So understandably, Miriam Quiambao's comments about the LGBT community created such a firestorm this weekend. I was not able to see the actual TV show where she said those things except this line which I got from one of the bloggers who also commented about what she said. "Homosexuality is not a sin but it is a lie from the devil. Do not be deceived. God loves gays and wants them to know the truth."
Comments like that foster hate against LGBTs and the people in the community have had to grapple all their lives reconciling the idea that they were created by a God who created them just to spite them. I mean, I don't get the idea. God made me gay just to fuck up my thoughts as I grow up. So si God pala, isang evil joker out to fuck up 10% of the human race as fodder for hell? Dear Miriam, do you know how hard it is to be a teenager and to be gay and to have priests telling you that you will go to hell just because you are gay. Ba't Miriam, as 13 year old gay boys, have we sinned that bad na ba for Christian people to tell us we will go to hell, just because we are gay. Tapos kayo, just because you are straight, kayo lang pupunta ng heaven. Ano yun, going to heaven is luck of the draw lang? Kayo lang may K to God's love. Magreflect ka nga ng maigi, kung why you think God created such diversity in the human race. Di ba, for the strong to protect the weak, the minority, the ones who cannot defend themselves fully kasi minority nga sila?
So all the while pala, yun ang tingin mo sa mga baklang nag-aayos ng buhok mo, nagmamake-up sa iyo, tumutulong sa iyo para maging Miss Universe? Feeling mo, mas mataas ka sa amin, kasi straight ka and sabi ng Diyos mo, straight lang ang pupunta sa langit kasi kaming mga nagpapaganda sa iyo, ampon ng demonyo. If you translate in guttural Tagalog what you just tweeted, that is actually what it means. So dear, ingat sa pagsasalita, lalo na't maraming bakla, I'm sure, ang tumulong sa iyo makamit ang runner-up crown mo.
Please be more sensitive with what you say publicly, beauty queen ka pa naman - and you work with many gay people day in day out. If you were, maybe a real pastor, maybe we can forgive you since you're just doing your job, or whatever you're supposed to do.
Respect is a two-way street dear - and for a well-traveled, well-educated person to say those things to us and a person that the LGBT community looks up to pa naman - it kinda hurts.
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