The only other way they might conceiably be of value is as an emergency toilet paper supply. However, be forewarned. The ink, or so I’m told, is as irritating to sensitive skin as the ideas it contains are to sane minds.

2) As a follower of Jesus, I want to apologize for how churches and individual Christians have hurt and oppressed homosexuals instead of conveying Christ’s love as we should. I don’t believe that Christians can claim to be any less sinful or flawed than anyone else, but some of us are earnestly trying to better understand and follow Jesus’s teachings, which he summed up as loving God and loving people. Of course, there are a lot of complexities and ambiguities, and many people (myself included) have been guilty of twisting and tailoring parts of the Bible to suit personal views. But God has been showing me how I have been hypocritical, judgmental and unloving, and I am really trying to better understand a group of people I had once ignored because it was too uncomfortable and difficult to think about. I think there are a lot of Christians like me who are just beginning to confront challenges to culturally ingrained beliefs, more critically examine the “letter AND spirit of the law” of the Bible, and reconsider political and personal implications of faith when it comes to homosexuality. From the bottom of my heart, I ask for your forgiveness and patience because positive change in individuals and communities doesn’t come without a struggle. I’m just thankful that Jesus has enough mercy and love for me and a whole world of people who make mistakes and inflict so much hurt on each other.

Calling out willful ignorance is not hate speech. Don’t fall for that talking point because that’s what it is: a talking point.

With all due respect, because I do not know you from Adam, are you ever out of touch with reality. You are living in an airy-fairy world, my dear. Come down out of the heavens to the real world, girlfriend.

All that God-given rights goggelty-gook is fine and dandy. But, it the human pricks that make the laws we must live under and abide by, not God. In fact, it is the very people who believe God hates faggots, that have made it impossible for me to be with my family that they claim to be working so hard at protecting and preserving. It’s a 5,000 year old tradition, you know? And who are we to re-define it?

There are some 32,000 multinational couples just like me and my partner. Tell God to tell the US Immigration Department who will not let me sponsor my Philippine partner because we can legally get married that they have no right to take my God-given rights away from me. I really feel that God should intercede here.

Please be sure mail me at cbdcs4u@yahoo.com when you get a reply from God, won’t you. I’ll be checking my incoming email box anxiously.

Besides praying to and waiting for God to do something, what will you, personally, be doing in the interim>?

That’s the scary part, btw. Evil deeds are so much easier to carry out in the darkness of night and under the subterfuge of “goodness” and “Godliness”.

Hitler knew that too. It was the precise reason why every German soldier’s belt was inscribed with

“Gott mit uns”.

He knew the value (and power) of the God word too.

They took away our right to marriage, among a host of other rights.

How long will it be before they take away our right to vote, or perhaps even our citizenship?

It happened once before, in Hitler’s Germany, if you recall. The Nazi party is alive an well in America. It’s just called by the politically name of Christianity.

They just don’t wear brown uniforms anymore and look just like the rest of us.

Or at least it wasn’t until Obama’s “gods’s in the mix, the mormons and the catholics ganged up on us and took away our right to marriage.

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You schmucks just don’t get it, do you? You think that if you keeping hitting us over the head with your holy bible, that somehow, we will get it.

NEWSFLASH….there are a whole lot of folks who don’t accept your bull-bull as the end-all and the be-all of knowledge. As far as we are concerned, it just a collection of silly stories, imagined happenings and senseless clap-trap that contradicts itself over and over and “proves” nothing. Personally, I would accept the reading of tea leaves over the bullshit in bible, anytime.

Telling us that “it sez so in the bible” just doesn’t cut it with educated people who use their heads for the purpose it was intended, rather than just as a hat rack and repeating that tired statement over and over, in the hope that you will get logical, intelligent people to agree with you, is a study in stupidity and a colossal waste of time…yours and ours.

We are not going to buy that the earth is only six thousand years old. Radio carbon dating has proven otherwise.

We are not going to accept that the sun revolves around the earth. Science has proven you wrong.

We are not going to believe the flat-earth people. Hubbel can readily see that the earth is an orb.

We are not going to eat the story of Jonah surviving in the stomach of a whale. One cannot survive without oxygen and being bathed in hydrochloric acid for three days and nights would long have turned you into a bad case of diarrhea.

Maidens do not become “with child” unless they’ve been porked (or artificially inseminated).

The dearly departed do not rise from the dead.

Seas do not part.

Etc., etc., etc.

Whey you guys can come up with a more convincing argument than “It sez so in the bible”, we will be all ears and willing to debate intelligently with you.

Until then, we will just continue to tune you out as we’ve always done and simply write you off as a bunch of lunies who bay at a full moon.

When wolves do it, it’s kind of touchingly beautiful.

When humans do it, however, it just looks you look plain stupid.

That is the New Testament, the warped bastard child of the Old Testament. The church decided, oh hayz, the old religion isn’t convenient for us anymore so let’s retranslate EVURYTHANG so that it would more easily fit into our member’s current lifestyles.

Which is why purgatory doesn’t exist anymore.

So I’m going to have to agree with someone who has posted before me. Hate first; justify later. Otherwise why not condemn everybody who celebrates “The Sabbath” on a Sunday?

Dear Stupidfuck named Roland Basque:

Title is self-explanatory. Accept it as logic and truth.

-the Bible is mis-interpreted in the article
(the OT is a dif. text than the NT and many things changed in the NT)
-The Bible speaks clearly that homosexual acts are sinful……as are divorce, stealing, murder, disprespecting your parents, sex before marriage, and lots of other things

I’ll be honest..I have NO idea how I would have voted had I lived in CA. I do take my religion and faith serious and allow my values to determine to decisions I make. I also recognize that I “my job” is not to pass judgment on people.

It’s annoying that many of you are quick to call me a right-wing religious fanatic who cannot think critically. Frankly, you are no less “close-minded” than you think I am.

My point is…as a Bible-believing Christian I dont think things are so easily determined. I don’t know how I would have voted because “gay sin” is no different in God’s eyes than premarital sex and I’m not trying to outlaw that, either.

Some of us are much less “judgmental” and homophobic than you give us credit for….and by the way.. I’m a women’s college basketball player. I have plenty of lesbian friends. I live with two lesbian bball players. We get along just fine, but disagree on a lot of fundamental issues. So who’s more close-minded and judgmental? You for not being able to see through disagreements or me who knows what I believe, isn’t sure exactly how it plays out politically, but can see you through “differences” we have??

‘I was wrong. Sorry for misunderstanding what you said.”

That would have been the adult response.

Unfortunately, it’s easy to just lump everyone into categories, like gay or Christian, and then pick a side to hate or put down.

True christians know that the gate to enlightenment is narrow and few enter through it, while the road to despair is wide and travelled by many.

I can draw this all out in Adobe, with graphs and charts and the like, if you would prefer.

On second thought, don’t bother, this is a waste of both our times.

Peace out.

Then why are not these Christians coming forth and proclaiming their disagreement with Proposition 8 and demanding that it be repealed?

I haven’t heard of a day of dissent or protest by the Christians who did not vote yes on Prop. 8 similar to the National Day of Protest the GLBG community held following the passing of that terribly unfair and unconstitutional measure. Did I miss something of misunderstand?

Doesn’t it bother you in the least that your civil-rights were unceremoniously stripped away from you, or are you one of those str8 Christians who voted yes on on Proposition 8 and enjoys coming on a gay blog to heckle the denizens? You sure come off sounding like it with your defense of Christians. How about defending the victims of such heinous bigotry with the same fervor with which you defend Christianity?

Can you explain that to me in a manner….that I won’t misunderstand? I am so sick and tired of hearing this lame argument that “not all Christians are bad.”

It is just as lame as the “good” Muslims, who sit on their hands proclaiming that Islam is a peaceful religion, while hundred of gays worldwide are being executed in countries where Islam is practiced.

Sitting on the sidelines and doing nothing to stop brutality and injustice while claiming to be innocent, in my book, makes those people just as guilty as those actually committing the crimes, for they are the very ones who are giving evil a tacit approval and allowing it to exist.

I don’t see that as anything to feel good about or pat one’s self on the back for.

Odd that when one points out something that the bible actually says one is accused of distorting it by people who apparently wish it said something else and dislike the folks who point out how wrong they are.

Apparently modern Christianity treats the book like a buffet and only choose what they themselves wish to believe and ignore those teachings of Christ that don’t support their bigotry.

I refer you to my original comment about deliberately misunderstanding. Of course SOME Christians use their religion as an excuse for homophobia, but blaming ALL Christians is just as bigoted as being homophobic.

Are you actually trying to change someone’s opinion using this immature reverse psychology bit ad nauseum? Or is it mental masturbation that queerty readers have to witness time & time again only for your benefit?