I'm just saying...
This is not to be insensitive to those who are gay, but can a Christian pleeeeze be allowed by you to rightly, sincerely practice his faith?!? Would you , who strive so ardently to exercise your rights, seek to deprive someone like me from expressing mine?
I was just watching Rachel Maddow -- an openly lesbian show host -- lambasting, or just basting -- Obama for daring to align himself, however tenuously, with "controversial, immoderate, Falwellian pastor, Rick Warren.
"He believes in a LITERAL interpretation of the Bible! He believes in Creationism!! He's an extremist bigot! (just like all the rest of those
Christians!)"Warren has done such abominable things as uphold the Christian sanctity of marriage and compare abortion to the Holocaust!!! What horror. How dare a Christian PASTOR, allied to the word of God, actually
uphold what that Author prescribed and
proscribed!
They have (gay organizations) been up in arms since election day about Proposition 8, and have been angry with black folk for voting against it. In essence:
"We voted for your thing (Obama), so we expected you to quid us pro quo on our thing (the right to change the God-invented definition of marriage from one that can actually PRODUCE MORE HUMAN BEINGS to one that makes us
feel good on the inside)."
Hmmm... Funny how they are cool with that exchange, but on fire about Blagojevich...
The left have been just as angry at Obama in the last few weeks as the right. Maybe he IS going to shake it up.
He says he is a Christian, the President-elect, and as such shouldn't he be allowed to practice his faith? I mean, regardless of his job, a man can not -- and by law MUST not -- cast his faith out the door, be it Christianity, Hedonism, Islam, or Atheism! And the bottom line is that any plain, honest, and un-convoluted understanding of Christianity says that certain behaviors are wrong.
And gays, being the sensitive and caring people that they are would not, I KNOW, ask someone to change the way he thinks in his own mind and heart just to havehimsay "I am of the opinion that whatever you do is fine, and I will assent that opinion with my vote." I know that the warm and loving gay community would not force a man to -- in
that man's mind -- sin willfully, stage a mutiny, against the Captain of his very soul just so they can engage in sexual intercourse in whatever way they are lead.
I am not insensitive to the desires of the human heart. I know those words will not lessen the anger of any gay person who will read them, but I mean them. Of course I know people who are gay, and who are in agony. I have family members who feel sexually attracted to the same sex. And I love them. I am not, by that same Christian edict, permitted to cast a soul into loveless oblivion because I disagree with their way of life. But my arm will not be twisted to make me say that what I,
I, believe to be wrong is now right. I think I am, doggone it, mature enough to disagree with a behavior and still like a person! Goodness!
Just as I know that you, gay community, do not dare suggest that you HATE those with whom YOU disagree. "Hate." Ever throw that word around? Can we just stop tossing gasoline on a fire and quit using such an extreme word for a difference of durn opinion?!? You guys have the whole nation
punked! Scared poopless
. It is almost admirable!
Obama claims to believe the Bible. As such, he will be allowed by the gay community -- I KNOW -- to believe that way in his heart. "Thought Police?" Ever used that term, Maddow?
In my opinion, you can do whatever you do. You can drink till you pickle yourself, take every drug known to man, hook up with prostitutes, lay up with men or women, wear long dresses or short skirts, dreads or braids, or smoke Camels -- you can pinch my nose, tie my arms and feet and pour the Kool-Aid down my throat -- but you can't make me like it!Man ain't even got a toothbrush in the White House yet, and he's gettin' killed on every side!This is, though, the other side of the coin of this momentous election: While it is great that this country has taken so great a step, certain groups of people were dancing in the streets because they thought -- or knew -- that the lid was off that girl's box and anything is about to go!
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