Posted on 08/20/2002 10:34:54 AM PDT by chance33_98
Lesbian mother and teens reach agreement over lifestyle
Kimla Green says she's willing to put aside her homosexuality in order to have her two girls come home. By Chris Adams ABC13 Eyewitness News (8/19/02) — It's a very private family drama that is now being played out in a very public way in court, with daughters against their mother.
This is a family torn apart by conflicts over homosexuality, the role of religion and the struggle to balance some very difficult facts of life.
Kimla Green walked into a family law courtroom Monday with one simple goal.
"I just want my kids back home right now," said teen girls' mother, Kimla Green.
Green acknowledges that she is sexually attracted to women and that she has brought women to the home she once shared with her two daughters, ages 16 and 17.
The family was before a judge Monday because the two teens asked the court to declare them independent because they object to their mother's gay lifestyle.
For now the girls are with their aunt. Their mother says it didn't have to come to this.
But the girl's attorney, John Breeze said, "Well, obviously there's always two sides to every story."
A Harris County judge transferred to the case Fort Bend County. But in the interim, the two sides appear to have struck a deal.
"We're hoping to have the court read our agreement or hear our agreement and say that it is in the best interest of the children and that will hopefully be the judgment," said the mother's attorney, Lee Jeronimo.
Green says the two girls have been unduly influenced and interfered with by the church they've been attending.
The new deal makes both Green and her daughters give up something.
"Well, my agreement is not to show any type of homosexual lifestyle in front of my kids or to do anything that makes them feel uncomfortable concerning the gay lifestyle. I agree to that as long as they agree not attend the Body of Christ Ministry because of all the brainwashing going on," said Green.
The agreement would reunite the family. It still needs to be approved by a Fort Bend County judge. Everyone's expected back in court there later this month.
The Body of Christ Ministry declined to comment about the case.
Maybe the more theologically correct statement would be:
"She was in church and the pastor announced from the pulpit that she is hell-bound, and will end up there if she continues in her unbelief that Christ was provided as a propitiation for her sins, one of which is the practice of homosexuality.
Well, I guess they'll have to flame me right along with you on this.
You make it sound like an option. There is no option with what I stated above. It is the essence of the Gospel.
What you probably meant to say is: In addition, the pastor could have....
No reason this can't be simple, if you're really wanting to know.
I'm a Christian, but I'm surprised at your incredulity. I've seen pastors say all kinds of stupid things from the pulpit.
Where did I disagree with what you posted? The Gospel is a 2 edged sword...it saves you to everlasting life or condemns you to eternal damnation. God is both merciful AND just, therfore both the salvation and damnation of God must be presented as part of the Gospel message. Any thing less is not the Gospel.
Maybe the more theologically correct statement would be:
"She was in church and the pastor announced from the pulpit that she is hell-bound, and will end up there if she continues in her unbelief that Christ was provided as a propitiation for her sins, one of which is the practice of homosexuality.
This is the central theme that so many gay "bashers" on FR (that some on this thread are worried about) are saying. Right on! We have no way of knowing if the pastor simply pointed to the woman and said "you're going to hell", or if he said what Sangamon Kid quoted, that "You will go to hell if you don't change your ways". To a liberally biased reporter, those two things sound just the same, since homosexuality isn't a "choice", it's a "predisposition". (barffffffff) But to anyone who thinks about it, and knows the truth about homosexuality itself, the two statements are very different.
To me, homosexuality is very simple a social "ill" to correct: Let the homos do what they want, let them marry, let them have their benefits (but NOT "special rights"), let them practice their lifestyle anyway they CHOOSE, but the fact is clear, there is no way you can be both Christian and homosexual.
There is no way around I Cor 6:9-10.
He said it.
Exact quote please.
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