November 8, 2013

Creating Problems








Tobias Stanislas Haller BSG


JCF said...

^This. A BILLION times this!

For every anti-gay Christian---AND for every anti-Christian (Gospel) LGBT person---I wish (and pray) they could UNDERSTAND this.

Tobias Stanislas Haller BSG said...

Thanks, JCF.

June Butler said...

Your post reminds me of my encounter with a candidate for bishop of the Diocese of Louisiana who wrote in his biography of "...appropriate pastoral care for persons who experience themselves as gay, lesbian, bi-sexual or transgender...." At the walkabout I had a chance to ask the candidate a question, and I read his words back to to him and said, "This seems an odd way to phrase the statement. It implies that the persons may not really BE gay. Why not say 'persons who ARE gay, lesbian...'?"

The man shook his head and said, "The science is not clear."

I asked, "Well then, is it that I only experience myself as heterosexual, rather than that I AM heterosexual?" I heard laughter in the room, and the candidate did not answer my question. I did not press further for an answer, because I thought I'd made my point.

Tobias Stanislas Haller BSG said...

Thanks, Mimi. People like that candidate are about at the level of those who think that foreign languages aren't really quite real, and that if you only speak slowly and add the odd vowel at the end of an English word, those furriners will understand you perfectly. These kinds of views stem from the same utter lack of ability to understand others as different from themselves, really different at as deep a level as their own being, not just "acting" different.