[SkyPilot]

This has already happened in the US military. Soldiers, sailors, and airmen have been persecuted for being Christian, and believing in God's Word.

Now, the rest of the nation is soon to be compelled to either stand with God, or face persecution if you believe God's Word.

[MeshugeMikey]

these morons dont understand that its not a churches sin list their hobby is listed in.... but the BIBLE

[GreyFriar]

My reply to the person in your post:

Dear Gay Activist,
You need to take that up with God. He makes the rules.
/s/ GreyFriar

[bigredkitty1]

So, what’s next to be taken off the sin list? Lying? Theft? Murder? Regardless of what these people want to believe, homosexuality is still a sin in the eyes of The Almighty.

[Engraved-on-His-hands]

But, but...I thought that they just wanted to be able to visit dying loved ones in the hospital.

[Republican Wildcat]

This is inevitable if liberals stay in control of shaping public policy long enough.

By the way, there is no sin “list” - there are sins, and the sins of the homosexual are no greater than the sins all of the rest of us commit and for which we need redemption, so this is a completely incorrect premise to state that “they” are an offense any more than any of the rest of us...but that doesn’t negate the fact that it is wrong. The context of his argument is completely twisted. Moreover, the Church is not where this originated and the Church has no authority to “remove” what is or is not sin.

[Burkean]

Sounds like a “hate the sin, not the sinner” approach. The wording would presumably place the focus on homosexual activity rather than the relatively modern designation of homosexual identity.

[MAexile]

“All of us, no matter our religious traditions, should know better than to tell gay people that they’re an offense.”

Gay people are not an offense. Their sin is an offense, an offense to God.

[Georgia Girl 2]

“Religion is going to be the final holdout and most stubborn refuge for homophobia.”

What he really means is that Christianity must die.

[Republican Wildcat]

The Times article centered on Indiana’s Religious Freedom Act and Buni’s assertion that Christian Americans should “jettison” their mindsets about homosexual behavior. He contended that the interpretation of biblical text about homosexuality is “subjective” and “debatable” and said that Christians disregard the “biases and blind spots of [the Bible’s] authors, cultures and eras.”

No, it is not debatable at all. There is now way to interpret it any differently than what it says and it is quite clear. Moreover, it is also a fact of our biology - whether you believe it is way God made us or even if you refuse to believe in God - it is a fact that we are male and female and that is how we bond and reproduce. There is no other natural way, and there is nothing debatable or subjective about this.

[Popman]

I was unaware churches have sin lists...

Somehow after going to church for 35 years I missed that part....

Guess, I should pay more attention / S

[CitizenUSA]

SkyPilot: “Now, the rest of the nation is soon to be compelled to either stand with God, or face persecution if you believe God’s Word.”

It saddens me that the nation is coming to this, but I think you’re right. We Christians have had a very easy time in the USA. Now the wheat will be separated from the chaff.

It also saddens me that tolerance is not a two-way street in the USA. We’ve typically been a live and let live nation. Do Christians have a history of tormenting homosexuals? No. They are simply sinners like everyone else.

What torments homosexuals is what’s written in the Bible—God’s revealed wisdom—and a homosexual’s own inner voice that reminds him that he weren’t created, spiritually and physically, for such things.

I didn’t create male and female. That is the natural order of things. If a homosexual is offended by that truth, there is nothing I can do. He may as well be offended by the sun and wind. Male and female is reality.

[Popman]

“Religion is going to be the final holdout and most stubborn refuge for homophobia.”

This false premise of christians being homophobia (dislike of or prejudice against homosexual people) is a lie...

As a christian, Christ commands me to love all people. I don't have to condone their lifestyle...

If I dislike drunks behavior, does that make me a drunkphobia ?

[bajabaja]

So he wants the government to “correct” religious doctrine?

[plain talk]

Don’t tell us. We just say it’s a sin and pray for them and that’s the end of it. They should go over to Iran and tell those people to get their minds right. Let us know how it turns out.

[lightman]

[a fool in paradise]

“Gold told me that church leaders must be made ‘to take homosexuality off the sin list,’ he wrote. “His command is worthy

Etched in stone is it?

If God was so adamant that the world know that same sex desires are no longer sinful (and by extension, polyamory and shacking up) wouldn't the message be broadcast by persons less personally invested in seeing this change?

[polymuser]

Frank Buni:

Please replace Christian with Muslim, and American with Arabi, and re-release the article.

Pretty please.

[apillar]

In other news Bill Clinton is demanding that lying and adultery be taken off the sin list while we’re at it...

[edpc]

The prescience of Robert Bork. We are indeed Slouching Toward Gammorah.

[MaxMax]

Mans ego places themselves over God. Where have I read that before, oh yea, The Bible.

What happens when good people do nothing...