I like your passion or at lest your willingness to speak your mind.
But from what I can tell much of it is misdirected. You make a number of good points, but you are allowing evil to win if your comments are confrontational and inaccurate.
For example in Your Comment:
And right now, as a grown - and Gay - man I can appreciate Muslim fundamentalists for at least being very clear and honest about their views. A beheading or getting thrown off a building is violent but at least that won't fuck with my mind. It doesn't tough the core of my heart or my soul.
This view makes it clear that you have not considered the plight of a gay guy trapped in a Muslim culture. It gives reason to believe that none of your observations have real world credibility.
So is this passion or petulance.
Thanks for liking my passionate words and I'm happy to learn a (religious) member of this site read my 'rand' with interest and took the time to respond. Some things I feel I haven't been able to make clear. Apparently my text needs some further explanation.
I'll give it a go:
Taking your retoricaI question at the end as a point to start:
I don't feel it's so much petulance as plain anger. I was pissed off when writing this. Anger because I DO know that there are kids out there today, growing up and still being taught that being attracted to their own gender is intrinsically wrong. This includes gay guys living within the influence of an Islamic religion. I've read back what I wrote - typos and all - and I'm underlining the lines from the end - where I feel I was VERY clear that I mean ALL people within a religious sphere and ANY religious sphere WHEN they make a distinction between same-sex and opposite-sex attraction:
"All you religious folk that this applies to:
- Stop thinking about what I do with my dick, or my ass for that matter.
You perverts!
And especially to the ones that have children:
- Please be mindful of all of your kids that are going through puberty and realise they are lesbian, queer, gay, bisexual etcetera.
They need to love themselves and as their parents it's your job to teach them or help them if needed."
So to make it clear:
* I was also thinking about "a gay guy trapped in a Muslim culture" just as much as of any non-straight person within a Christian culture.
I don't think it's very fair of you to quote three lines from the middle of my argument - and out of context - and then question the credibly of my observations on the basis of that.
* Obviously in these lines where I compare Christian faiths with Muslim fundamentalists I used cynisme as a way to make a point.
* When one quotes this part out of context that person might - unintentionally or not - make it seem like my meaning was literal.
* I also used exaggeration. A debating technique I think is acceptable when presenting an argument or a line of thought.
Was I being confrontational?
* Yes, absolutely.
By stating you feel it's "too bad [that] so many in the gay community are not working with an equal effort to know more about the Christian faith" that gives reason to believe your are being presumptuous, self-righteous and would like members of the gay community to convert to Christianity.
At the very least you were making a broad generalisation and imposing your values on someone else.
If I understood you correctly, you feel I don't know enough about Christendom to judge.
* I feel I do know enough about what it's like to grow up as a gay guy in a Christian culture to do just that.
Christian faith is oppressive to gays, lesbians and bisexuals unless and untill it teaches that inherently:
1. It makes no difference if you love either a man or a woman;
2. It makes no difference if you have sex with either a man or a woman;
3. It makes no difference if you want to spend one moment or a lifetime with a man or with a woman.
If you can absolutely argue your own Christian church teaches all these three points and without any reservation I will apologise when I've offended you. I'd be grateful to your church for teaching the lesbian, gay and bisexual kids in your community they are EXACTLY of the same worth as anyone else. Anything less just won't do.
So in stead of telling me I'm letting evil win and misquoting me, prove me wrong. I dare you to.
I have only three questions that need to be answered with a firm YES.
That's all it will take.
Best of luck.