Rainbows?

So, Friday was our final day of ISU presentations for our Challenge & Change class. To give clearer definitions so certain readers don't get lost, C&C is technically about Sociology, Psychology and such stuff, and our ISU is the main independent coursework project that takes up a whole lot of your final marks. We had to research a certain topic, carry out a survey, etc. etc. Our presentations were the final stage for our ISU, and so we're DONE. Wahahaha. 


But again, that's not the point. Every individual has a different topic, mostly regarding human nature and society problems or taboos. The week of presentations went fine... till the last day. That actually went fine too, till Shaz's turn to present came up. Her topic had been about homosexuality, a certain subject I tend to avoid. It was awkward enough doing her survey(I skimmed through it real quick), but it was even more awkward sitting there in class amongst fellow classmates and a teacher who highly supports homosexuality. 


The one thing I've been constantly taught in C&C is about acceptance and support for homosexuals, bisexuals, and so on and so forth. According to my lecturer, homosexuals are born this way -quote Lady Gaga- and you can't change a homosexual just as you cannot change a heterosexual. As a Christian, I don't believe homosexuals should be discriminated. I'm pretty sure gay people are some of the nicest people you'll ever meet around. But as a Christian, I also cannot accept what is not natural, what God has not made. God made a man for a woman, and vice versa. 


"God made Adam and Eve--- NOT Adam and Steve!"
-Unknown.


I remember reading that quote in a little children's booklet that teaches about Christian living. I loved those little booklets; they taught Christian values through little stories that were sometimes heartbreaking, in comic strips so it appealed to young people. I've been brought up to know that homosexuality is against what my God naturally made human beings for...... it's like we've been mutated by Satan and his demons. 
It's definitely a sensitive issue, with me writing this on my blog. The majority of the people around me highly support homosexuality. For me, I neither support nor go against. I don't discriminate, nor do I condone it. 


If I revealed this to any of my CPU classmates, I'll prolly be faced with shocked expressions of disbelief. How can I explain why I have these perceptions, when they do not know my God? How can they understand why I choose obedience to God over worldly perspectives? That's the point, they cannot. It's not even their fault. They don't know any better; they didn't grow up in a Christian home, with a God that guided them.


Most people put it down to 'religious beliefs'. My beliefs are not religious piety. How will people understand that I do not discriminate, but yet will not support? What I worry about most is whether this will tarnish the image of Christians and Christianity. Because, this, in turns, tarnishes the image of our Lord. I want to be obedient, I want to adhere to what God says, and this would mean having to be a whole lot different from the people of the world. I want to show others that my Lord is a great God through myself, through my behavior, through the way I portray myself. Isn't that what we're meant on this earth for, to impact lives, and to carry out God's mission to save souls? 


It's a fine line to balance between obeying God and not offending LGBTs. We're all sinners, its true, and no one should judge another because only God can do that. 


The best we can all do, of course, is to pray for them. 
How much change, though, can I bring, when I myself am as lost as they are?