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.
Or how that God allowed Elisha to curse 42 little children to die by a two she-bear mauling because they called him bald-headed (2 Kings 2:23-24).
BTW, I am a Christian. I just don't take the OT too literally or appreciate its relevance.
HMMMMMMM
LOL!!! My thoughts exactly!!
Dan
Exactly.
Are they free to go to a new church?
LOL
Did he say "your mom is going to hell" Or "Kimla is going to hell" or did he expound on the verse that says homosexuals shall not enter the Kingdom?
Well, I have no problem showing love to homosexuals, but I do not think that they should be allowed everything that they demand... that's the difference.
Well we agree on that.
What makes you think that you know all of the sexual exploits of the people in your church? If you did, perhaps you would have to worship all alone.
I understand what you're saying but understand the context of the verses I quoted. It was common knowledge within the church of the sin committed so it needed to be acted upon just as in this case. Are there sins that we hold within ourselves and should repent of, mistakes we may have made? Of course. As humans, we are not perfect, only Christ is. And God will bring those sins out in the open sooner or later convict us of them. However, if our sins are known to the church and we still continue in them without true repentance, is it not the right, the responsibility, of the church to act upon them by disassociating with the sinner according to above verses?
Mojo?
When it comes to the media reporting religion and homosexuality, I expect some bias.
My!
Politicizing scripture?
You may be in for a rude awakening one day.
Actually, no, not all. Some do judge themselves by the same ruler, or at least try.
I can't say whether X person is going to hell for sure. I can say that if they continue doing Y then that indicates they are not saved, and it doesn't please God, but only God knows for sure whether that person is going to be saved.
Bingo.
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