Televangelist Joel Osteen has now gone
on record saying his being straight was not a choice. This was said on a discussion panel on CNN's "Starting Point with Soledad O'Brien". Obviously this
infers that he believes that someone being gay is not a choice, as
well. That's all fine and well in that it is an obvious, rational,
and proven conclusion. However, my contention is with the following
statement regarding his insistence that scripture still regards
homosexuality as a sin. He does some weird, idiotic, middle ground,
contrived bullshit to reconcile these two contradictory claims. In
the article he states that “god gives us the grace to change”.
This is some lame-ass, ridiculous attempt at having it both ways; a
way to appear rational by accepting the correct conclusion, and
conflating it with an unprovable, antonymous idea to uphold the
bible. Here are three points showcasing the fucktardedness of what Osteen said.
First off, the logical fallacy of not
choosing to be gay, but then having to choose to not be gay. If you
don't have a choice in the first place, but are then expected by God
to choose to change later, when do you then get this choice? I mean,
you find out about these kind of things when? Adolescence?
How do you know when you can choose? Does some alert just pop into
your brain at some point saying, “So...if you're gonna switch
things up, now's the time to do it.” So... what if you can choose,
but it doesn't really change who or what you are and you're just
modifying behavior to conform to some dictate from God as to how you
should be? That's not a choice, that's choosing to pretend.
Second,
wow God's an asshole. He makes it so you can't choose how you are,
which might be a sin, and then, if it is a sin, demands you change;
even if you can't really change and just have to pretend. And what
about the time between you finding out what you were born as,
acknowledging that it's a sin, and then realizing you have a choice
to change or to at least, play make believe. That whole time in
between, weren't you just out there sinning? God's gonna just let you
do that until you figure it out and let that hang on your conscience?
At this point, God is just fucking with the lives of innocent people,
who are just trying to live the life that they did not choose to
have, with aspects of it that were not of their choosing, and may, in
fact, be quite unfavorable. I mean, aside from homophobia and hatred,
look at what else gay people have to deal with...stereotypes,
annoying gay bars, and explaining to mom why you have to go through a
vetting process before you can adopt her some grandkids, and not to
mention how many members of the opposite sex trying to sleep with you
to boost their low self-esteem. Face it, being gay ain't always gay.
Third,
then Joel Osteen has the fucking nerve to call this allowance, from
God to the people, whose lives he's fucking with, to change or at
least pretend to change, grace. If that's grace, I don't want to know
what begrudging tolerance is from this guy. "Hey asshole, I'll give you the GRACE to fix yourself from the way I made you to the way I want you to be"
What
an absurd way to conflate shit to rationalize stupidity. Joel Osteen
has to smile his pretty, shiny, appealing, bullshit shilling smile really hard to get this
one through. But, as expected, the idiots will just use this batch of freshly excreted donkey dung to bolster their untenable position.
