FIRST: This is going WAAAAAY back but I have to get it off my chest. The Chick-filet scandal. I don't eat at CF. I never have. A few years ago I had read an interview where it whas mentioned that CF didn't like gay people. I chose not to spend my money on a place that is so open about a bigotry. No big deal. I didn't protest, I just didn't give them money.
Now, the CEO announces to the world that he donates a large amount of money to stop the legalization of Gay Marriages. The interent lights up! WhoooooHoo. The Gay and Lesbian crowd protest outside the stores, the "family" groups supports it by spending thousands of dollars to buy and consume Chicken sandwiches all the while proclaiming it is "Freedom of Speech." It was crazy and the hubaloo has died down..thank goodness.
My question to all those who said it was free speech and he was allowed to do what he wanted with his money, and he is a good Christian is this: What if, and I mean what if, the CEO of a place that you love to do business in decided to give money to, let's say, Planned Parenthood, or just to make it really juicy, pro-abortion clinics? Would you still do business there? Would you maybe, protest? I find that people believe in Free Speech as long as it agrees with what they think.
It is time to stop hatred in it's tracks. Gay people aren't bad. Family isn't bad. Free speech isn't bad, but it costs. I can say ANYTHING that I want, but I must be prepared for the consequences. If I truly believe that what I am saying is right, no amount of protesting is going to stop me. I tell my son that one voice of reason is better that a thousand screaming in confusion. I don't know what God's plan is. I can't know. I only know without a doubt, that he gave me parents to teach, a brain to learn, and a heart to know what is right. I am not a bad Mormon because I believe that marriage is just a silly word. It's the bond that is formed that makes it all worth while. I don't believe that a same sex couple is going to be the demise of all that is Holy. I believe the way we behave towards those same sex couples is what decides.Good and bad, evil and righteousness, it is alllllll in your heart.All of it. The people who stand and say that anyone who supports a same sex couple are not Christians is just as bad as the evil they are fighting. You and I are not judges of other people and what they believe. You may think that yours is the only way to Heaven, while other believe differently.
I have been given the responsibilty to teach my beautiful son the path to God. I tak it more seriously than most people give me credit for. I pray that I do right by God, but more importantly I pray that I do right by my son. It's his life that he has to live. His choices. I want him to go into life KNOWING what he believes. I want him to KNOW that he will have to work and be with people who don't agree with him. Do I tell him to cave in, because it's safe, or do I tell him, he can fight..but not with words, but with action, with love, with understanding. Do I help him open his mind, or do I close it to anything I believe is wrong? These are things that I think about!
