By Aaron Anson
Martin Luther King once said, "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance." I'd like to address what I feel needs to happen to lessen or eliminate the black community's reluctance to wholly accepting gays. Being gay is as much a part of me as is the color of my eyes, and, like the color of my eyes, it is also a very small part of who I am.
It's a fair question how I reconcile my gay sexuality with God and religion, but a bit awkward discussing this with an audience that tends to have a closed mind based on their religious beliefs. The resistance is evident when radio listeners phone in to condemn my sexuality, and then quote what they believe Jesus said about homosexuality. Most, like myself, have never actually read the entire Bible and are merely repeating what's been taught by others.
A history lesson on the Bible is in order for our black community. Simply repeating statements that have been passed down for 2,500 years or so certainly does not make them valid. First things first: it's important to remember that not one word in the Bible was written by Jesus or God -- so we can't claim to know what Jesus or God said! You'd be hard-pressed to find a Biblical scholar to disagree with that. Secondly, we've forgotten that the Bible we reference today was originally written in Hebrew and Greek, and only later translated into English. Translation, by its very nature, is interpretation -- the translator has to make decisions as to what the original writer meant.
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