WHO WE ARE THIRTY-FOUR

I, Matthew Lucas Beckett, am a Homosexual. I am Gay. There are those in the Homophobic Community who say that I should be put to death and will face eternal damnation simply for saying that. They claim that THE BIBLE is full of passages that back them up on this. But, I quickly add, I am abstinent. So what? They ask. So, I reply, all of the six or seven passages in Scripture that discuss that matter only refer to actual sexual acts, none of them say that just being attracted to members of ones own gender is in and of itself a damnable sin. So, if I am an abstinent Homosexual, how am I any different than an abstinent Heterosexual? The answer, of course, is that I no different. There are also those that say that it is a Sexual Preference, rather than a Sexual Orientation, that it is a choice. Those people I would ask why, particularly someone born into a Homophobic Congregation and or Community would CHOOSE to be Gay? The answer, obviously, is that they would not. So, therefore, we are what we are or at lest become what we were meant to become, and it is NOT a choice or in any way something that we can control. Which, of course, leads to the obvious question, if it is how some of us are made that brings this about, immediately with Sexual Maturity or over time with the same, are those that say being Gay alone is in and of itself evil saying that GOD created something Evil, or are they attributing Creative Powers to The Destroyer aka Satan? Just some things Homophobes might want to think about before they go spouting their message of Hate in the name of The GOD OF LOVE.