naughty
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Good morning!
I saw the call for comments and I am here. Coming from a fundamentalist background, this is a definite issue. First, I must say that what I do and what I believe have a bit if disparity. First, why am I here? That alone would raise eyebrows if known within my church circle. I think Christianity has up until the last 35 years been strongly seen as one of the central focuses of the black community. Through out all of the long years of slavery and most of the 20th century's practices of segregation and discrimination, the church was seen as a safe harbor in which the seeds of the civil rights movement could be nurtured. Contrary to most stereotype ( some perpetuated by African Americans themselves) AA's tend to be rather conservative in their outlook. Facing the injustice of being denied basic civil rights, the subculture of homosexuality was for a large part seriously marginalized within a group who themselves had been marginalized. Parents feeling that the child already had enough strikes against him or her died a thousand deaths to find that their child was walking down that "firey path to hell". Like mental illness ( up until 1970 it was actually listed as one) the issue of homosexuality has long been a dirty little secret. With the exception of artists , writers actors and musicians whose gender bending joie de vivre could not be contained, it has been painfully suppressed . But where would we have been without Langston Hughes, Alain Locke, James Baldwin, Ma Rainey, Louise Beavers, Lil' Richard, etc. Their genius could not be denied, but their gender preferences were. Fear... plain and simple. In Romans I there is a whole list of sins which are decried .Yes, homosexuality is listed, but then so is fornication and adultery....
I saw the call for comments and I am here. Coming from a fundamentalist background, this is a definite issue. First, I must say that what I do and what I believe have a bit if disparity. First, why am I here? That alone would raise eyebrows if known within my church circle. I think Christianity has up until the last 35 years been strongly seen as one of the central focuses of the black community. Through out all of the long years of slavery and most of the 20th century's practices of segregation and discrimination, the church was seen as a safe harbor in which the seeds of the civil rights movement could be nurtured. Contrary to most stereotype ( some perpetuated by African Americans themselves) AA's tend to be rather conservative in their outlook. Facing the injustice of being denied basic civil rights, the subculture of homosexuality was for a large part seriously marginalized within a group who themselves had been marginalized. Parents feeling that the child already had enough strikes against him or her died a thousand deaths to find that their child was walking down that "firey path to hell". Like mental illness ( up until 1970 it was actually listed as one) the issue of homosexuality has long been a dirty little secret. With the exception of artists , writers actors and musicians whose gender bending joie de vivre could not be contained, it has been painfully suppressed . But where would we have been without Langston Hughes, Alain Locke, James Baldwin, Ma Rainey, Louise Beavers, Lil' Richard, etc. Their genius could not be denied, but their gender preferences were. Fear... plain and simple. In Romans I there is a whole list of sins which are decried .Yes, homosexuality is listed, but then so is fornication and adultery....