Young Woman Comes Out at a High School Assembly, Has the Culture Changed Any with Respect to Homosexuality and Lesbianism?

Yes, people are still coming out. A popular video on YouTube shows the angst of a young woman revealing to her classmates that she is a lesbian. The young woman had a lot of nerve to do it in the way that she did, at an assembly in front of her high school, but I guess this was the best way to do it. The funny thing about it is, we say that homosexuality is ingrained in American culture. But if it is why are people still coming out?

I saw a clip on YouTube in which The Young Turks were analyzing the tact and discretion Joel Osteen used to talk about homosexuality. The man that was interviewing Joel Osteen is not known for his interviews. But we are talking about homosexuality, so of course the interviewer felt as though this would be a piece of cake. Piers Morgan certainly had a ratings grab, but Joel Osteen maintains that he is not about bashing homosexuals, and that he feels that they are sinning because homosexuals are missing the mark. The Young Turks still like Joel Osteen, but one of their panelists feels that his answer, about as politically correct as one can get, was a terrible answer.

The funny thing about homosexuality and lesbianism is that you are courageous to talk about it, in any way, through any venue, when you are truthful with how you feel about it inside, and are not giving a politically correct answer. Anyone that would make the young woman's life a living hell because she is a lesbianism is wrong, and anyone that claims to preach the Word of God that says they believe in what it says and preaches strictly according to that word that backs down, backpedals, back tracks or digresses because what they believe is not what the World believes is also wrong. If you are a preacher, a minister, or claim to be a Christian, I would expect for you to say that homosexuality is wrong. If you don't stand for anything, why would anyone take you seriously as a Christian?

I wonder if it was the young woman's choice to have that clip of her aired on YouTube. Because in coming out to her high school she came out to the entire world, whether she wanted to or not. But then again we are talking about high school, where everyone is already omnipresent on Twitter and Facebook, and you are an ancient relic if you still use e-mail. So God says that homosexuality is a sin, we get that already. But we are not in any position to hate anyone because it is a sin that someone chooses not to hide from us anymore than we are to hate anyone for any other sin. In fact we are to love our enemies; hopefully we are not the enemies that the young woman who chose to come out fears, or deals with angst or trepidation, over.