For immediate release
An open letter to a gay person
Dear gay person,
Congratulations for being a perfectly normal
human person.
You are not sick or mentally disordered.
You are not bad.
It is not your or your parent’s fault that you
are gay.
It’s nobody’s mistake.
Indeed, there is no fault or mistake involved
at all.
The Bible does not condemn you.
Of course not.
How could it condemn you,
when it says that you were wonderfully made,
and created in God’s own image?
How can the Bible condemn you,
when you are God’s beloved son or daughter?
Instead, feel bound by the Bible’s core moral
teachings:
be prayerful, reverence God, respect others.
be loving and kind, be forgiving and merciful,
be honest and be just.
Work for harmony and peace.
Stand up for truth.
To do that is to follow the Bible.
To do that is to follow God’s way.
To do that is to love God with all your heart
and soul.
To do that is to be a true disciple of Jesus.
Please do not try to change your sexual
orientation.
Do not try to ‘heal’ what is not an illness.
The truth is that you can’t, anyway,
even if someone someday were to pronounce you
‘healed’.
You are different.
Of course, you are different:
some of us are left-handed, others are
right-handed;
some are tall, some are thin;
some of us have pink skin, others are light
brown or dark brown.
It is in accepting who you really are that will
help you grow as a person.
You may need help from a qualified person to do
this
(but before you consult any, do make sure that
they are indeed qualified).
If you try to ‘heal’ yourself of your sexual orientation,
you will be doing yourself irreparable harm.
Do not try to suppress it.
Do not marry to hide it.
You would be doing harm to the one you marry
too.
Do not try to change your orientation
just because one section of society does not
accept you.
It is society that needs to change; it is
society that needs healing.
One day, you may meet someone
with whom you can build a long-lasting
relationship,
a relationship that is special, intimate,
beyond friendship,
a loving, fruitful relationship in which you
can help each other to flourish.
Of course, you are free to lead a chaste and
celibate life.
That will be your decision,
but that does not mean you are no longer gay.
Even some straight people do
that,
but that doesn’t mean they
are no longer straight either.
Whatever your decision, please count us always
as your friends.
Drachma LGBTI and Drachma Parents Group
Ittra
miftuħa lil persuna gay
Għażiż/a,
Nifirħulek talli inti
persuna kompletament normali.
La int marid u lanqas għandek
xi diżordni mentali.
M’intix bniedem ħażin għax
inti gay.
Mhux tort tiegħek u lanqas
tal-ġenituri tiegħek li inti gay.
Tabilħaqq, mhu tort jew
żball ta’ ħadd li xi ħadd ikun gay.
Il-Bibbja lilek ma
tikkundannakx.
Dażgur li ma
tikkundannakx!
Kif tista’ l-Bibbja
tikkundannak,
meta skont il-Bibbja stess
inti magħmul b’mod tal-għaġeb
u int maħluq fuq ix-xbieha
ta’ Alla nnifsu!
Kif tista’ l-Bibbja
tikkundannak,
meta int l-iben għażiż jew
il-bint għażiża ta’ Alla!
Qis li timxi fuq
it-tagħlim ewlieni tal-Bibbja, jiġifieri:
itlob, qim lil Alla,
irrispetta lill-oħrajn,
uri mħabba u kun qalbek
tajba, aħfer u kun ħanin,
kun onest u ġust.
Aħdem għall-ġustizzja u
l-paċi.
Aħdem favur il-verità.
Meta tagħmel dan, tkun qed
tgħix skont il-Bibbja.
Meta tagħmel dan, tkun qed
timxi fit-triq ta’ Alla.
Meta tagħmel dan, tkun qed
tħobb lil Alla b’qalbek u b’ruħek kollha.
Meta tagħmel dan, tkun
dixxiplu ta’ Ġesù.
Nitolbuk biex ma tippruvux
tibdel l-orjentazzjoni sesswali tiegħek.
Tippruvax ‘tfiq’ ladarba
m’intix marid.
Il-verità hi li ‘fejqan’
bħal dan mhux possibbli,
anki kieku xi ħadd xi
darba kellu jiddikjara li inti ‘imfejjaq’.
Inti differenti.
Dażgur li inti differenti!
Xi wħud minna huma xellugin,
u oħrajn lemini;
xi wħud twal, oħrajn
qosra;
xi wħud minna b’ġilda
roża, oħrajn kannella ċara jew skura.
Huwa biss meta taċċetta
lilek innifsek kif tassew int li tista’ tikber bħala persuna.
Jista’ jkun li jkollok
bżonn l-għajnuna ta’ xi ħadd kwalifikat għal dan l-għan,
imma qabel ma tikkonsulta
lil xi ħadd, kun ċert li jkun tassew kwalifikat.
Jekk tipprova tfejjaq
lilek innifsek mill-orjentazzjoni sesswali tiegħek,
tkun qed tagħmel ħsara
irreparabbli lilek innifsek.
Tippruvax toħnoqha.
Tiżżewwiġx biex taħbiha,
għax tkun qed tagħmel
ħsara wkoll lill-persuna li tiżżewweġ.
Tippruvax tibdel
l-orjentazzjoni sesswali tiegħek
sempliċement għax parti
mis-soċjetà ma taċċettakx.
Hija s-soċjetà li għandha
bżonn tinbidel.
Xi darba f’ħajtek tista’
tiltaqa’ ma’ persuna
li magħha tista’ tibni
relazzjoni dejjiema,
relazzjoni speċjali,
intima, lil hinn minn sempliċi ħbiberija,
relazzjoni ta’ mħabba li
fiha tgħinu lil xulxin tikbru u tiffjorixxu.
Dażgur, inti liberu li
tagħżel li tgħix ħajja kasta u ċelibi.
Dik deċiżjoni tiegħek.
Imma dan ma jfissirx li
int ma tibqax gay.
Anki xi
persuni straight jiddeċiedu li jagħmlu hekk,
b’danakollu
ma jfissirx li ma jibqgħux straight.
Tagħżel x’tagħżel, imma,
għoddna dejjem bħala ħbieb tiegħek.
Drachma LGBTI u Drachma Parents Group
