Never allow the world to tell you who to love.
"We too are humans
We too love a person
But we are never right
And never good"
I believe we must follow our heart. No wrong doing in love. Thank you for sharing the excellent poetry.
Coyote
This is certainly a deeply emotional topic, and I appreciate the honest, plaintive tone you assume when addressing it. You ask some very good questions in this poem. This isn't an attack on those with other views - it sounds more like confusion. Why, if God is loving and good, is it considered a sin to love another person in this way? Being your WritersCafe friend and a Catholic Christian, I'd like to explain some of my Church's answers to your questions. I'm not preaching - just, you know, explaining my views to help foster understanding. First of all, we are all sinners. Every single human being - we're all flawed and broken, and we all disobey God. And you are completely correct about God having a plan for every person and that God, and following Him, is all about love. God IS love, according to Christianity. The reason that the Catholic Church does not condone same-sex marriage is that this kind of relationship does not fit the definition of marriage found in the Bible and in sacred tradition. There are four pillars to marriage in Catholicism - it has to be free, total, faithful, and fruitful. Marriage, according to this definition, is about a man and woman being united physically and spiritually and being open to whatever children God blesses them with. Same-sex marriage lacks a critical component of this, and as a result, we do not believe it is in accordance with the will of God. Now, there are arguments about adopting children and the question of heterosexual married couples who are physically incapable of having children that would seem to be holes in this explanation. I have to admit that I am not a theology expert, so if you're interested, I encourage you to check out reliable resources like catholic.com (it has whole sections for non-Catholics and non-Christians) for answers to your questions. And perhaps the most important part of this is the fact that, even though the Church does not condone acting on same-sex attraction, that DOES NOT mean that people who experience these feelings are "never good." Every person is a beloved child of God, and each one deserves mercy, compassion, and respect. Having feelings like this is neither right nor wrong, and can often be outside of a person's control. It's acting on these feelings in a way not in accordance with the will of God that is wrong. Unfortunately, there are people, even religious leaders, who don't do a very good job of explaining these teachings, and that's where this so-called "hatred" of people with same-sex attraction comes from. Christians are not supposed to hate anybody. God does not hate anybody. But like I said before, we human beings are flawed, and sometimes (a lot of times), we mess up and hurt other people. I hope this makes sense and helps however it can. Thank you for taking the time to read this.
Posted 8 Years Ago
8 Years Ago
Thank you very much for clarifying I really appreciate it :)
It's not your sin my frnd, it's those people who see this God given love in the wrong way are the sinners... God never said a single thing about who to love and whom not to love, he asked us to love everyone because love is meant for that purpose...
You are as precious as anyone else in this world, let them think what they think, let God be the judge...
Sincerely
Dhiman
Posted 8 Years Ago
8 Years Ago
Thank you very much for clarifying I really appreciate it :)
Very deep. You could have made this a spoken word piece with the palpable amount of passion woven into the words of this piece. You make some very valid and thought invoking points as well, such as the one where you say that we are sinners yet God is the one who made us and has the plan for us, therefore making Him the one who made sinners.
However, you made some mistakes in this piece. For example: you put "siner" not "sinner", in the 6th to last line you put "How dose loving a person wrong" perhaps it should be "How is loving a person wrong", third to last line says "We too love a person" Perhaps it should be "We all love someone" or something like that. In the second line you put "A person that genders the same as mine" perhaps you should put "A person whose gender is the same as mine"
Great job though!!
Posted 8 Years Ago
8 Years Ago
Thank you for giving some advice and some correction :)
Being in love with persons of your gender is no sin. There are some so-called "protectors" of religion who classify homosexuality as a sin, but it is not. Homosexuals are humans too, we must never forget this fact. And religion teaches us to respect and love our fellow humans.
You have written a very powerful piece of poetry which raises sturdy questions against the narrow-minded folks residing in this world. Lovely poem. Keep writing.