Posted on 04/25/2007 12:04:49 PM PDT by Abathar
INDIANAPOLIS -- At least two billboard signs that seek to get people to re-examine homosexuality by using biblical references have been vandalized in Indianapolis.
The campaign, coordinated by the Jesus Metropolitan Community Church, of Indianapolis, carries a message some consider shocking, 6News' Derrik Thomas reported.
In order to deface the billboards, vandals had to be daring, using extension ladders. There have been no arrests, but the debate rages.
The billboard proclaims that Jesus affirmed a gay couple. "Lie, lie, lie," is scrawled in red paint above the original message on a sign on 10th Street.
Twenty-two billboards were placed strategically around the city. The Rev. Jeff Miner, of the church that paid for the billboards, was disappointed by the vandalism.
"There was a sense of disappointment, a sense of shock. That's OK," Miner said. "We're going to share a positive, powerful message how the Bible affirms gay people and we know there is going to be some opposition as we try to get that message out here."
In addition to the billboards, church volunteers have placed about 2,000 yard signs around the city. Many of them were pulled out of the ground almost as fast as they were put in.
Curt Smith, of the Indiana Family Institute, criticized the vandalism, but said the Bible does not confirm the billboards' message.
"I think homosexuals are noted in the Bible in a couple of key passages that were an example of sexual sin that is decried by God," Smith said.
The billboard campaign is scheduled to run for 30 days. One of the damaged billboards was fixed by Tuesday afternoon. The second one might be repaired by the end of the week.
Don’t waste your time reading “The DaVinci Code.” The writing is amateurish and Grishamesque. You’ll be pissed off and want your life back. If ya gotta have some exposure to it, see the movie.
Not that the movie’s any good - it’s not - but it’s a shorter watch than the book is a read.
You know I’ve never read “The Passover Plot”? I think I have it. Gotta check when I get home.
Someone should ask Rev. Miner where he was when those previous acts of vandalism took place.
My bible certainly does not lead one to believe anyone was a homosexual in that story. I agree: LIE LIE LIE
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Seems to me only a sick mind could read this as homosexual behavior.
LOL! I actually use that threat myself!
I had heard that it wasn’t very well done and, of course, I didn’t by the premise. I have some secularized Italian friends who were very enthusiastic about it, and I saw study guides for it in bookstores, and then I read some place that a lot of people believed it to be factual, so I thought maybe it is something I should know about.
The movie does sound like a better deal. My reading lately is the dead white guy stuff I should have read in school but didn’t, so I think I’ll stick with that.
You have to consider who's doing the translating. It means the same if you're a pedophile.
I don't know where Jesus "affirmed a gay couple" in the Bible, but I do know where he makes it abundantly clear that those who practice homosexuality spend eternity in hell.
And I do know there are no contradictions in the Bible, so somebody in this episode is twisting Scripture to try to justify what is condemed by God, and is not facing reality.
Oh, but he can! He reads well enough to see stuff you and I can't -- you know, the stuff that's not there, the stuff between the lines.
Whew! Sure am glad someone wrote “LIE, LIE, LIE” acrossed the message. I’m certain a lot of folks would have been confused and thought that homosexuality was okay.
Even allowing that the centurion and his servant were gay, the passage is not an affirmation of homosexuality.
Christ was praising the centurion for demonstrating faith. Geeze they can’t even correctly interpret their perversion.
Could be worse.
If this billboard had a similar message about Mohammad the good Reverend would be missing his head about now.
"Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is an abomination."
They’re mixed up... that’s the Satanic Bible, not ours.
Maybe they need to go back and read the real thing.
Oh, you mean he's a potential liberal Court Justice. Gotcha.
Great comeback. He might also have a future as a global warming scientist.
Yeah, so anyone can translate any scripture to mean whatever he wants it to mean -- as in this case.
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