Linda24
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- Jun 1, 2017
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Single people only have one non-sinful option when it comes to sex. I consider same sex "couples" single. If they want to live together and be celibate, that is none of business. Regardless of what the law allows, marriage is a Sacrament between a man, woman and God. Our will and the law cannot change that.
Hey, Bubba, I live alone! Not because I want, but because I'm in mourning. Renate, my partner, died three years ago. Before I got to know Renate, I was married to a man. I was unhappy because I had married him because my family and the church (then I belonged to the Mormon cult) wanted it. A woman should marry a man, get his children, raise them. So the idea of my family and the Mormon church. But that was not my wish. I wanted to study, to travel, to get to know the world, to make friends, to find someone I love, to love me, and then I knew I was lesbian. I lived the lives of others, not my own life!
Renate and I were twenty years together, ten of them married. For the (German) law allows us at the moment only the "marriage light". In the US, we can marry, but not in a church, if the Church does not want it. The law in the US therefore allows a marriage outside the heterosexual norm. It is law, allowed by the Supreme Court.
Back to the issue of the OP, trans* people do not make a choice to be trans*. Being trans* is simply a part of who they are. There are also many people who are born intersexed, that is being born with both physical sexes, and people who are 'third-gender.' These are not choices, and it's a question of civil rights.
Not just a question of civil rights, but also a question of what kind of Christian we want to be. Did Jesus Christ exclude people, condemn them because they were the way they were? No, he helped wherever he could.
As a lesbian in the Lutheran Church in Berlin, my faith and understanding have grown. I am compassionate, more tolerant and more inquisitive than I was during my time at the Mormons.
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