Our Mission
what is our mission? Well as mentioned in the About page it started out for the gay community. 25 years ago, when this was placed on my heart. It was slightly different then, than it is now. There were (believe it or not) a lot more hate crimes, such as gay bashings and murders left and right. I mean ya no one ever shot up a bar back then, but that was also an unthinkable act back then as well. We were more about fists and maybe knives than M316’s. So really a lot has changed. There was also a lot less tolerance. We were thought of as demon possessed pedophiles, by and large. At least now it’s only pedophiles by and large. Right when I was going to come out to my parents, I was already out otherwise. I overheard my mom talking to my cousins, saying she wished we would all crawl back under the rock we came from. Yep, that closed the lid on that can of worms, real quick. We were the only community God hated at the time. Although we still have our haters, now it’s more of a don’t ask don’t tell mentality, or God loves the sinner not the sin kinda thing going on. But we are still the only ones that it seems to be ok by a lot of society to discriminate against publicly and unapologetically. And by this I mean, we are still denied services, spoke against behind pulpits, talk shows, the white house, so on and so forth. And we are seeing what little tolerance we have being swept way by over turned laws and backwards thinking.
I believe the source of this began as misinterpretation of the Bible and God’s thoughts on the matters so long ago that it’s just trickled down the line as the way one should feel about it regardless of spiritual beliefs. With that being said I think it’s clear our mission is to destroy, completely obliterate, those old mentalities.
I don’t have all the theological answers by any stretch of the imagination. But I do know that if we can touch pork skin now without being sentenced to death by stoning or have tattoos without being ostracized by the Sanhedrin then I think it’s pretty safe to go out on a limb and say things are better understood today then in 339 BC. But of course, that’s just conjecture. Also, I feel like if homosexuality was the only soul damning sin left, that will send you straight to the pits of hell, Christ would have mentioned something about it. There are no red letters in any version of the Bible, so there’s that. Which leads me into the most important part of our mission, to let our people, God’s misfits, in on a little secret. God loves you just the way you are. Why? Because he made you that way on purpose. Why? Because you have your own purpose. One he hand-picked before time, just for you. Why? Because you and your unique being, are the only ones that can do it. And NEVER let anyone tell you or convince you otherwise.