by Jean 19 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
Jean sadly you will never be accepted by JWs.
The more time that goes by the worse it will be. the anti-gay talk amps up year after year.
As people find out about you they will shun you anyway.
GET OUT - LOVE WHO YOU WANT - LIVE YOUR LIFE!
As lin manuel miranda said: Love is Love is Love is Love is Love is LOVE!!
Be yourself and be happy!
Great comment, ttdtt.
Don't allow the JWs to sell you the mind-f*ck of believing that by pursuing your own happiness is somehow a rejection of them. They're the ones who choose intolerance and conditional acceptance over accepting a person for who they are.
I wonder how they'd respond to the thought that some scholars believe Jesus was gay?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2012/apr/20/was-jesus-gay-probably
There are other scholars who believe that David's relationship with Jonathan was homosexual, even though he married women and had children with them. Maybe he was bisexual, or was gay but needed a 'cover story' in order to protect his kingship. Given that he was God's Chosen One™, you'd think that if God objected to his relationship with Jonathan, he would have picked someone else - the same goes with Jesus.
Just some food for thought. YMMV
Too bad you already admitted to being gay. Homosexuality wasn't unheard of in my congregation, but it was impossible to prove unless one of the participants felt guilty enough to repent before the elders.
In my experience, most people believe what they want to believe. Your mother wants to believe you are straight, so convince her your homosexuality was just a phase or demonic possession or whatever. Then you can find someone inside (or possibly outside) your congregation to have sex with.
It won't be hard. And if you are a teenage boy, you could easily find even straight boys to have sex with you. The GB's prohibition on teenage dating ensures that just about every young male in any given congregation is bi-curious and willing to experiment.
Have fun.
Thanks Blondie.
I am so ashamed about how I felt about LGTB people years ago.
Homosexual relations occur with a 10% frequency in most mammal populations, oppression (or in the JW case "suppresion") of such relationships, however, is only found in one of them. So which of those two things is actually an "unnatural perversion?" To me the answer seems pretty clear.
(I'm personally attracted to women, but don't care about what their original gender may have been.)
I met my first gay person at work when I was 18...she liked me, but I'm not gay. We did hang out together, movies, but I felt she needed to find a real chance at the kind of relationship she was looking for I introduced her to a group I knew of learning how to live in this world as a gay person. She found someone and invited me to their wedding last year....
I worked in law enforcement for a while and met transgender people (a problem in jails, men or women, usually in a cell by themselves, for their protection mostly.
While not part of the group, I know what it is like to be different from the crowd. Coming from a background of abuse, sexual, etc., it took me a while to figure myself out.
Friendship does not need a basis in sexual activity to be a good friendship.
Blondie, lovely sentiments - I can see why she would have invited you to her wedding.
