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FORGIVENESS, HOMOSEXUALS AND MANNY PACQUIAO


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?To err is human, to forgive is divine.? (Alexander Pope)

At a tender age of fourteen, I got nearly raped, if it was not rape at all, by an adult homosexual in a teenage overnight party with my friends. Since then, I developed a homophobia for over fifteen years. I couldn?t even pee in a public men?s rest room during that period, except in cubicles where I could lock the door.

I have reasons to hate homosexuals, but I refuse. Hatred or love is a choice. God chose to love and save us despite the countless hateful things we have done and continue to do. I detested gays before as a teenager, though from the time Christ came into my heart and cleansed me by His redeeming blood, I learned to forgive and chose to love and have compassion for them.

Manny Pacquiao wanted to share some Biblical dogma about homosexuality in a television interview. He is opposed to same-sex marriage and rightly so. But, oddly, the ?holy sector? makes a gigantic issue out of the gay couples desiring to get married while untold normal couples in the country and around the world have long been living together outside of marriage. Which is more sinful or damnable?

Pacman got into trouble for correctly standing his ground on the matter. He isn?t condemning gays or LGBT, but merely being taken out of context and unfairly being accused of many things due to his carelessness. He was candid in telling the truth that the Lord abhors the sin or the act of same-sex mating. Too bad, however, that he did not only compare gays with animals, he in effect, branded them to be ?worse than animals.? God despises the sin of sexual perversion, but I believe He loves gays and lesbians in greater measure than the religious, self-righteous modern-day Pharisees. Jesus Christ came and died for human beings, not animals.

But don?t wait till Heaven?s grace is no more.

The reaction is exaggerated. Pacquiao has sincerely apologized for his figure of speech. But why do people still nail him down? Will anyone have to be bothered by criticisms if he?s on solid ground?

Adhering to morals, Christian tenets or God?s standards isn?t bigotry; loving sin and condemning Pacquiao for his convictions on same-sex marriage is. Regardless of my traumatic experience, I can say, by no means should we discriminate or deprive LGBT of every legal right bestowed upon married couples if that?s what they want. But for all intents and purposes and for Calvary?s sake, they should never ever be allowed to marry (civil or church wedding), otherwise that would be tantamount to state-sanctioned abomination.

Why do we keep on pointing to ?model? countries which governments have no slight fear of God in the manner they enact laws? I am delighted that there remains Filipinos today in big numbers who can recognize light from darkness.

?I?d rather stand with God and be judged by the world than stand with the world and be judged by God.?

renimvalenzuela@yahoo.com


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