"We are One"
Laws on Love
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I support love wherever it may be found. Yet, it was not always so.
At one time I was ignorant. Brothers could love, as I did. But I believed it was wrong for men to love one another as lovers do. I judged them, and condemned them. But, I did not understand that it was love I was condemning. No, instead I made a decision that men who loved men chose to be lovers as the manifestation of a perversion. It was a choice they made.
I could not see that gay men were living their reality, rather than making it up. Thus, it was easy to condemn them for their "lifestyle choice." It never occurred to me to question that judgment - to be open to the possibility that what gay men feel for one another is true love, that their hearts and their minds inform their attractions, that they are born that way, just as other men are not.
One day I had to become honest with myself, to question, as Paul Simon sings, "all that I once held as true." It was the day my life changed, for I became open, honest and willing. I discovered that my previous "truths" were not true at all, but what I made myself believe in order to defend a choice that I had made. I made a choice to believe that the Bible was the unerring and literal word of God, even though such an interpretation would in some circumstances offend the most basic of Christian tenets: "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you . . . ." John 13:34, New American Standard Bible (©1995). I cannot both love another and regard him as an abomination that should be put to death at the same time. I must make a choice.
I choose to love. I know that it is the right choice, the right truth, because it has set me free. "You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free." John 8:32, New American Standard Bible (©1995). Today, because I am open to the truth that gay men love one another as the natural object of their innate affections, I can love them freely, without moral reservations. Because I am willing to accept that in order to deeply and honestly love and be loved some people enter same sex relations, I know that because love represents the highest evolution of our species that laws to the contrary are ultimately doomed to fail whether they be secular or religious in nature.
I believe that God, Jesus, and all the saints love all people. Love is the connection in which God engages us all. I think God wants that connection between you and I, and all people. It is the fundamental link from person-to-person, and between all humanity. And, at its core, it is God, for, as some people have said: "God is love." 1 John 4:8, Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.®
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Comment by Marsha M. Marsha on October 5, 2012 at 3:45pm -
I love this blog.
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Comment by Roberta Zenker on October 5, 2012 at 4:01pm -
Thanks Marsha. It is an inevitable conclusion once we are honest, open and willing to believe something other than what we have been told.
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Comment by Caroline Grace on October 5, 2012 at 7:46pm
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In defining who we are - we must be careful not to turn "what we are not" into something someone else "should not be".
Love should always be the way... and while we need not be on the same path as others, those who live with love in their hearts should always have our respect.
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Comment by HELEN BRADY on October 6, 2012 at 5:10pm -
A lovely lovely post Roberta. That is why I call the "Christians" who condemn people Levites, because that is what they are. They ignore everything you cited above and are not real Christians. They are the reason that so many of us have completely divorced ourselves from any organized religion (Wicca isn't organized, you are your own Priestess).
I will take love whereever I find out, from male or female, gay or straight, guess that makes me bi, but I consider myself basically lesbian, and even told my kids so. I don't love it that my relationships at present are all platonic ones. I need love and affection shown to me, not just in words.
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Comment by Erin Detty on October 6, 2012 at 8:46pm -
It really doesn't matter who we are or who they are, love is love and that is a wonderful feeling for any two people to share. We all feel the need to be loved in some way:)
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Comment by Galina Edwards on October 6, 2012 at 9:37pm -
Well Said and interpreted.
Hugs, Galina
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Comment by Rachel King on October 6, 2012 at 10:07pm -
So why must it take discovering ones trans-ness to find love and compassion for others.
The one thing I hate about the godsquad is that they preach love and are the most intolerant of peoples.
This is not a down on you Roberta, more a down on the whole system where religion dominates a society .
It's always bemused me how the Bible can be twisted into what the reader chooses to see in it.
It is man's word set out to control and it sure does a good job.
The Koran is used in exactly the same way and look at the havoc the minority wreak on this World.
Lets hope you have success in changing some attitudes around you, that intolerance will no longer be accepted by this society.
We as a minority can make a difference and you are.
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Comment by Roberta Zenker on October 6, 2012 at 11:38pm
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Good comments all, and thank you. Please check out my website where I blog regularly - would love to hear your comments.
http://transmontanathebook.com/
Bobbie
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