My suspiciion is that Trev is a conservative Christian that is very anti-gay, who is posing as a crazy militant homosexual to prove how crazy and militant homosexuals are.
I don't have to pose as a Christian to show what already is, how murderous and outright hateful some Christians can be. I can direct you to another theological website and let you see it first hand, where they tell me how they should stone me according to Leviticus, and that the Freedom of Religion prevents them from carrying out God's justice. You can go to Phelps site and see the dancing head of Mathew Shephard and the count of days he has been burning in hell, or the way he has spoken out for God by protesting the funerals of those who are grieving the loss of a gay person that died. . You can read what Enyart says. You can read propaganda spread by numerous Christian sites, misinformation that has been disproven repeatedly, yet presented as "fact."
If this is true - that Trev is a Christian trying to portray a militant gay person, it is because what he is portraying - murderous gay people - don't really exist. He has to create his own monster, making him a monster himself.
If it is not true, it seems to be the current ammo of the Religious Right. While they rely on fear and ignorance (doesn't love cast out all fear?), one has to think from whom that kind of energy comes from. As more and more people meet gay and lesbian coworkers, relatives, classmates and neighbors, they find them not to be the predators they are accused of being, and rather, not much unlike themselves in the way they live their lives. When this is realized, their eyes will turn from the accused to the accuser, and the accuser will have to answer why they chose fearmongering, ignorance, discord, deceit, false accusation, and blaming the victim whom they oppress as their way of influencing others to follow them. They will have to answer to whom they truly serve, and if they are truly followers of Christ, or wolves in sheeps clothing.
A bizarre Christian used to say to me, quoting from Psalms, how she would bathe in my blood, the blood of the wicked, on Judgement Day.
I pray for her mercy, actually. She seems so in love with the Law, that she has forgotten Love. She lives so much in the anger and vengence of the Old Testament, that she does not allow for the Mercy of Christ himself.
So, while she imagines gleefully bathing in my blood in some strange, twisted cross between Carrie and Braveheart, I imagine only looking down in sorrow, as Christ says to her, "I was a stranger, and you treated me with hostility. I was innocent, and you accused me of being a child molester. You barely knew me, and yet, passed judgement without mercy, understanding, or compassion. You told me that I deserved to be killed. You told me that God detested me, and couldn't stand the very site of me. As you have done this to the least of these, so have you done so to me. Depart from me, evil doer." And even so, I will beg for Christ's mercy, because if I can forgive her and show her mercy, how much more is the forgiveness of God, whom none of us deserve, even at the time of Judgement?
I watched Godspell as a kid. A lot of the symbolism went over my head, but they acted out the Parable of the Sheep and the Goats. Jesus divided the Sheep and Goats. The Sheep went into the Kingdom. The Goats, however, he sent away. With heads as low as their spirits, they trudged slowly away. Then, Jesus said, "Hey....Come here...." and invited them in.
And that rang very true to me.
That is why I am confused by those who not only condemn others to hell, but gloat about their salvation, and act as if they deserve it, while the other deserves eternal damnation. I am confused why they go as far as invent the torture, of flesh ripped from the body, to grow back and ripped off again, for eternity, and eternal punishment for a life the duration of the blinking of an eye in comparison. I am confused why they believe the nonbeliever to be their enemy, when that is for whom Christ came. I am puzzled how they can sing, "Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me", then offer no grace to their fellow man, but condemnation, and call them a wretch, and as in the Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector, thank God that they are not like other people. I cannot understand the glee of others going to Hell, as if they can only enjoy Heaven if it is exclusive, and at the same time, read about the Shepard that leaves the 99 to find the 1 who is lost.
I have come to believe that we all, in one way or another, eventually return to God, that hell is a burning off of the things that hold us back, a purification by fire, so that we are prepared to be with God, to approach God in humility, as he will approach us as well, and to be One again. And yet, this idea seems to threaten some, anger them sometimes. There is a Parable where a man in the vineyard offers someone a job in the morning. He offers another to someone who comes at noon, and another who comes late in the day. They are all paid equally. The man in the morning says, "That is unfair. I worked longer!," but the owner explains that he was given exactly what he had agreed was a fair price. What bothered him was not his wage, but that was the others received the same wage as he had. He didn't get "more," and he was angry that they didn't receive lesss. It is the son who stays who complains about the Prodical Son's celebration , angry that he was not given such a party, rather than rejoicing at his brother's return, the reason for the celebration.
So, I will ask for God to have mercy on such people, as he has had mercy on me, and I have tried to show mercy in kind. And I think that is what God wishes - for us to plead for the mercy of others, and in so, having Mercy on Christ, and making us merciful, as God is merciful.
Namaste
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Not gonna happen!
