Judging Gay People

The ardent followers of religion have always maintained that their guides—mainly

the Bible and the Qu'ran—teach humility and compassion. These very holy books

teach against judging others and about a dreaded day of reckoning where each of

us will be held accountable for our stewardship on this earth, including the

judgement we pass on others we view as unholy and infidel. The norm is that

religious people are meant to live righteously, love their neighbours including

their fearful foes and eschew hatred in all its shapes and forms. The Supreme

Being has the final say as to who is deserving of His blissful eternal Kingdom!

But must perceived righteousness serve as the basis for judging others and even

lead to homophobic sentiments?

Contrarily to the contents of the holy books, some religious people seem to have

conceived—quite against the Word of God—that some sins are greater than others.

A lot suppose murder a bigger sin than adultery! It is extremely preposterous on

the part of any religious connoisseur to apportion certain marks to certain sins

without having access to God’s marking scheme. We would want to know who has

seen God's plans; we equally want them to tell us how many points one loses for

which sin. If nobody possesses God's thoughts on what sort of justice will be

meted out for a particular transgression, then we would want to civilly wonder

why many self-righteous folks are quite ready to judge others on marriage,

religion and sexuality.

In fact, we should foremost stress the fact that we do not condone any sins in

this world. We do appreciate our own ceaseless indiscretion for which we always

ask the Holy Father for clemency. By now Jehovah, the Almighty Father, looks at

us and notes how recalcitrant we are because of our penchant for sinning even

when we have asked for pardon and vowed not to sin again only to return to the

same sin for which we have asked for exculpation. If the Biblical contention

that whoever falters at one point of the commandments breaks them all is

anything to go by (See James 2:10), then we all have a long way to go! Like

Jesus Christ asked those erudite Pharisees who were inclined to stone the

adulteress if they were sanctimonious, we also ask modern-day religious fanatics

who preach revulsion to do a self-appraisal before casting the first stone at

gays.

Homosexuality is an eye sore. There is nothing as appalling as a man, without

mincing words, sticking his manhood into the hairy and unsightly anus (a

stinking place specifically created for the excretion of faeces) of another man

and trying to derive pleasure from this abominable exercise! Such people need

both spiritual and medical help for anything abnormal can be alleviated. In all

fairness, homosexuality is very disgusting as men with this inexplicable

peculiarity finish by having to wear pampers just like babies for the rest of

their miserable lives as the stinking solids have nothing to hold them back due

to the aberrant use of their anal organs and the "unnatural" objects inserted

into them. If the dressing of ladies in this 21st Century which bares all to the

extent of bringing down the Solomons of this world does nothing to gays but

forces them to want to ravish flat-chested men through the backdoor, then we

believe it would not be a mark of atrocity to ask that their mental faculties be

verified!

Although there is something amiss with gays, however, when it comes to passing

judgement as to what God will do to homosexuals, we need to ask what the Word of

God says about judging others. The Bible—unless we read a different

book—admonishes us against judging others for not only do we pretend to do God's

work for Him; but we also give God the benchmark with which to judge us. It is

always blatant that we tend to use very high standards (based on an assumed

moral high ground) which we may never reach were we scrutinised in the same way

when judging others. Why then do people—mere mortals to boot—try to presuppose

the craftsmanship of God when their earthly righteousness is questionable and

seen as filthy rags before God Almighty? And why do we elevate our level of

criticism of others if we cannot pass the test were we put through the same

system?

Over the decades, marriage has become a most important judging implement in the

hands of many. A lot of ink has been poured on paper in arguments in favour of

the fact that the institution of marriage was established by God when He put the

first couple into the Garden of Eden. In essence, we are all descendants of Adam

and Eve irrespective of our colour, race and creed. It is for this reason that

we are quite bewildered to see people judging others based on their ethnicity,

colour and race. There have been white supremacists in Europeand North

Americawho have committed atrocities due to their detestation of inter-racial

marriages. The British National Party, for instance, overtly abhors mixed

marriages. There are similarly black people who hate people from their ethnic

groups and countries from marrying black people from other ethnic groups and

countries. How sad and pathetic!

There are so many controversial subjects; nonetheless, there has never been a

matter more contentious that has dominated the latter parts of the 20th Century

and is gaining notoriety for judgement and disrepute in the 21st Century than

homosexuality. We have observed the posture assumed by heterosexuals when

talking about homosexuality. And that stance is concerned with looking down upon

gays as infidels who are ordained for certain destruction in the Biblical lake

of fire. By so doing, these straight people do see themselves as superior beings

who are very upright in the sight of God and can thus pronounce judgements on

sexual sinners—they forget fornication and adultery are likewise sexual sins—

who prefer anal satisfaction rather than vaginal bliss. But on what grounds do

these straight people censure gays? They embark on that extraneous venture by

quoting from the Holy Bible and the Holy Qu'ran!

Talking about religions, let us examine what Islam thinks about homosexuality.

The Hadith indubitably condemns homosexuality by stating categorically that:

"When a man mounts another man, the throne of Allah shakes". In the Bible, there

are instances to substantiate why Christians condemn gays. After all, for this

crime, God wiped out a whole city! Remember the people of Sodom and Gomorrah? In

the New Testament, Paul's letter to the Romans actually sees same-sex

relationships as God's punishment for humankind's reluctance to honour Him

(God), our futile thoughts and idolatry (Romans 1:21-27). In this respect,

people who proudly assume the title of Christians and Muslims must not become

gays.

We hasten to place on record that the authenticity of the Hadith has been

disputed by certain factions in the Islamic world. While the traditional

orthodox Muslims assert the Hadith literature contains the bona fide sayings of

the Prophet Muhammad, liberal Muslims have always doubted its validity. Talking

about the accuracy of the Bible, it must also be affirmed that we have had

different interpretations of the Bible because of the divisions in Christendom.

The Roman Catholics thinks differently; the Jehovah's Witnesses see themselves

as God's chosen people on the narrow path to inherit His eternal Kingdom whereas

everybody else is on the broad way to everlasting damnation in Hell's flowing

lake of fire! The Seventh-Day Adventists will beg to differ and the very

numerous and still mushrooming Pentecostal and Charismatic churches will sway

with what they read from the Bible that they are the real deal. In the end,

there is so much rigmarole created by Muslims and Christians that, Darwinism is

blooming to the discontentment and detriment of the so-called religions which

claim to possess the key to life eternal. Indeed, Christianity and Islam

covert-all-at-all-cost policy makes Buddhism, Hinduism and Atheism quite

appealing because of their peaceful doctrines.

Moreover, the discrepancies which are evident in the two main religions in the

world do not take anything away from Christianity and Islam. These two religions

are divided by so many doctrines. Both maintain they are on the right path and

that the other is wrong. This is the level affairs have been upheld until the

imposing menace by homosexuality to obliterate the very fundamentals of their

credence: faith for which some are prepared to die. Homosexuality and its

concomitant homophobic outlook have become a common ground for the unanimity of

Christians and Muslims! The recent furore in certain parts of Africa and the

unremitting moralising of abhorrence towards gays have brought about violence

which is the consequential effect of populism employed by politicians and most

prominently by the clergy of both Christianity and Islam. In Malawiand Uganda,

the topsy-turvy mass organisation to kill gays has been given loud affirmation

by politicians after it was discovered that some men who moved in twos (we could

not call them couples) were planning to tie the knot! In truth, if any of the

homophobic morons had murdered any of the arse-wrecking guys, they would

undeniably have escaped justice—they may never have even been arraigned before

court!

Nevertheless, in Europe, the Anglican Church is ordaining Gay Bishops! Only the

Christians and Muslims in Africaseem to be speaking with one accord.

Homosexuality is therefore bound to create more divisions in Christendom that,

in less than a decade there will likely be a church known by the sobriquet of

"Gay for Christ International Church of God"! The great arsey-versey situation

in the world at this moment is absolutely created by the fidus Archates of

Christianity and Islam. Wanting to know the truth, we recently spoke to an

even-tempered Muslim. From our conversation, one of the lessons drawn from Islam

is that the Holy Qu'ran’s treatise about thieves having their hands chopped off,

adulterers and homosexuals being stoned to death is not to be taken literally.

According Afzar Ali, the rules and commandments and their mortally draconian

retribution are meant to deter rather than sending sinners to early graves to be

judged by the Creator. The point of the chastisement is irrelevant; the notion

of the punishment should be enough to serve as a restraint to all and sundry.

The commandments are comparable to knowing the effects of fire: if one knows it

burns then one would not touch it!

This is where we pause to ponder. First, both the Bible and the Qu'ran argue

quite convincingly that none of us was born a criminal. Ergo, if we find

thieves, fraudsters, murderers, lesbians and gays in the world today, it is

because the system is at fault. The blemish with the system means that we come

into this world all innocent until immoral traits creep upon us and make us

murderers, idolaters, homosexuals and so on. From the believer's point of view,

the fellow with any tendencies towards homosexuality should seek spiritual

remedy. Thus, we should offer prayers for gays that God takes away the unnatural

feeling towards a fellow man from them. Those who do not have any trust in the

spiritual must adopt a more holistic approach by seeking psychological and

medical guidance.

What about Gay Bishops or Pastors then? Well, we may want to reiterate Paul’s

philosophical musings to the Romans: God has given up people engaging in

idolatry, swimming in frivolities and dishonouring Him to uncleanness to debase

their bodies by engaging in deviant sexual acts. Learning from the Holy Writ, we

can surmise that gays have no place in the House of God let alone lead His

flock. In all honesty, gays should not be loathed but they ought to play by the

rules of the game of religion. If they want to be Muslims or Christians, then

they need to follow the commandments spelt out in the Bible and the Qu'ran. A

fortiori, we can use a lame analogy of the game of football to buttress our

point. An infringement is given against one's team if one handles the ball. But

if one happens to be a mere spectator, this rule is definitely not binding.

Thus, how can a gay become a Christian/Muslim and a bishop when they do not obey

the decrees in the Bible or the Qu’ran?—an abuse of the rules of the game!

In the end, homosexuals need prayers, psychological directions and medical aids

to help do away with their dissenting sexual desires. Gays should not be

Christians/Muslims let alone become leaders of the church/mosque. They should

have privileges but not the right to adopt. Elton John may be affluent enough to

give a child a better life but is he a role model for an innocent child? And if

everyone took it into their heads to be gays, who will give birth to children

for Sir Elton John to adopt? Believing that homosexuality must be detested and

not gays, we strongly revile without reserve any attempts to make the whole

world a homophobic place for gays. Killing a homosexual will not exonerate the

killer from the commandment which condemns murder. Homosexuality is both a

sinful and perverted deviation from the norm but, like the other sins; they are

habits we acquire due to lack of proper guidance and education. Christians who

adopt holier-than-thou attitudes and judge gays should take the counsel of God

to Ezekiel: namely; you tell the sinner to turn away from their sins. If you do

not, then God will ask you for their blood if they perish. But you are not to

judge!

Thomas Dickens (yesiah2003@yahoo.com)

www.thomasdickens.blogspot.com