Scared im going to hell for having gay sex
A Police Officer at My Public High Educational facility Told Me I’m Going to Hell Because I’m Gay
My name is Liv Funk, and I’m writing this to clarify why I want changes to how LGBTQ students are treated at North Bend High School in Oregon.
This is very personal for me. I’m about to graduate from North Bend, but I’m continuing to speak up so that nobody else has to go through what I went through. When freshmen arrive in the fall, I want them to have a diverse experience: a school where everybody feels welcome and safe, no matter who they are or whose hand they happen to hold.
I had hoped to be treated just appreciate anyone else after I came out before my sophomore year. But I guess I was untrue. Back in 2015, when I held my then-girlfriend’s hand in the hallway on the first evening of school, I couldn’t even count how many people gave us weird looks and how many whispers filled the atmosphere. I even heard teachers make hurtful comments.
I knew coming out wasn’t going to be easy. But I didn’t expect it to be this difficult. After being subjected to slurs and teasing, I became anxious and paranoid. I started to wonder: What if something is really wrong with me? What if who I am really isn’t ok?
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TheBibledoesn't provide a vivid description of Hell. All we receive in the Novel Testament is that it's a place of "eternal fire." As someone who keeps the wind conditioning blasting throughout the year and enjoys Frappuccinos, even during a Fresh York winter, I always knew Hell wasn't the place for me. So, when I was younger, the slightest possibility this lake of fire might actually exist was enough to mentally paralyze me.
As a gay lad coming of age in Bible Belt Texas, I was taught that my lifestyle was a sin worse than adultery, alcoholism and even drug addiction. I didn't scrutinize it. In my mind, just love you went to jail if you committed murder, you went to Hell for being gay.
Like Pascal's Wager, I reasoned it was better to be safe and escape going to Hell, just in case it actually did exist. If it turned out it Hell wasn't a real place, then I only suffered a small impairment. If it did, then I'd confront an eternity enduring six-degree burns. So, I decided not to act on my attraction towards other men. What followed was the most depressing period of my being. I felt so low that I often contemplated suicide. But as much as I idea about it, I'd never kill myself because, apparently,
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By Robert Clifton Robinsonon •
Ozzy Osbourne, known primarily as the lead vocalist of the thick metal band Shadowy Sabbath, has had a long and often contradictory connection with themes of heaven, hell, God, Satan, salvation, and judgment. Much of his public persona and lyrics are steeped in gloomy, controversial, or provocative imagery, but Osbourne himself has made numerous personal statements that reflect a more conflicted or introspective view. Below is a detailed and documented summary of what Ozzy Osbourne has said about these theological themes over the years.
Heaven and Hell
Lyrics and Imagery: Black Sabbath, the band Osbourne fronted, is often credited with pioneering heavy metal by addressing themes like good and evil, spiritual warfare, and the afterlife. One of their most famous songs, “Heaven and Hell” (written after Osbourne left the band, but still connected with the Sabbath legacy), explores the dichotomy between excellent and evil in human nature.
In the song “After Forever” (1971), written by bandmate Geezer Butler (a practicing Catholic), the lyrics ask: “Could it be you’re afraid of what your friends might
You Will Go to Hell
Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals1, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. (1 Corinthians 6:9b-10.)
A professing Christian husband and father leaves his wife of thirty years for a young gal the age of his daughter. A Sunday Institution teacher is obsessed with his favourite sports team, going into short word debt to make trips all over the state to watch his team play. A college scholar heavily involved with the local collegiate ministry regularly has sexual intercourse with his girlfriend. A juvenile man attends church regularly but frequents gay bars, looking for gay men, and goes home with them. A seeming loving and well adjusted queer woman couple, who know the Bible well, claim to love Jesus. An elder in a church regularly cheats on his income tax and steals capital from his company. A young mother who teaches children’s church constantly badgers her husband for a bigger house, a nicer car, better clothing and runs up huge credit card bills trying to satiate her covetous and idolatrous lifestyle. A pastor preaches
“Am I Going to Hell?”
Traditionally, Christianity has considered homosexual attraction to be sinful. A lot of Queer people question their Christian beliefs and worry about their soul as they try to figure out who they are.
But just as our cultural views of sexuality have changed, so have our religious views. Religious leaders are grappling with whether scripture regarding homosexuality and lgbtq+ marriage should be reinterpreted.
“When it comes right down to it, you affection people the way Jesus loved people, and you ignore the political questions,” Dr. Timothy Kovalcik, a Millikin history and political science professor, said. “You love the people in front of you regardless of who they are and what they’re doing, regardless of what you think about it. That’s the ultimate underlying principle.”
Kovalcik serves as the Scholar-in-Residence at Decatur’s Westminster Presbyterian Church. Kovalcik’s church has not made an official statement on their views of homosexuality. The congregation sees it as a “political time bomb” and “distraction.”
But he acknowledges that a lot of people have questions about religion and sexuality.
“I would utter what unfortunately could b