Being Gay Is Not a Choice

There is one thing that people can do in this world to piss me off instantly. I absolutely hate it when people say that being gay is a choice. It doesn’t even make sense. Do you understand how ignorant you sound when you say something like that?

I have yet to hear one person who can give a good reason to think that being gay is a choice.

“It says that being gay condemns you to hell in the Bible.”

Have you read the Bible? There are so many other things that condemn you that people don’t pay attention to. In the Bible children who curse at their parent’s will be put to death. Sorry, but if my son/daughter curse at me I will probably ground them. I won’t be putting them to death.

The Bible also says that you cannot get round haircuts. Leviticus 19:27 reads “Do not cut the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.”

The Bible also says that a couple, who have sex while the woman is on her period, must be cut off from their people. Leviticus 20:18 reads, “If a man lies with a woman during her monthly period and has sexual relations with her, he has exposed the source of her flow, and she has also uncovered it. Both of them must be cut off from their people.”

There are more scriptures in the Bible that condemn people to hell, put them to death, and shun them from other people for things that people do every day. So to this I ask: why is that we see this list of rules of things we cannot do, then ignore all of the ones that sound ridiculous, and keep the ones that people believe to be bad? Who gave you the right to pick and choose the rules that others should follow, out of the Bible? Who gave you the right to play God?

Now, in all fairness, my citations were taking out of the New International Version of the Bible so the language is more contemporary. With the original text, it is more complex and there is room for debate but my point still stands. People have taken the Bible and shifted it into something that they want. They aren’t following it word by word. They take the things from it that they want to take and shun others to hell for the things that don’t pertain to them. It’s wrong.

I am a Christian and I will be a Christian until the day I die. Granted, I have had some hard times with the big guy but I have never stopped believing him and I have never truly blamed him for anything. Being a Christian is not about following the Bible. It is about your personal relationship with God. God knows I am gay. He has always known, and he knew I would be before I was born. I may not lead the perfect Christian life, but I am a Christian. I don’t go to church consistently, I curse, I drink, I have smoked pot, and I am living a lifestyle of sin according to the Bible, but so many other people who are the “Perfect Christians” lead a life of sin as well. They are judgmental and they play the role of God by saying who is and is not a Christian by their standards. Just because some family somewhere has never tasted alcohol, or never sworn, or have remained sexually pure until marriage, doesn’t mean that you are perfect or any better than I. God created everyone equal and he loves everyone for who they are.

Being gay is not a choice. God knows this. I know and believe with all of my heart that I am a Christian. I know some who read this will not agree. I also know that my family believes I am going to hell for this. Some of them. People will think what they will think, I can’t change that. God knew I was gay the whole time I was pretending to be straight. I can’t imagine that God would prefer my unhappiness to stay alone my entire life, or pretend to be straight. God has made me this way and I believe that he also gave me a voice and strong heart. I want to let the gay community know that God does not hate you and it is no more sinful than ANYTHING else in the Bible and anyone who tells you that is just ignorant. I am sorry that this will severely upset some people, but it is how I feel.