Sinning the Gay Way, Part I

MY FRIEND AND NEIGHBOR FROM GUATEMALA entered the country legally years ago, did everything by the book,and became a naturalized citizen. I have never seen anyone work as hard as he does. Although trained as an accountant who worked in a bank in Guatemala, here in the U.S. he has his own house repair and renovation business, and spends many hours each day happily being a carpenter. He makes good money, honest money, supports his family,and seems to love every minute of it. I mentioned to him that every person I have ever met or known from Latin America who lives in the U.S. seems to work as hard as he does, and that all these immigrants, legal or not, work very hard, and produce much more wealth for society than any assistance they may require or receive from the government, which is usually none. I also mentioned that many Latinos who legally enterted the US. are resentful of these who entered illegally. He assured me that he has nothing against undocumented immigrants, because he has been in a similar situation himself, wanting desperately to escape his native country, to escape chaos and violence. In Guatemala he was raised a Catholic, but here in America he converted to the Pentecostal church, and became a fundamentalist evangelical Christian. Well, there's no accounting for taste. to my way of thinking, one primitive barbaric religion is about as good as another. Among his many redeeming attitudes is that he hates Donald Trump. Our converstaions usually center on our mutual despising. We have fun doing that. I mentioned to him that in his despising Trump he is a member of a very small minority of the funcamentalist evangelical Christian community. A large percentage of them, more than eighty percent in fact, are very politically conservative Trump supporters. He allowed as that he himself is not. Good for him! He and I learned long ago not ot talk about religion. I don't like his, he doesn't like mine, which, in short, is non Christian. But, he's reasonably tolerant, for a devout Christian. I told him that the Christian support for Trump is everywhere, that on every Christian radio station I have ever listened to for more than five minutes, in between bible study segments and praising the lord and Christ is the savior segments, inevitably, invariably, they prasie Donald Trump as being the chosen political representative of Jesus Christ on Earth. I told him how I feel about this; namely, inimical, disgusted. Jose branched off, explaining that what he tries to do is to live by the bible. I refrained from suggesting better books. He wandered into the area of "loving the sinher but hating the sin", which I think is total bullshit, but didn't say so. Then he mentioned gay people. He loves the sinners, but hates their sin, being gay. What I hate is people who consider hoosexuality a sin, but didn't say that to him. What I did tell him is that homosexuality is an inherited trait, a recessvie gene, that a gene has been isolated and identified specifically for hoosexuality, and can be seen under a microscope. Actually, there seems to be a combination of genetic circumstances involved, but, a genetic component cannot be ignored. The point is, people do not "choose" to be gay (and live in sin) anyore than they "choose" to be straight, heterosexual. Either you are, or you are not. You can change hair color far easier than sexual orientation. The former is voluntary, the latter, involuntary. Unsurprisingly, he rejected this without reservation, refused to accept it. How dare modern science deprive him of his god given right to love the sinner and hate the sin, to deprive his hatred of the "sin" of being gay of any logical, reasonable basis! Much like Trump supporters, Christian fascists of all political persuasions cling to their hateful misguided beliefs, like dust on their Bibles. He's still a good friend and neighbor.