Comments on: Being Gay Still a ‘Gift’

By: scott

scott — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 06:23:26 +0000

Ed Bacon is the pastor of All Saints in Pasadena. I’ve been a member of All Saints since 1994. They are an all accepting group, in which gay is a typical 10% of the population, but they still get so much attention for gay issues, and it’s known as a “gay church”.

The first time I heard them speak their creed, “Whoever you are, and wherever you are in your journey of faith, you are welcome here.” I had tears in my eyes. It still happens.

Being raised Catholic and feeling judged for who I am, I was swept away by the unconditional inclusion.

I wish the rest of the world would catch on.

By: getreal

getreal — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:56:31 +0000

@Mike Burns: I was raised that we were all created in God’s image.So of course being gay is a gift clearly it is God’s will that there are gay people in the world and he made them exactly the way they were meant to be. Please don’t assume that the loud hateful christians speak for all christians they don’t.

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:18:06 +0000

I am a heterosexual Christian, and I don’t think I have ever been more proud of my faith then I was when I heard Rev. Bacon make this comment and then defend it. It’s about time Christians stopped all the judgment and ACTUALLY considered “loving thy neighbor as thyself.”

By: latebrosus

latebrosus — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:44:29 +0000

You’d think more Christianists would want to be gay, actually. I mean, look at all the sins we have to resist! And the magnitude! Holy Toledo, for dealing with all those temptations during ones’s lifetime, it’d be a snap to get by St. Peter.

By: Darth Paul

Darth Paul — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:13:58 +0000

Gay is gay; no more or less. Don’t drag your Almighty Ape into this.

By: Mike Burns

Mike Burns — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:36:40 +0000

And yet, the Christians were the first to jump all over this statement with their oh-so-typical hate. Shocked? Sadly not in the least.