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To: Bonaparte

Well, the point I'm making is that being a Christian (calling yourself a Christian) does not preclude anyone from associating with gay people. In free, rational, developed societies people pretty much get to believe what they want without the fear of retribution.

The Christians at OCS have chosen a belief system that takes a dim view of gay people (for reasons aside from supernatural softball skills). And that's their choice. In many, many countries they wouldn't have that choice.

Also, whether their dislike of gay people is based solely on their Christian beliefs is difficult to say. For those who holds their beliefs as a central part of their lives, belief and emotional stuff is tangled up together in one ball. However, I suspect that even if they were not Christians, they still wouldn't be keen on the whole gay thing.


286 posted on 09/28/2005 2:16:47 PM PDT by durasell
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To: durasell
"...being a Christian (calling yourself a Christian) does not preclude anyone from associating with gay people."

I agree. However, this is not the situation in the OCS controversy. Here, we have two "parents" who have professed in writing that they are practicing Christians who subscribe to the OCS Statement Of Faith and yet are proud and defiant unrepentent sinners.

If these two were not self-proclaimed Christians, we wouldn't be discussing this problem because their "daughter" would not have attended that school at all.

287 posted on 09/28/2005 2:32:12 PM PDT by Bonaparte
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