Posted on 11/11/2009 5:48:28 PM PST by JoeProBono
It looked like a stunning reversal: the same church that helped defeat gay marriage in California standing with gay-rights activists on an anti-discrimination law in its own backyard. On Tuesday night, after a series of clandestine meetings between local gay-rights backers and Mormons in Salt Lake City, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced it would support proposed city laws that would prohibit discrimination against gays in housing and employment.
The ordinances passed and history was made: It marked the first time the Salt Lake City-based church had supported gay-rights legislation.
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“support proposed city laws that would prohibit discrimination against gays in housing and employment.”
These are federal laws already. Why the heck do they need
city laws?
Shameful act by Mormons. What if a Mormon landlord refuses to rent to two lesbians? This would be considered criminal discrimination under the law favored by Mormons. This has occurred in California where a Christian woman landlord was found guilty of violating CA’s anti-discrimination law on renting to gays even though her basis was that she was compelled by religious belief.
Giving in to terror is never a good idea. I have a feeling these people are just doing this because they are afraid after their churches were burned down after Prop 8.
Shameful act by Mormons. What if a Mormon landlord refuses to rent to two lesbians? This would be considered criminal discrimination under the law favored by Mormons. This has occurred in California where a Christian woman landlord was found guilty of violating CA’s anti-discrimination law on renting to gays even though her basis was that she was compelled by religious belief.
Does this mean they’re getting behind gays? A welcomed move I’m sure.
Gay laws are the least of our problems. I mean... do you really care about the gays? They are harmless. The Mormon’s sold out...but let’s focus on the communists in DC. We can address the gay issues once we clean up the government.
go figure....they will be for gay marriage next i guess
Yes. I care a great deal about my homosexual family members and friends. I care that they are wounded people who are enslaved to a sinful act. I also care about the damage to marriage and family that widespread acceptance of the so-called homosexual lifestyle causes.
That being said, the fact that many of my fellow Christians get so fired up over faggotry puzzles me. Yes, homosexuality is a filthy, antisocial vice, but it's a helluva lot less damaging to society than divorce. Our Lord never mentioned sodomy by name, but He forbade divorce and remarriage specifically and in no uncertain terms. Yet most of the "Christian" people who castigate the homos for being immoral think it's perfectly okay to make a mockery of the God-given Sacrament of Marriage by marrying and divorcing and remarrying.
I'm against "gay marriage", but my fellow Christians who believe in divorce and remarriage are just as guilty of destroying the institution of marriage as the swishiest Mr. & Mr. in Massachusetts.
I'd rather my boy be a flaming faggot than the kind of "straight man" who would dump his wife like garbage.
27 ¶ And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican, named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said unto him, Follow me.
28 And he left all, rose up, and followed him.
29 And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them.
30 But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners?
31 And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.
32 I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Luke 5: 27-31
Surely the Lord was not endorsing the behavior of publicans by eating with them, was he? And when the woman who was taken in adultery was brought before Jesus...
10 When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?
11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
John 8 10,11
Jesus didn't condemn her but He didn't forgive her either. He merely stated "Go and sin no more." Did He, in doing so, endorse her adultery? Of course not. So, given His example, are we to completely disassociate ourselves from sinners and deny their existence and legitimate rights as human beings? The gay marriage fight is about redefining rights and giving the radical gay rights movement legal say over what any and all religions can and cannot believe. This particular law simply deals with housing and employment discrimination. So, are we following His example if we refuse any and all contact with sinners by denying their legitimate rights? Or should we, as He did, recognize their humanity with all its frailties? Hate the sin, not the sinner, right?
You said it, my friend.
Thanks for the support.
“Go and sin no more.”
And this is the whole point. Isn’t it? The scriptural injunction is to condemn the sin not the sinner. By knowingly renting to gay couples is not one complicit in the celebration of a sin?
Wouldn’t the proper imperative be: “Yes, we’d rent to you on condition you don’t engage in gay sex” But the law will not allow for this imperative- it would be criminal discrimination.
Is it a sin to show kindness to sinners?
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