God and Gays: An Open Letter to a Christian Homophobe

The essence of higher consciousness is never casting anyone out of your heart. That's Christian agap , that's bodhisattva compassion, that's unconditional love. But love alone won't do it; there must also be discernment by the opened wisdom eye. Otherwise, it's "sloppy agape." The enlightened person discriminates between beingness and behavior, and judges the latter only. In our beingness, in the deepest center of our existence, we are all one, including those you describe as liberals, faggots, child molesters and other assorted scumbags, even traitors to our nation at the highest levels of government. We are all one because we are all expressions of God, the Supreme Identity. Of course, not everyone understands that his or her ultimate identity is God, and their behavior sadly reflects that self-ignorance. However, it is their actions and ideas which need to be corrected, not their personhood which needs to be eradicated. So your comments about homosexuals are not only intemperate, but also are uninformed and unchristian. Here's how I see the situation, scientifically, socially and spiritually.

JOHN WHITE is an internationally known author who writes about the human mind and spirituality and their relationship to social and political affairs. He has published 17 books, including America, Freedom and Enlightenment: An Open Letter to Americans about Patriotism and Global Society, The Meeting of Science and Spirit, What Is Enlightenment?, A Practical Guide to Death and Dying and (for children) The Christmas Mice. His forthcoming books include Enlightenment 101: A Guide to God-Realization and Higher Human Culture. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Reader’s Digest, Esquire, Woman’s Day, Saturday Review, Omni, Science of Mind, New Age and many other newspapers and magazines. His books have been translated into ten languages.