Please read the below entry in the context of a debate among students and alumni of a solidly Christian university which does not reconcile the practice of homosexuality with a Biblically Christian witness. As originally posted on the MySpace Lee University Message Board:
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Running around in barefeet, I stubbed my toe. As I looked around for
some sympathy from my pops, my 6 year old voice began to quiver and
tears began to well up in my eyes. Once I made eye contact with Dad, I
would let out a real cry so that he would pick me up and make it all
right. But, that isn’t how it would play out.
My dad reached down and rubbed my blond head and said, "shake it off
Big T." Trying to live up to that name, I would stick my toe in the
warm dirt to make the pain go away. At six years old, I was learning
the how-to’s of manhood from a man who grew up in the era of John
Wayne, Charlton Heston, Warren Spahn, and Ted Williams.
Somewhere in the span between that time and this, the John Waynes have
become interior decorators and the MySpace message board for my alma
mater has been over run by guys impersonating gals and dudes who are
afraid to eat an egg for fear of damaging the creation of a God they
believe does not exist.
Of course, my lament will do nothing but throw the effeminate guys into
a tissy. My MySpace account will probably get spammed with electronic
color-coordinated cat scratches. But, hopefully, it will cause the
dudes who are in doubt about the gender given to them at birth by their
Creator or cosmic coincidence (whichever their fully-formed 19 year old
minds are fully assured of) to reaffirm that its cool to be a man.
So, gentlemen- change your MySpace layouts from your presently
lavender/purple combo and start a campfire, go fishing, shoot
something, play basketball, watch some football with your hand tucked
conveniently into your waistband, or do something that reaffirms that
you are in fact a guy. And, by all means, if these few words on the
world wide web are deemed a little bit offensive by you, shake it off
and put some dirt on it. Its going to be ok.
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Great stuff. I like it. I like Mark Driscoll for the same type stuff. Be a guy…I think it’s the message that the church needs to be saying. Thanks for stepping up and saying it like a man.
Do you go a huntin’ to drag home a big old bear for Ellie May to cook for the youngens? Being a man does not mean being a Neanderthal. There is nothing wrong with little boys crying; just as there is nothing wrong with men being sensitive.