A Different PoV?

COLUMBIA, SC (AP) – Members of a gay-rights group who traveled to Columbia International University say they had a good discussion with school administrators and students.The group Soulforce scrapped plans Monday to try to enter the campus against school administrators’ wishes.
The group is protesting school policies that Soulforce says discriminates against gays. Columbia International University’s student handbook forbids homosexual behavior.
More than a dozen students came to the area that university officials had set aside for the group. About 10 police officers were on hand in case any protesters tried to enter the campus.
Soulforce’s 2008 national bus tour of Southern faith-based colleges kicked off last week at Liberty University in Virginia.
http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=9129046
Being a graduate of CIU, I am glad that Soulforce handled this opportunity with dignity and respect. I was told by a friend there that the main concern about having Soulforce on campus was Bin Lippen and the kindergarten classes that are at that school and the effect this would have on the little children.
I think CIU handled this exceptionally well, given the fact that I didn’t see any thing on the news today (and you’d better believe I was looking), is a good sign.
Not to burst the bubble or any thing, but what is Soulforce really accomplishing? They are showing the Gay and Lesbian communities to be disrespectful. They are traveling to privateChristian campuses to tell them that their ideas are wrong and discriminatory, and if they are asked not to come on campus, they call the police and find out how much bail is going to cost and inform the cops that they are going to trespass (and manage to create a media frenzy before they even arrive). What exactly is the purpose here?
At the same time, I would critique the fundamentalist Christians who parade hate and call it God’s love. They disgust me more than the Soulforce group because they are the worst kind of hypocrites; they have experienced God’s forgiveness and the love and security of a relationship with Him, yet they deny that very thing by their words and actions(Romans 2:1-4) to people who need it the most.
The NASW policies take a stand in nondiscrimination and education and public awareness. I agree that the public needs to be informed of their own ignorance and bias when it comes to the Gay & Lesbian community (also including Bi-sexuals) in order to prevent discrimination, but I don’t think that this issue can be handled like any other issue because we are speaking about the part of the human relationships that is sacred- sexuality. Putting a persons sexuality on the table as a bargaining chip is never good. I don’t think it is right for an employer or a insurance company, much less a hospital to deny basic human rights based on a persons sexuality. That said, I cannot endorse that lifestyle and I think most people get there looking for an escape from harder things, but I also cannot agree that denying human rights is in any way justified on the basis of their sexual preference.
My personal thoughts are that people are going to do what they want to do and to force them to stop is not something that Social Workers should do. We are not morality police (although the profession has been used in that way in the past). I do think that homosexuality and bi-sexuality are a product of a damaged view of sexuality due to the separation of mankind from God. Because God made us, only He knows how human sexuality is to function so as to lead to the greatest fulfillment- which is what so many hurting people are searching for.
I pray that the church will begin to turn around and show love instead of hate.