I am NOT a bigot. I am NOT a hick. I am NOT uneducated. I am NOT racist. I am NOT unloving. I am NOT a hater of any person or group of people.
I AM a Christian. I AM a Navy wife. I AM a nurse. I DO love all people. And I am entitled to whatever opinion I choose to have. My opinion is not based off of outdated mandates, but on a Bible that still remains true to every part of life today. I am a Christian before I am anything else. I am also a sinner, just like every other person on this earth. I do not deny the fact that there is sin in my life, pride, anger, and gossip just to name a few. Sin is sin and God hates all sin the same. God looks at my pride and anger the same way He looks at a person's homosexuality, alcoholism, or sex before marriage. He hates all of it. That's why He sent His son, to save us from all of the sins that enslave us. He gave us a way out so we don't have to live in sin our entire lives.
God has also called us to love each other, just as He loves us. It is because of His love that I live my life the way I do. It is because of His love for me that I am able to love anyone, to love my patients at the hospital, my clients at the clinic and every other person I come in contact with. So yes, people may call me unloving and a bigot because, based on the Bible, I don't believe that homosexuality is ok, but i still love any person who calls themselves gay. I love my family members who have adopted that lifestyle. I love any patient that I come in contact with who lives that lifestyle. And I would love any person who I may come in contact with who lives with that lifestyle. Just like I love the patient who comes in with COPD because they've smoked for 30 years or the young, scared, teenage girl who comes to me telling me they're pregnant. I love them and give my life to help them.
My last point before I'm done, I mentioned that I am a Navy wife. This country is a country that is known for freedom of religion and freedom to express any thought or opinion a person has without being attacked for it. It's why this country is so great. My husband fights and gives his life every day so that we can all enjoy those freedoms. So just like every person against the amendment has that right, I have the right to be for it, my family has the right to be for it, every person who voted for it has the right to be for it. That is the freedom my husband defends. And that is why I will not be ashamed at all for what I believe, no matter what name I am being called while doing it.
