You've been funny with your schtick. But this isn't funny. At all. I reported this and I hope action is taken.
I'm not sure what's offensive about it, but I'm asking the admin to delete it please. My apologies for offending you NOW.
__________________ Jeremiah chapter 4 and verse 21 KJV
How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?
1 Cor. chapter 14 and verse 8 KJV
8For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?
Joel chapter 2 and verse 1
Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
NOW, Standards represents the views that many have. Homosexuality is something to fear, the great Abomination, that can infect others if not quarantined. He's not isolated in his views.
A sinner is one thing. I don't want that spirit around my children.
A sinner is a sinner. I can understand being protective of your children, and I would be equally unwilling to have someone advertising their adultery at our dinner table (with children present). However, as an adult, I can have a meal with just about anyone.
Some people advertise their sinful lifestyle, and that can be offensive. I get that. Many homosexuals are seriously in-your-face when it comes to trying to get others to accept their sin. I wouldn't want a man dressed in drag, talking like a girl, and discussing his "love life" at my table either. Nor would I want someone sitting there bragging about stealing. It wouldn't go unnoticed or unrebuked, that's for sure.
Someone who just "is" a homosexual, though...who doesn't advertise or push an agenda? I don't see the difference between having dinner with them and having dinner with a thief.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
Last edited by *AQuietPlace*; 06-30-2010 at 01:54 PM.
Reason: removed phrase that was quoted
NOW, Standards represents the views that many have. Homosexuality is something to fear, the great Abomination, that can infect others if not quarantined. He's not isolated in his views.
Yes, to many it is a special class of sin.
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"Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow." ~Aesop
A sinner is a sinner. I can understand being protective of your children, and I would be equally unwilling to have someone advertising their adultery at our dinner table (with children present). However, as an adult, I can have a meal with just about anyone.
Some people advertise their sinful lifestyle, and that can be offensive. I get that. Many homosexuals are seriously in-your-face when it comes to trying to get others to accept their sin. I wouldn't want a man dressed in drag, talking like a girl, and discussing his "love life" at my table either. Nor would I want someone sitting there bragging about stealing. It wouldn't go unnoticed or unrebuked, that's for sure.
Someone who just "is" a homosexual, though...who doesn't advertise or push an agenda? I don't see the difference between having dinner with them and having dinner with a thief.
I don't believe that to be true. Some are, not many. The one's you see on TV and in the media are chosen for that purpose. The one's I know personally do not advertise it, and would never talk about their love life. We had a couple (for lack of a better term) that came to my wife's graduation party I doubt most of the people there had any idea the two of them were gay.
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"Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow." ~Aesop
A sinner is a sinner. I can understand being protective of your children, and I would be equally unwilling to have someone advertising their adultery at our dinner table (with children present). However, as an adult, I can have a meal with just about anyone.
Some people advertise their sinful lifestyle, and that can be offensive. I get that. Many homosexuals are seriously in-your-face when it comes to trying to get others to accept their sin. I wouldn't want a man dressed in drag, talking like a girl, and discussing his "love life" at my table either. Nor would I want someone sitting there bragging about stealing. It wouldn't go unnoticed or unrebuked, that's for sure.
Someone who just "is" a homosexual, though...who doesn't advertise or push an agenda? I don't see the difference between having dinner with them and having dinner with a thief.
hmmm what about those who deny Jesus Christ is come in the flesh and transgress the doctrine of Christ?
I don't believe that to be true. Some are, not many. The one's you see on TV and in the media are chosen for that purpose. The one's I know personally do not advertise it, and would never talk about their love life. We had a couple (for lack of a better term) that came to my wife's graduation party I doubt most of the people there had any idea the two of them were gay.
I agree. When the ones you KNOW are gay are the ones advertising it, then you may come to that conclusion. And, yes, homosexuality in general is sort of being touted everywhere these days from music, movies to television and reality shows.
However, so you meet a queer as Liberachi guy that starts asking you questions. He's not going to shape up into Fabio over night. He's going to be flambouyant, use his "s"'s a lot, take a call from his boyfriend and maybe even hug his partner if they both came over. I think to suggest they'd sit their talking about sexual positions is a little far-fetched, but the scenario I described isn't unlikely. You will rebuke them for that? An unbeliever?
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