On Ernestine Copeland, Demons and The Ugliest Example of the Ugliest of Evils

A friend of mine sent me the following video. In this video, Ernestine Copeland speaks at a Washington, D.C. hearing on same-sex marriage. My friend asked me to watch the following video and blog about it. Since I strive to be obliging, I am obliging.

Upon seeing this, my first thought was to write a post about the Bible. It’s very easy for a rational human being to study the Bible and see that the Bible really has very little to say on the issue of homosexuality. In fact, only six or seven of the Bible’s verses even refer to same-sex behavior in any way, and none of these verses refer to homosexual orientation as it’s understood today. On the other hand, divorce is strictly forbidden in both the New Testament and the Old Testament, as is remarriage by anyone who has ever been divorced.

I realized that providing such a rational argument in response to Ms. Copeland’s outrageous testimony was pointless. Clearly the woman is insane. A rational response would do no good here.

My second thought was to play the race card. Ms. Copeland does not feel that a correlation can be made between the fight to end slavery and the fight for same-sex marriages. I disagree. They are both very clearly civil rights issues. There was a time when white men stood in courtrooms across this country and spewed the same kind of nonsense Ms. Copeland subjected her audience to. The only difference is that they were fighting against Ms. Copeland and anyone else of color.

Again, I realized that a rational argument is not the way to go here. You can’t fight insanity with sanity.

My third thought was the one that stuck.

Ms. Copeland is quite simply pathetic. Everyone like her who vomits such irrational hatred is just pathetic. These people are disgusting and sad and misguided. To see Ms. Copeland in action was almost heart-breaking. If she wasn’t spewing such hatred, I would almost feel sorry for her.

The power of religion is that it can bring people together in faith. When it is perverted to the point that it is unrecognizable, religion can become the ugliest of evils. And Ms. Copeland is one of the ugliest examples of this.

“My God is about reproduction,” she tells us. Those are the first words she uses to describe her God. She later calls Him just and pure. And yet she chooses to first tell us that her “God is about reproduction.” She does not tell us that her God is about love or humanity or peace. No, her God is about sperm meeting egg and creating a child.

I could have stopped the video there. That was all I needed to hear to know that Ms. Copeland has strayed too far from any beauty found in the Christian religions to ever return. And, sadly, Ms. Copeland represents many many people in this country. These people have poisoned their minds and souls with hatred. They’ve turned something that can be beautiful and unifying into something that is purely monstrous.

And they have to live with this fact. They have to go to bed every night and wake up every morning with hatred coursing through their hearts and minds. What a dark existence they must lead, one that I can only imagine is the stark opposite of the existence their God would hope for them.

What these people fail to see is that hatred will not win in the end. I promise you that. The tide is turning. Yes, it is turning slowly, but it is turning. And one day Ms. Copeland will wake up in a world where her worst nightmares have come true. Love will have won out and she will be left with nothing but her own hatred and her own demons to keep her company.

Where will her God be then?