my protest to you posting rules
Submitted by sally on March 24 2002 00:33:32
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OK my questions are numerous and the lectures that leap to my heart are even more... With every post I am bothered. I'd like to shake some sense into you men. I have to tell you my gut reaction is pretty strongly one of disgust. And even more than that my reaction is one of great sadness. I believe I read somewhere on this site that boylovers (I hate the term... I think I will call you BLs-- you can hear boylovers and I will know I am calling you something else) I read somewhere that you believe you are normal and grew up normally. Can this be true? Most ex-gay Christians I know say they were abused as children. But you don't think that? I would like to ask you all some questions and argue with you but I think that in reading your rules of posting you have invited me to shut up and go to another site if I want to argue against your mind-set. I don't know... you say: ###### Posts on any topic are welcome, including thoughtful discussions of what behavior is appropriate for Christian boylovers. Because this is a support forum, though, it is not appropriate to post messages stating that boylovers should not be Christian or that Christians should not be boylovers. ###### If I tell you that praying as if your feelings for boys is a good thing because boys are innocent like God is not appropriate behavior for Christians am I in bounds or out of bounds? What if I say that it is not appropriate for Christians to call themselves boylovers? I will not say that sinners can't be Christians. Good grief, I'd be condemning us all to hell. Christ died for sinners. But he also came to call sinners to repentance. I have murdered but I would never call myself a murderer... oh but I start arguing when I haven't waited for your answer about whether my arguments are in bounds or not. Sorry. And I won't hold my breath waiting. I can't post here and abide by your rules. I can't speak to you on the grounds you lay out. I can't even call you boylovers. You are sinners just like the rest of us only you seem to have clothed your sin in some kind of martyr's garb, convincing yourselves of you goodness and purity and your love for boys and it seems you would rather retain this sinful bent than be healed. You protect it and convince yourself that it is good as long as you do no harm. The rest of poor sinners are ashamed of our deeds of darkness, our desires. We know that our selfish desires and our pride and our murder and our drunkenness and our lusts are evil. But you have somehow decided that your sin is good and fresh and pleasing to God. Neat trick. I'd like to argue against homosexual unions and I'd like to argue that Christians should not be BLers anymore than they should be liars or murderers or drunkards. But since you have not given me permission to post my arguments here, I went to that site you told me to go to and am awaiting acceptance there. Meanwhile I read a enthralling tale at a site I linked to from there, by a foul-mouthed, angry, faggy waiter (he bragged on his fagginess or I would never use that label) who was "seduced" by a twelve year-old boy/god and told the story using many biblical references. The boys legs parted like the read sea, I believe... I can't remember and I'm not going back to read it again... And then I surfed onto a forum where half the people had pictures of little boys for their sig files and they said things like, "boys rule" and they spoke of love as if they had an inkling of what that word means. (I am a Christian and I know I am to love all but I have a son who is gorgeous and when I saw those little babies plastered on the Internet for all the other... I won't say perverts but I can't say boylovers either because that is not love... all the other men with sinful, and yes, perverted and warped, lusts to gawk at, I was tempted to hate pretty strongly. What rank hypocrisy! That they would call themselves lovers of boys!) My point? You introduced me to this foul world and I think you should be men enough to argue whether what you are doing is right or wrong. You who have websites with this symbol to identify yourselves as sinners and who discuss your sin as if it is not sin, why have you decided that people are not come on to this board and challenge you? I am a Christian and I am called upon to care about your souls. By accident I found this site. I have the domain name paraklesis.com and in checking to see if any of the search engines had picked it up I stumbled on your magazine called paraklesis. I am distressed that this site is here. I am sorely distressed that you encourage one another in sin. Not that you are here and speaking but that you are speaking lies. Not that you are longing to comfort one another but that you are comforting with words that will bring death and not healing. Not that you are longing to be loved by Christ but that you don't trust him enough to allow him to fix you. Yes, fix you. You are broken just as we all are. The only difference I see is that some of us admit we are broken and some don't. I would like to argue this with you but I have not answered any of your posts because your rules say that I may not. This post is to protest that rule. If you are really doing well and God is pleased with this orientation of yours, why would you not discuss this? sally@paraklesis.com |
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