What The Bible Says For All His Children Today-Is The Homosexual Our Neighbor?

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What The Bible Says For All His Children Today - Is The Homosexual Our Neighbor?
Gary Lynn's Declaration

Hebrews 6:10 (New Living Translation) "For God is not unfair. . . . . ."

Acts 10:34-35 (New Living Translation) Then Peter replied, “I see very clearly that God doesn’t show partiality. In every nation he accepts those who fear him and do what is right.”

Matthew 22:39 (New Living Translation) A second (commandment) is equally important: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

Romans 13:8 (New Living Translation) ". . . . . If you love your neighbor, you will fulfill all the requirements of God’s law."

Is the homosexual and bisexual our neighbor?
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“I can't for the life of me imagine that God will say, 'I will punish you because you are black, you should have been white; I will punish you because you are a woman, you should have been a man; I will punish you because you are homosexual,
you ought to have been heterosexual.' I can't for the life of me believe that is how God sees things.”

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate-1984, For The Bible Tells Me So

Senate Repeals ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

Capping a 17-year political struggle, the United States Senate in a rare Saturday session on December 18, 2010 repealed the Pentagon’s ban on gay men and lesbians serving openly in the military. Click here for the article.

The time is now; no more waiting, no more closets and hiding who we are, no more feeling ashamed because of how we were born, no more insults and jokes about our orientation, no more fearing for our safety at the hands of bullies and homophobes, no more anti-gay religious intolerance which only makes us want to kill ourselves, no more 2nd class citizenship by denying us our civil right to have our long-term monogamous unions legally recognized, and finally. If for nothing else let's do it so that gay teens have beautiful possibilities to live for just like everybody else. After hundreds of years of homophobic terror, if not thousands, enough already of pain, destruction and death! (1)

Technical Sergeant Leonard Matlovich (1943–1988) was a Vietnam War veteran, race relations instructor, and recipient of the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star. Matlovich was the first gay service member to fight the ban on gays in the military, and perhaps the best-known gay man in America in the 1970s next to Harvey Milk. His fight to stay in the United States Air Force after coming out of the closet became a cause célèbre around which the gay community rallied. His case resulted in articles in newspapers and magazines throughout the country, numerous television interviews, and a television movie on NBC. His photograph appeared on the cover of the September 8, 1975, issue of Time magazine, making him a symbol for thousands of gay and lesbian service members and gays generally. In October 2006, Matlovich was honored by LGBT History Month as a leader in the history of the LGBT community.

On June 22, 1988, just a month before his 45th birthday, Matlovich died of complications from HIV/AIDS beneath a large photo of Martin Luther King, Jr. His tombstone, meant to be a memorial to all gay veterans, does not bear his name. It reads:

“When I was in the military, they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.”

Matlovich's tombstone at Congressional Cemetery is on the same row as that of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. To read more of the life story of this LGBT hero click here. (2)

I found this moving entry on the Huffington Post, December 17, 2010 (Gary Lynn)

One of my former students served two tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan as a Marine. Between his first and second tour he told me that there were two of "them" in his unit. No one bothered them but it was clear that they were not fully accepted. He did not think the two guys had a sexual relationship, but they would go off to "their" bars when the unit had leave.

I saw him again after his second tour in Iraq. He told me that one of "them" had been killed in Iraq, He was laying down covering fire so his "buddies" could withdraw from an ambush. Just as he was ready to pull back himself, a rocket landed on his position and he was killed. He received several posthumous commendations and a medal. He was called a hero.

After that my former student told me that the attitude changed toward the other guy. He was no longer one of "them", he was one of "us" just as the marine who was killed defending his buddies had always been one of "us."

Saw him last week, just back from Afghanistan. No casualties in his unit. He told me that all the guys in his unit were hoping the Don't Ask, Don't Tell rule would be repealed for everyone's sake.

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Footnotes:
(1) Based on a comment submitted by — rlk, chappaqua, ny, to an article entitled “La Cage aux Democrats” By Op-Ed Columnist: FRANK RICH – 24may2009 – NY Times
(2) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.