[HeadOn]

I am a bit confused. It simply states a couple of things, and says the Salvation Army will help where it can. It does NOT endorse the lifestyle - just lets them know the Salvation Army might be able to help.

I disagree in the STRONGEST sense with that lifestyle, but Christianity is not supposed to be a “You-made-your-bed,-you-lie-in-it” kind of Faith. Jesus said we should help people in order to witness to them. The SA can witness to folks from that community if they are staying in a shelter.

Jesus talked to “unacceptable” people in His day, too... I donate to Him every week.

[Mrs. Don-o]

You are correct when you say that we Christians, like our Master, are to show love and care for everyone in need -— not just the “respectable” and not people “just like us.” Jesus said, “The healthy do not need the Physician: sick people do!”

But if you read through, you will see that the SA now honor the twisted legal fiction known as “gay marriage,” and hire gay couples on their own staff without any indication that this is a fundamental violation of God’s law.

They also buy into the narrative that gays are pervasively suffering from society’s homophobia, a weaselly politicized term used to blame normal, just, decent and thoughtful people who resist the all-powerful LGBT agenda in any way.

YOU are a homophobe in their eyes, dear HeadOn, if you ever-so -gently and lovingly dare to “witness” to them.

THAT is the problem.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Read in a bit more detail. I already addressed this point prior.

It’s a lot of smoke-&-mirrors talk of discrimination, causation, and basically ignoring their root problem without actually acknowledging they need to change and thus should SA minister to them. Helping them with every-day charity problems is one thing, treating them as special and yet not needing “witness” is another.

[Mrs. Don-o]

It's something like thinking about a truly Christian ministry to alcoholics. By all means, invite AA to start a chapter in your parish and get your best preacher to preach on the well-founded hope of a new life based on spiritual rebirth in Christ.

Invite a "dry alcoholic" minister to do a targeted revival meeting and tell his recovery story, with all its ups-and-downs, scrapes and struggles, and its lessons of patience, trust and victory.

But don't invite them to come join you with the kind of indiscriminate affirmation that will only trap them deeper in their self-deception.

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