HOTPRESSIONS
Do the lesbian singers have true love?
(Response to Clare Perretta's Pitt
News A&E article: "Russia with luv")
John Vassallo
Pittsburgh Standard
As I sit here, puzzled by
“From Russia-with luv”, a review by Clare Peretta
of the “feisty teen-age Russian lesbian . . . pop sensation that took Europe by
storm last year”, t.A.T.u., that appeared Jan 14, 03 in the A&E
section of the Pitt News , I wonder “Man, where do I
start?”, or actually, “Lord where do I begin?”
I checked out their website and it made me
very sad. I felt extremely threatened by temptation and idolatry (one of the
things I personally have been convicted of and have been struggling with). But
I mostly felt sad.
I chose to watch their video,
“All the things she said”.
It displays the two “seventeen
year old . . . Moscow-born techno-pop goddesses” standing, in, sort of school
uniforms, behind a barred gate, in which ordinary people, portrayed as very
conservative, are staring in judgment.
I infer from the song’s lyrics
that their mothers disapprove of such lives, and assume their families feel the
same.
In reading the article it was
revealed to me that they are thinking of moving out of their parents houses and
living together. So sadly, their manager encourages such action.
The chorus sings
“All the things she said, all the things she said, running
through my head, running through my head, running through my head.”
Over top of the chorus is
“This is not in love”. Well that’s comforting. It
is comforting that they are at least aware of the possible idea of homosexuality
not being in love. However, their walking off together in the end of the video
suggests their difference of opinion, or they simply don’t care.
Thousands of cases, involving
our addressing of homosexuality, or really all types of sin, jump out in front
of us everyday. Too often, we maintain, or increase, our pace balling them over
leaving them for scavengers to take their claim. But it is not God’s will for
us to condemn the sinners, he asks us to condemn the sin. Yes, they are wrong
for partaking in such evil activities, but often this is because of our
apathetic response towards them.
Of course it is easy for us to
stand behind the gate and throw disappointed, or even worse disgusted, looks
through the bars at them, condemning them as human beings.
But, Jesus loves them. Jesus
loves everyone. God is our Father. We, WE are his children. He wants us to
slow down our prideful pace and step through those bars, and hold out our humble
hands, and love them.
“This
is not in love.” Using this particular case just as an example, let us
show them what love is. ‘Cause if we don’t, Satan will.
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