sex marriage and/or same sex clergy into their church. To be honest w/ you, I could care less as usually what it does is bring out the worst in people who then gay bash with all of the hateful rhetoric as they usually do.
This routine has been done back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, etc. on many different fronts and clearly points out the bigotry still out there. This issue has been intentionally used as a scare tactic with the voters too many times and many in the gay world are sick and tired of it. And this 'fake outrage' is getting really old.
Bigotry is bigotry, plain and simple. Hate is hate.
And don't point out words written supposedly thousands of years ago whose meanings can be interpreted in many different ways, as being against same sex. They used this same type of language to justify slavery and other things just as bad. Sickening. If you want to use words from the bible or associated texts why don't these haters point out these verses below (or did they deliberately forget them)?
Mark 12:31 - And the second [is] like, [namely] this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
John 4:11 - Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
I would think that there are far more substantial issues at hand that need to be dealt with, such as hunger, poverty, disease, inequality, better overall wages, providing shelter for all, etc. Far more better issues to deal with then this. I know that perhaps in some minds this will ease their burden in service to the church or be accepted by the church, and that's fine.
If a human being truly wants to serve the church or whatever, what does it really matter as to their gender preference, or anything else for that matter? What business is it of theirs anyway? Maybe I'm missing something here but I don't think so. I thought that this was a 'free country', eh? This is me being sarcastic here being that you hear 'oh, you're infringing on my freedom' and then they turn right around and infringe on others' rights.
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