Posted on 11/20/2008 11:07:17 AM PST by AJKauf
There is a video making the rounds that shows an angry mob of California gays confronting and intimidating Christians over the passage of Proposition 8, which outlawed gay marriage in that state. Michelle Malkin has a narrative of the event that sounds worse than the tape, which already sounds pretty bad.
Reportedly the Christians met once a week to pray and sing on the public corner. Whether they’re hoping to “straighten out” gays or simply trying to facilitate encounters with Christ is unclear, but their method is problematic; it’s not how Jesus would do it.
In the wake of Proposition 8, gays need to stop the thuggery and Christians need to cut the condescension....
(Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com ...
Sorry, not buying the bogus moral equivalency argument.
And who started the whole issue of trying to REDEFINE MARRIAGE as something other than between a man and a woman??
Christians???? Hardly. We know where the problem lies.
There they go again, those zany Christians persecuting poor innocent victims...When will it end?
This article is crap.
Moral superiority is not a fitting aire for children.
but their method is problematic; it’s not how Jesus would do it.
It is exactly what Christ DID. Went to the sinners to tell them the good news.
This is the same outlet that said he we shouldn’t be too hard on Obama right? Why not just change the name to Salon.com or HuffPo.
>This article is crap.
Given the following from the article:
Reportedly the Christians met once a week to pray and sing on the public corner. Whether they’re hoping to “straighten out” gays or simply trying to facilitate encounters with Christ is unclear, but their method is problematic; it’s not how Jesus would do it.
How could singing on the street-corner, and offering prayer, as a weekly event (since before prop 8 became an issue, from my understanding) POSSIBLY be a problematic method? It’s not confrontational on ANY level! And pray-tell, author, how is it condescending to do so (I was under the impression that praying for someone showed that, you cared for them in some way)?
Sexual deviants rioting, threatening violence, bullying an old lady, trespassing, cursing and storming a church are the same as Christians singing, praying and preaching to these same sexual deviants in the hope that they might save at least one soul.
The mind boggles.
GASP! What were they thinking? They should have rioted in the streets and spit on old ladies like the homos. Geeze. What's wrong with those people? How dare they protest in peace!
“it’s not how Jesus would do it. “
How do they know?
Jesus sent His disciples out two by two to preach to the surrounding towns.
Of course, to discover that, you’d have to actually open your Bible and read it.
I bet that some homosexuals will be converted because of the Christians praying for them on the corner. It happens all of the time in front of abortion clinics. Are we to stop this activity too because it may offend some?
“I came not to send peace, but a sword.” Matt. 10:34. Meaning the Christian witness could expect that the Gospel message would lead to division, not unity.
The election’s over. Stop trying to equate Jesus with a community organizer. He wasn’t
Notice that “singing and praying” on a street corner is the equivalent of committing violence on those who are singing and praying on the corner...
unbelievable.
Elizabeth Scalia is just another libby wolf saying Baaa.
The people who got beat up here...let’s see, who were they again? Right. Peaceful, non confrontational Christians doing what they’ve been doing every week for a long time: exercising their right to pursue their faith. Where were they again? Oh yeah—on a public street corner in a so-called free society.
Fire and brimstone, San Francisco—fire and brimstone!
How is praying and singing the same as forceful intimidation?
That is what Jesus said.
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