I am saddened and appalled in equal measure at the report of the suicide of a young man, Tyler Clementi.
A student at Rutgers, he was filmed having sex with another man and the media was streamed onto the internet. What appears to have been a freshman prank has gone much further and has resulted in a young man taking his own life.
Saddened - Because it is always sad when a life is lost needlessly and this was such a very short life. Saddened because this is one of many young homosexual people who have taken their own life in the US over the past month because of their sexuality. Saddened because others will see this (and the others) and like the Welsh suicides, may well choose to emulate them.
Appalled - Because the story has attracted the wicked 'pseudo-Christians' who are cheering at the death of another homosexual and when interviewed uttered disgusting and obviously non-Christian comments. It is time that Christians dealt with people like this and excluded them from the company of believers with the same passion they exhibit!
Galatians six (in case we forget it) tells us that when we see someone 'caught in sin' we who are 'spiritual' should 'restore them gently, taking care that we don't sin ourselves in making the correction'.
Simple isn't it? The homosexuality is a secondary issue here - what is in sharp focus is the way that people respond to it.
We need Christians to behave like Christ, not like the fascists that live within both the 'fundamental' and 'liberal' sections of the Church (and world).
2 comments:
Are you referring to the Tyler Clementi case? This was a tragedy on so many levels, but equally disgraceful is the bandwagon jump to blame the death on 'homophobia', when there is no evidence of this at all.
I am (got name right now!) and I have to agree that this appears to have nothing to do with homophobia but was rather some silly kids filming and placing the bloke on the internet.
been done before in both heterosexual and homosexual settings and it is generally regarded as funny, but rarely is.
Of course 'outing' takes place in any sexual choice and to make it more (insert your own word) because it was homosexual is to not understand the attitudes of parents to their offspring becoming sexual 9and possibly libertarian) beings.
Just another opportunity by some to scream 'homophobia' and for others to use the opportunity to be equally wicked (sadly).
thanks for the post,
V
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