All Comments on 'Give Me a Reason Pt. 01'

Great to see another story from you, Shaima. So much of real life here and some nice one-liners (I did like the one about the churches where you are judged on your outfits rather than your character---so very human). As always, I'm looking forward to seeing where you are taking this. While I wait, it's five stars from me.

Interesting story. I look forward to the next part.

Kind of a slow start but interesting characters and an interesting situation.

I loved it! You took me to another place as well as educating me. Thank you. Tim

Hey Shaima..

You really get well started, slowburning... Can't waite to get to know the characters more..

I see, there is some Danish words in it, I do like that..

The theme is really great, you know, I love that song, :-)

Keep on the good work.. longing for the next part..

Belinda,

Denmark

As a fan for sometime I am also happy to see you continuing to turn out good stories with likeable characters and some carrying over from other stories, Robyn, Helen and more. I have always liked the way you link stories and continue to expand the community of mainly women. They tend to be down to earth and frank about their sexuality. I like the normalizing of diversity. I wish I could see more of that where I live.

So keep up the good work it truly enjoy it. j

Thats wonderful, after all the other tales you have been published here, this one fit in smoothly ...... Jupp decent start and lovely characters appearing and old ones too ...... Nice work

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A very common theme running through many of your stories is God/ The Church versus gays.

As you point out in this chapter, there is a verse in Romans where God seems to unjustly condemn gays.

This verse is a matter of perception. If a loving father says to his daughter don't do that, it will hurt. We readily accept that as a loving correction, some instruction for the girls benefit.

If a stern angry man says the same thing, we perceive it as a something threatening and malignant.

Romans says that they will receive recompense for what they do. This is consistent with what the Bible says about he who sins (whatever that actually really is) sexually sins against his own body. It is not a sin against God. It is not a sin against the church, or society in general. As opposed to gossip, backstabbing, lying, being judgmental. They are real sins against other people and therefore by extension against God.

The gay bashing bible bashing Christians are probably further from Gods truth than the gay people who seek for acceptance from a loving God. Acceptance that is denied coz of a few homophobic people who never got over the guilt of growing up and passing through a universal homosexual stage are now having to hurt everyone just to cover their own sins.

I wondered for years about the rights and wrongs of being gay. Why is it wrong? What is wrong with it? This is not a definitive answer, although it is consistent with Freud, Jung and scripture. Gods first words about mankind was "Be fruitful and multiply." It is basic common sense for a society to continue, we need to have babies. If there was a proliferation of gays, birth rates would simply drop. I am not saying that gay people can not make babies, many do. It is just not the natural thing for them to do. They do not desire or like heterosexual relations.

My gay brother-in-law, who has been in a monogenous relationship for 45 years said the one regret he has about being gay is that he has no one to pass his things, his wisdom, his personality etc. on to. The line ends with him. Surely this is the recompense for your own actions Romans speaks of. Not a divine hatred, nor an eternal lake of hurtful burning fire, you just get snuffed out.

I get it that today with the marvels of modern medicine, this need not be the case but it is still the case too many times.

You don't need to believe the bible for it to be useful. Romans 1 clearly states that the reason there is homosexuality in a society is because they, the Christians, worshipped created things rather than the creator. Start reading from verse 19. So the Bible quoting fanatics should be made aware from their own scriptures that they have allowed to happen the very thing that they are hating. According to their Bible, the responsibility is theirs that a fetus being formed in the womb gets a mixed up recipe.

Also. The Bible clearly states "God is not a man" We gave him the title of a male.

The most sacred name the Jews have for God is God the Provider, El Shaddai. It literally means "to suckle". To provide all comfort and safety by holding a baby at ones breast, close to ones heart. That's hardly a male thing to do.

Also Genesis states that God made people male AND female. Not male or female. It would be scripturally correct to agree with the scientists who insist that all people are made of male and female bits and bobs.

I have 2 reasons motivating this outburst

1) We were attending church when my best friend suddenly announced he was gay. Our church leaders told us to have nothing to do with him. Of course I disobeyed. How could this good friend of mine suddenly change from being a friend to being an enemy and Satan's spawn and all that hateful vitriolic talk.

2) I was raped by a dirty old man when I was a boy of 16. I had to work hard at not letting my hatred of him consume me. I sought to understand homosexuality before I realized that he was not gay, he was just a dirty old man who would get his rocks off anyway, anywhere with anyone.