There’s a popular BBC show that’s taken America by
Police Box. Many science fiction Whovians have been aware of this show for the past
fifty (50) years, but my daughter discovered the show a few years ago and purchased the DVD seasons with the 9th, 10th, and 11th
Doctors.
It didn’t take her long to make her friends fans,
including me, of Dr. Who. Unfortunately, we don’t have cable or internet, so if
she wants to stream videos from Netflix,
update blogs, and Pintrest we have to visit the library.
Anyway, the long anticipated season of the 12th Doctor
has been released to Netflix, so my daughter went to a friend’s house to
watch the first episode. Her friend’s parents and siblings watched the episode
with the girls, but something that was said disturbed my daughter during the
program.
Texas is a “Bible Belt” state, and most of her
friends are devoutly religious, as are the missionary parents of her friend
whose house my daughter visited to watch the program. The episode
featured a lesbian couple in the plot, and her friend's father responded, “I
hope they die.” This statement shocked and offended my daughter, but she knew
if she spoke up for what she believed, equal rights for homosexuals, she would
probably be banned from seeing her friend.
My daughter has stood up for gay rights in
California when a science teacher told a story about a homosexual couple that
fostered AIDS babies. One of the babies went into remission and the couple
wanted to adopt the boy. The teacher felt this was morally wrong because the
couple was not heterosexual. I was proud of my daughter when she stood
up for the homosexual couple in front of the whole class.
Opinions are opinions, and freedom of speech is part
of our constitution. The parents did nothing wrong. They, after all, expressed
their views in the privacy of their own home. The parents did not act on their words or said they would kill homosexuals, so hate
mongering from the other side of the coin is just as unnecessary and wrong.
However, I find the incident sad. Christ said in Matthew 22: 37 – 40 (KJV):
Jesus said unto them
[the apostles], Thou shalt love the Lord the God with all they heart, and with
all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And
the second is like unto it. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these
two commandments hang all the laws and the prophets.
The apostle Paul preaches a strict version of
condemnation in Ephesians, but Christ tells us the most important commandments are
to love. Is it our job to judge and condemn?
I will leave that to God.
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