We put that name to the test.
Posted on 05/05/2014 7:26:10 AM PDT by Flame Retardant
Throughout history, religion has sanctioned and fueled the persecution of homosexuality. That dynamic may be drawing to an end. Polls, clerics, and denominations are shifting. Theology is adapting. Resistance to same-sex marriage is dwindling, and there’s no end in sight.
For 15 years, the Ethics and Public Policy Center has hosted the Faith Angle Forum, a regular conference on religion and public life. Several weeks ago, the group met again to discuss current issues. Transcripts of the conference have just been posted on EPPC’s website. They underscore the extent of the anti-gay collapse.
The first session, led by papal biographer Paul Vallely and Boston Globe editor John Allen, focused on Pope Francis and the Catholic Church. Vallely, the author of Pope Francis: Untying the Knots, noted that before Francis became pope, he supported civil unions in Argentina....
The conference’s second session dwelled on sin. The speakers, Cornelius Plantinga of Calvin College and Ross Douthat of the New York Times, discussed what we should feel bad about. Homosexuality wasn’t on the list.... “It used to be that people thought of homosexual acts as sinful,” he said. “Now they think of criticism of homosexual acts as sinful.”...
The next morning, we had our final session, on the culture wars. Molly Ball, the Atlantic’s terrific political writer, summarized the trend toward acceptance of same-sex marriage. Forty percent of Republicans and 61 percent of Republicans under 30 now favor it, she reported. So do 57 percent of Catholics and 55 percent of mainline Protestants....
There will always be Christians, Muslims, and Jews who condemn homosexuality.... But in this country, religious resistance is crumbling. It’s being overwhelmed by love, conscience, and a God who keeps creating gay kids, even in the most devout families. Over time, He will prevail.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
We put that name to the test.
This is odd (or am I not reading this correctly)? This guy, Saletan, believes in creationism but also believes in gay “marriage”?
LOL!
It really isn't; and your repeating it over and over won't make it so. Don't act like a liberal on FR, please.
Yeah, I knew you were a troll.
Yeah, a great past does not a worthy present make. My statement stands unamended.
You post something that shows you do not know what you’re talking about, but just making a snarky remark.
Then you double down.
Then you triple down.
Oh Kay.
I read through so many of these comments and see people speaking of perverts using the dialect of same. They are not gay. Either refer to the male homosexuals as coprophiliacs, which is most descriptive of their behavior, or use the normal term of, queer. Don’t fall for their trap of using their language—why let them set the agenda for normal people. The lifestyle in the male homo population is about fecal-oral transmission of diseases, finding little boys to rape, having deviant encounters in filthy public restrooms, and spreading their mental and physical diseases. Sodom and Gomorrah, then, is no different than Sodom and Gomorrah, now. Do we really want to turn back civilization thousands of years?
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