Sparks Fly As 'Gay" Activist Mob Swarms Christians, page 24

Let "god" deal with this when the time comes. hallelujah

A bit from my point of view. My mom is a very hard core christian. She moved into an apartment and holy mighty she had neighbors who were gay.

Personally, I never noticed a thing. I never noticed that they were gay, if I did I did not even spend a moment considering it, why? Because it is not an issue with me. (I spent a lot of time helping my mom as she is disabled and a senior citizen). Several times these young men asked if we needed any help and were very nice and polite, even took out mom's garbage for her to help us out while we were getting her moved in. My mom thought they were the nicest gentlemen, she was so pleased to have such polite neighbors.

So, after several weeks my mom said to me "I think those two boys living next door are gay". I raised my eyebrows and said "so, they seem nice enough and obviously have not caused any problems, whats your point?." "They're gay" she said looking all angry and righteous.

Over the next several months, whenever I would visit her, was about those "nasty homosexuals who are going to hell and how often they have sex".

She just could not get over it, ran it over and over in her mind and caused it to interfere with her life. She did this, not the young men living next door. They lived their life, and she interfered. Every time she had a chance she would say mean things about these young men to anyone who happened to be around, even children. Using the excuse that she had to let those children know that being gay was a sin. If she was lucky enough at least one of these men would be within hearing distance.

She would spend hours praying for them to be saved from their evil ways while glaring out her window towards their apt.

I asked, what have they done to you? Have they been rude? mean? cruel? walked around holding hands? had sex with each other while you were watching? Interfered with your life in any way? "Well NO" she said, "But I did hear their tv on and they were laughing a lot, they MUST have been having "sex."

??? I asked "how do you know they were having sex? Did you hear them having sex?" "NO, but I just know that is what they were doing."

"How do you know that?" I asked her. "BECAUSE" she said.

I rolled my eyes, thinking yeah, people in love do like to have sex sometimes.

So, another visit with my mom. "Those nasty homos are having sex again, they keep on having sex, can't you hear them they are shaking the whole building. Do something about it!" no hello or anything. (good god I thought, I have never known ANYONE to have as much sex as these guys were supposed to be having. I do admit to a moment of jealousy that they could have so much sex without having a heart attack and while working full time jobs and going to university, and I wondered when they slept.)

So, with a sigh I go next door so I can see this homo sex taking place. You wanna know what they were doing? I am going to tell you all about their homo sex. Ready?

They had one of those dance games for like the play station, and they had several people, men and women playing this game, dancing, laughing fully clothed and having this huge orgy of dance machine laughter. No drugs, no alcohol. Gasp!! They even asked me while laughing if I wanted to JOIN them and would I like a soda pop? HOW RUDE!! (sarcasm for those who don't get it)

So I go back and try to explain to my mom what was taking place, and she just would not believe me, as she had it in her head that if she heard something coming from their apartment it had to be homo sex, and if she heard nothing coming from their apartment....homo sex.

I tried to get her to come see what they were doing, and she really freaked out "I DON"T WANNA SEE HOMO SEX!" I yelled back "YOU WON'T SEE HOMO SEX, THEY ARE DANCING ON THE SAME TOY MY KIDS HAVE, ARE YOU TELLING ME MY KIDS ARE HAVING HOMO SEX WHEN THEY USE THIS DANCE MACHINE?" I then told her they offered me a soda pop, and asked her if that was homo sex also, to which she glared at me.

See, it had nothing to do with what these people were "actually" doing, it had to do with her over active religious imagination. How her imagination equated this gay couple being "in her face".

So, on and on this went for several months, she made so many complaints about these young men that they ended up moving, after having done NOTHING wrong.

My point with this rambling being, these young men were minding their own business, actually they were helpful, and when my christian mom found out they were gay, she caused enough of a stir they chose to move rather than continue to deal with her.

So, who was being "in your face" in this situation?

THIS is how homosexuality is turned into being an "in your face" situation. Religious zealots can't seem to stop thinking about it. I know my mom was stressed and I worried she was going to give herself a heart attack, but it sure had nothing to do with how these young men were acting, it had to do with her own imagination, it had to do with her reactions, thinking, and judgment.

IMO this has nothing to do with homosexuality interfering in the lives of religious persons or heterosexuals or how they choose to live their lives, but that religious persons just can't stop chewing on it. Like a starving dog with a bone.

My mom would never vote for same sex marriages, because she believes it is a sin, end of story. She does not care about equal rights and never will, because all she cares about in the end, is that in her opinion homosexuality is a sin. She uses the same excuses for not voting for same sex marriages as all the other religious fanatics, but when you get down to the nitty gritty, the true reason is her judgment that homosexuality is a sin.

My mom (if living in this area) would most likely have been one of those christians praying for the souls of the homosexuals in a place they should not have been doing so, and just not understanding how her actions could be wrong, because ALL she would be doing was trying to HELP those sinners, and how could helping someone be wrong?

My opinion, those christians were wrong, and would have reacted angrily if the gay community had been praying on their doorstep.

Get over it, move on, stop making it the focal point of your life, and it won't bother you any more, quit chewing it like a starving dog with a bone. If you find you can't stop "chewing on it" maybe you should be praying for yourself.