A few days ago i saw the story that a Christian group in Las Vegas was coming under the fire for supposedly erecting the following billboards:
This has angered quite a few people including many of the Asian community, and has left others bemused as to why the organisation Truth Ministry would produce quite a prejudicial racial campaign. The truth of the matter however emerged a few days ago with a statement from the Truth Ministry saying that the billboards have been purposefully photo-shopped by a gay rights activist who is a member of that particular Christian church organisation. I found this today with the actual statement released:
To be honest it's quite amusing and has obviously worked in the activists favour. It's still quite hard to believe that in Las Vegas there are these sort of views present towards homosexual Christians and members of the church when there are large numbers of men and women of the church that are openly homosexual across the world, take for example our very own current Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams (aka Night Owl) is openly gay.
Although i can believe that in the case of America there are potentially more radical/strict Christian groups about that take the teachings and scriptures of God very seriously. By today's standards there should be at least an openness to these scriptures and what is meant by the words of God. Here in fact is an interview about a year ago with Dr Williams on his position when it comes to teaching the people and congregations and how he believes a civil partnership is more or less equal to a marital ceremony.
It should be common place for people to be able to accept the self choices of others and their sexual orientations. Religion should not be a choice as to whether you will be heterosexual or not and highlighting the Truth Ministry they should not cast to the many that being Heterosexual is preferable if you are a Christian (especially in the Nevada area).
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Note: i am not begrudging Christians of any sort by this post just because i was approached and interviewed by a member of the Christian Society at my university about Christianity where i told him i am fairly agnostic in belief and was met with the response of "There is no word about it, because you do not worship God and don't thoroughly abide by his teachings you are definitely going to Hell". Not something you really want to be met with a day before a vocal presentation but there you go.
The truth of the matter is even though i believe there is a God and i consider myself a follower of the Christian faith, I'm still sceptical and don't really want to worry or concern myself with devoutly following a religious faith at the moment. That sounds quite rash and prudent of me but that is my choice. Perhaps when i get older i may go to Church more often but as far as i know none of my family have ever really been concerned with going to worship. So if they're going 'down-under' then.. what the Hell (har-de-har-har), i may as well also.
*Jazz all around, Satan's playing that boogie jungle music on the rocks!*
Final note I'd however like to thank the guy from LSCU who asked for the interview for his survey, even if the summary of my afterlife was a pretty extreme statement to dish out to someone who is basically sitting on a 'religious fence'. But from it I've kept the arty condensed version of the bible given out which includes key passages from both testaments to which I'll try reading through all of it in the near future.
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