[RLK]

I am unconvinced by your chatter.

[wallcrawlr]

So far that's what I've experienced and it's been the most joyful and God-filled adventure of my life!

...insert perverted...

[nothingnew]

Anita: He forgives sinners. He hates the sin. I can live with that. Just don't try "shove" your piss poor crap down my throat. Shut up and live your life as you see fit. LEAVE ME ALONE!

FMCDH

[Rytwyng]

I'm in a committed relationship with my life partner Dana. We've been together for two years and will be getting married in a Christian wedding at a church this coming Spring. Our marriage will be affirmed by God

No, it won't.

[William Terrell]

Unapologetically lesbian

And then spending 1930 words apologizing for it? Sounds like rationalizing a known wrongness to me.

One can have unnamed feelings; God does test and temper. However, you do nothing about them. If you do, you fail the test and refuse the temper. That's what gets you, not simply having the unnamed feelings.

What God wants and what you want aren't necessarily the same thing.

[LiteKeeper]

Basics
* Name ~ I'm Anita (on the left) with my lovely wife Dana. See Our Wedding Page.
* Age ~ 46 years old
* Location ~ Danville, California
* Occupation ~ Pastoral Assistant, Christian Education Director, and Youth Coordinator at Lafayette Christian Church
* Pets ~ Tweety the Cat, part Siamese/part insane!
* Church ~ Lafayette Christian Church, Disciples of Christ
* Prior Employment ~ Children's Pastor for seventeen years, contributing writer and editor for Gospel Light Publications, national speaker in the area of Christian Education, Administrative Assistant for three years at the Koinonia Center which is the Presbyterian Campus Ministry at the University of Oregon.

This woman writes Sunday School curriculum, and lectures on Christian Education!

[El Cid]

We are all sinners; and we all need Christ's redemptive blood to wash our stains clean... but

1 Cor 6:9-10
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

IF the regenerative power of the Holy Spirit exists within ourselves - then we will detest these sins, and the Spirit will work with us to overcome them. And based on the author's own witness, it doesn't appear that she is speaking in the past tense about her desire to sin:

1 Cor 6:11
11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

I pray the author can at some point use the word "were" to describe her affliction; but for now, her witness contradicts her statement that she is a Christian.

[VxH]

Abomination.

Which part of the word is so hard to understand?

Sola Scriptura.

[Porterville]

I don't mean to judge other's but I must say, she is on a fast track to hell. Hell is a hot spot, where everyone is Anglican and gay.

[Porterville]

Satan... he's everywhere

[Don W]

I realize my reply is less than complete, but it's late. The reply is also aimed at the poor misguided soul who wrote this, not the poster.

while the final choice was mine everything else was left up to Jesus and if that's the case my salvation doesn't hinge on my faith or adherence in church teaching or in those dogmas and doctrines that are nonessential to the finished work of Calvary

WRONGO, right from the start.

(1) To be a Christian, you must work against your basest urges. Constantly, consistently,and without recourse. To do otherwise is to denigrate and defile the sacrifice made by our LORD Jesus Christ.

I'm in a committed relationship with my life partner Dana. We've been together for two years and will be getting married in a Christian wedding at a church this coming Spring.

Our marriage will be affirmed by God and the church where our union will be celebrated even though the state will fail to recognize it.

What "Christian" church recognizes homosexual unions? By definition, and biblical verse, homosexuals are apostate from God. God abhors and despises the fruitless pointlessness of this practice, and says so EXPLICITLY.The family unit (Mother, Father, and Children) is the very foundation of society. NO culture on earth has ever survived or even come to fruition without it. What you (and your "significant other") are doing is fomenting and abetting the collapse of the most advanced, civilized society ever to have developed.

The sad thing is, you and your ilk are currently winning.

[CARepubGal]

That is one delusional critter. Total Depravity bump and hurl

[PLMerite]

I'm happy she's a Christian.
I'm glad she's found that special someone.

I still think SSAD is a psychological abnormality that should be researched so it can be treated.

[WKB]

Lite keeper maybe The LIGHT keeper no way

[NYer]

You forgot the prerequisite BARF ALERT!!!

"Following the entry by the pastors and the attendents, Pastor Mike Matthews entered with the cross. It was the cross that entered down the center aisle, usually reserved for the brides, while Dana and I entered from opposite sides. It is through Christ that we have been joined together into relationship and it's our earnest intention to keep Jesus at the center of our marriage."

SITREP

[Diddle E. Squat]

Apparently a member of the Corinthian Church...

[185JHP]

The Bible is clear about this sin. It is an abomination that God hates. You can be a Christian and commit gross (in both senses of the word) sin, but it'll bother you - so much that you'll say "That wasn't worth it!" N.B. By Christian, I mean "saved and heaven-bound", not "bought off on the best known "philosophy."

[skr]

The good news is that Anita recognizes that God loves her and that Jesus died to save her from her sins. The bad news is that she doesn't recognize her perversion of what He wants for her life as a sin.

Apparently Anita thinks God's Grace is sufficient as long as it's on her terms. Prayers will be sent on her and Dana's behalf. To be so close and yet so far away.

[Calvinist_Dark_Lord]

When I say I'm a Christian I'm recognizing both a past event and a present reality. There was one moment in the past when I made the conscious and deliberate choice to acknowledge Jesus as my Savior and Lord. As my Savior, Jesus through his life, death and resurrection forgave my sins, restored my relationship with God and secured for me the promise of everlasting life. With Jesus as my Lord I submit my will daily to His will, seeking God's plan for my life rather than my own.

It appears that this statement is a lie. Liars do not inherit the Kingdom of God. The Same God who Gave His Son as a propitiation for mankind is the one who said "Thou shalt not Lie with mankind as with Woman".

i confess that i have an urging not to be celebate, does this now mean that i can disregard the Lord's commandments in that respect with impunity and still claim that "He's Lord of my life"? After all, if it's good enough for her...

[Calvinist_Dark_Lord]

Notice the resemblence in the picture to Janie Spahr and her 'partner'?