My church has one of the largest voices in the Presbytery, and the Lutheran church where I am a member is a lagre parish and one of the oldest in the Regoin.
Your bigotry, twisting of the truth, and your own self hate will shine through to those educated people who attend my church. We are 60% doctors, lawyers, retired ministers, 2 senators, 1 retired US senator, and several CEO's and professionals. The entire staff, excluding the custodial director and secretaries have a minimum education of a masters degree. In fact, I am currently one of two in our staff of 18 who only hold a masters degree.
Any educated person can see that you are using the Bible and God's word to exonerate your own self hate. I asked my close friend, who is a retired psychiatrist to post for you. I showed him your testimony this morning in my office.
You clearly run away from your problems, you fly away, and you cannot face your own sexuality. When one cannot wake up and look into a mirror and say, God Loves me, People love me, and I am a child of God the way I am , it is sad.
Your judgement of others is based on the fact that in your heart, you not only wish to be accepted by your church as a homosexual, but you are angry as a hornet at the fact you have to pretend to be something you are not.
As for your disease, I am very sorry for saying the things I did, I was a bit upset at your response to my post, and therefore the "22 year old" came out in a lashing of attacks towards you.
Perhaps insead of hiding yourself, you could be a walking testimony of what immorality in gay relationships causes. You would accomplish a lot more than trying to denounce the lifestle which you lived for a number of years.
I added you to our prayer list, as an anon. request, not using your name. The reason I added you is twofold....one, because you are dying of an evil disease which is part of the decay in society today, and even God cannot stop this. The second reason, is because you are so shadowed by someone else's interpretation of the scriptures, a straight person's interpretation, you cannot live as a christian homosexual man. That is what you are, what you were, and what you will be until you are consumed by this disease.
Shame on you for not educating the public on the consequences of unsafe sex and immorality.
By the way, at our staff meeting this morning, I recently spun the idea of a help center for gay teens and their parents. Our church is now going to be the official meeting place of PFLAG (Parents, friends of lesbians and Gays).
This new outreach will be headed by their openly gay associate minister/director of music ministries.......me!
I feel that if we can reach younger people, and let them know that God loves them and that it is ok to be homosexual, the world will have a lot less teen suicides.
Do you people ever feel guilty for all of the 13-17 year olds who do not live any longer because of bigotry and hate from people like you?
As I make hospital rounds today visiting our hospital bound members and praying with them, I will be thinking about you.
The emotional sickness and twisted thinking that has overtaken your life and interrupted your path to eternal life is even stronger than your terminal disease.
I feel that you need some guidance in your decision, just as a straight man provided you with the guidance to hide yourself and not accept your own sexuality, one can provide you with a way out before you enter eternal life.
May God have mercy on your soul, the ten commandments say, thy shalt not bear false witness, you are clearly breaking that commandment.