Why I’m Not An Activist
March 14, 2008
I love my girlfriend with all my heart, mind, and soul. I would do anything for her, stand by her no matter what, and be happy spending forever with her. I would love to marry her. I would love to have the same benefits as heterosexual couples have. I would love for there to be no seperation. Just as segregation was slowly shunned, I know that integration is a process. I’ve even noted that we should be ready to make compromises in order to get what we want.
I want the rights…but I do not want to be an activist.
I cannot be a gay rights activist because I never really embraced the label. Just as I think there should be no divisions between ’straights’ and ‘gays’, I have never liked the idea of restrictions that a label represents. I cannot be an activist in general because I do not like the stigma that they perpetuate. Activists become so engrossed in their causes at times that they lose sight of the motivating factors; it becomes a race to win rather than a fight for equality.
And then this activist promotes another activist group; there would not be a need for gay activists if not for Christian activists right? As a matter of fact, Christian activists create many activist groups. Why? Why are there Christian advocates to begin with? The whole idea would seem to me to be an oxymoron of terms. After all, it is the Bible that says “Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged…”(Matthew 7:1-6) and that “There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: [who are you to judge]” (James 4:11-12). Moreover, the first one that says for us not to judge lest we be judged goes on to say that we should not sit here pointing out the mote in our brother’s eye when we ourselves have a beam in our own eyes. As also reported in Luke 6:41-42, you are nothing more than a hypocrite if you do not first take out the beam from your eye in order to see the mote in your brother’s eye. What it comes down to basically is first you should not be judging to begin with, but secondly you have your own qualities worthy of judgement so what makes you so much better that you should judge another? Let God retain His rightful position as judge, and you get right in your own life.
It is the Christian that taints the Bible by twisting its words for their own selfish gain. They take the phrase ‘teaching them to obey’ (Matthew 28:18-20) and translate it to ‘bashing, beating, and condeming them until they convert’. Jesus never acted as the Christian activist acts. He never beat a Gentile or sinner that He broke bread with. It was Jesus in fact that commands us to love as He loved. Show me where in the Bible did Jesus beat a sinner and leave him to die on a fence, and I will throw away my ‘impure’ ways. If I remember correctly, it was Jesus who said “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone…” (speaking of the adultress woman when adultry was a crime punishable by stoning leading to death), and when not one man could come forward to throw that first stone, neither did He throw a stone at her. Being as He was the only that could anyhow, still He did not. So not only is the Christian commanded to ‘eat with the sinners’, Jesus also teaches us that just because we have the ability or even the right to do something does not mean that we should do it.
I am not an activist because I am too much of a Christian to try and take over God’s control.
Tags: activist, gay rights activist, Christian, God’s control
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