How Christians and Gays Can Help Each Other
By Andy Heath
Yes, I know what you're thinking. You're thinking that I have spent so much energy in this blog criticizing Christians that it must be completely unreasonable for me to talk about ways that Christians and gays can help each other. The first question that probably popped into your head is why I think gays should in Tennessee without professing to be a Christian because so many voters are themselves Christians. So like it or not, we must seek out the help of Christians in order to make our lives better and obtain our rights. Christians will want to work with us because we are gaining a great deal of acceptance as well and therefore Christian rhetoric against gays is becoming less popular. As both of our groups become more prominent, it only helps us to work together.
Since their establishment, Christians have professed to have a monopoly on love. They believe that their religion is the only one that will allow a soul access to Heaven. If you don't believe me, just ask any of them. Yet as time passes, people are becoming more and more aware of the holes in Christian arguments that homosexuality is of the Devil. As people become more and more aware that there is no reasonable justification for the hatred of gays and lesbians, Christians are starting to realize that using hatred of gays to bring Christians together just as Hitler used hatred of Jews to bring the Germans together is no longer a plausible strategy.
And of course, since so many gays are in fact Christians too, it only makes sense that the two groups reach out to one another to reach some sort of reconciliation.
So the question next becomes: How can Christians and gays help each other? Or rather, what do they have to offer each other? Christians can offer gays a piece of the political pie by helping us obtain our rights such as marriage and keeping our rights such as adoption. Gays can offer Christians the good public relations that Christians really are loving, accepting people as they say they are. If Christians reach out to gays, then that love that they associate with their own Jesus Christ would be obvious.
I hope that eventually Christians will come around and allow us to be who we are. Until that happens all we can do is try to make their hatred of us obvious and show how this hatred is inconsistent with their own teachings.
