Posted on 04/10/2015 7:36:10 AM PDT by HomerBohn
(Gay thrown off building by devout Muslims)
These son of a bitches need to live under the sharia. I am so sick of this vicious and radical agenda against non-Muslims. This is how the left destroys America: dismantle and trash the pillars of Americanism, paving the way for the totalitarianism that the left so dearly loves.
In the wake of the Indiana donnybrook over religious liberty, which somehow was transformed overnight into a question of gay rights, it couldn’t be long before the New York Times weighed in against Christians. Yet who could have expected the draconian measures the Times would propose?
Either Christians fully embrace the gay lifestyle, or you will be coerced into doing so. Op-ed writer Frank Bruni, onetime Times restaurant critic and a gay activist, has written that Christians who hold on to “ossified,” biblically-based beliefs regarding sexual morality have no place at America’s table and are deserving of no particular regard.
In one fell swoop, Bruni trashes all believing Christians as “bigots,” saying that Christians’ negative moral assessment of homosexual relations is “a choice” that “prioritizes scattered passages of ancient texts over all that has been learned since — as if time had stood still, as if the advances of science and knowledge meant nothing.” In other words, if you still cling to your benighted views and your “ancient texts,” you are living in the past and your views merit no respect.
Bruni’s solution to the impasse is not some sort of goodwill compromise or a treaty of mutual respect, but a take-no-prisoners ultimatum to Christians to abandon their beliefs or else. When Bruni says that Christians’ understanding of sexual morality is “a choice,” what he means is that there is a way out without completely losing face: just embrace the new morality preached by mainstream liberal churches that see nothing wrong with any sexual arrangement you are comfortable with. Then we will accept you.
As a food critic, NY Times writer Frank Bruni was entertaining and occasionally informative. As an op-ed columnist he is adolescent and often repetitive. But as a theologian, he is simply abysmal. Bruni takes it upon himself to explain how the Bible can be interpreted to read that God is really fine with sodomy and that all that antiquated stuff against adultery, fornication, and “men lying with other men” is a quaint vestige of an archaic worldview that went out definitively with Freud. The scary part about Bruni’s essay is not his awkward attempt at playing the biblical scholar, but the undertone of evident disdain for Christians and his proposal that those who resist should be forcibly reeducated.
In Christians’ refusal to bend with the times, Bruni sees not faithfulness to God but willful obstinacy that must be broken. “So our debate about religious freedom should include a conversation about freeing religions and religious people from prejudices that they needn’t cling to and can indeed jettison, much as they’ve jettisoned other aspects of their faith’s history, rightly bowing to the enlightenments of modernity,” Bruni writes.
But what if Christians don’t want to change? What if they don’t want to “bow to the enlightenments of modernity”? What if they are convinced that the modern worldview is not necessarily the most enlightened path when it comes to the ultimate meaning of life and death, time and eternity? “Religion,” writes Bruni, “is going to be the final holdout and most stubborn refuge for homophobia. It will give license to discrimination.” And thus it must be stamped out.
Bruni cites fellow gay activist Mitchell Gold, founder of the advocacy group Faith in America, as saying that church leaders must be made to take homosexuality off the sin list. “His commandment is worthy — and warranted,” writes Bruni. So now government should be dictating belief to churches and enforcing theological orthodoxy? Now politicians and courts will be telling Christians what they are allowed to consider as sinful? Isn’t this what America was founded to escape from? People are already talking about forcing churches to perform same-sex weddings, whether they like it or not, or get out of the marriage business. Christians founded America and yet now the minority gay lobby is trying to tell them they are personae non gratae and their beliefs are no longer welcome.
America has a grand tradition of tolerance and religious freedom, respect for a diversity of beliefs, and an honest engagement with ideas of all sorts. It seems that some would like to force all Americans to walk in lockstep, marching to the same drummer. Sincere Christians have no problem accepting other people with all their sins, inclinations, and struggles, fully understanding that they are in no way superior to the next guy and no better in God’s eyes. But attempts to force them to abandon their ethical standards and their principles reveal not open-mindedness or fairness, but intolerance, chauvinism, and hate. These are the attitudes that have no place in America.
We can't tell if we can fight our way out of this mess caused by an out-of-control central socialist government, but we have to try anyway. The alternatives are far worse. There are a lot of vets out here, and I don't see us surrendering without a fight.
While in America, you do and live like Americans. You don’t like it, LEAVE...the boat is waiting....
Gays are a yawn.
The left wants to replace christian values with a totalitarian state. They see the ROP as helping establish that.
Good idea. I heartily encourage the NYT editorial staff to take their policy proposal and personally present it to muslim communities.
Maybe apple’s Timmy Cook will say something about treatment of homos in the muzzie world?
Timmy is a POS. He gives millions to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). The HRC is the biggest homo lobby group in the world.
Their battle is against morality in the USA. They want to force us to change our moral standards. They talk about not having morality imposed on them but they’re the ones trying to force their morality onto us. They don’t want to force it on government but on our churches too.
If they get their way with marriage laws, it will not be enough. They will try to force it on churches. They will never be happy. They carry guilt in their hearts because they know their acts are immoral. Nothing will change that.
“In Christians’ refusal to bend with the times ...”
Also bend over
What the fail to see is that the enemy of their enemy is another, even more dangerous enemy.
Point #1. And what is sodomy? It is where one man forces his penis up the anus of another man. This is disgusting and abhorrent even to non-Christians and unhealthy. The anus and rectum of an average healthy person is full of bacteria. Some of that bacteria is nasty such as Ebola, giardia, etc. etc. etc. Heck, there is a food scare every couple of years due to some nasty bacteria that probably came out of the rear of some animal or human.
Point #2. The Left and Gays are forcing us to accept that sodomy, as defined above, is just like normal sexual intercourse which is plan stupid.
LOL - they would throw the Times boys off the roof faster than a person could say, 'who gives a damn what a Times critic thinks'...
“The left wants to replace christian values with a totalitarian state.”
That is exactly what they are doing. They are not at all ignorant of the evil of Islam - it is a tool for them.
The guy was a cocaine addict obsessed with sex. [Nope, no left wing bias there! (/s)]
Warped minds quoting warped minds creates nothing but more warped minds. Is this the kind of America the good people of the U.S. want to live in?
Bruni’s brain is an ossified offal!
They don't dare. The muslims will retaliate. Even worse (better?), the fad would catch on like kindling thrown into a camp fire because of the way the fascists homos have been treating the other 98% of the U.S. population.
And parents want them to keep their filthy, bile smelling hands off their kids.
People have had enough of these " My genitals in your face" homos. No one wants to hear anymore about their disguising sex fetish. It makes people want to puke.
Timmy Cook is an ass. If I were an Apple Shareholder or especially a Board member, I would be very angry. He has involved Apple, its brand and its $$ hundreds of billions in the world of divisive and unstable gay politics.
Moreover, He’s opened them up to clear charges of hypocrisy. Does Apple intend to sanction the Middle-East, China, Russia or most of Africa because of their laws against homosexuality?
Timmy boy has been a homosexual for so many years. He wants to feel accepted by everyone so he wants to force his morals on others.
Using his position at Apple isn’t a good business decision. I once had a positive view of Apple. Now I want to see them decline.
I believe they will decline over time. GPS were almost $2000 not too many years ago. Calculators were very expensive at one time too. The same is happening with pads and cell phones.
Careful. To a rump rider, that's considered a compliment.
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