For generations people who are not heterosexual have had to assess risk in coming out of the closet to live authentically in all areas of their lives. Should it matter whom you consensually love in the most intimate way? NO. And it has mattered. Because people have been killed; their lives have been threatened; their livelihood has been at risk; they face loss of significant relationships; they have been refused the opportunity to have a family. They live with the fear of being themselves, because being themselves could cause them harm.
I feel such deep gratitude to people like Ellen Degeneres, who chose to come out knowing that they risked losing everything, even their lives, as so many like Matthew Shepard did.
https://www.matthewshepard.org/about-us/our-story/
It is time that we are all able to live out. All people were created with the right to live freely. Individual beliefs lived out in individual lives is our God-given right, and He is quite able to be the individual’s guide. Our restrictive hands of fear are not needed and have no place in other people’s lives.
https://youtu.be/x_0E_SmIg3A – Life and Favour (John P. Kee)
NB: In the video below, in the example regarding Jesus and divorce, Jesus did not ask us to stay in places and situations that will harm us and/or our kiddos. Jesus otherwise tells us to know how to shake the dust off our feet, and He also tells us to reclaim our blessing when we are treated inhospitably. The point that I was trying to make is that not every cultural law or tradition that we accept is God’s ideal. Much of what we do is because of human selfishness and fear. This is our world’s reality.
https://www.facebook.com/Little.Jewels/videos/2196222053860723/?d=n
Of Thunderstorms and Rainbows 