Once upon a time when we were the underdog...

Once upon a time when we were the underdog. We, Christians, were minority because we made our choice of our faith, to believe and to devote to His Lordship. When an Empire issued an edict to torture and to kill anyone for being Christian. We, Christians, were the underdog when soldiers captured men, women, and children of the Faith; dragged them into the colosseum, made them shameful spectacle of sporting events and fed them to the beasts. For more than 300 years under Roman Tyranny, we, Christians, were the underdog.

Once in many places, we, Christians, were and still are the underdog. In many places we were and still are the minority and the forgotten ones. Where Christians are not the majority, and where Christians do not have political capital to bargain for any political advantage. Where we, Christians, do not have luxury to argue in regard of word usage or "war on words" between "Merry Christmas" or "happy holidays", and to argue in regard of symbolic display of the cross. Some would argue that this will be "Freedom of Religion", but to me it looks like political advantage of Christian majority that none of Christian minority would ever enjoy.

Please allow me to invoke our consciences. Regardless what your political stand on the issue of homosexuality, but I believe that the proposed Uganda Anti-homosexuality bill is wrong! Under the proposed bill a person who convicted of being gay is liable to life imprisonment, but if a person is found being HIV positive would be penalize by death. The bill also seeks to punish by up to three year imprisonment anyone including heterosexual people, who fail to report within 24 hours the identities of everyone they know who is lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. The implication of this bill is horrendous, this bill will not only criminalizing homosexuals but also criminalizing people who befriended gays and lesbians such as my husband and I.

Regardless what your conviction will be on the issue of homosexuality; Most of us, Christians, believe that homosexual behavior is a choice, and some argue it is by birth. Some would propose different clauses psychologically, domestically, religiously and politically in regard of homosexual orientation. I, myself, do not care what will be the arguments either by choice or by birth; whether it is psychological deflect, or domestic disfunction. It is not my position to condone or to condemn. One thing that I know that we, humanity, all have sinned and only by grace that we are saved not by our deeds and righteousness. It is our cause to serve not to judge, to heal not to deny healing, to forgive not to condemn. We tend to fight for the right clause instead of the right cause.

My hope is that we will not switch our position from being the "persecuted" into the "persecutor" because once upon a time we were the underdog.