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Joel Osteen Says Homosexuality is 'a Sin' but Won't 'Preach' on It
NewsMax ^ | 14 Jan 2014 | Courtney Coren

Posted on 01/14/2014 9:38:12 AM PST by Gamecock

Televangelist Joel Osteen says homosexuality is a sin but he doesn't "preach" about it and isn't against "anybody" who is gay.

"I believe that scripture says that it's a sin but I always follow up by saying you know what, we're not against anybody," he added.

"There's a lot of things, Larry, and I don't understand — so I just don't want to preach on it, preach about it," Osteen replied.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


TOPICS: General Discusssion
KEYWORDS: homosexuality; megachurch; osteen; sin; televangelists
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To: Gamecock
Where did Joel have to go to find Larry King?

Joel sure enjoys his camera time.

41 posted on 01/14/2014 10:09:59 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: RckyRaCoCo; Snickering Hound

Lawyers aren’t cheap either.


42 posted on 01/14/2014 10:11:53 AM PST by Gamecock (Celebrating 20,000 posts of dubious quality.)
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To: RonInNaples

The abomination means that it is not just a sin but a great sin that is deceiving in nature and can be easily spread. It is a thing to be abhorred and shunned. For a preacher, priest or rabbi to not preach about the sin of homosexuality is a stain on their soul. They will be called into account for this dereliction.


43 posted on 01/14/2014 10:15:47 AM PST by BipolarBob
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To: Gamecock

Can’t keep up the mortgage payments on a basketball arena if GLAAD and GLSEN launch boycotts on ya, I guess.


44 posted on 01/14/2014 10:25:16 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Gamecock

Osteen: Just another Charlatan “preacher” who found God only as a vehicle to get to the bank!!


45 posted on 01/14/2014 10:25:47 AM PST by Froggie
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To: Alex Murphy

Larry King is right sort of. Homosexual attractions are no more sins than heterosexual ones. What are sins are acting out homosexual attractions or those attractions to fornication, child abuse and adultery to name a few. Another sin is to celebrate and approve of those acts. A further sin is to condemn the person who engages in the acts.

Hate the sin and love the sinner preacherman


46 posted on 01/14/2014 10:28:25 AM PST by amihow
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To: Gamecock

No real Sky-pilot. Just another earthbound fence-rider.


47 posted on 01/14/2014 11:00:45 AM PST by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

I always like him when I see him on someones show.


48 posted on 01/14/2014 11:08:45 AM PST by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: Gamecock

Many of his followers are likely to be divorcd and remarried—he will probably avoid pounding the pulpit on adultery too. It’s all about the money.


49 posted on 01/14/2014 11:10:20 AM PST by Burkean (.)
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To: Snickering Hound

I maintain that something similar is what “infects” our elected congressmen when they get to DC.

Their wives like being invited to the cocktail circuit,
and if the congressmen vote the wrong way too much,
or challenge the wrong people,

the wives don’t get invited anymore.


50 posted on 01/14/2014 11:13:37 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Boogieman

2Ti 4:2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
2Ti 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
2Ti 4:4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.


51 posted on 01/14/2014 11:19:23 AM PST by afsnco
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To: Gamecock

Sex and Silver...the root cause for all preachers to lose their way.


52 posted on 01/14/2014 11:19:52 AM PST by ThomasMore (Islam is the Whore of Babylon!)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

Osteen is a highly paid used car salesman. Nothing more.


53 posted on 01/14/2014 11:24:14 AM PST by NKP_Vet ("Rather than love, than money, than fame, then give truth" ~ Henry David Thoreau)
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To: Oliviaforever
“It doesn’t annoy me,”

It doesn't annoy me, either; it's way beyond that. It repels me and sickens me.

Osteen is a grinning charlatan.

54 posted on 01/14/2014 11:29:33 AM PST by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males----the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: Gamecock

How lame


55 posted on 01/14/2014 11:40:06 AM PST by Morgana (Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: NKP_Vet

“Osteen is a highly paid used car salesman.”

I always felt there was a place in Dante’s Inferno for used car salesmen.


56 posted on 01/14/2014 11:41:02 AM PST by Morgana (Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Snickering Hound

She looks like she’s perpetually being goosed.


57 posted on 01/14/2014 11:43:11 AM PST by Hoffer Rand (If you like your plan, you can keep your plan. *Asterisk.*)
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To: Gamecock

Claiming that homosexuality is a sin: soon to be a legally punishable offense by the Holder Justice Department?


58 posted on 01/14/2014 11:48:40 AM PST by windsorknot (>>>)
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To: afsnco
2Ti 4:2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
2Ti 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
2Ti 4:4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

Bears repeating.

59 posted on 01/14/2014 11:51:35 AM PST by Hoffer Rand (If you like your plan, you can keep your plan. *Asterisk.*)
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To: Gamecock

He’s pathetic besides creepy looking


60 posted on 01/14/2014 11:52:57 AM PST by laweeks
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