Posted on 06/16/2016 8:58:16 AM PDT by reaganaut1
When the Southern Baptist leader Russell Moore reached sympathetically out to the L.G.B.T. community in the wake of Orlando, the gay writer Zack Ford expressed a view often heard this week: that unless conservative Christians change their minds on homosexuality, their post-Orlando expressions of solidarity are worthless.
The Times took a similar line in its lead editorial today, smearing G.O.P. politicians opposed to various L.G.B.T. rights laws with the blood of the Orlando dead.
This escalates the culture war to an openly religious conflict, in the sense that neither side can back down without compromising what it holds sacred. And it turns L.G.B.T. advocates into heretic hunters who persecute thought criminals by demonizing dissent.
In the past, many Christians treated gays cruelly. Sadly, some still do. Christians must repent of this ugly legacy and condemn anti-gay hatred when it emerges. This is basic obedience to the Bible, which tells us that every human being, however broken we all are, is created in the image of God.
Yet that same Bible gives us Christians a particular anthropology, and reveals to us the meaning of sex and marriage within the cosmic order. As unpopular as that view is, we Christians who profess orthodox forms of the faith cannot reject it without doing serious violence to the truth, and to our consciences.
We also believe that a society that loses that vision of sex and marriage courts disaster, and that the advance of L.G.B.T. rights means a corresponding loss of religious liberty -- hence our activism and our voting. L.G.B.T. people, of course, oppose us publicly and privately. Our views are irreconcilable, but that doesn’t mean either side is motivated by irrational animus.
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Well, at least I know of 49 wedding cakes no Christian will ever be forced to bake.
It's God's word. I will forever hate the sin of homosexuality, and, still have compassion for repentant gays.
Almost all the "cruelty" and "hated" consists of Christians opposing gay marriage and considering homosexual behavior a sin.
Some Christians presume to be able to do God’s job and condemn them to Hell, but they’re not the ones gunning them down....
Why assume the “Christians” or “Conservatives” are “standing in unity” with the gay agenda? Can’t they/we just be sympathetic? We may not agree with their agenda, but certainly would not wish physical harm or death upon them. Can’t these people differentiate?
Anderson Cooper blamed Pam Bondi’s support of traditional marriage on the massacre.
Really? The killer shot up the place because he was a supporter of traditional marriage?
The guy was gay for crying out loud. He would have shot up Disneyland, but with the wide open spaces and efficient security he couldn’t have caused as much mayhem as he did in the confined spaces of the “gun free” nightclub.
Liberal will blame anyone but who actually caused the murder.
It is even less normal and natural to do it as often as possible with as many partners as possible in a manner that can only spread a deadly disease virus.
Lesson number one for lunatic leftists: Always blame America first, then Christians, whites, Republicans and any other group who threatens their power base.
Here’s what really matters, and I think the homos will grasp it:
When the chips were down, and it came to a choice between defending the homos against those who want to kill them, and the killers themselves, the right chose to defend the homos, and the left chose to defend the killers.
Talk is cheap. For all the left talks about loving homos, they won’t act when action is needed.
They can play their games all they want.
Lots of gays are seeing the truth.
Democrats cleave to Muslims more than them, and Muslims want to kill them.
Where is the left’s compassion for the thousands and thousands of Christians have been slaughtered in the Middle East by ISIS?
Any examples of this 'cruelty'?
Or are they saying it is cruel when a Christian baker, or florist, refuses to be forced to participate in a Sodomite fake wedding?
Or are they pretending that the 'Laramie Project' hero was set upon by Christians because they found out he was a homosexual (as opposed to being set upon by fellow druggies when his drug deal went bad).
This is basic obedience to the Bible, which tells us that every human being, however broken we all are, is created in the image of God.
We are all sinners (broken). That is true.
Man and Woman are made in the image of God. That is true.
But unrepentant sinners have no place in the Kingdom. It behooves all Christians to sound that warning loud and clear. The Sodomite (or Adulterer, or Rapist, or, etc) who stays in their sin will spend eternity in hell-fire. To sit on our hands and just pat the sinner on the back and tell them it is OK to stay in their sin is just wrong.
Ezekiel 18:30b-32
...Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
>But unrepentant sinners have no place in the Kingdom.
Not one person on this Earth can make that proclamation for anyone other than themselves.
>It behooves all Christians to sound that warning loud and clear
No, it just gets more rats elected.
Well quite frankly some Christians have considered policing a secular country that has no divine covenant equivalent to policing eternity.
Won’t matter how many muzzies kill homos. The homos will still ALWAYS blame conservatives and Christians. Their fascistic obsessiveness with submission, undoubtedly cultivated in their perverted sexual inclinations, will always seek to target those unwilling to equate their lifestyle as equal or superior to ‘breeders.’
This notion that homos will suddenly wake up and allign themselves with conservatism is fanciful. Reminds me so much of the PUMA crowd in 2008, that were going to be voting in huge waves for McCain-Palin. What a crock.
Policing America and policing eternity aren’t the same thing. (Even if the corny song does claim that the streets of heaven are guarded by Marines.)
But it’s true, Christians should police their own hearts first, bring them back within the scope of Jesus Christ and get them out of the scope of the devil.
God does things that you could not even dream of.
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