I have always tried to be a person who respects the views of others. I may not agree with them, but I believe in and support the right to have views, even if they are contrary to my own. None of us will agree on everything. However, in the same stride, I also reserve the right to stand up and speak against things that I believe are incorrect or inherently evil.
This, unfortunately, is one of them.
Of all the things in this life, the two most special to me is my religion and my family. I love them both more than life itself. That specifically holds true to my beliefs in Jesus the Christ and his dying sacrifice for my sins and the sins of the world.
There are a fair measure of people who don’t believe in Jesus. That’s fine. There are people who hate Jesus. That’s their right as well. There are even those who simply see the Savior of Mankind as a meal ticket. That’s their choice.
However, it seems this world is aggressively bent on degrading and demoralizing anything and everything which is good to satisfy an inner burning to justify their own lusts, sins and abominations. I am speaking of an email I got from a young friend of mine who was very concerned about a play which has been around since 1997: Corpus Christi — a modern day retelling of the story of Jesus’ birth, ministry, and death in which both he and his disciples are portrayed as homosexual. Now he tells me there are people working to have this made into a film, to be shown here in America this year.
Just the thought of the Son of God, being mocked in such a vile way turns my stomach and my anger swells to defend that which is divine and most holy: My Savior.
Is this something we want our families to hear about? Is this something we want to have in our neighborhoods and talked about among our youth as our local theaters show extreme sacrilege, corrupting the minds and souls of whats left of a decent community?!
Here are my personal feelings on the matter: I am wholly and entirely against Homosexuality. In it’s every form and implication. It is a sin and abomination against God and any good, decent society where wholesome thoughts and feelings dwell. I do however believe in someone’s right to live as they choose, so long as they do not force themselves upon others.
‘Oh,’ says one, ‘you can always choose not to see the film.’
You’re right, I can choose to stay home and not watch your film.
I can wait as you bring your filthy thoughts, filthy beliefs and abominable lifestyles and plant yourselves around me and my community and my very home. I can wait until you have infested and corrupted the school systems and force your anti-family sexual sins as a ‘required’ alternative lifestyle choice, against my wishes, against my teachings, against all I believe in and teach my own children. I can wait for you to infiltrate the churches and the workplace with your innuendos, claiming your ‘rights’ to speak as you will and with no shame as to your public conduct, again, in front of the innocent eyes and hearts of my children. I can choose not to see your film and stay at home, but we both know you have no intention of ever staying at home yourself or allowing me the peace to walk and talk in quiet freedom of my own beliefs. Yes, I can choose to stay at home.
But for the first time, I choose not to.
No. This is my home, my community and my life. I choose to stand and speak against your your corruption, holding my Bible as a guide and as a standard. I’m not interested in your ‘rights’ once they have forced my own beliefs to take a seat in the shadows. I am not interested in your way of life or how it promotes death and decay, without ability to procreate or sustain a family organization as God intended. I am not interested in sitting idly by as you twist and tempt good, innocent children into believing their loving Father in Heaven actually created them to be at odds with his plan of happiness in living within the framework of His morality.
You may ‘know your brother’, but I do not want to know you.
This has gone on long enough. I ask all good, decent people to make your stand. To choose what is right, because it is right and not because it is politically correct. If something is wrong, speak out. If your community is broken, fix it. Find others of like minds and band yourselves together and make a difference. As for me, I will talk with and boycott any film of this ilk that even hopes to come to my community.
What did others do when the play Corpus Christi opened?
When the play opened, the theatre was besieged by almost 2000 protesters, furious at what they considered blasphemy. When Corpus Christi opened in London, a British Muslim group called the Defenders of the Messenger Jesus even went so far as to issue a fatwa sentencing McNally to death. On January 19, 2008, Robert Forsyth, Anglican bishop of South Sydney condemned “Corpus Christi” (which opened for February’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, a play depicting Judas seducing Jesus): “It is deliberately, not innocently, offensive and they’re obviously having a laugh about it.”
You have an opportunity to side with God in these issues that surround you. You can no longer turn an idle eye, hoping not to be ‘involved’. For evil to win, a good man only needs do nothing. Stand up for what’s right and good and true.
…or you deserve your fate.
I have finally learned that evil has no limit.
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