Why June?

Jun 30
Montell
  • June 1989, Kathy and I specifically avoid a June wedding and got married Sept 3, 1989.
  • My dad’s, Kathy’s Grandma’s, and my almost brother’s birthdays are in June.
  • June 1994, Jasmine is born and passes away.
  • June 2010 Kathy passed away.
  • June 2011, was my agreed upon timeframe to start dating again, but I want to answer some questions that I had about what the Bible said first. I started that journey at Redwood Campmeeting July 2011 and I start dating Oct 2011
  • June 2012, I was planning a trip to the Philippines to meet my boyfriend in Sept
  • June 2013, the law is changed and my fiancee is free to apply to come to the US
  • June 2014, Application is done processing and my fiancee is cleared to come to the US. We are married in Sept
  • June 2015, Marriage Equality is the law of the land. We go to our first Pride in SF

So what in the world do I say in June 2017 that has any meaning? 2016 and 2017 have still been busy years for Gay Pride and Equality but there is still much to be done.

Some churches and so called Christians are still certain that their Bible says that God condemns gay relationships. They still insist that all of us must believe what they believe or we are going to hell. Though in my 3 years of very thorough Bible study on the subject, I came to a completely different conclusion on what is really said in the Bible. I concluded that it is only through mistranslation and biased opinions that a Bible student could ever conclude from the information that we now have that being gay or being in an LGBTQIA relationship is a sin.

I found the negative text once honestly translated either had nothing to do with loving LGBT/eunuch relationship or they were actually about unloving acts of rape, lust, adultery which are sins for heterosexuals too. Then I found over 50 neutral or positive verses that the haters deny have anything to do with LGBT issues but they do. This includes Christ’s statement about born eunuchs in Matthew 19.

So in June of 2017, I am praying for honest Bible study, for an open listening to real stories about LGBT individuals faithfully following God, and for confirmations of the humble loving relationships with God that married LGBT Christian brethren have. My concern also includes that the agents of change do not turn on the haters as they turned on us. As the millennium old lies are exposed for what they really are, that those hurt by the lies are patient with those who do not get it yet.

I would like to leave you with this. Gay Pride is not about ego or self-importances. Those I would call a sin. It is about inclusion, courage, and accomplishment. When a Father sees his child graduate, he is proud. When a wife sees a husband report a corrupt boss to the police, she is proud. When teachers help shy students become a part of the class, they are proud. When the Unseen One sees a human being helping another human being, ehS/eH is proud. This is the kind of pride that Gay Pride is about. It is when gay kids find courage while being tossed out of their homes and shamed for what Nature/God created in them. Gay pride is about the new families that have come together and they see the good in each other. Pride in the positives choice being made even when the uptight religious ones just kept trying to shame the gays. Gay pride is not a sin. But it does uncover the self-righteous sin of the uptight so-called religious.

I do not want to grind who and what I am in anyone’s faces, I just want to be allowed to live the upright loving life that God/Nature gave me. And I want to enjoy and have fun with those who are like me. I do not care that we disagree. I do not want any of us pushing the other ones down because we believe we are right and holy and the other is not.

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