Jail/Homosexuality

[Tim Rutledge]

Originally Posted by odooley6985

Do you live there? Like I said, in the USA.

I do believe it is very possible in the next decade or less people could be arrested for bashing homosexuality, especially when using the Q and F words vehemently.

[odooley6985]

Originally Posted by Tim Rutledge

I do believe it is very possible in the next decade or less people could be arrested for bashing homosexuality, especially when using the Q and F words vehemently.

Well I just dont see it. On that topic, even though its a sin, do you think its right to use those words towards them? I dont. How would you expect to win them to Christ if you call them that?

[FlamingZword]

Originally Posted by odooley6985

In what paranoid conspiracy theory fantasy land do people live in that believe we in the USA will be arrested for preaching against homosexuality?

Times change, and what society tolerates changes with it.
Freedom of speech is a right, but ask Paula Deen about it?

She confess to have said something that is wrong, even thou she was not put in jail for her speech, her livelihood was destroyed. (Actually I never liked her, but the point is that she was destroyed for being politically incorrect)

[odooley6985]

Originally Posted by FlamingZword

Times change, and what society tolerates changes with it.
Freedom of speech is a right, but ask Paula Deen about it?

She confess to have said something that is wrong, even thou she was not put in jail for her speech, her livelihood was destroyed. (Actually I never liked her, but the point is that she was destroyed for being politically incorrect)

Does the constitution guarantee that you have employment regardless of what you say? What I am asking, do people really think we will be arrested for preaching against it in a church setting? Paula Deen isnt relevant.

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by odooley6985

Does the constitution guarantee that you have employment regardless of what you say? What I am asking, do people really think we will be arrested for preaching against it in a church setting? Paula Deen isnt relevant.

She is relevant as her testimony shows the intolerance that is growing in this country. It is only logical to believe being arrested for what you preach is coming. Especially, as O and people like Ginsberg think we need a better Constitution.

But I also believe that Christians, largely, have not guarded their words and it is coming back to bite.

[J4Truth]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

She is relevant as her testimony shows the intolerance that is growing in this country. It is only logical to believe being arrested for what you preach is coming. Especially, as O and people like Ginsberg think we need a better Constitution.

But I also believe that Christians, largely, have not guarded their words and it is coming back to bite.

I kind of agree with what your saying.

At first I was thinking on the lines of odooley6985 but…

Here’s my

I understand sin is sin, but the mistreatment of gays caused this. Now I'm not saying everyone that mistreated gays would identify with being Christian but there are those that mistreat gays (falsely) in the name of Christ. And then there's those that hate gays in the same fashion as those that are against blacks (or minorities in general), Jews, Muslims, and even Christians.

Look when you have a group of people that's mistreated and abused and denied rights. That commits suicide because of getting abused or bullied is so bad they rather die than live anymore. Especially if most can’t see them actively hurting anyone, and just being themselves, its going to be compared to every group of people ever persecuted throughout history. They are going to look at the various religious groups persecuted in other countries, Christian groups in Muslim countries among them. They are going to be reminded of the Jews persecution during the Holocaust. They are going to be reminded of the blacks mistreatment here in America. And they are going to be remembered of the evil that these groups portrayed against these people just because they don't like the way they look, or what they believe in, or what they do unto themselves.

So in conclusion, gays are going the way of racism, and anti-Semitism. Its going to be a stigma on even looking like they are against gays. Its the same as when someone gets accused of saying something racist. They have to retract it to help themselves or else society would mark them as a degenerate to society.

A true Christian knows that sexual sins are sexual sins and homosexual sins are no different than and is simply fornication. There is way more fornicators (heterosexual or otherwise) than there is gays and way more acceptance of fornication and that fornicators don't get mistreated at the level gays are mistreated, (fornicators use to be shamed, women for the most part) even within churches. And even though there may be a number of professing Christians that don't treat gays no different than any other sinner and there may be a number of gays that are not trying to cram there lifestyle down your throat. But the ones that are, are the loudest and they appear to represent the whole. So Christians look like gay hating bigots because of some and gay agenda is pushed hard because of some.

[houston]

Lying is an abomination (Proverbs 12:22), fornication is not an abomination. Got it.

[Michael The Disciple]

Actually gays have hijacked the issue of "bullying". I don't recall very much bullying of gay people at least no more than others. Yes there have been some gay people bullied because of their gayness. Yet many others are bullied for some other reasons.

I was terribly bullied as a young person. Why? I was smaller than the average guy. That made me a target to up and coming bullies. Many are bullied simply for that. No political or religious cause.

Bullies have always been evil. They push their way to the top. Its just odd to me that the term "bully" is now only heard in terms of the "gay" movement.

[OnTheFritz]

Originally Posted by Michael The Disciple

Actually gays have hijacked the issue of "bullying". I don't recall very much bullying of gay people at least no more than others. Yes there have been some gay people bullied because of their gayness. Yet many others are bullied for some other reasons.

I was terribly bullied as a young person. Why? I was smaller than the average guy. That made me a target to up and coming bullies. Many are bullied simply for that. No political or religious cause.

Bullies have always been evil. They push their way to the top. Its just odd to me that the term "bully" is now only heard in terms of the "gay" movement.

It's not.

[OldPathsII]

Originally Posted by Michael The Disciple

Actually gays have hijacked the issue of "bullying". I don't recall very much bullying of gay people at least no more than others. Yes there have been some gay people bullied because of their gayness. Yet many others are bullied for some other reasons.

I was terribly bullied as a young person. Why? I was smaller than the average guy. That made me a target to up and coming bullies. Many are bullied simply for that. No political or religious cause.

Bullies have always been evil. They push their way to the top. Its just odd to me that the term "bully" is now only heard in terms of the "gay" movement.

Moronic.