Any reason the homosexuals were not sentenced to jail for offending the Swedish pastor?
Coming to a church near you - if these "hate crime" and "hate speech" laws are allowed to be passed.....
Europe is headed back to the dark ages. We shouldn't flatter ourselves much, since we're only about a decade behind them, if that much.
Typical socialist/liberal idiocy.
Just because someone condemns destructive, sinful behaviour does NOT mean that it is hateful.
Suppose a child is caught smoking dope. Does telling the child that it is destructive, sinful behaviour mean that you hate the child?
Idiotic leftists not only ruin society, the trash the language. One American oaf went so far as to debate the meaning of is.
Coming soon to a church near you !
I am quite sure a few months in jail for doing good beats an eternity in Hell.
Religious freedom could never be used as a reason to offend people.
Offending, the highest crime of the land.
Homosexual Agenda Ping - A lot here. The incarceration of the Swedish pastor for criticizing homosexual behavior is creating discussion and reaction in other countries. Here's what's happening in Slovakia.
Some Swedish homosexual spokespeople says:
"According to ENI, Soren Andersson from the Swedish Federation for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights, said that religious freedom could never be used as a reason to offend people."
A gem, right? What about homosexual activists offending religious (or non-religious) people? That's ok. In fact, in this twisted world view, it's righteous activity.
Here's another telling statement by someone from the dark side:
"...the Church that is an institution that should spread reconciliation and good coexistence among people..."
So that's what religion is for? I thought that's what mediation was for. I thought religion's purpose is to reconcile individual humans with God.
This is very, very bad.
Let me know if anyone wants on/off this pinglist.
EU is fascism
"Swedish pastor sentenced to jail for offending homosexuals"
Meanwhile back on the old USA ranch, teachers are giving their students rainbow flavored condom tasting tests and on the clock librarians are trolling gossip boards and chat room while the library shelves are being stacked with kiddie cartoon porn and another husband pretending to be an college undergrad murders his pregnant wife because he couldn't live up to his expectations.
News again at 7am
What a world, what a world
Who'da thunk it 20 years ago...the government of Slovakia protesting religious persecution by the government of Sweden?
Coming to a town near you thanks to hate crime legislation. Chilling thought, isn't it?
But then Christians know they will be tortured, jailed, beheaded and killed for the faith in the end times.
In the meantime, we sit idly by while our politicians pass the very laws that will hang us. Vote them out of office.
We've heard that before. We're getting tired of saving you from fascist tyrants.
We're busy fighting the socialist liberal crap that you exported to our country.
It's getting old with you Euroweenies.
Now it's jail, next it's gas. Then we have to save your a$$.
This is a preview of coming attractions. It's coming to a Church near you, soon.
" a left wing liberal ideology was trying to introduce tyranny
The Judeo-Christian communities in Europe better wake up, as well as here in the US. This is a scary glimpse into the future unless we stop the Tyranny of the Minority. Every Christian and Jewish person should see this article.
Calling all fence sitters...time is coming where the sides will be obvious and decisions will have to be made. God is already sounding the call....Are you for me or against me. Separation of sheep and goats. Seems we are losing our safe grey areas of complacancy. I don't think I have ever seen such a polarization, and so evenly split. But bottom line.... God says he has a remnant...which is merely a piece of the whole. We are going to be out numbered and we will have to make our stand. We don't lose, keep the faith, stay strong and get as close to Him as you can, its the ONLY safe place to be.
Does that mean that Jacques Chirac has to be imprisoned (due to the fact that he offends me) or does he get off because he's a government official?
Something that I notice a lot among conservatives in theor reponse to this type of outrage are charges of hypocrisy, or how foolish and ridiculous this behavior is.
This type of thing is not hypocritical or ridiculous within the doctrines of leftist thought, though. To leftists, the world is divided into three groups:
1. The "oppressed others" - minorities, homosexuals, women, the workers, etc. As these are the designated victims of oppression, they are not capable of committing evil acts. Any bigotry, murder, and even genocide carried out by members of aid groups is seen as being reactive in nature and therefore morally justified.
2. The "oppressors." Members of this group who fail to embrace leftist dogmas deserve no mercy. They are completely 100 percent evil and mmust be destroyed through any number of means: reverse discrimination, hate crimes laws (which apply only to the oppressors), destruction of culture, and reduction (through unlimited immigration) to minority status in their own native lands. The oppressors are a) Christians (and Orthodox Jews to a degree); b) whites (and any minorities who embrace the majority culture); c) heterosexuals; d) males.
3.) The last group is the smallest. They are the annointed ones - the true believers in the new order. Because they are leading the way to the great utopia, anything they do is perfectly justfiable. This is why, for example, you see feminists who rail about sexual harassment twist themselves into amazing pretzel shapes when standing up for their men - Bill Clinton and Ted Kennedy. Those men are members of the annointed, thus they are categorically incapable of doing anything from a purely base motive. They must be defended at all costs. That's also the reason we'll never see an Imam sent to prison for advocating that Christians and Jews be put to the sword under leftist hate crime statutes, unless its such a bad case they might face a real public revolt if they didn't do something.
The evil oppresors must be destroyed and the righteous oppressed must be elevated under the enlightened guidance of the annointed visionaries. Leftism is a religion, not a logical methof of thinking about political issues.