Okay, I know this may seem controversial if you've heard of the Westboro Baptist Church, but if you haven't heard of them, they're a church operating out of Topeka, Kansas. They achieved infamy by picketing the funerals of gays and U.S. soldiers with their main motto being "God Hates Fags." Now, I believe that Fred Phelps, love him and his tactics or hate him, is right in one aspect: God DOES hate fags.
Then he can deal with us. Now...tell me, why do you guys just champion the cause of banning homosexuality? In both cases, it's lumped in with a lot of things. Leviticus, you have Sabbath workers, Poly-Blend wearers, modern farmers, barbers and the likes. In Paul's speech you have liars, idolaters, and a myriad of other things that you guys seem to turn a blind eye to...so if God hates fags, he must hate all those other things just as much, as they're given just as much weight...yes?
The Bible spells out exactly what God thinks of gays, so why the political correctness about it?
First, because we're people too, with the same right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness that you do. Second, because many of us don't buy into your little fire and brimstone book, and many more of us wonder...if God hates gays so much, why does he hardwire us so? And further, how the hell does two men getting it on incur the wrath of such an infinitely powerful entity? Christ, I would imagine such should barely make a blip on the cosmic radar. Fuck a guy? Meh. Blow up a galaxy, snuffing all life in it seems like something that might even barely ping the radar.
I think every Christian ought to be expressing what an abomination it really is, after all, if the message is loud and shocking enough, perhaps more gays will convert, and make it to Heaven and NOT the lake of fire.
Yes, browbeat us, treat us as subhumans, and systematically strip us of rights. It's the godly way. Treat thy neighbor as thyself, anyone?
I say the message of "God Hates Fags" shouldn't be demonized, what say you?
I say that when hate is considered more moral than love, it's obvious that you worship a cold, callous God of Hatred and Lies.
True, I disagree with his tactics. I don't agree that funerals should be picketed, but the controversial part is his message. That message is that homosexuality is an abomination, and those who practice it are abominations to God.
And again, if God has an issue with it, he's free to discuss it with me. Until then, all I see is a bunch of people cherry picking the bible to justify their fears and hatred, and masquerading it as some bizarre form of "love."
I believe that gays should be placed in ex-gay camps, like drunks are placed in AA meetings. If their lifestyle persists, perhaps jailtime is in order.
So tell me how you plan on jailing consenting adults, participating in an activity that harms neither party. Please, I'm eager to hear this.
After all, AIDS doesn't spread itself, right?
So...you're planning on banning sex? Because you are aware that heterosexual sex is not only possible to transmit AIDS, but is quickly on the rise as a risk group. Mostly because of the ignorance spread by fuckwits like you, claiming that it somehow only sequesters itself in the gay community.
Well, I'm just trying to toss out the best way possible to create a quick enough change in people. No one here wants them to go to Hell, I just think drastic measures could be taken, that's all.
Phelps doesn't care about converting anyone. He cares about making enough of a spectacle to spread his hate as far and as wide as possible. He makes no effort to convert anyone, he merely offends anyone he sees as a viable target, as evidenced by the random selection of the funerals he pickets. I seem to recall a young girl dying in a car accident that the Phelps cult decided to picket, for some inexplicable reason.
Well how do you react knowing the state of the nation right now? YOU saw the gays invade that church, it was on the news.
Awwwww...so you guys can stomp all over us, but one time, of some gays protesting your dehumanization of us in a similar shock and awe campaign that you guys seem to laud so loudly, and we're bad bad people. Fucking hypocrites.
You know that babies are being slaughtered every day in abortion-mills.
Not one baby gets killed in an abortion. Calling them babies is an appeal to emotion, plain and simple. Christ, in the case of MOST abortions, blowing your nose is as much murder as the abortion.
You know that militant atheists are teaching our children there is no God.
If you're talking about schools, they are taking a non-stance, and leaving the whole teaching about spirituality to the spiritual leaders and the parents. As well it should be, unless you have no issues to your son or daughter learning about the Qu'ran...
This is a very grave state of affairs, and I for one am concerned.
So am I, but for drastically different reasons. -_-