they see the light and truth which will allow them to turn from sin and destruction. I pray this in the precious name of Jesus Christ! Amen
Lawrence Morra
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Amen!!! Thank you. Finally a man who thinks profoundly. And who knows his scripture…
Your kind is becoming more rare sir.. lets keep sharing the light.
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Totally possible and highly probable; I know that Satan has many minions that pull the trigger in messing with us humans so say for example he wants to physically attack one of us humans directly and do as you mentioned alter some genes; first various circumstances can be altered or individuals that are his minions can be manipulated to affect your need to seek one form of help or another and then you get corralled into seeing a particular doctor who is a strong advocate of Satan, they exist in all careers and walks of life and then you are in the care of said person or devil and are vulnerable to take treatment not expecting that a doctor who takes the Hippocratic Oath “to do no harm” would mess with your health or well-being for God sake; but that happened and I know for an absolute fact, and have actual evidence! The corrupted system which has its share of minions; that cover for the evil perpetrator while they run the poor victim out of dodge! Trying to push the issue you get certain authorities in your face or at your door which sends the distinct and desired message that you are messing with fire both literally and figuratively; so you must retreat and even though you were screwed having even genes altered! This happened and I tell you only so much, but just like we have all heard of satanic cults and so on, this is the tip of the iceberg with regard to Satan’s minions on earth now who are working to ruin all the time. It used to be we thought of all the Sci-Fi Alien Invaders stories of them walking around among us was far-out; but yes that is the fairytale and the satanic cult isn’t; and they do walk among us!
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My goodness a man who his eys opened!!!
How rare, indeed. There are more, but they are in a minority. Thats why the road is narrrow. You touched a great point.. I just wrote abkut this two days ago.. Its short, but here it is…..
How many are paying attention to whats going on? How is it we experience and witness things we have never seen before, then years later the exact thing is in a movie? Years ago, i took a pic of the strangest little silver metallic ball with spikes, because as strange at this sounds, it was making noise, it was in the back of my car, i had an overwhelming since of fear of it. It wasnt that big, maybe size of a quarter. Point is, i took a pic, and showed only ONE person.. Since most people are walking around asleep. Neways, fast forward six years.. And ive alrady seen it twice in movies, regarding aliens. And thats exactly what i felt ot was whem i saw it. Yall better wake up, and see whats going on. Most dont want to, and even if they did wake up, then what? Movie industry is prepping us for whats coming.
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Very profoundly honest I have to say about something that most people would either feel awkward mentioning out of what others may think of them afterwards or because perhaps a close family member or very best friend that you may have told about such an unusual experience told you that he or she hopes you didn’t go and tell anyone about that! I’m going to be quite frank and say at least that I too had some uncanny experiences over the years but not about mysterious objects or aliens, but rather of a religious nature which i was told not to mention to others! I suppose the proverbial UFO sightings of the 1950’s to the 70’s some of which were observed by military or commercial airline pilots many times went unreported because the professional said I don’t want to be known for seeing one of those things or their superiors even told them to admit to nothing which created a guise of secrecy and conspiracy theories of cover-ups and radical programs government programs being kept from the public. But, getting back to my own outlook I tend to think very strange occurrences like these and even others odd events are many times more spiritual in nature but not all good either!
I believe totally that God’s Holy Spirit can manifest in special ways if it’s God’s will, more often in a dream or semi-conscious state, as a revelation. But at the same time diabolical forces work in a similar fashion and to me I’ve begun to learn that most if not all this hype about extraterrestrials are not any such thing but are demonic forces or beings that are being revealed to confuse and even to prepare for the coming battle between the powers of Heaven and hell; the final conflict between good and evil. I’ve been working on a story to fictionalize this theory and idea based on experience and acquired knowledge though divine intervention and revelation over the years that is becoming as you even alluded to, more obvious and present in everyday life around us! I could go on but this would be inappropriate as this is not the blog for that nor our own, that is why I gradually hope to share more insights in my own blog relative to the story which still will be piecemeal in such a format but hopefully if as a completed work at some point in the future it will be published. All I would like to say for anyone’s good who is hearing me here is that this is a time to be quite sure of your faith in Jesus Christ and be close to Him in all you do because only through Him and the Holy Spirit are we shielded and fully protected from these adversarial powers that seek to claim us and destroy our very souls or take them to perdition and eternal damnation! Too many people these days are living lives that put their immortal souls in grave jeopardy being led to be diametrically in opposition to God’s will for us, this is an extremely wayward generation and I dare say may very well be the last stand or witnessing end-times out there on the horizon. No matter; one must be truly vigilant to not be tricked!
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Let me add, sorry BBB, but thank you BBB, like i mentioned earlier this post of your BBB has blessed many, and is continuing to bless.. Thank you.
Many have witnessed for themselves the green and gray aliens, but as we all know from life- that living breathing witnesses who can corroborate evidence that leads to truth- will not be tolerated, especially, when it relates to multi-billion dollar corporations. Those who can see, have seen, must be silenced. And they are being silenced. When I first saw them, as others have, it was when i was sinning every day, rejoicing in it, and one thing those who have encountered or seen them have in common is- after seeing one ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE IN YOUR LIFE- IMPLANTS, SURGERIES, VOICES, BLUE LIGHTS, ABDUCTIONS, you name it. They can wipe memories, but its never 100%, the process is not perfect. So snippets of audio, will remain, and God Almighty will put it together for you, Right now I risk my life, simply for wiriting this, but those who seek to save their lives shall lose it, and those willing to lay down their lives to help others shall gain it. Now, not all situations when seeing them is bad, it usually starts that way… but there is another side of the spectrum, to do God’s Will. GREATTTT GLORRRY!!!!!!!!! Amen!!!! now, why they appear that way, is another story.. if u care to know anyone, comment, ask, but i do know this fragment of truth is that- one reason as always is to instill doubt and fear, and to #1 to instill Doubt in God and His Word, for if humans see aliens , and the Word of God doesnt talk about it, how many lose faith, or say ‘ well the bible doesnt say anything about them or dinosaurs, so then the bible is not true or things like that!!” HOGWASH!! The Bible does talk about them, its just that most dont have the REVELATION LIGHT OF OUR CREATOR IN ORDER TO UNDER THE SCRIPTURES THAT SPEAK ABOUT THEM. blessings.
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one other point Mr.Morra, the satanic cult is very real, as you say, the thing is we have been exposed to it through movies believing it looks one way, when it looks alot more like every day life.. as you described it.. ‘merly going to the doctor’ that’s how it is, that’s the reality of it, not men and women having orgies with lit candles around.
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Things are going to worse. We are in the end times
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Thanks for sharing that – now is the time to increase our faith
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To all readers here I hope you get the point! Amen
And to those that were posting comments saying that all religions have their own take on what is best or right for mankind; there is one truth you need to open your eyes to; which is Jesus Christ said “He is the Son of God the Creator of all things and none come unto the Father but through the Son.” Jesus said, “I am the way the path and the life.” Follow who you want to in whatever man-made concocted religions you might but this is the only one that will bring you to Eternal Life with God; following Jesus Christ!
Lawrence Morra
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Lawrence Morra,
From reading your comments, isn’t it interesting how things infiltrate our lives. We all succumb to these trends of society. One of which is the over apologetic nature that has risen. We say we are sorry way too much. And I am not downing you in anyway Mr.Lawrence, We all do it. I’m so sorry for this, I’m so sorry for that, I’m so sorry for possibly offending you if I play my Christian music.
2 tim 1 6, 7 “For this very cause I remind you to stir up like a fire, the gift of God which is in you, for God gave us a spirit not of cowardice, but that of power, love, and soundness of mind.”
It is a fine line though at times. I pray about it all the time. I play my Christian music, I dont hold back, if the neighbors dont like, fuck em, I’d rather play the Christian music than have to be subjected to listening to their gossiping in the back yard or what not. Im not out to castrate people who arent Christian, I’m out to shine the light of knowledge given to me, and to allow it to radiate outwardly. The thing is, the things we say and write, I can tell from reading your writings, that it isnt something we dont apply to ourselves. Sin is SIN, right? no matter who does it, whether it is us, or anyone else. And that’s what I love about God, and honesty, you can’t go into a conversation with God thinking you are going to outclever him, or conceal something… which makes a person with any bit of sense speak honestly to God. May God helps us continue sharing the light. God bless.
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Yes sir, very good I say and kudos to you for speaking your mind and sounding the alarm or ringing the bell of truth! I like that you are genuine in your tone and intent! I hear you, this coming from a guy that grew too weary of people over the years because I experienced way too much self-serving manipulation from pretty much everyone outside of a handful of core individuals which were my parents and a few of their siblings my aunts and uncles, all of them coming from a time or era gone by! Then came the betrayal, as those core persons in my life either became very ill or died I felt very isolated or boxed in by a world that was growing way too selfish and secular or even going off the rails as we know is the case with all of the insanity going on around us every day. Why do I bring up betrayal; well when my place of employment and various government officials including of course politicians conspired against me to do me real harm by using all the tricks of our modern political system which to me is akin to what was say going on back in the time of William Wallace the Scotsman warrior who fought for freedom as you and others are either aware of by knowing history or at least the Mel Gibson film Brave Heart; as I see it our system and culture has arrived at a similar crossroad of those times now where our leaders and officials are just as gloated with power and madness or let’s face it EVIL as they were back in Wallace’s time. Compassion, and righteousness are either taking a back seat or out the window all together these days because as you have pointed out many people in this society are paying lip service to many a conversation or cause while in their hearts only concerned with one thing, self! Some of what was done to me should have killed me or in the least cause me to go off the rails and do something stupid which they who were and are my enemies would have loved for me to do then the hammer would come down to crush my skull and put my lights out along with my passionate heart! Like my Dad once told me when I was a younger fella, “son they can torture or destroy my body but they can never have my soul it belongs to God!” My Dad was a man of great faith in God and not afraid of anything or anyone in this world, but would never boast and had great humility; a genuine best of the best human beings you would ever want to meet, and I owe most if not all I have of any great good and strength in me to him and of course Jesus Christ who I always had faith in since I was a boy and started to get it. But I have had to learn how faith really words and what it really entails, not some of the mimicry that I partook of or practiced.
Let me just say this here because I can tend to go on talking almost to myself which can distract most people from what I’m about or trying to offer to them! I can honestly tell you and for that matter the world right here and right now, I can’t see anything better to do with my life than to be even way more humble than I am which I improve on each day I hope, while snapping back at the world and like you speaking my mind boldly; but I know from experience and from the lives of many and the most important life ever lived on this planet Jesus Christ that being as humble as one can be is of paramount importance and is in a way submission to God’s Will if genuinely seeking it from Him in prayer, thought and action, which I never have done to my best ability and that is a failure in my mind. And to your point that, “God gave us a spirit not of cowardice, but that of power, love, and soundness of mind.” I couldn’t agree with you more and you have shared a most important observation that cut’s to the chase as to what the hell are we even here for to begin with! One tandem reason, “to love and serve God!” I knew that truth but never quite to the degree I did until a very close relative just days before his passing after his having suffered in this world and system far beyond my suffering and I would dare say without knowing you even any of your own suffering unless you can tell me you rode the rails and got beat to a pulp by people and this world all the while fighting difficulties of a chemically imbalanced brain, and still remembering how you were a fine student in the university with high hopes full of promise, but yet this man kicked to the curb and then some said those words to me; I break down and cry even now, as I realize his suffering was the beginning of “real suffering and sacrifice” that “Jesus did for us on that cross at Calvary” and that I see, feel and contemplate whenever I watch the Passion of the Christ each Easter, when I again fall to pieces crying my heart out throughout the movie. Nobody can tell me that He isn’t God and all of what He said isn’t true! There is no other person or religion that can lay claim to what Jesus Christ did for all of humanity and offered to each of us to have a personal relationship with Him, to then bring us home to Him and the Kingdom of God the Father in Heaven! And in all of what you said here along with your saying you don’t want to offend me I say fantastic to be so thoughtful of my feelings like that, but actually to me all that matters is another person be honest with me and if they offend me in the process so be it, I have to take it because I sure dish it out at times too! Your thoughts and true feelings are appreciated by me personally in a most profound way, I like the fact that you are working to see clearly what is going on around you and in the bigger picture which brings me to say in regard to your outlook, and how Scripture tells us:
1 Peter 4:3-5
“For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles’ when we walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries. In regard to these, they think it strange that you do not run with them in the same flood of dissipation, speaking evil of you. They will give an account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.”
2 Peter 3:3-4
“knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.”
And here a few of the translations of what we must all take to heart; especially if my dear departed one with all the adversaries and sufferings heaped upon him for many years was able to profess those words to me and impart that focal point of what our lives are about, “to love and serve God!” I love him for saying that in his final hours to me what a gift and I feel so much of his pain and loss now, it is part of me and I appreciate it, because he may have actually saved me with Jesus Christ in that special way and moment of his offering up to me what all his agony became in the end a gift to me! I cry now again knowing I’m not worthy but I want to be, I do love them all those who went before us in the name of the Lord because they helped bring us closer to our Savior and Father in Heaven, they acted as our guides even when we were so unaware of them doing so as they weren’t seeking recognition but merely doing God’s will, yet it all became so clearly evident after the fact that God does have a plan and it is the most amazing and perfect of plans for those that will believe in Him even unto death!
1 Peter 4:7
“But the end of all things is at hand: be therefore sober minded, and watch unto prayer.”
“The end of all things is near; therefore, be alert and sober-minded for prayer.”
“Because everything will soon come to an end, be sensible and clear-headed, so you can pray.”
Peace be with you my Friend and Brother in Christ Jesus.
Lawrence Morra
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Caralyn,
Just an added note; I had just noticed in the post how a few comments stated how the persons writing to the Blog were offended by the post because they are gay and Christian too, and apparently didn’t like the fact that there was criticism of Pride or homosexuality! That is a falsehood being stated as such, because none who follow Jesus Christ and therefore what God the Father requires of us is going to advocate and practice SIN and think that to not confess such as being just that, and to not seek redemption from all SIN by the shed blood and body of Jesus Christ; which also means or includes confessing on bent knee all of one’s sin’s, then followed by true repentance, doing penance and growing their love and faith in Him our Lord and Savior in order to achieve atonement; will never be able to be called a Christian otherwise! The LGBTQ communities can live the way they wish that is their choice but they can never expect the rest of the world to condone what they do or how they live and somehow that will make it right, because true Christians and the truly devout in Jesus Christ’s teachings neither can nor should agree. I as a true Christian Catholic see what they do and promote as clearly transgression against God and call it out for what it is; SIN. We can pray for you who make that choice just like we should for any other sinner, but never can we agree with or advocate such behavior that would be sinful too! Amen
Lawrence Morra
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Thanks for writing on this topic with such grace! The whole concept of Pride month kinda breaks my heart. Not even from any issues about homosexuality, just that pride is such a terrible sin! When it was International Women’s Day I saw a post that said “don’t be humble, BE PROUD”. And that just goes straight in the face of what Jesus teaches. Same goes with Pride month.
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Thank you so much Gina for sharing your heart on this topic. You’re right! Blessed are the meek and humble 🙂 Hugs and love xox
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That’s a great response. Never thought of it that way.
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We live in a culture that teaches everyone to take their shame, and shortcomings and out them on the spotlight then call it proud. It can be a good thing in other situations when the shame is unwarranted, but then it just means when we are convicted, we ignore it and then become ‘proud’
What you said is true, we accept and worship labels all in the name of acceptance.
But you said something that’s even more true, yes those attractions are real to same sex attracted people, and yes we use people. As human being we are created to love, we are given love and we are given the free will as to how we use that love
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Hi Tina, thank you so much for sharing your thoughts on this tough issue. Amen – we are created to love one another the way Jesus loves us! It’s time we adopt our one label that unites us all: redeemed! Hugs and love xox
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Beautifully written!
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Thank you so much Monteelou! Hugs and love xox
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The labels can be disorienting. The only three we have to remember are: Love. Acceptance. Approval. It seems to me whether we’re gay, anorexic, Muslim, Christian … a virgin…anything… we all want to be shown these 3 things.
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Hi Tony, thanks for sharing your heart on this. I love that so much — love acceptance approval. Amen! Hugs and love xox
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Thank you so much for your courage to post this. This was a wonderful read.
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Hi David! Thanks so much for your support and kind reception of a post that was nerve wracking to publish!! Hugs and love xox
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Thank you, B3, for comments that are spot on. You’ve pulled the curtain of hype and hysteria back to see the real causes of all this boasting about the flesh – rejecting God and reveling in self to the point of using and abusing others. Don’t let the PC crowd silence you. Keep informing us of the truth to counter the misinformation being dumped on the media in bushel baskets.
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Thank you so much for your support and encouragment. it really means a lot 🙂 I was pretty nervous to publish this one so I am grateful for your warm reception. hugs xo
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Very well stated-brave soul!
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thank you so much Albee! hugs xo
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Good article Caralyn. Keeping you and your ministry, and this important work, in prayer. Keep at it! — Frank
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Thank you so much Frank, I appreciate that 🙂 Hugs and love xox
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Thanks so much for the link up! Hugs and love xox
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I appreciate your opinion and courage to speak freely on the subject of pride. But the pride month to spread awareness of their strength through persecution and to bring together community. We have awareness for mental health, autism, recovery, suicide prevention. If awareness is not spread then changes aren’t made and no one should be made to feel unsafe for who they are or what they’ve gone through. At least this is how I feel.
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Thank you so much Cheri for sharing your thoughts on this issue. I agree – no one should be made to feel unsafe. I agree to that 💯💯💯 we need to love one another and come together!
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Amen! Very boldly written post. Don’t ever shy away from preaching the truth of Jesus Christ. This entire pride thing is of the devil. He has blinded to hearts of men. Everything God created good he thieved it and flipped it around for evil. It is sin and abomination in the eyes of the Lord. Leviticus 19. I pray for my brothers & sisters that are bond to that spirit. They need to repent and accept Jesus Christ as their Lord & Savior before its too late. Hell is real. It also leads us to the scripture found in Romans 1:17-till the end of the chapter. God has given them over to a reprobate mind. Blessings & grace.
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Hi Tammy! Thank you my dear friend. I really appreciate your thoughts on this. It is definitely an emotionally charged issue for sure. big big hugs to you xo
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You’re most welcome! Bless God! 🙂 … 🙂 right back to you as well.
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These are difficult times to be LGBT. Pride is an integral part of our survival. Gay Pride is not conceit. There are other definitions of the word. Pride in this sense is akin to a type of self-esteem. In the sense that citizens of the United States of America take pride in being American.
We have had a long and arduous journey individually and collectively just to learn how to be honest. (“Coming Out of the Closet” is the act of dropping one’s false facade and accepting oneself and sharing that beautiful honesty with trusted loved ones. It is a process and not a final act.) LGBT Pride is a state of joy. It is often jubilant because the joy had been repressed during our childhoods. We have been punished and bullied simply because of who we are and how our adversaries misrepresent us to gain political talking points.
Pride is taking authentic ownership of who we are. The heartache of growing up, not being allowed nor otherwise being unable to be honest about our true selves is soul-crushing. We learn first-hand that dishonesty is one of the most horrible of evils. When we finally build up the courage to let go of the dishonesty (coming out) All that beautiful honesty bursts forth like a volcano of joy. We’re so happy that it’s almost impossible to shut up about it. Pride Parades were first organized as a natural result of wanting to share our particular type of joy.
When Gilbert Baker’s beautiful Rainbow Flag debuted, the LGBT community adopted it at first sight. The Rainbow Flag is as important to our community as flags are special to ethnic and national groups. The Rainbow Flag represents the positive definition of Pride.
None of this supplants nor takes the place of spiritual or religious beliefs. We are people of many beliefs, including Christianity, and no beliefs. The ideals that unite us are honesty, fairness, and compassion. Pride is something holy that we share with the rest of civilization.
There is so much more I could write, but this is your blog, not mine. Thanks for reading this.
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Thank you so much for sharing your heart on this issue. You’ve really offered some eye opening insight on this deeply emotional issue. I am all for authentic ownership of who we are. And that I am fully behind!! 🙂 sending big big hugs xox
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I don’t think that the problem is that we are worshipping our sexuality…the problem is that we are glorifying a disordered sexuality. My eating disorder gave me a clearer understanding of homosexual tendencies…Because of original sin plus our life experiences we experience desires that are peverted: that distort a natural good into something other than God intended it to be. Many people who LGBTQ have, on top of genetic tendencies, a history of being sexually abused. Many of them may not feel feminine enough or masculine enough. Original Sin is a physical trace on the incarnate mind, and just as it can lead people to desire more or less food than they ought, it can lead people to sexually desire people whom God and nature marked out only as their friends. This erodes friendship and desecrates the divine calling of persons to marriage. The weight of our souls is not measured by our temptations but by how hard we fight our temptations, through love…Of course I love my LGBTQ brothers and sisters just as I love my brothers and sisters that engage in disordered eating, my brothers and sisters that give into the temptations of their bipolarity, myself and all my flaws…. But there is a difference between loving a person and excusing a behavior, and “made that way” doesn’t cut it, because the traces of Original Sin on our minds and bodies have made us inclined to all be less than what God has called us to be. To help us learn to love the dreams that God has dreamed for us–that is what grace is for.
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Thank you so much for this powerful response and for sharing your heart. That is what grace is for – you’re absolutely right about that. Lots of insightful food for thought here. Hugs and love xox
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Well said.
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Thank you so much 🙂 Hugs and love xox
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Such a beautiful post my friend. A big hug 🤗
Our running away from God, from the spirit of Christ is what creates our misery. And when we stop loving and start using people : we are already dead 😌
May we all keep spreading His love and His joy in all hearts 💕 🙏
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Thank you so much Ashok! You’re right – using people is such a destructive path. amen – spreading His love and joy! hugs xo
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My pleasure my dear 😊🤗
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xoxo 🙂
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Feeling attracted to the same gender is not sin per sec, but when it comes to living the lifestyle, there is really only two choices. Either it is sin, or it isn’t. If it is, then it’s wrong to celebrate it and to tell people it’s okay. If it isn’t, then there is nothing wrong with celebrating it within reason. In all fairness to the LGBT community, some of them are fed up with the sexual worship too, but if that’s as far as it goes, how is it any more wrong then getting your identity from sports? We’d laugh at that person, but we wouldn’t see it as any real threat unless it was made into a mandate that we had to give that person preference. Whereas, mandated or not, people feel the LGBT movement is important, one way or the other. There are some things that are just bad no matter what context they are in. The argument of the movement is that some things are good no matter what context they are in. I do not see much of a middle ground here.
I guess what I am trying to say is that I liked some of this post, but I couldn’t tell what you were really saying. It was sort of vague.
It felt like you were trying not to pick sides, but on something like this, to bring it up at all, you have to pick a side. Otherwise nothing you can say about it has any weight to it because we do not know why you are saying it.
I’m not trying to be mean. I think it’s good to bring it up at all, many people don’t. And I was hesitant the first time I blogged about it too, but I did make my position clear because I thought that was more fair.
You’ll get more praise from more people for being open minded, but I don’t think that’s what really matters to you from what I’ve read of your blog, so I’m hoping this will not come across as mean spirited ranting from me because I just felt like spouting off.
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Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts on this. Yeah my vagueness was definitely on purpose. Definitely not reading this as mean spirited at all! I appreciate your perspective. And thank you for taking the time to read and respond. Hugs and love xox
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Well said! Very good perspective on it all.
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Thank you so much Kandis! hugs xo
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Good for you for tackling a difficult topic! It’s hard to find ways to engage with the popular culture on this topic anymore. A while back I passed by a Catholic church that was doing a pretty good job, though. There was a banner on the front of the church that said “All Sinners Welcome.” I thought that was brilliant. In order to attend this church you don’t have to claim any particular label regarding your “sexuality.” You don’t have to be free of any particular kind of temptation. But you DO have to be humble enough to admit that you are capable of sin, that there is a higher authority than yourself. In the end, I think that’s the issue in a nutshell.
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Thanks so much Rose for sharing your heart on this emotional issue. I love that – amen – EVERYONE is welcome and we all have to humble ourselves before Him 🙌🏼 Hugs and love xox
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thanks for the link up! hugs xo
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You are a real inspiration and people can learn a lot from your experience and your blog. Thanks for your support and God bless.
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Thanks for saying that, Anthony. What a kind thing to say. I really appreciate your support – this was a nerve-wracking post to publish for sure! hugs x
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Thanks Danny for the link up! Hugs and love xox
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This is not an easy thing to discuss and I think you handled that beautifully. I love your heart!
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Thank you so much 🙂 I’m so glad it resonated with you! Yeah a nerve wracking one to press publish on. I appreciate your support. Hugs and love xox
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Thanks for the linkup! Hugs and love xox
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Thanks for the link up! Hugs and love xox
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Great topic here, While reading your post, I agree with you, sis’; everything is broken in our world today to where God is becoming more and more less main attraction and news that He deserves.
I’ll be honest with you: While you were listing all the sexuality names, it proved my idea on how difficult understanding this ‘pride’ stuff has become. In Exodus 20:3 (NIV), the Lord said “You shall have no other gods before me.” Sadly enough, people’s sexuality has become their focus above God. I, then, feel bad since I do have relatives who do engage in same-sex understandings and ways of life. But throughout it all, to share His love is the greatest emotion from God that is intended to be shared above all else.
Our greatest weapon against this spiritual battle is with prayer and keeping in mind who will always be the fore-fronts of our mind: Jesus…. and always to remember that everything will be okay. 🙂 Love ya’, sis;!
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Thank you so much for sharing your heart on this. You’re so right — prayer and Jesus! That is really such the right perspective to keep: sharing His love with everyone no matter what 🙂 so glad this resonated with you. Hugs and love xox
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You speak in a kind and thought out way. Because you have been bold it has inspired me to be the same…hence more posts.😊 You are a lovely child of God.💞 I appreciate you, thank you.
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Thank you friend. I’m so glad you’ve felt inspired! That makes my heart so happy 🙂 so glad you stopped by! Hugs and love xox
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Thanks for the link up! Hugs and love xox
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Really respect your bravery. Thank you for writing this. There should be more Christians willing and able to engage people who believe differently and still love them and speak the truth. I was inspired. We are also in the village and experienced the parade. It is an opportunity to love people in Christ’s name.
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Thanks so much John. I appreciate you sharing your thoughts on this. Hugs and love xox
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BBB, this is the post that just keeps on giving… seriously!! so many messages have been born out of this post you wrote. Congrats!
On a side note, completely unrelated, I like BBB, I cant get used to Caralyn, isn’t that the name of the young girl in the movie with the aunt who cries out through the entire movie…. CAROOOLLL ANNNNNNNN,,, what’s it called? you know!!!! POLT>..
so BBB, Bold & Beautifully Bombastic!! how’s that friend. CAROL ANN.
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NewOldType You are to me an obviously lost and confused soul that is just what the master of all lies loves to make a minion.
Here is a piece of a lengthy explanation which really must be done to give justice to such a profound truth, but common sense is a part of seeing the truth! So this shorter version may begin a process of transformation for you and if not no harm done you can go your merry way being deluded till your moment of truth comes and you will face God almighty and be judged!
All human beings have Free Will to make up their own mind which way they will go.
Yes sir ,very good logical thinking and reasoning, which in Holy Scripture we are told when faced with any perplexing difficulty to “reason it out” as you are doing. I have always seen from when I was a child that just the mere fact that I can think that way showed me that amazing thinking processes are at work all around us in creation, because I had no problem accepting that something makes everything just like people mimic creation on a smaller scale erecting buildings or an artist can do what Michael Angelo or Leonardo Da Vinci could in creating absolutely magnificent works of creativity and mind! But you may be trying to blend different manmade concepts, philosophies, science or disciplines to make a religion when you say the only question is the Universe Sentient. I think you and I and most reasonable people would agree it is or there are so many even obvious examples of that. So to me the question really becomes do I have faith in all of this which is beyond my comprehension and anyone’s ability to grasp completely and put it on the lab table and demonstrate the final analysis; can I accept by FAITH that God however limited we are to define God is present and real behind all of this we are witnessing! I have no problem because of my faith that God worked with man and still does to enlighten mankind and give us understanding and TRUTH. I have stated before that no person ever in the past nor in the future will be able to lay claim to who Jesus Christ was and is or most importantly what he did for humanity, he is God as a man which came to us mere humans to save us all and give Eternal Life! This still is a huge problem for many humans to accept, but it won’t get any better no matter how hard one racks their brain or digs into the cosmos, we have the answer, we must have faith in Him who is so evident in all of this before our eyes!
I had an exchange with someone a while ago as to these questions and I’ll copy the basic part of the conversation here for you to see what you think.
Einstein when speaking with other theoretical physicists about the concept of the millisecond before the Big Bang and what was happening that would account for this massive event to have been triggered, as one of these scientists said with enough random events and cycles of the quantitative and unknown forces or energy even without a space time continuum the right combination must have happened randomly to bring all of the right components together at that precise juncture!!! To which Einstein replied: “Ah yes my friend but you are forgetting one thing, God is not random!!!” You see Stan the man, I’m in the loop with Einstein not you and not swamp people in the bijou, he was able to admit and see with his humility that the vastness and greatness of existence reveals to him that there is a High conscious power at work in order that the miracle of existence would even have happened!!! People like you are too busy trying to disprove God when the facts and power of the truth of God is starring you right in your obnoxious, arrogant, self-righteous and rebellious self!!! Atheists are some of the stupidest people I have ever met on this planet and I have met many from all walks of life!!! I will tell you that I have talked to ditch diggers that are more brilliant than you!!!
I, in any case, am convinced He does not play dice with the universe.”
Einstein said this because he firmly believed that the universe is perfectly determinable and measurable both at macro and micro levels
However, Einstein was not an atheist as he said himself in an interview in 1929.
The quotation says, “Quantum theory yields much, but it hardly brings us close to the Old One’s secrets. I, in any case, am convinced He does not play dice with the universe.” It was addressed by Einstein to Max Born (one of the fathers of Quantum Mechanics) in a letter that he wrote to Born in 1926.
The “Old one” and “He” Einstein refers to is God. The fame of this quotation stems from two sources: 1) Einstein’s disagreement with the fundamental concept of Quantum Mechanics that at the quantum (i.e. atomic) level nature and the universe are totally random, namely events happen by mere chance; 2) Einstein’s views about religion and God.
Lawrence
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So brave & thank you for addressing it so eloquently. 😉 I love rainbows 🌈💜 because of its simple promise Genesis 9:11-17
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Thank you so much for your support. Me too! His promise! Hugs and love xox
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You are right on. Identity is at the core. Oh for a renewal of the image of God in our culture.
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Thanks Jay. Amen to that! Hugs and love xox
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Aloha … you’ve been such a great friend. Thank you!
You wrote, “when I told him I would never move to Australia.” Why not? If you really like the guy, why not try a new location? You can blog from Down Under. Australia is an amazing place.
I’m not here to tell you or advise you about what to do. You’re amazing and a hero to me. The world is a big place and your NEVER may become the BEST DECISION you ever made.
Maybe a two week vacation just to look around?
Why not?
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Thank you so much ✨ interesting thought interesting thought. I like the idea of a vacation 🙂 hehe but you’re right – I should keep my horizons open!!! Hugs and love xox
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Thanks for the link up! Hugs and love xox
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