I work in a grocery store and I despise working on Sundays. As a self-righteous Christian I always like to be at church to make sure everyone knows that I’m holier than them (sarcasm but also a bit of truth). But such is life, that as a student I have to work sundays. It’s amazing the people you see in a grocery store at different times on any given day.
Sunday mornings are usually pretty dead there, but the demographics are more noticable. For example: Homosexuals shop on sundays. While I am in Canada and we’re more liberal socially (should read: intolerant to traditional morality) there are more homosexuals around and in public. Toronto (gay) “pride parades” are (in)famous. As a side note I wonder if they’ll ever have parades based on other deadly sins (Pride is one of the 7). I guess the Lust parade would be mardi gras, the gluttony parade would have to be short (to make sure not to exercise too much), and the sloth parade would never make it out the door. Ok, my soliloquay is over now.
Anyway, so Gay grocery day I think is sunday, specifically sunday morning. I guess all the gay United and Anglicans shop on other days of the week, but the aside from them, all the homosexuals come grocery shopping sunday morning.
It makes sense if you think about it. Because they wouldn’t probably be going to Church (except the Anglicans and United as I mentioned) and would obviously want to put Church out of their mind, so why not get an annoying obligation like grocery shopping out of the way.
I usually pray for every one I see on sunday mornings (not just homosexuals) that they would come to know Jesus and join his family (the Church), and consequently leave their life of sin – as all of us are called to do.
I also think that it’s weird when they kiss – the lesbians don’t (only on TV), but the guys do.
My atheist friend who worked with me HATED the gays, like REALLY hated them. I could tell you stories of the stuff he did, but I won’t (I wouldn’t want this blog to be too exciting). It was then I realized that it wasn’t just Abrahamic religions that condemned them but also Plato, Aristotle and Natural Law.
It’s unnatural, in terms of the Natural Law tradition it’d be called “disordered”. Anyway, this wasn’t supposed to be a tirade against homosexuals. Lord knows they suffer enough from every side. I just think it’s interesting that we (Christians) get blamed for a universal reality (“homophobia”, I wonder if fear of murderers would be a psychological disorder “nekrophobia”).
A running joke at work is: ask Andrew what his views on Homosexuality are. I always respond: I’m not legally allowed to speak them, as it is now Hate Speech. And then everyone laughs about it because they know my views, and assume it’s because I’m Catholic (I heard my Presbyterian, Anglican, and United church co-workers talk about how “homophobic” conservative Christians were on my lunch break). But from now on I’m just going to say:
According to Aristotle, the soul of man seeks the good, virtue, and ultimately happiness because these are a part of it’s nature. Homosexuality goes against the nature of the soul. Ergo (therefore) it’s wrong.
No one carries Gay Marriage picket signs with Aristotle.