By Armando Sultan—

“God hates Fags,” and “the twin towers happened because of the gays,” have been rhetoric said by some Christians to approve of their obvious disdain towards them. While the mentioned examples are extreme, they accurately reflect the notions of many fundamentalist Christians. This subject has defined Christians in general as being either “true” Christians, or heathens that stand for gay marriage, which is an “abomination” to the church and, ultimately, God.

I propose we take a deeper look into the good book that we hold so dear and analyze if this is the case or not. Taking this subject from a biblical standpoint, we can take some of these acclaimed passages at face value, but since we will pretend to be rational and intelligent Christians, we’ll dig deeper. A general misconception lies in a few passages that most Christians will look to for validation against homosexuality.

For the sake of saving time, we’ll stick to the relevant words within the New Testament. The term “homosexual” wasn’t even used until 1868, so we can safely assume that this word was used to replace other words in Greek. The two words are malakos and arsenokoitai, both of which that have different translations than most think. Malakos literally translates to the word “soft,” which I know what you are thinking, Gay equals soft. However in the Greek text it actually refers to being passive when there is an injustice being done in front of you.

Arsenokoitai translates to “man-bed,” again not exactly what you think it means, in the Greek text it actually refers to exploitive sexual nature (and not homosexual sex).

In terms of medical perspective, both American Psychology Association and World Health Organization agree that homosexuality is natural. Not to mention the fact that the APA deemed reparative, or conversion of sexuality, to be mentally destructive and most often than not, lead to suicide.

I am not suggesting you take my word for it, do your own research. However, there is something that does not need research. The concept of love and acceptance is one message that cannot be overlooked.

The words “counter-cultural” gets tossed around often within Christian circles. Yet, here we stand doing exactly what we’ve been preaching against. The bigotry has been exposed, its time for us to finally take an embracive action rather than the oppressive one.