thinking on things - part 2

Several years ago, the paper featured an article about a semi-local man who believed he was actually a woman - mistakenly placed in a man's body. I have always been a very sensitive person - perhaps even overly sensitive. I was scared at night way past when I should have been, and reading nasty things in the paper before bed sent me straight into my sister's room for the night. Reading this article was no exception. It creeped me out.

Several weeks later, we were in a Goodwill store, perusing the clothes. I looked up, and a couple of rows over was a person who was tall and broad shouldered, wearing a dress, and sporting long hair and makeup. I knew instantly it was the person I had read about in the paper. A weird feeling came over me, and I could not wait to get out of that store.

I mentioned in my last post that I had run across the blogger profile of a gay man. A couple of days later I watched a video where a gay man talked about why he left the army - he was being harrassed and ridiculed because of his transgender-ism.

This peculiarity seems to be popping up all over the place, so I have begun to think on it more. How do we, as Christians, react? Before thinking this through, I was of the opinion that homosexuality was one of the grosser things I had ever heard of. I still believe that. But I am not longer under the idea that we should wall off any contact with anything gay whatsoever. Homosexuals are human beings. Designed by God. Purposed by God. Made by God.

Loved by God.

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.' But wisdom is proved right by her actions.

Matthew 11:19

But go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.' For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."

Matthew 9:13

If Jesus is our example, then there is no place for shunning people we disagree with, no matter how dramatic we think the sin.