WRITTEN: August 25th 2011

Such a big thing right now…
Everywhere you turn Christian or not someone is talking about “gay rights.” As I struggle with the traditionalism I was raised with I try to push through for the sake of my much needed spiritual growth.
Please don’t get me wrong or misrepresent what I’m saying here. To me spiritual growth is NOT a nice way to say spiritual ignorance 😉
Got it?
Then we shall move on with the blog….
Looking at Webster’s definition on affirming my traditional programmed way of thinking immediately I would have to say there is NO WAY I am “gay affirming” but before you delete my Facebook friendship and stop reading this blog, wait a second and allow me to explain.
To validate, or state as a fact, or to..ahem…affirm Gay’s is not my problem. Simply because I look at EVERYONE as having a right to be at the feet of Jesus, period.
I’m not a Biblical Scholar or even a Biblical Theologian, and I may not have memorized the entire book of Psalms, however I DO know from where I have come and that is just some loser whore who had three baby daddy’s to my 4 kids who fell right at the feet of someone who PROMISED to love ME without any condition.
My relationship with Jesus is a no strings attached kind of commitment.
I don’t know if I can “declare my support” for gay Pastor’s, Clergy ect I honestly just DON’T KNOW HOW I feel about that yet.
Or even gay marriage…
I don’t know! Not even 50 years ago bi-racial couples were not looked upon as “acceptable.” Or 40 years ago women behind the Pulpit was deemed blasphemous and unheard of.
But what I DO know is God is God and I’m not. It’s not MY job or anyone else to say who is getting into Heaven or not…Are there consequences for sin? OF COURSE, but we ALL fall short of the Glory of God (Romans 3:23) Not a few of us, not some, ALL of us. 
Do I think homosexuality is a sin…perhaps. Do I think it will keep one out of Heaven…No way. 
If that were the case, NONE of us would EVER see the face of Jesus. Climb up out of Daddy’s throne for a second and THINK about it. Ponder on weather or not you have the balls to pick up those stones and start aiming at gay affirming spiritual family.  For your sake I hope you ponder hard before Jesus calls you out on the carpet about your sin. 
Look, I admit I’m not standing on the bandwagon of Jay Bakker’s opinion on the gay and lesbian community, but I am sitting on the bumper of the wagon with my feet dangling back and forth. 
People are waaay to angry about this and they need to chill out. The Conservative Christians are screaming hell, fire and brimstone while the liberal Christian is screaming you HAVE to be this way and ALL OF US AS A BODY are losing FOCUS of what we were called and told to do in the first place. 
Do ANY of you even remember?
Gay affirming 
or not.
Do you remember what WE, as The Body of Christ were called and told to do? 
Allow this poor, white trash, forgotten whore to remind you 😉  
“And He said unto them,
GO YE INTO ALL THE WORLD, AND PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE. He that believeth and is baptized SHALL BE SAVED; but he that believeth NOT shall be damned.” (Mark 16:15-16)
The GOSPEL by the way isn’t a “let me tell you how to be” Testimonial of God either. It’s a Hear me…Jesus loves YOU…
And your job at that point is DONE. God doesn’t need you to be His hero, only His example.
Besides, His is waaaaaaaay better than ours any day 😉
You disagree?
When was the last time you washed the feet of the person who betrayed you the most?
“Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, of a truth I perceive that God is NO respecter of persons: But in every Nation he that feareth Him, and working righteousness, IS ACCEPTED WITH HIM.” (Acts 10:34-35) What IS righteousness? To be without shame? Guilt? Sin? 
I hate to burst your homophobic bubble but NONE of us will EVER have ANY of those thing’s until we get Home. 
I was raised Southern Baptist so allow me to say this: “IN CLOSING….” lol Sorry, it was getting tense for you I know, so I wanted to help relieve some of your pressure. Seriously though, I was at Kroger with my 9yr old son. We were walking towards the cereal when two men were coming from the same aisle. Turning the corner we nearly ran into them. 
They were holding hands. 
 We all said “sorry, excuse me…”
They passed as we walked on and Ezra said: “Mommy, why were they holding hands?” At first I lied and said that I didn’t know but I felt like an ass so I stopped right in the aisle and said “Well Ezra, why am I holding your hand baby?” He looked up at me,
smiled so innocently and said with the utter most confidence: “Because you love me…” 

Let God be God my family…and we’ll stick to just loving one another,
CHERyL~