Other than constant inputs from Pastor Lawrence Khong, there has never been a major issue with the event till this year, just because it coincides with the beginning of the Muslim Fasting Month. For the last six years, PinkDot has always been on the last Saturday in June. If Muslims are going to wear white, do it to express your faith and your beliefs. If you do it to protest against the LGBT community, then doesn’t it kind of defeat the whole purpose of fasting and the Ramadan period? If you do have personal grudges against the community, do not rope your faith and religion into it.
Christians are supposed to be spreading love, not hate. The bible says:
“But I say to you who hear, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you…If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them… But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great…” Luke 6:27, 32, 35
How are you spreading the love of God by promoting hate for the LGBT community? Isn’t this against your whole purpose in life? To spread the good word of God? With your actions, so widely known by now, it has left a black mark on the Christian community. Even Gandhi himself said: Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.
This is something to think about.
And for Muslims, those who support the #wearwhite campaign, if this was to represent your faith for your religion, then I respect you because it would have shown that you are proud of who you are. But instead you are using it to protest the LGBT community who to my knowledge has never disrespected your religion. Instead, you should be focusing on your own people. You have been taught to not gossip, not drink, not smoke, etc as there are not haram. However, I’ve seen with my own eyes such coming from Muslim people around me. This is hypocrisy at its best.
I am someone who has high respects for people who stand up for their faith, their religion, and their beliefs. These are people who are proud of their communities.
Personally, I have been around people from these communities. I enjoy learning their cultures and practices and learning about their faith. But the most love I have gotten was from those of the LGBT community. They do not judge, they love wholeheartedly, and they do not care about your background and this is all because they want to, not because their religion told them that they had to. Maybe it’s time for the opposing Christians and Muslims to take a pointer or two from them.
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