“God Made Adam and Eve, Not Adam and Steve.”
Many claimed that this quote came from a homophobic, and others claim that it came from a devoted Christian man. This has been in my head for a long time and I wanted to research how it came about, but sadly thus is all I got.
Do you have the media literacy skills to consume and deconstruct this media text which often times is heard on a medium such as religious radio network or across many other medias like religious television networks or the internet?
What specifically is the dominant discourse of this quote that the originator intended, and in what lens would someone view this quote?
If you believe in God or even if you don't, how you do feel about this quote?
Does it make you feel any different against Christianity or any other religions?
Or does it give you a stronger feeling towards homosexuality?
I am Muslim and so in Islam homosexuality is not allowed. It is a sin. I attend Islamic school on Sundays and this quote is something I have heard. To me it makes sense, I guess because I am very religious and it is true; God did make Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve. I think the dominant discourse here is religion. In most religions the act of homosexuality is a sin and so this quote is using religion to make people not accept and turn away from homosexuality. The lens one would look through would be one of religion because that is the dominant discourse. One would percieve it as a religious person and see how wrong homosexuality is or that's what they are expected to look through however the case is different for every individual.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what Shahin wrote and after reading this quote, I feel like it is trying to eliminate the homosexuals. By saying that God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve, it states that homosexuals aren't created by God. I feel sorry for the homosexuals because they are being hatred by people and also by their religion that they believe.
DeleteI agree with Shahin that the lens would be religious. This quotation is meant to show the relationships that are acceptable in Abrahamic religions (Islam, Christianity, Judaism). The movie we saw "Jihad for Love" there was a lesbian who said "I will tell Allah, I only loved" on the day of Judgement. I agree with this, let Allah decide. The Quran recognizes it as an an abomination, but it doesn't state it outright. However, you shouldn't execute homosexuals. Capital punishment is only meant for first degree murderers and serial rapists.
ReplyDeleteI absolutely agree with Maheen! Although God, Allah, Hashem, (whatever name you may call him)did create Adam and Eve, he did not say that they may not love another of the same gender. It is up to him to decide what is right and wrong. There's a meaning for everything, and if He were to want an individual to be/act/love a certain way, then so it shall be. We are in no place to judge. For who is really worse: the man who loves another man? Or the man/woman who judges another individual when it has nothing to do with themselves in any way?
ReplyDeleteI find this quote rather confusing. To any individual that is religious … isn’t it believed that God made everything on planet Earth? Individuals having strong beliefs in the quote above, it does not explain the existence of homosexuals. Where did these “homosexual” people all of a sudden come from? If not God, then is it science? Or the big bang theory? I find this quote to be in false state of mind because is it saying homosexuals were not made by God. Well, that must mean all homosexuals are atheists then. Wrong, because in Jihad for Love, the Muslim man believed in God all throughout his journey of discovering and accepting who he really was. This quote seems to be viewed in a homophobic or a religious perspective. The dominant discourse is that God did not create homosexual people. If viewed in a religious lens, homosexual people would then not be proclaimed as humans in their eyes. In my perspective, I see this quote to be in a false sense, because if you look around, there are homosexual religious people who still worship and have faith in God.
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