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Keely Hollahan - Sophomore
3/3/2005, 2:05:28 p.m.
I recognize that I am relatively uninformed on this issue because I have only talked to a few people and read this article, but I would just like to say that I would lean towards Mullinax's statements. This campus has a very large Christian population, and a Baptist affiliation, but does that reduce what the college should teach the students? I have not witnessed that in my classes so far, and I believe the best approach to an education is one that leaves people to decide for themselves what they uphold as true. I just think there is a difference between telling someone "absolute truth" and forcing it on them.
There are many religions and many cultures all over the world. The Christian faith and the Bible may be your absolute truth, but would you treat a Muslim in the same way that homosexuals are treated on this very campus, just because they have a different idea of right and wrong? Would you attempt to change the very heart of a person because they are different, and do not fall into your idea of truth? Would you JUDGE them without knowing them?
In an effort to make sense of this, I just wonder how anyone can say whether someone is doing something right or wrong. Is it not what is in the heart that counts? I am no Biblical scholar, but I do know that it says that while man looks at the outward appearance, God looks on the heart. Are we worried about our appearance here? Or is it really people's hearts that concern us? Should we sacrifice someone's feelings because they must be corrected in their actions, even though their heart could be in the right place?
No one person is totally right about the Bible and what should be believed, so I would say everyone could benefit from a little dose of humbleness, because God is the only one that knows. His will is not necessarily black and white. In my experience it is a process. If your heart is in the right place to seek God, He will reveal to you what to do. Group condemnation is not the answer, but loving people is.
I just support the rights of people, whether I think what they do is right or wrong. I could never ask someone else to live by my standards because I am not right about everything. So maybe, just maybe, some people could be wrong about this issue of homosexuality. The popular ideas of who is "worthy of condemnation" in the past have been the wrong. Just look at the Holocaust.
Life is so much more than one issue. Lets just live it while we have it, and love while we can, and not worry about other people's actions so much...It's opportunity, not obligation.
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