Featured Gay Rights = Anti-Christian

Now your statement is false isn't it?
Islam is said to be the "masterpiece of Satan." It is the largest religion in the world, and growing rapidly. Why not take your zeal out against them instead of opening thread after thread on homosexuals. We have enough already. No more threads on homosexuality please!!

 

Please provide a link to a post on this board in which such a statement has been made.

 

I don't think the gay rights movement is anti-Christian (or at last the most vocal ones are) because they hate Christians so much as they've been brainwashed and manipulated into the mindset in various ways. They're deceived, and they are people who need to be reached just as any other sinner.
I actually have a couple (non-Christian) friends who are gay. They're not hostile towards Christianity, even knowing my views.

 

gays have SAME rigts I have, and we cannot say it deprives them if rights to forbide them gay weddings/adoption/civil unions etc, as those are NOT 'rights!"

And all christians, at least genuine ones that know their bible rightly, see islam as big threat to us, but problem is many professing ones fail to see Homosexuality as sinful now though!

 

No one said they are "rights" -- in fact, we've gone out of our way to say the exact opposite, that they have no right to church sacraments or distinctives. Why do you keep saying stupid things like this when no one has stated they have such "rights" in church?

And yet again, you don't know what you're talking about. You equate anyone who doesn't join you in outright condemnation, rejection, and shunning of homosexuals as "affirming" them. That's just nuts, completely untrue. If everyone refused to deal with them on any level, they would never get the gospel, and I'm beginning to think that would suit you just fine.

 

NO!

They are sinners like I was, who need to have the Lord save them, but point is that many within chrsitianity today see NO NEED for them to change their behavior once saved, as its now ok and acceptable!

NOT saying any here do, but MANY professing christians do indeed see homosexuality as no longer sinning, just alternative!

 

So what???


If no one here is saying it, why even mention it?

It has nothing to do with the discussion!!

Continually mentioning it keeps the stuff stirred up, as emotionalism runs rampant and people see only what they want to see and respond without really reading what is being said. If no one on here is affirming homosexuality, stop making comments as though anyone here does!!! It is disingenuous, and muddies the waters.

 

brother, you seem to be the one getting emotional in these threads!

 

I get emotional with anyone who keeps repeating the same error without listening to those who point out he's in error, off topic, engaging in logical fallacies, or whatever else distracts from an intelligent, reasoned, sane discussion.

 

Yeshua!
The above is your response to this post of mine:

Please explain your rationale and the relevance of your post.

 

It seems as if your views please them very much. No pervert claims to be a God hater until the truth crosses their path and then see how much hate they have.

 

No, not really. Most gay rights supporters don't treat me kindly when they find out what my views are. But, I don't shove it in their face, either, that helps. Most of the hostility has come in such as when on another site I made a "controversial"statement. Although they do sometimes respect that I don't see fit to make my beliefs a political thing.

My friends who are gay are aware of my views, and we simply choose to respect each other's views. I don't attempt to force them into Christianity (although they are aware of my faith), and they don't attempt to force me out of it. In fact a few gays, including one of my friends, has openly supported my statement that people have a RIGHT to oppose gay marriage politically and that it doesn't make them bad people. My one friend (acquaintance, really) because she has closer friends who don't approve of homosexuality but whom she still respects.

I'm well aware of how hostile the gay movement can be towards any opposition. My mother has received DEATH THREATS on Facebook over her views. (And site support didn't see a reason to ban the offenders.) When I rushed to her defense I was given the same verbal abuse, even though I never once stated my position.

But it's demeaning and insulting, IMO, to assume that all homosexuals and their supporters are this way. The most vocal ones, certainly. But let's be honest, generalizations are just that: generalizations. They don't describe everybody, perhaps not even a vast majority.

To be perfectly honest? There are things that make neither side very desirable, for me or anybody. On one hand we have emotionally unstable persons who would maim and kill those who dare express a different opinion, and on the other we have those claiming to be Christ followers who would rather accuse and shun sinners like they're worse than any other sinners than treating them like people and showing them the way to Christ.
I'm not saying that's you, mind. I don't know you from Adam, and I'm not going to make assumptions based on the tone of your posts. (Especially since the tone is so easily misunderstood and clouded by one's own perspective when reading it.)

I'm not looking to intentionally turn away the people I hope to reach. That'd wouldn't do much good or make for a very effective witness. So of course I treat them like I would anyone else. Of course I'm going to be friendly towards them. Of course I'm going to show them kindness. And if they still hate me? I'll turn the other cheek.

 

Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Every unsaved person is at enmity with God.
Until he is reconciled with God he harbors in his wicked heart a certain degree of hatred for the authority that God demands over his life.

 

It sounds like they got better treatment than the slaves in America of the 18th and 19th centuries.

 

I agree with sag32's post more than I disagree with it. *shrug*