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10 Things I Wish The Church Knew About Homosexuality.

Discussion in 'Current Events, World News, & LGBT News' started by 807, Dec 28, 2012.

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    Ten Things I Wish The Church Knew About Homosexuality
    By Jim Rigby a Presbyterian Minister from Austin Texas.
    I am sure this has been done to death, but as religion & homosexuality keeps coming up, here is another reminder of the facts..

    1. If Jesus did not mention a subject, it cannot be essential to his teachings.
    2. You are not being persecuted when prevented from persecuting others.
    3. Truth isn’t like wine that gets better with age. It’s more like manna you must recognize wherever you are and whoever you are with.
    4. You cannot call it “special rights” when someone asks for the same rights you have.
    5. It is no longer your personal religious view if you’re bothering someone else.
    6. Marriage is a civil ceremony, which means it’s a civil right.
    7. If how someone stimulates the pubic nerve has become the needle to your moral compass, you are the one who is lost.
    8. To condemn homosexuality, you must use parts of the Bible you don’t yourself obey. Anyone who obeyed every part of Leviticus would rightly be put in prison.
    9. If we do not do the right thing in our day, our grandchildren will look at us with same embarrassment we look at racist grandparents.
    10. When Jesus forbade judging, that included you.


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    I love this
     
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    All very true.
     
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    Did you know Amen is a different god completely? lol
     
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    Completely accurate and I intend to share this. I don't understand #3, though; help, please?
     
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    My take on this is...
    The truth is the truth..It does not become more truthful, simply because it is an old truth & a new truth is as valid & as truthful as a 2000 year old truth. But you need to understand what the truth is & you cannot say it now becomes the truth because of who I am with or because of who I am talking to..Mostly the truth is not changeable & requires us to think & consider it, to realise it & understand it. We cannot just be told the truth, we need to find it in us.
     
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    Very good. Although I think a better title might be
    10 things I wish the church knew about its homophobia, because most of the list refers to the church's behaviour, rather than to the features or homosexuality itself.
     
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    9 & 10 are wonderful :')
     
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    I loved 4, 5, 9 and 10!
    Also, I would like a normal wedding with a woman in a big catedral, surrounded by flowers, a white wedding gown, receiving god's blessing and that stuff. I may sound like a child but it would be simply beautiful!
     
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    This is great! I kind of want to share it on Facebook but I don't want people to write nasty comments.
     
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    Let's share this with the WBC.