Okay, so this post may get a little controversial, but it's something that is weighing on my heart right now!

Just now, I was going through facebook and saw a friend post this thing about ppl being against gay marriages and does like the "eye-roll/these ppl are idiots" thing. Since it is an interesting topic and I wanted to see what ppl had to say, I checked out the link.  WHich led to another link about the same stuff...just ppl from random colleges or something in the states holding some paper thing with their reasons for believing that marriage should be between a man and woman.

Anyways, I looked through the comments and stuff, and yeah man, people really do bash Christians! haha! I know for sure, that Christians have probably bashed at non-Christians, and as a Christian I do apologize for that.  But yeah! it was interesting.  One interesting thing I saw was, "try to explain why gay marriage is wrong without using, God, bible or that kind of lingo" and in my mind i'm like, "well, you sort of can't"...but that doesn't matter...because that's what it's all about.  One girl's reason on her paper thing was Romans 1:26-27.  Here, I feel like it's pretty clear that God didn't intend for marriage to be between two ppl of the same sex.  What this really comes down to is whether or not you believe in God.  Are you a slave to righteousness? or are you a slave to sin? Romans 6:20 says "when you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness." if you read Romans 6, the 2nd half of it, you see that we are either slaves to sin, or slaves to righteousness.  But, being slaves to one of them, also means being free from the other.  So, as a Christian, I'm a slave to righteousness, striving to be free from sin.  and I guess, if your are a slave to sin, you are free from the control of righteousness...

so yeah, it comes down to who is your master? and who are you free from? if you are free from righteousness, then I think it makes sense that you don't find anything wrong with gay marriages...or find it right for that matter.  But if you are free from sin, and belong to Christ, the Holy Spirit should convict you through prayer and God's word.

hmm another thing that was brought up was if being gay is a choice or not.  I guess defining what a choice is would be important.  Like, when I sin...is that a choice?  I think it is.  but I also believe that we are biased to sin.  we have a natural proclivity to sin which is why we all sin (romans 3:23).  If you say that choices are easy to control...then try choosing to be perfect for a week...i'm pretty sure that's not possible...does that mean you didn't get a choice? no...i don't think so.. I feel like we got a choice, but we chose wrong because of our sinful nature.  I do believe gayness is a sin, something I personally don't struggle with, but it's also not worse than any other sin.  Like any sin, ppl struggle with it.  I struggle iwth my own sins and I know I will never be perfect, but I press on towards that goal Christ has called me to!  I think it's normal for ppl to be gay. in the same way I think its normal for ppl to want to lie, or get angry, or lust, or have bad thoughts in their minds!  It's normal, becaseu we are human, but it doesn't make it right.

Okay, my last thing i wanna say... okay...so what really hurt me the most was this comment I saw...

"When are people going to realize "because god says so" isn't a relevant answer? God's word means 
NOTHING to man's laws and that's the way it needs to stay, or else we become the Middle East."

"Well since the christian god doesn't really even exist,.. I could CARE LESS what he thinks or says let alone the followers of the mythology... "

"Christianity is a Virus in need of a CURE..."

So these comments were all from the same string...
umm...all I can say is that as Christians we are called to spread the gospel and give glory to God!  Essentially, we know that God is real.  And we want to share Him with as many people as possible!  Not because we have to...but becasue we love them because Christ loved us first!  Everything we do as Christians is driven from the love God has for us and demonstrated to us through Jesus!  We don't have to share the gospel, but we do becasue of our love for God and our love for His people!  It would be less loving (from our perspective), to know the truth and not share it.  

At the same time, we are meant to be salt and light! I actually think its fine if non-christians bash christians, because Jesus was pretty clear when He said that the world will persecute us.  But, I hate it when I see the opposite, or hear stories of the opposite!  We are not to bash others.  We are to proclaim the truth in LOVE. We are called to be salt and light!  We are called to be in the world but NOT of it! Matthew 5:16 "In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven." So taht they can GLORIFY God! we need to be an example.  how can people who don't know God, who get bashed by us who know God, glorify God? makes no sense. LOL
the guy who said those hurtful comments above went through persecution from the church! or saw all the bad works we've done.  Let me be clear here...When I said the comments hurt me, those words did not hurt me.  I was just so sad that someone's heart has been so hardened to the point that they would say something like that!...THAT person grew up in a church!...it's actually just so sad... :( I want God to touch that person again and soften his heart.  It really breaks my heart when I know there are people like that...becaseu of what we, as Christians, have done.

anyways, this post is long enough! I think i said everythign i wanted to say.