A Swing & A Miss
What do you see here?
A: A loving family working hard to raise their child?
B: A same sex couple statistically twice as likely to stay married as their straight counterparts?
C: A representation in media that 1 in 10 Americans are married to a same sex spouse?
… or D: a deliberate, targeted attack on Christianity?
If you answered D and your reason revolves around your kids being too young to learn about sex… what makes you think you have to teach them about sex to let them know that same sex couples exist? Do you point out heterosexual couples and feel the need to explain how sex works every time you pass them in public?
With 1 and 10 married couples in the United States being same sex, this isn’t a thing you can just shield your kids from, unless you want to live in isolation. So it’s very clear to all of us watching the absolute meltdown evangelicals are having at the moment that this is not about sex, it’s about fundamentalism.
Yes, you are fully entitled to indoctrinate your child to believe whatever you want. However, if you’re walking around teaching them that those gay neighbors of yours are actually just two older brothers that live together, you’re full of shit. Deep down, you know it, and your kids (who are pretty damn smart) will figure out the truth in spite of you.
Whatever your reasons for believing same sex marriages are wrong, society does not agree with you on this. So you can take that whole “in the world and not of it” mentality and actually live it, or you can learn a thing or two about your neighbors and fellow Americans.
I don’t think it’s anyones goal intentionally to raise their kids to be intolerant homophobes. Let’s give the next generations the credit they deserve, however. They aren’t idiots. Your coverups and explanations of why you view this as wrong will more than likely reveal more about you than it will the society you are trying to shield them from.
When your kid befriends another child that is the part of the LGBTQ+ community, hopefully they just see a person, not some scary thing their parents taught them to avoid.
If you’re losing your mind over this movie and ranting and raving against Disney in hopes that they might make more movies that reflect your views, you can stop. It’s not going to happen. Almost half of the workforce at Disney is LGBTQ+, and unlike Elon Musk and his companies, Disney knows that their employees are who truly make the magic happen.
Your protests do little here for any real change, but they do reveal a faith mentality that is desperately on the defense.
If you truly believe Jesus is the hope of the world, do what he did — love God, love People. It’s much easier to live as followers of Jesus when you aren’t trying to fend off the Romans at the same time. Just like Peter, y’all are all out here swinging swords and missing the point entirely.
It won’t change anything. You may be aiming for the head, but you’ll maybe at worst slice off an ear and leave Jesus to do the healing in spite of you.
Imagine what that must have felt like. To be so passionate about your faith and so confident that you were doing the right thing, only to see your God reach out and touch the very people you saw as enemies with a loving / healing hand.
Here’s my plea to you. Examine your hearts for the real reasons this sets you off. Then try to remember…
God loves the people you hate.