I don't know. They seem pretty harmless.
Posted on 04/26/2005 10:08:19 AM PDT by scripter
Colorado Springs - A national gay advocacy group plans to hold a picnic and rally outside Focus on the Family headquarters next week to protest what the group calls "hurtful rhetoric" from Focus and its founder, James Dobson.
Soulforce, headed by gay minister Mel White, expects 600 to 1,000 people from gay-friendly churches and advocacy groups in Denver and Colorado Springs to protest outside the ministry's north Colorado Springs campus.
Soulforce will have to share the streets with Westboro Baptist Church from Topeka, Kan. That group, led by Fred Phelps, accuses Focus on the Family of being gay-friendly because the ministry hosts "Love Won Out" conferences, which tries to help gays return to heterosexual lifestyles.
"We're getting simultaneous picketing to balance things out," said Paul Hetrick, spokesman for Focus on the Family. "Fred thinks we're soft on homosexuality, and the other group thinks we're too hard on homosexuality. I guess we're sort of in the middle. I know now what it feels like to be moderate."
Soulforce plans to ignore Phelps, but it would like to meet with Dobson, whom White calls the "primary enemy" of gays.
"Dobson has become the primary source of misinformation about gay and lesbian people in the world," White said. "He is single-handedly doing more damage to truth than anyone else, in our opinion.
"I say he's the most dangerous man in America right now."
White said that in leading the crusade for a federal marriage amendment, Dobson has misused statistics and made assumptions portraying gays as a threat to "everything, including the universe, families, children, the church, the country, the nation, the world."
Dobson will be in Washington all week for National Day of Prayer events.
The picnic and rally starts at 12:30 p.m. May 1.
On May 2, the group plans to deliver thousands of letters from people "who have suffered from his rhetoric," White said.
White said the group plans to get the letters to Dobson or Focus even if it requires an act of civil disobedience.
Hetrick said Soulforce's two-day effort is a media stunt.
Though Soulforce has asked to meet with Dobson, Hetrick said: "I kind of wonder what purpose a meeting would have. We offered to meet with them in a debate format a week before they're coming."
Soulforce has declined the invitation.
On Monday, Focus representatives and members of gay advocacy groups will meet at 6:30 p.m. at Vanguard Church in Colorado Springs to debate the Bible and homosexuality.
Interestingly, don't you think it's a double-standard that heteros can "come out of the closet" with great cheers from the gay community, but a gay person cannot change to hetero without being ridiculed?
I don't see them explaining exactly how the Focus in the Family's interpretation of scripture in the Bible is the wrong one.
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1 Corinthians 6:9
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders...
So, lots gays feel like they are in danger?
Their troubles are based in the sins they wager.
Sit down and shut-up
(this blocks your butt)
From the real hazard; an infected rump ranger!
CB^)
I thought it was Judge Pryor. Oh, that was last week. And the week before it was Cheney, and the week before Rummy, and the week before it was DeLay and the week before it was Scalia......(huff,huff) I just can't keep up with all this hyperventilatin'.
And the passage continues with: And that's what some of you were. There is definitely a way out (if I may) of homosexuality, and despite the radical homosexual agendas attempt to silence former homosexuals, more and more folks are realizing homosexuals can leave the lifestyle.
I completely forgot about this article by Dobson. Thanks!
A very revealing point, indeed.
Dear Rev. Eastman.
In case you didn't know, there's a difference in loving someone and sticking your d!ck up their bunghole.
If homosexuals could understand this we might actually be able to make some progress here.
I love lots of people. I love my mom. I love my dog. I only have sex with my wife.
Shalom.
They so conveniently forget about the repentance part of Grace. You know "...go and sin no more".
Ah, but they have ".......deeply held personal beliefs!!!" .........so unlike Shallow Schumer and Skin-Deep Durbin.
Ping
he must write for Baghdad Bob
Hehehe....
I'm not sure but something tells me there's a lot more kneeling going on inside them than you'd see in a regular, run-of-the-mill, God-fearing Churches.
I wonder what "scientific" studies he refers to? What about all the scientific studies that never get peer review?
It really doesn't matter whether or not one believes homosexuals were born that way. Agreeing that there might be a genetic factor to homosexuality is not the big "gotcha!" that homosexual activists think it is -- at least not for Christians. After all, Christians believe we are born in sin. We are all, in that sense, "born that way." For some people it's homosexual acts, for others lying, and for others adultery.
But just as the liar can't claim God doesn't mind his lying because he was "born that way," neither can the homosexual claim homosexual acts don't offend God.
I completely understand and agree with this view. However, I know no person who, and I'm sure there may be some, and they may be 2% of the population as well, who claim that lying and adultery are good, righteous and true morally and are unrepentant for these sins. It's kind of a claptrap to put some sins on equal footing as others...IMHO.
What the heck is a "gay friendly" church?
A bathhouse.
How about we counter protest by eliminating Elton John music?
The MSM is going all "f*g h*g" over Mr. John's psudo nuptuals in england following the UK's adoption of civil unions. Look for all old lady gossip and homo-hollywood to go ga ga over this dog and pony show.
Hit them where they hurt. In the $$$ of the wallets.
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