I try to avoid it, but every now and again I get into social media arguments with militant Christians about sexuality.
No matter how hard I try to ignore them, their hateful rhetoric always seems to provoke me into saying something.
What boils my blood even more is that it is often the so-called holy men who have the most hateful bile to spew.
This week, a despicable horde of them decided to threaten and verbally attack a new show on Radio Atlantis, that’s aimed at educating listeners about the LGBTIQA+ lifestyle.
And as I pointed out last week, it’s impossible for fellow journalists and broadcasters to sit by quietly, while ignorant people threaten our hard-won freedoms.
I haven’t personally listened to The Pink Friday Show yet, but I have heard other similar ones and I have been reading about young gay people going to extreme measures, because of this sort of thing.
Some have even committed suicide because of not being accepted into families or communities.
There are so many other social ills that could benefit from the preachers’ attention.
For example, I wish they could be this angry and persistent about crime and gangsterism.
I wish they would call their congregants to action over the safety of women and children in our communities; or preach angrily about drug dealers who destroy people’s lives.
Unlike the LGBTIQA+ community, these are people who make deliberate choices to live a lifestyle that is destructive to others.
I am yet to meet a queer individual who has posed a danger to me and my family.
The only ones I ever come across are more friendly, sympathetic, caring, giving, loving, bubbly and memorable than anyone else.
And certainly a lot more forgiving, as they seldom retaliate with equally ugly words.
As for endangering (what’s left of) society’s moral fibre, a few of my gay friends have made eyes at my handsome son and invited him on dates over the years, but none of them were able to convince him to stop liking women.
So I am not convinced that the gays are out to seduce and corrupt our children, as some often say.
Even if that was their agenda, I don’t think that they are capable.
If that were the case, then I would’ve “turned” gay years ago.
But it never occurred to me that I had that choice, since I am naturally attracted to women.
The logic that escapes me is why it matters so much to these people what happens in the bedrooms of strangers.
They seem obsessed with the sex lives of the LGBTIQA+ community.
And maybe that’s why they condemn it so viciously.
I reckon their uncontrollable arousal angers them every time they see a gay person, and their minds wander to that person’s bedroom antics.
Jokes aside, these preachers litter their Sunday sermons with hatred for those who love differently.
One most recent example of both unchosen “deviant” sexual orientation and physiological difference, Caster Semenya, must be an unholy mystery to them.
Either they are making a mistake, or God did.