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Posted on 08/01/2011 9:03:54 AM PDT by Bed_Zeppelin
"For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due." Rom 1:26-27
Divide and Conquer: The time-honored way to overcome opposition.
“gay Christians”? An oxymoron if I’ve ever seen one!
And whoever coined this phrase is just a “regularmoron”.
The headline is an oxymoron. 1 Cor. 6:9-10.
Um, God is the One who says that it is a sin - it's not like we made it up........
There are plenty of Christian churches that have no problem with this. The gays can simply worship there.
NPR might want to look in to the problems that gay Muslims have. The penalties for an unfortunate Muslim are - shall we say - a bit more severe.
Its also interesting to note in this article that all of the people profiled in the article gave up on Christianity to focus on the practice of their sin.
“NPR might want to look in to the problems that gay Muslims have. The penalties for an unfortunate Muslim are - shall we say - a bit more severe.”
You must mean a traditional gay relationship between two muslim men and not the buggering of little boys.
Nice collection of propaganda phrases.
"came out" == Openly admitted a lifestyle of unrepented sexual perversion.
"uncomfortable with" == disapprove of. Notice that the propaganda phrase loads the disapprover, not the disapprovee, with the onus of being 'out of step', but also reduces his objection to a mere irrational feeling.
Well I guess technically you could be Gay and Christian, if you were a person who is only attracted to the same sex and not the opposite one, but also realizes it is a sin to act on that attraction, so decide to live a celibate life. But somehow, I doubt that’s what this story is talking about...
Same-gender-loving people?!!!
Ha ha ha ha!
Is that the new leftist template phrase?
Gay Christian is an oxymoron! There is no such animal as a Gay Chirstian.
The Bible says clearly when a person opens the door to Jesus, they are a new person. (2 Corinthians 5:17) Christianity is turning from self to Jesus. That means you give up your sin and Jesus becomes your all. There may be a time of NO struggling with sin because the change is sudden or there may be intense struggling because the person is seeing the devil trying to keep the person in his corner. As a person dies to his/her sin nature, they become more and more like Jesus. Not easy but possible.
I am tired of homosexuals and lesbians saying that it is all right to be gay and Christian. Sorry, that is like a man saying it is all right to be an adulterer and Christian.
Note that there are no group of Christians that are ever referred to as Adulterating Christians. You know, they are Christians, yet they believe God made them to have extramarital affairs. Or Beastiality Christians. Or Pedophiliac Christians. Or Alcoholic Christians (the ones who never go up for communion).
These people are not kidding themselves and asking others to kid themselves about what they are doing. They are not asking for total acceptance and pats on the back, because they are not lost so far as to have a non-working conscience that demands others tell them up is down and what sin they are doing is actually a good thing and God made them that way. (It’s God’s fault if anyone’s to blame you know. But since it’s a good thing, YOU’RE the one with the problem because you can’t see that it’s a God-blessed design of His.)
Hated it...when I heard she announced that she was a lesbian.
"I'm completely normal, just like everyone else. Except that I engage in practices that are outside the norm, and go completely against everything that I claim to believe in."
I feel a little sorry for these people. Imagine the mental gymnastics that they need to engage in, just to get out of bed in the morning.
And, for what it's worth, I agree with you on your point. *Who* you're attracted to is one thing (I'm no expert, but I figure that it's a combination of learned behavior and/or a chemical imbalance of some sort). However, the *actual act* is nothing more than a simple behavior.
I would argue that they are *not* “Christian” churches. Once you throw the Bible out you have no claim to the name.
I know and have known a few gay Christian musicians, including some nationally and internationally known musicians. They tend to prefer working out of NYC rather than Nashville for obvious reasons.
As these guys have told me, Some of the regular hymnal compositions used every Sunday in the US were written by gay men who never came out of the closet.
It’s the gay musicians working the Christian bar/cafe scene that get judged by the plastic people who attend those singsong services at churches using electric guitars on Sunday mornings.
Lest ye be judged.
The term "gay Christian" is an oxymoron and there is no such thing as a christian who is homosexual. You're either one or the other, not both. Homosexuals who openly or privately practice their sexual preference are in a state of sin.
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