August 30, 2012

  • And apparently if I get that chicken at Chick-Fil-A, I'm automatically classified as a supporter for what Chick-Fil-A supports.  Um, no. Sometimes it's just about eating chicken.  What the organization itself decides to support is not my concern.  My money, once paid to them--or any other place for that matter--is no longer mine, and places will do with it as they see fit.  I can't go through life making my decisions based on what the other guy is doing.  I don't care.  If someone is free enough to thrash someone else's freedom to choose what they want to support, then why should I be any different?  That's what makes the whole fiasco about Chick-Fil-A so....wasteful.  Why do people, gay or straight, care?

    Now coincidentally, I do not support homosexuality, nor do I praise the life of a gay person.  One must conclude that I therefore do not support gay marriage, which is why they'd think I'd have no problem "supporting" Chick-Fil-A.  Yeah.  No, I'm afraid it's still about the chicken.  But anyway, it's not something I blatantly share with people, because apparently, it makes me a hateful person to stand by what I personally believe in.  And then those people themselves become hateful.  Ironic, isn't it?  The gay movement demands equality and acceptance, yet many of them do not want to accept someone else's reluctance or choice to not support it.  Now true, there are too many examples of hateful people who go out of their way to express that hate, but I'm simply not one of them.

    I myself am not hateful. I've met plenty of gay people in my life and have been fond of almost all of them. There are some great, great people out there who are gay.  That orientation doesn't make the person horrible.  It's rare to hear me express my thoughts about homosexuality to them, however, since folks who don't believe in God usually won't understand Him or care what He has to say.  Why would they?  But that doesn't change the fact that homosexuality is a sin.  Sometimes it's not even that.  It's a demonic spirit running rampant in the lives of people, even when they're not aware, even when they don't want it. It's why people are "born" with homosexual tendencies, why people feel that it is never a choice to be gay.  Part of me agrees with that.  Does that mean it should be accepted, embraced, loved?  No. It's something to be delivered and saved from.  If one so chooses to be.

    So it's not about what I'm supporting or what I'm not supporting.  It's simply about what is and what isn't.  And nothing will change the fact that sexual acts with the same sex is not something to be paraded and proud of.  It is not God's design, and one's belief in God makes no difference to what His design is meant to be.  I believe in God and I believe in His word, the Bible.  I am by no means declaring my perfection, since that couldn't be further from the truth.  I am not even declaring that I am right.  All that is right is God above, and any righteousness that I have is because of Him, not me.  I am not afraid of homosexuals, nor do I hate, ridicule, or taunt them.  As far as I'm concerned, they're still people in need of the Lord, just like every other person in existence.  I simply do not condone homosexuality, much like I don't condone cigarettes, or drunkenness, or foul language, etc.  So to be called "homophobic" is actually a ridiculous label for someone such as myself, and rather disrespectful to me as a person.

    In the end, I don't care about Chick-Fil-A's affiliations.  So they support organizations that don't support gay marriage.  Okay?  And?  If they were supporting gay marriage, I STILL wouldn't care.

    Seriously.  I just want some chicken.