I love Free Republic, except I can't stand the holier than thou religious homophobe bigots that post here. They spout the Bible to spew their hate, but I wonder how many of them would write off a gay relative like your gay brother in the name of the Bible ?
I don't recall reading about Jesus condemning homosexuality. Homophobes have to go back to the eye for an eye stoning days of the Old Testament to support their hatred. If we lived by the teachings of the Old Testament, we'd be no better than the Islamo-fascists we face today.
Politics should be about ideology not sexology. I too would vote for a gay conservative over a heterosexual liberal any day of the week. I know you love your brother, and I only hope there are more freepers like you.
I missed the part where Jesus was cool with dropping MOABs on people, either.
But apparently, I was misinformed.
I know there are which is why I continue to read/post here. I don't like the one-sidedness and this discussion was going too far which is why I piped up. I am concerned that the trend of the party is letting the far-right take over the party...frindges never work and we can't get a majority with the frindge controlling the party...we saw that with the Democrats from 1994-present and I hope that the other shoe is dropping. There have been a few alarms over the last twelve years, but thankfully, to date, the Ds have let their frindge control the Party more than the Rs have let their frindge control their's.