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Originally Posted by Stephen Hoover
For the most part it is not the church that is at fault. The blood of Jesus can save to the uttermost - including persecution from the "church" if need be.
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The problem isn't Jesus or His blood. The problem is with how people like this get treated by the church, before and after conversion. A lot of good it does to call people fa*****, queers, freaks, disgusting, and generally show contempt towards anyone caught in these sorts of traps. We've got a long way to go in learning how to love the sinner when it comes to homosexuals, transvestites, and transgendered people. We try to hid behind saying we love the sinner and hate the sin, but I certainly don't see alcoholics, drug addicts, adulterers, sexually promiscuous men and women, and other sinners treated the way we treat these folks. Even when we do manage to get one to convert, we still treat these people like they have the plague. It's a disgrace to everything that Jesus stands for and what Christianity is supposed to be about, in my opinion.