Posted on 06/13/2016 3:23:48 PM PDT by madprof98
Second, sadly it is religion, including our own, that targets, mostly verbally, and often breeds contempt for gays, lesbians and transgender people. Attacks today on LGBT men and women often plant the seed of contempt, then hatred, which can ultimately lead to violence.
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Bishop Lynch did much worse than merely not utter a word to help save Terri Schaivo; he actively backed Terri’s husband’s efforts to have her starved and dehydrated. In fact, Lynch went so far in backing Schaivo’s husband, that the Vatican eventually publicly rebuked him. So evil were Lynch’s actions that I speculated at the time — and Lynch’s latest column makes me think I was right — that he is a homosexual who is being blackmailed by the left to do their bidding.
this is the RC bishop of St. Pete/Tampa diocese. he has been here for about fifteen years and is slated for retirement as he has reached the mandatory retirement age of 75. it is my recollection that he was alleged to have been in a gay related incident where there had been taken semi nude pictures of a staffer. the bishop apologized and the staffer was dismissed. should have been the other way around, imho.
Homosexual ACTS are sinful. The fact that someone is a homosexual has no bearing on his sinfulness. No different than a Heterosexual.
The wave of mental illness grows ever stronger in this country.
What the hell is this idiot talking about!? I must have missed that day at church. Any OTHER sinners we are hurting with our disapproval? Insanity! If these aren’t the end times they’re a damn close approximation.
Am i hearding this right ? How many out of court settlements did the Arch pay out to silence families who’s sons were being raped by priests ? New Orleans paid out $20M alone. POS
Good catch... speaking of himself as “Florida bishop:” It would be like me titling a report “Computer programmer:” and then giving my own opine. Full of himself much?
The sad thing is, he pans the whole faith, not just certain takes on it. That’s called throwing the baby out with the bath water.
@$$HOLE!
By society and even some Christians approving their lifestyle we have condemned them to a life of sin with no hope for repentence. We have let them out of the closet to their own devices and they have become open targets.
Lynch has been a leftist thorn in the side of the Pro-life movement since the eighties.
It wouldn’t be fair, however, to fail to note that Christian practice has gotten superficial in many instances and has become about outward appearance, outward behavior, outward conduct.
It’s really supposed to be about our rotten hearts and what Christ has done about that. The outward is a secondary effect (and yet its quality definitely bespeaks its new Master).
It's amazing how many leftwing talking points this stupid mofo crammed into one short spew.
Unlike Muslims (who are commanded to take wrath into their own hands), Christians tend to let the Lord take care of that wrath thing ... just as we are told to do.
Even when people do things that are worthy of death.
It is absolutely true that homosexuals were on the list of those who cannot enter the Kingdom and IMMEDIATELY after that Paul writes “and such were some of you” so the former list applies with those who remain unrepentant till the end.
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me ... not “most things”, there is nothing special about homosexuality that makes it impossible for God to bring a homosexual to repentance.
There is another passage that applies, when people brought up those whom Pilate had killed and mixed their blood with their sacrifices. What Christ said applied then and it applies now: unless someone repent they too will perish ... not because they were worse sinners than others but because they didn’t repent while there was still time.
That means someone cannot continue to define themselves as “gay” as if that’s who and what they really are, the vital aspect of their self-identity, and also say they are “Christian”. That’s trying to serve two masters and it will eventually be obvious by the master honored which is actually their only master: either Christ or sin.
The sense that there is any “middle ground” between these extremes is merely an illusion brought about because mortal saints are still carrying around their old body of death that still tries to get us to obey it. In Christ we are new creations and the proper definition of ourselves is then “Christian”.
There is no option of being a Christian who is proudly gay anymore than there is being Christian and also high-handedly unrepentant for any other sin one might care to name.
But Christ, through the working of the Holy Spirit, can change what men in their own strength cannot.
And really, I’ve come to think that the gay-before/over-all-else crowd finds the suggestion that repentance is possible to be very offensive to them. It’s why they so often attack any who claim to have repented.
Islam is not a religion, its a friggin’ cult!
Did they hire this Bishop?
DC has a lot of homosexuals. I assume because they’re trying to change the laws. Pedophilia next.
It’s one of a myriad of possible “strong delusions.”
The bible speaks of people who invite it, who embrace the devil to do his worst.
Some people will eventually hit rock bottom doing this, and God accepts a call from the bottom of the deepest pit.
Sometimes, a strong display of grace to the sinner can hasten this process — the person beholds what his/her conduct has been destroying and is taken aback and calls out to God for help in preserving it instead. This is how, for example, Jesus was able to appeal to adulteresses without climbing all over them with condemnation.
But, alas, some will keep racing to the bottom of a bottomless pit and not even stop for eternity itself. It seems crazy that anyone should want to go to hell, but apparently some do... they want to be rebels forever.
Is one parent Catholic and one Jewish?
[Apparently, he never bothered to read his Bible.]
Correct.
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