If you talk like a bigot, you must be a bigot...
Religious Wrongs are claiming that being required to attend diversity trainings or not being allowed to harass gay students is against their religion. They are claiming that they are being persecuted in this country.
Persecuted? They don't know the meaning of the word! Try being told on a daily basis that you're going to Hell. Of course, if you're one of those right wing so-called "Christians", you think somehow you have a right to judge someone else's life. Seems to me, that Jesus didn't approve of us judging each other. If you're going to talk the talk, you need to walk the walk and these "Christians" can't take step one to follow Jesus.
Jon Davidson who is the legal director of Lambda Legal said, "What if a person felt their religious view was that African Americans shouldn't mingle with Caucasians, or that women shouldn't work?"
"Christian" activist Gregory S. Baylor "says he supports policies that protect people from discrimination based on race and gender. But he draws a distinction when he argues that sexual orientation is different  a lifestyle choice, not an inborn trait."
Baylor went on to say, "Think how marginalized racists are. If we don't address this now, it will only get worse."
What? You wish to speak against an entire group of people based on the fact that you don't like the way God made them and you're worried about "Christians" being marginalized?
But, ignoring the bigoted view that gays have made "lifestyle choice", how would Baylor feel if someone took offense to the way he drives his car?
To run this point further home, can I go to work and preach to my co-workers about the evils of drinking? Drinking is a lifestyle choice, if I know that a co-worker drinks -- even if it doesn't interfere with his or her work -- can I continually tell them what a horrible habit it is and how they shouldn't drink?
What about smoking? If I know a co-worker smokes, can I bring pictures of lungs ravaged with cancer into work and hang them on their cubicles? Can I hang them in mine? Isn't that showing a lack of tolerance that is required for people to be able to work together to get a job done?
How is that different from hanging anti-gay signs in your cubicle?
Sitting next to a person who is gay and being tolerant is NOT being "anti-Christian", it is being Christian.
Let me remind the "Christian" fakers, Jesus wouldn't be sitting with you when breaking the bread, he would be sitting with those who are truly marginalized b society and ntrulyyy persecuted. That isn't going to be the ones who only think they're being marginalized and persecuted, he'll be with the ones who really are.
I'll bet my spot at Jesus' right hand for all eternity on it.
God Bless.
Persecuted? They don't know the meaning of the word! Try being told on a daily basis that you're going to Hell. Of course, if you're one of those right wing so-called "Christians", you think somehow you have a right to judge someone else's life. Seems to me, that Jesus didn't approve of us judging each other. If you're going to talk the talk, you need to walk the walk and these "Christians" can't take step one to follow Jesus.
Jon Davidson who is the legal director of Lambda Legal said, "What if a person felt their religious view was that African Americans shouldn't mingle with Caucasians, or that women shouldn't work?"
"Christian" activist Gregory S. Baylor "says he supports policies that protect people from discrimination based on race and gender. But he draws a distinction when he argues that sexual orientation is different  a lifestyle choice, not an inborn trait."
Baylor went on to say, "Think how marginalized racists are. If we don't address this now, it will only get worse."
What? You wish to speak against an entire group of people based on the fact that you don't like the way God made them and you're worried about "Christians" being marginalized?
But, ignoring the bigoted view that gays have made "lifestyle choice", how would Baylor feel if someone took offense to the way he drives his car?
To run this point further home, can I go to work and preach to my co-workers about the evils of drinking? Drinking is a lifestyle choice, if I know that a co-worker drinks -- even if it doesn't interfere with his or her work -- can I continually tell them what a horrible habit it is and how they shouldn't drink?
What about smoking? If I know a co-worker smokes, can I bring pictures of lungs ravaged with cancer into work and hang them on their cubicles? Can I hang them in mine? Isn't that showing a lack of tolerance that is required for people to be able to work together to get a job done?
How is that different from hanging anti-gay signs in your cubicle?
Sitting next to a person who is gay and being tolerant is NOT being "anti-Christian", it is being Christian.
Let me remind the "Christian" fakers, Jesus wouldn't be sitting with you when breaking the bread, he would be sitting with those who are truly marginalized b society and ntrulyyy persecuted. That isn't going to be the ones who only think they're being marginalized and persecuted, he'll be with the ones who really are.
I'll bet my spot at Jesus' right hand for all eternity on it.
God Bless.
posted by Julie at 8:09 PM
2 Comments:
Julie, I find your blog very interesting.
I've been a Christian for 24 years, and have lived in various communities with different kinds of Christians during that time. You're right...some people focus on different parts of faith and doctrine, and this leads them very often to in fact sound like bigots.
I frankly don't understand it. There is not a single word "written in red" in the Gospels which deals with non-heterosexual relations. Jesus speaks a lot about sexual purity, to be sure, but always within the context of male/female relations. If two women or two men are monogomous, how can a Believer in Christ believe these folks are not fellow Christians?
I was fortunate enough when I lived in Chicago to be close friends with several women who chose to be with other women. Some were Believers, some were not. But I can tell you in my heart they were not "living in sin" and are not "condemned to hell"....at least as far as I'm concerned.
I am really uncomfortable with my presumed fellow Christians who say our God is a God of love and mercy and ever-lasting kindness, but then always have to throw in that He is also a God of justice....and with that they proceed to slam someone with whom they disagree.
Julie, our requirements as true Believers in Jesus are to love one another, obey the ten commandments and to take up our individual crosses and follow Him. This is straight out of His mouth. Paul can write as many condemnation Epistles as he wants...but for me they do not supersede the words of Christ.
I'm with you.
Hop onto my blog and leave a comment sometime, okay?
Your Friend,
James Schuler
sakagura@aol.com
http://www.god-in-search-of-man.blogspot.com
Dear James,
Thank you for your nice comments. I really appreciate them.
I have found that a lot of lesbians have been turned off by Christianity because of the people who claim to be "saving" their souls.
Jesus had said let those without sin cast the first stone and no one could, yet nowadays, people throw their stones all the time.
BTW, Paul should not have had such a high spot in the Bible. His words have been twisted and used to support all kinds of wrongs against women and homosexuals.
God Bless!
Julie
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