Actually, I hope the mainstream media jump all over this pastor and attack Santorum for being backed by this pastor. The simple fact of the matter is that lots of black evangelicals detest homosexuality and an aggressive attack on this black pastor could help show black evangelicals that Democrats are not their friends.
Dr. D. James Kennedy had homosexuals picketing his church for his sermons condemning homosexuality, though in less colorful terms than this black pastor. My home church in New York City, Neighborhood Church of Greenwich Village, was attacked by a homosexual mob throwing rocks through windows when a group of young people passed out flyers in Greenwich Village saying homosexuals could change. There's no way to “play nice” with homosexuals and avoid their wrath, and I'm no longer willing to try to avoid antagonizing them. I've pretty much come to the conclusion, based on the extreme viciousness of the anti-Christian behavior of many homosexuals, that we're dealing with outright demon-possession. At minimum, we're dealing with people who have been given over to “shameful lusts” and a “depraved mind” (Romans 1:26, 28).
5 posted on Monday, January 23, 2012 6:08:59 AM by C. Edmund Wright: “Of course, this is just one of the many problems when your platform for President is that you are Mr. Goody Two Shoes.....you attract this kind of “talent” for your campaign.”
Some of us happen to agree that the Bible strongly condemns homosexuality, calling it an abomination and perversion.
If you don't agree, that's your right in America. But many evangelical Christians and conservative Roman Catholics agree with what this pastor said, though perhaps not with the way he said it.
I'm required by my evangelical convictions to believe what Romans 1:26-32 says. You don't have to agree if you're not a Christian, but don't blame me for following the clear original intent of the Bible:
“(verse 26) Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. (27) In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. (28) Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. (29) They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, (30) slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. (32) Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.”
“There’s no way to “play nice” with homosexuals and avoid their wrath”
Truth of the day, DM. A great observation - the issue won’t ever be anything but ugly, so may as well understand that when we take a stand against homosexuality.
I have noted in the last week of being here in D.C. on reserve duty that many of my friends believe the meme that “the Bible has been translated and retranslated so many times that nobody really knows what the original meaning was”. I’m just shocked that these really bright people would fall for that crap.
You totally totally totally missed the point. You apparently cannot separate government from church apparently. You apparently cannot separate a political campaign from the role of the church.
I agree with D James Kennedy (and you) on this issue, but it’s not the foundation upon which to build a Presidential campaign. I don’t need a President to tell me what is right in regard to this issue. I don’t need Rick Santorum nor his campaign staff to tell me either. I absolutely resent the implication you made that because I think this is totally stupid campaign strategy that I disagree with you on the foundational truths.
It’s that exact kind of judgmentalism and stridency that is such a turn off to RS (like Bachmann before him).
” But many evangelical Christians and conservative Roman Catholics agree with what this pastor said, though perhaps not with the way he said it.”
That sums it up nicely for this Roman Catholic. I agree that homosexuality is an abomination & like abortion, is intrinsically evil. Can’t say I would have put it quite like this pastor did, though.
I do beleive that with God’s grace, people can change & repent. I pray daily for the conversion of homos as well as abortionists. I turst that God will forgive them if they seek Him.
:: attacked by a homosexual mob ::
Yo, Lot! Send your new friends out to “play” with us!