Homosexuality

Growing up in a small town on the East Rand of Johannesburg, homosexuality has never been an issue as my surroundings never entertained the idea of homosexuality. Also, being raised in a Christian home, having Christian beliefs and lifestyle, homosexuality is a sin in my eyes. It is an act of denying God’s creation and God’s plan with an individual’s life.
When I came to Rhodes, I was astonished and amazed of the high percentage of homosexuality and how it seemed to be a norm amongst the people living in Grahamstown. Being unfamiliar with such behaviour and also the freedom and support these people get from societies such as OUTRhodes made me uneasy and unsettled. It is as if I am in another island, another planet, a different world from the one that I grew to know.
I felt like I an alien in the island of these homosexuals, a foreign disease that no one was fond of. I failed to understand the reasons behind these people believing that they were women when they were born as men and others wanting to be men when they were born women. I do not understand how you could impose a character that you are not, are you trying to say that God made a mistake in creating Eric instead of Erika? Or is it because we feel that since God gave man dominion over everything in this earth that we also have dominion and the right to be female when you are male?
I am appalled by how people come from home being young beautiful girls or handsome boys and knowing what they want in life. When they get to Grahamstown, they all of a sudden discover that they are gay. I do not get the logic here, or is homosexuality like Levi jeans, it is a must have before it goes out of style. Because frankly, that is what homosexuality has come to be in our society, it has become a way of fitting in with the ‘in crew’. It has become a way of seeking attention and also gaining recognition from people around you. Being known and visibility has become a main objective of being homo, turning heads has became a mission and goal that people seem to want to accomplish.
What exactly are the reasons of becoming homo? Are there any? It’s become like chicken pox, infectious, contagious and dangerous. Why dangerous? People end up wanting to kill themselves because of being gay; they are ‘disappointed’ at not being accepted by their families and by other people around them. My question is: why must people compromise their beliefs and qualities to please you as a ‘homo’. If you as a homosexual were comfortable with your homosexuality then why do you need acceptance from those who are different from you?
It disgusts me how when things do not go the way people want them to go, they resort to suicide,. How can you expect to participate in a controversial act such as homosexuality and not expect rejection and hatred? Do gay people ever think of the consequences of going against the course of nature? God made you a man because He knew that you will fail to produce what he wants you to be if you were to be a woman. So what makes people think that if you do it yourself, things will be better and you will be able to live this twisted ‘fashion’ of homosexuality?
This just proves to me that as an individual, you know that what you are doing is wrong and does not represent the inner person that lies within you. You know that everything that happens in life happens for a reason, at a time that God sets it to happen. He (God) knows the reasons why He made you a woman and not a man or a man and not a woman. The bible says that God knew you before He formed you in your mother’s womb. If that is the case, then surely He was sure of what He was doing when He made you a man or a woman.