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Posted on 09/23/2005 6:11:36 AM PDT by 69ConvertibleFirebird
the point i was making was that some folks just lay awake at night worrying about "them".
whoever "they" may happen to be.
often these folks are oblivious to other problems that have a more serious impact on their lives. It's a question of priorities I guess.
Some people focus on the "gay menace", others on those "darn minorities", etc. which is I guess their life to live it as they choose.
I'm not suggesting that the radical homosexual agenda isn't a problem, it just seems that people are so easily sidetracked.
From some post, you'd think the greatest threat to national security, economic prosperity, and life as we know it was some queer guy down the block.
To be honest, I don't particualrilly care for the queer lifestyle, it strikes me as a dead end and frankly a little gross. Besides that most gays I have known could best be described as complete flakes.
That said, I also remember that on Flight 93 one of the numerous Americans who fought back against the terrorist was was of those "evil" gay guys.
So I'm in a dilemma, and I just find it hard to viciously hate a guy who was willing to defend our capitol with his life.
Maybe that's my problem.
Some people tell me I'm not religious enough, and that I really need to study the Bible more, in order to properly hate some people I will never meet.
But the way they describe Christianity, it doesn't seem very Christian.
but for what its worth, I hope you folks all have a good evening.
take care.
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---Some people tell me I'm not religious enough, and that I really need to study the Bible more, in order to properly hate some people I will never meet.---
For someone who can care less about "queers", you sure can spout the homosexual agenda lines pretty well. Like "Christians HATE "gays"."
I don't hate homosexuals, but I don't want homosexuality pushed down the throat of my kids (no pun intended). And I don't want the next generation to think this form of sexual deviancy is acceptable and OK.
Reddy
Wow...
Apparently if I don't submit to your ideology, I must be part of the "global gay conspiracy".
Are the illuminati in on this too?
Seriously though, in one sense we can come to a level of agreement.
I too get a litle tired of seeing everyting all "gayed up". I can't watch tv without some gay character pontificating.
Thus I, along with most males under 30, tend watch news and sports only
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I too think this is in your face sexuality is damaging to our culture. But I don't strictly leave this to queers.
Even in normal society we are over-sexualizing our kids, dressing inapproiatly and sending the wrong messages.
But I am also frankly getting a little tired of having to choose between a value structure that consist, at least in the public discourse, of a Fred Phelps version of Christianity and the anti-values crowd of the leather panted fruits at the Gay Pride Parade.
What ever happend to normal folks with a sense of perspective and public decorum?
One side tells me "butt naked gays should be hired as grade school teachers" and the other side tells me that if I just read the Bible, I'll know that "God Hates Fags!"
Have all you people lost your dang minds?
Good point, well taken. Thank you.
I have not questioned the school's right to expel the .
I don't hold with all you said, but I do find it curious the intense INTEREST with homosexuals in some quarter. I don't agree with the rabid, in your face stuff, but I have no problem with the gay men who live down the street from me. If they do not rub their sexuality in my face, I leave their fate to one greater than I and stay concerned with my own sins.
I don't understand why some sins are considered worse than others. All separate us from God.
And the very act of laying awake, seething with hatred about s is sinful in itself. There has to be some ground between endorsing life and allowing hatred to consume your heart. I'm trying to find that place.
That means we are near to his heart, that he loves us. Not "jealous" in the greeen-eyed monster sense.
Oh, ok. Thanks for clearing that up for me. :-)
I guess that would depend on one's definition of Christianity (or lesbianism, for that matter). These women are pretty clearly practicing lesbians, and the school's definition of Christianity, on which they have based their requirements for attendance, likewise seems clear. I think the school is entitled to establish its policies based upon its own definition of Christianity, and I still find it difficult to believe these women sent their daughter there for the purpose of adopting the school's Christianity.
I suspect the interest some have with homosexuality today is similar to the interest some Jews had in brownshirts in the 30's. Not all Germans were NAZIs, but the consequences of their machinations were devestating to many when insufficiently opposed earlier.
???? No -you are the naive one... Christ said sin no more -period...
Homosexuals are disordered and merit just discrimination -it is sad that the innocent child must suffer because the homosexuals choose it. It is also sad that society in it's politically correct and secular zeal devoid of absolute truth allows such abuse to innocent children to happen like sacrifice upon the throne of homosexual depravity...
lively thread! LOL
On the other hand, she may have a dim view of her mother and mother the rest of her life...
Thanks for answering about jealouy.
You are correct in your statement. God does not look at sin with a measure. He sees a miss. It is sin.
But, the sin of homosexuality is different, in that the gays are continuing in the relationship, after having knowledge of their wrong.
I have heard from some about divorce being equal, in its "sinfullness". That does not equate, in that the marriage of a sinner, is still recognized. The only conditions Paul placed on elders (church leaders) was that they were husbands of ONE wife. It was not a reference to polygamy, but instead was an acknowledgement of divorce, and remarriage. Nobody knows, for sure, about Paul's marriage status.
All sin separates us, but the one sin that is unforgivable, is blasphemy. Acknowledging your sin is not enough. It is blasphemy when you continue to live in it. It is blasphemy to deny God's Spirit from having dominion over earthly flesh.
It is blasphemy to offer an "alternate" to God's plan for man and woman. God thought it was bad enough to destroy a city, and all that lived there... We get the word "sodomy" from that place!
I see a post about two gay men living down the street. I bet you wouldn't want your son hanging around them, would you? You know they probably have a plan for him. Jesus probably ain't part of it...
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