Allow me to offer my opinion on the issue that has once again become a heated topic on talk shows and in newspapers across the Cayman Islands: homosexuality and gay cruise ships.
I listened recently to a particular call in programme on radio with disgust as people bashed other people and were very unChrist like.
I’m not saying that I’m against people expressing how they truly feel and saying what’s on their minds. This is good and I encourage more of it.
As a matter of fact, I would like to see and hear more Caymanians, residents and expats expressing their opinions.
Caymanians are very God-fearing and many self-righteous. But how many of us really know the man called Jesus Christ? Many don’t!
Some go to church every Sunday morning and Sunday night, they never miss midweek prayer meeting and they’re always on time for Bible study, yet they’ve never encountered the Messiah, Jesus Christ.
In their pathetic minds they think that they’re totally correct and morally superior, yet so far away from the teachings of Christ Jesus.
I believe to be a Christian, one must be a follower of Jesus Christ; one must be Christ-like. I am convinced that if Jesus walked the Earth today people would still crucify him.
If Jesus walked on the streets of George Town today, my people would holler ‘crucify him, crucify him.’
Jesus was despised because he hung out with drunkards and alcoholics, because he spoke to prostitutes, because he forgave the woman caught in adultery, because he associated with tax collectors; the list continues.
Christ came to Earth to save sinners. That was his mission. Jesus was a man full of compassion; we are all called to be the same. Is your neighbour a drug dealer, an alcoholic, a murderer, a harlot or an adulterer? As a Christian, not only should you remember them in prayer, you should also have compassion toward them. You should love them as our Lord loved them. That same goes for the homosexual that lives next door to you. What would Jesus do?
Is homosexuality wrong? The Church says yes and the Bible speaks against it. But does that make it go away?
What about born again Christians who have homosexual tendencies? What about the woman who is married to a good Christian man and together they have three fine children, yet she has a deep dark secret: deep down she fantasizes with being with another woman.
What makes a man or woman homosexual? The act of having sex with someone of the same gender or having thoughts, fantasies and tendencies that are homosexual in nature.
I believe that there are many homosexuals in the Cayman society (Jewish, Christian, Muslim and Hindu) who are leading the heterosexual lifestyle.
Then of course, you also have the bisexual.
Everyone has temptations, but how many of us resist temptation through the power of almighty God?
I totally disagree with popular psychology that says ‘you were born that way, so life the life.’
There was a time I also believed pop psychology as I studied it while in college. I used to think ‘let every man or woman live their life,’ ‘different strokes for different folks.’
But as I have studied the Bible and listened to the messages coming form Church, my way of thinking has changed, but not my attitude toward these people. I try to respect everyone and love everyone as Christ did.
However, I am totally against Christians and pastors being hostile and unChrist-like to gay people. What hypocrisy.
Yes, go ahead and say how you feel, quote the Bible, but for Heaven’s sake, please, please do so in love! How are you supposed to witness to these people and bring them to the Lord when you are so hateful in your approach?
To the homosexuals – you are coming across as being hateful and hostile.
As church members you say it is wrong to be homosexual, yet your son is having sex with his girlfriend. Are you saying that because they’re having sex in the heterosexual direction that it’s OK?
In God’s eyes sin is sin. Your daughter should not be having sex with her boyfriend because this is premarital sex and it is wrong.
As for the gay cruise ship, I say let them come. They will come, spend some money and then get back on their ship and be on their jolly way. What message are we sending; that Cayman is only for straight people?
I don’t want to hear arguments about our young people and children being corrupted by seeing these people kissing and holding hands. Our children are watching TV programmes such as Queer as Folk and The L Word. If government bans gay cruise ships, then perhaps they need to consider banning television programmes.
Quincy Brown
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