The New Road

Discriminating against god

We watched Door to Door last night. William H. Macy played a door to door salesman with cerebral palsy. Definitely a good movie. One of the people on his route was a gay man and his lover. At one point his is dropping off some house goods with them. He has his assistant along for the ride. As they are leaving he comments that they are good together, and his assistant is shocked and says that it isn't right with the Lord. William H. Macy's character then replies that god made everyone in his image and he doesn't make mistakes.

I liked that argument a lot and I wondered why it isn't used more. I then reminded myself that one of the big arguing points around gay rights is whether someone is born gay, or becomes gay. The argument always seemed pointless until now. If everyone acknowledged that people were born gay then they would fall into, 'God created man in his own image.'

'God created man in his own image' has to be a tough one for Christian bigots. You have only three ways to scoot around it and find a way to believe that God doesn't like the same people they don't like. You can say that someone isn't a man because they are a woman. You can say that someone isn't a man because they are sub-human. Or you can say that some is disqualified because of what they have done since they were born. Such are the issues with attempting to interpret the bible literally. The Christian version of trying to define what 'is is'.

For my part, I don't think Jesus would mince words. There is no justifying hatred and bigotry. There is no justification for the words of preachers who believe that the Tsunami is God's wrath on the heathen. That's just hate and bigotry, plain and simple.