Posted on 05/30/2015 5:59:01 PM PDT by SkyPilot
Concerns are arising among Christians and online commentators after a homosexual activist recently told a national publication that churches must be made to take homosexuality off the sin list.'
Mitchell Gold is the founder of Faith in America, an organization that aims to end the harm to LGBT youth and families from misguided religious teaching. He served on the board of directors for the Human Rights Campaign for seven years, and was named on of the Top 50 Most Powerful Gay People in America in 2007 by Out Magazine.
In an article written by Frank Buni of the New York Times, Gold is quoted as stating that he believes churches ought to be forced to stop considering homosexual behavior as being sinful.
Gold told me that church leaders must be made to take homosexuality off the sin list, he wrote.
His command is worthyand warranted, Buni commented. All of us, no matter our religious traditions, should know better than to tell gay people that theyre an offense.
The Times article centered on Indianas Religious Freedom Act and Bunis assertion that Christian Americans should jettison their mindsets about homosexual behavior. He contended that the interpretation of biblical text about homosexuality is subjective and debatable and said that Christians disregard the biases and blind spots of [the Bibles] authors, cultures and eras.
So our debate about religious freedom should include a conversation about freeing religions and religious people from prejudices that they neednt cling to and can indeed jettison, much as theyve jettisoned other aspects of their faiths history, rightly bowing to the enlightenments of modernity, Buni wrote. Religion is going to be the final holdout and most stubborn refuge for homophobia.
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I doubt it will get very far!
I talked to a gentleman who does the tax law advising for a very large denomination hhere in the U.S. about just such an issue a few weeks ago..and he says there wont be any way they can jack around with the taxes.
Thats all I know about the matter.
This is a good time for a parable:
A fag walks up to you and says he want to f#ck you in the a$$. You say no.
End of parable.
How many hate crimes have you committed?
“rightly bowing to the enlightenments of modernity”
Uh. You gotta serve somebody, and my choice is the Lord God Almighty.
Who this Lady serves appears to be someone else.
Political Correctness carried to its logical conclusion.
The gays are committed to destroying Christianity.
It’s God’s “list”, not mine. I haven’t the authority.
Hey Dude!
Who are you going to have delete the diseases that go with the behavior?
Re: Islam
Lut preached to his people. We also sent Lut. He said to his people: ‘Will you commit lewdness such as no people in creation ever committed before you? For you come in lust to men in preference to women. No, you are indeed a people transgressing beyond bounds’ (Qur’an 7:80-81). In another verse, Lut advised them: ‘Of all the creatures in the world, will you approach males, and leave those whom Allah has created for you to be your mates? No, you are a people transgressing (all limits)!’ (Qur’an 26:165-166). The people rejected Lut and threw him out of the city.
In response, God destroyed them as punishment for their transgressions and disobedience.
Also see
http://www.islamawareness.net/Homosexuality/
FOX gas an article that says moslems are ‘moving’ in their opinions on gay marriage.
Irrespective of any ‘emerging movement,’ gay marriage I forbidden.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=islam+gay+marriage
“No.”
Sincerely,
God
Well, if sin is a word that can’t be used, others can be supplied.
Iniquity, trespass, transgression, abomination, wickedness, evil, debauchery, detestable,...
I’d like to see this retarded faggot try to force me to change my religious or any other beliefs. How about he try NOT giving in to his craven lusts to sodomized other men and live like a normal human being for a change?
All sin is an offense to God.
I wonder if homosexuality was what obama meant when he made the statement about Christians clinging to their guns and Bible? And, to think some believe this man is a Christian. Mercy!
I believe this will happen too, and ministers will probably not be doing any weddings - those who won’t accept the premise of gay marriage. People can just go in front of a judge and get hitched. These activists will flood the churches and press lawsuits - just wait and see - they will be further emboldened.
My exact thought. They don’t realize that God will in fact take the issue up with them, either when He returns as King of Kings or when they meet Him at the throne of judgment. I think that pastors and teachers who feed their sheep cookies and candy without any meat or veggies has been the loss of the fear of God. The ‘No Fear’ ad is quite apropos.
Much like the violence would ebb in Baltimore if the cops stand down and do nothing. And, how radical Islam has stopped their quest by this country appeasing them. Yep, that works!
I do not see this carrying the day, longer term. No government can change a church’s teachings. The First Amendment prevents that.
That will not stop the gay lobby though, who seem not to have read the Bill of Rights.
Taking sodomy off the “sin list” is above any human’s pay grade. Any church that does so is apostate.
Take it up with the original author.....
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