Homophobes can be very creative when it comes to finding ways to hurt people they despise. While some tend to hate queer people for no valid reason, others justify it with their faith. And then, proceeds to use “the word of God” to spread hate and misinformation.
Just like this man, who was offered a job by a gay office manager, but quickly refused it saying the Lord was leading him to do so. Then, later on, he proceeded to basically harass the manager by sending him quotes from scriptures and wishing to “resist their urges.”
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After the job interview office manager opened up to the potential hire about how they left the church after coming out
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At first, the man seemed understanding of the situation and didn’t say anything too bad
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But then, a bit later, when he was offered the job he refused it and sent the office manager an overly long text about “the choice of being gay”
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This left the post’s author literally speechless as they didn’t knew what to answer to such text
The OP works as the office manager for a private contractor in a major city. Their job includes hiring new people for the company. So, one day they interviewed a man, who has a very religious background.
After the interview, they talked a little bit and the author, when asked about their religion, revealed that they left the church, which they did that after coming out. Such situations are not rare. In fact, it was found that people who belong under LGBTQ+ umbrella are almost twice as likely to disaffiliate from their religion.
We can take Christianity as an example. Queer people likely leave this religion because fairly many Christians still believe that being LGBTQ+ is incompatible with their faith. Here, according Pew Research center data, 38% out of 25,048 questioned Christian believe that homosexuality should be discouraged. Quite much, isn’t it? So, no wonder people tend to leave a community that doesn’t accept them.
Today’s OP knew they’re gay from a very early age, which made being a member of the Southern Baptist church difficult. During such a confessional conversation, the potential hire seemed understanding. The author said that there were a few red flags with him, but they decided to give him the benefit of the doubt and hire him.
So, the man came in to fill out the paperwork, but before he started training videos, he announced that he had to leave. Apparently, he had to get his truck from the shop and give his sister the car he borrowed back.
A week later the OP received the text messages they added to the post. Basically, the man said that “Lord is leading him away from taking this job.” This is understandable, maybe he just didn’t feel like in his place at the workplace. But this text wasn’t the end. Actually, it was just the beginning of the overly long text – 8 paragraphs to be more exact.
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In a nutshell, in these paragraphs he blabbed about religion and gayness. For example, the thing that separates humans and animals is that humans can resist their urges and homosexuality is one of them. And instead people should give in to God’s word if they want to live a peaceful and eternal life.
To strengthen his point, the man decided to quote several scriptures saying they “might help.” He mentioned sentences from “Galatians,” which talked about “flesh desires”, “the fruit of the Spirit” and similar things. All of it supported the things he yapped about before – how humans should resist their urges, homosexuality included.
There are people who criticize those who weaponize Biblical texts against things they don’t like. They call it an abuse of scripture. Selecting to believe in only those texts that support prejudices against certain social groups while ignoring other texts is not the right use of the Bible.
After receiving such condescending texts, the OP was sure what to do. So, they left them hanging. After all, what could they say?
Well, people in the comments under the post had what to say. They were enraged by the man’s entitlement to rub his beliefs in the author’s face. And not simply rub them in, but use it to trivialize their identity and imply that it could be changed. Any sensible individual knows that a person’s sexual identity isn’t a choice, it’s what they were born as, which makes claims like that discriminatory.
After all, the Bible says that one must “Love Thy Neighbor,” right? So, it’s very interesting to see such religious nuts be so about their word of God in one instance, but completely ignore it in others. This just shows that they might be not such a good person as they pretend to be by weaponizing their faith. And that’s just terrible, isn’t it?
On the other hand, people online had plenty of what to say — from anger to jokes at the texter’s expense
