Awhile back, there was an article on Blackbluedog.com about the public release of the Gay Bible, the Queen James version. Around that same time, more or less thereabouts, super-celeb Fantasia Barrino, a talent contest winner who went on to huge stardom, made a statement about gay being a sin.

Homosexuality has rubbed a sore spot in the Black community since forever; but some time in the 1970s, many Black people came to terms with the acceptance of homosexuality as something to overlook…look the other way and don’t speak on it, just don’t bring it here.

Extremes exist on all sides … those who say the Black community should simply accept it, and nod and smile at gay men and gay women adopting and raising “our” children. Then there is the extreme opposite: “There’s no way in hell a gay couple should be allowed to get away with adopting/adapting and raising our children, either gender.”

It’s all about love, right? I was raised in that generation that decided we should all “Live and let live.”

If everyone reconciled themselves to the fact that no one can control what anyone else does, it’s just as easy to tell Fantasia, “Honey, that’s a lot of talk coming from the mouth of a female who committed adultery with a married man, had two children with him, then turned around and got mad when he went back to the point of origin from whence you took him.”

Adultery is just as much a sin, Fantasia.

When you do wrong, you lose the ability to speak on the sins of others. Some might say it gives you “carte blanch” to speak on it because you have that experience, but it’s simply not a given to a person who knows that it takes more effort and conscientiousness to control impulses and urges than it does to let loose and toss it to the four winds.

For example, more recently Pastor Jamal Bryant was soundbited into media oblivion with his comments, “Those hoes ain’t loyal,” or words to that effect. Bryant’s words were taken out of context and called misogynistic, but for Bryant to say something about “disloyal hoes” wraps that finger-pointing right back around to himself. He ain’t one to talk. Period.

Like a person who says the word “ugly,” and it only makes people quickly size up and assess the one who is doing the talking.

One thing that makes it so hard for many Black people to speak out about the gay lifestyle is that they’ve done so much sinning themselves, they fear the topic…fear putting their own heads on the chopping block. To be sure, it’s not a comfortable topic for either extreme, so one has to find a middle ground because homosexuality isn’t going to go away, regardless. Not right this moment, anyway.

I’m not an expert on homosexuality, or even a Bible expert, but I am as entitled to my opinions and interpretations as anyone else that I can think of.

The fact of the matter is that calling out other people’s faults only brings your own into sharper and more clear focus.

A comment of that nature, “gay is a sin,” calls for some definitive introspection.

Sin is something I simply don’t do.

I never cheated during marriage, never murdered anyone (even the ones who would have deserved it if I had), never raped, molested, or intentionally set out to harm anyone (though some folks who harmed me got some well-deserved blowback that wasn’t funny when it happened to them, but they brought it on themselves).

I’ve never intended to steal anything, though I have forgetfully walked off with someone’s pen without thinking; never robbed or cheated anyone or any entity, but yes, I’ve lied to protect people even when I had to put myself on Front Street to do it. I’ve made myself a target to cover for my loved ones, some times they don’t even know about.

I’ve never been a drug addict, had four times in my life that I drank a little too much, tried weed once and hated the hell out it, can’t stand the smell of it to this day. I’ve never committed a crime, but did get blamed for a crime that was committed against me, more than once.

I’ve been the one who took in stray cats, dogs, even a bird with a busted wing who landed on the porch. I couldn’t get the animal rights people from the bird sanctuary to come pick it up and see if they could save it, so it eventually died after a day of refusing to drink a little bit of water. I’ve picked up stray people with children off the streets who were in the streets because THEY did wrong and got put out; but I couldn’t stand to see a woman and her children thrown away no matter who did what.

There is something about living a “perfected life” that transcends human error. I didn’t set out to obey the Ten Commandments necessarily, didn’t even know what they were for a long time–it’s just the way I’m hardwired.

When all you’ve lived is a perfected life, in spite of the flaws that come naturally with humanity, the right is retained to speak to a sin, what it is, and why it’s wrong.

Now comes the heart of the matter: I’ve never had a homosexual/lesbian relationship, never even experimented; but I’ve been “hit on” like that as a child and as a grown woman. Not interested.

However, I stay on my face and knees before the Lord consistently, and even when I’m not praying, the Lord God is speaking to me about the daily moments, pulling in the reigns where they need to be pulled (yes, I need to do a better job of watching my mouth, but considering I have no other bad habits, ahma have to let that one abide where it is for the time being).

Since I’ve not done any of those things that are intentionally ill-willed and hateful, or shameful, or what would be considered a “sin” according to the Bible (I admit I had to “hit” some folks back who hit at me first-nothing physical), all there is left to say is that Fantasia called it right.

Gay lifestyle/homosexuality is a sin, by the Bible and also by the scientific laws of nature.

The jury’s still out on “born gay,” but so far all evidence says that people are born either male or female (with less than 1% hermaphrodite). Everything else is a label and a crapshoot. If there was ever someone “born gay,” it would be a hermaphrodite.

There’s no point in backtracking over all of the scriptures that say homosexuality (or as we call it “gay”) is a sin; according to the Word of God, it’s an outright abomination in the sight of God. So if you happen not to believe in the Word of God, or have converted it into a “Queen James Version” (and there is some historical evidence that points to the sexual perversions of King James), then don’t worry about what the origins of life indicate, there’s nothing to discuss here.

Here is my signature phrase-word: Untwist.

People want to know if a person can be Christian and gay. The answer is “Yes.” If you buy into the Roman Catholic-tainted version of Christianity, that is.

I doubt that anyone is shocked at anything that comes out of Rome, the Papal Authority, the Holy See, or the Catholic church and its teachings these days. Most “Christian” churches in America, the Protestant ones at least, have deep and abiding ties that go back to Rome’s huge influence in America, Black churches notwithstanding. It is visible in the decor, the belief systems, the clothing, the symbolism, even in the Nicene Creed (the A.M.E. -African Methodist Episcopal- church I was raised in called it The Apostle’s Creed).

If you hark back to the original Hebrew people who came out of Jerusalemto preach the actual Gospel of Christ -before Rome’s influence- then the answer is “No.” You can’t be gay and Christian, and the Christian church did not start in Rome.

It started in a place called Antioch with some Black/Hebrew men who hailed from Canaan and Jerusalem and it was carried over to Rome and to Greece by the Apostle Paul and his constituents, men such as Barnabas, John Mark, and Silas.

With that in mind:

(1) The Apostle Paul, who is credited with founding the Catholic church (he carried the gospel of Christ, but Rome started the Catholic church based on Pauline teachings), was no ‘saint,’ but was accorded sainthood by Rome; (2) crosses are not symbolic of Christ because He circumvented death and is no longer hanging on a cross; (3) the “bones of the Lord” won’t be found on Earth because there are none to find (He was only dead for three days); and (4) it has become more than obvious that Rome and the Catholic church did not transfer the gospel ‘as given.’ There are probably quite a few more examples of the “taint” that was added to the Gospel along the way.

They added their own various sins (beliefs, if you prefer) that they did not want to part with on the way over to Christianity and their newly-found mandate to gospelize the world based on their own peculiar brand of Christianity. It became something, in their hands, that it did not begin as. Even the lie about slavery that was applied to Black people as inferior to white people was a social misconstruct in Europe’s hands. Slaves in the Bible and slaves the way Rome and Europeans in general misapplied it, were not the same thing. So, it stands to reason that if they could manage that kind of confusion, then relaying homosexuality must have been the easy part. It is well known that Rome didn’t have a problem with homosexuality as the Hebrews would have. [xref: The Seven Churches of Revelation.]

The True Gospel of Christ, without that Roman taint, did not allow room for these European influences about the Gospel or about the creation of God, or even about godliness or what it meant to be created “in His image.”

Fantasia is right, but one of the reasons this gets sticky with Black people is because too many of us want to sin and cover it up, then frame it with excuses when caught.

That only serves to legitimize homosexuality, Fantasia and Pastor Jamal; and adultery, Pastor Jamal and Fantasia, i.e., “See, I may be wrong, but he or she is even wronger than me.”

Really? Either you stand for something, or you fall for anything — “no” and “not” do not leave a whole lot of room for misinterpretation.

Choose, and then live accordingly.

You may not be responsible for the choices of others, but as a True Christian of Hebrew and righteous origins and not Roman failures and influence, you have a responsibility not to let others use you and your sins as an excuse to do the same (or worse).

REFERENCES

Psychological Wars:The Effeminization of the Black Male
by Irritated Genie www.waronthehorizon.com

Effeminization of the Black Male Part 1 – History of “Homosexuality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U29vgRadLh0

Effeminization of the Black Male Part 2 – The Politics of Black Homosexuals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2GS2wUhjnE

Effeminization of the Black Male Part 3 – The Militant white-sex
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIYgwd_z17A

Effeminization of the Black Male Part 4 – The Black Plan for International Black Power https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B88cmRI8N4