I know I am late but I don't get this - "without offense" about being Episcopalian? Obviously you are on the opposite side of the homsexual bishop, but your phrasing I just found to be odd.
It has something to do with retail and restaurants' ability to make choices on who they do business with. It is a form of discrimination. Because there are plenty of people that would be a lot cleaner and more healthy sitting in that place of business than some of the nasty, dirty people that walk in with clothes on. If you want to make it about health, then the landscapers can just use the argument that they are doing it for their mental health. It's no different. The mistake that she made was a mistake in judgment and response. They should have just kept to themselves and not made any contact. Someday the homosexuals are going to have to sue God for discrimination. But they won't get very far.
But it isn't exactly like they are serving people. It is like they are contracting themselves to those people. If I don't want a contract with someone, I am not forced to take a contract with them. It is kind of a minor point, because in principle I agree that they should have worked for them. It is also sad that sexual orientation isn't included in the EEO.
They have a right to decide whom they work for and for whatever reason they choose. It is not illegal to be bigotted and small minded in this country, just look at Pat Robertson. It is also the right of the gay couple to expose their business practices. This is all a bunch of "sound and fury, signifying nothing." Sort of like this post. DD
I think it's a good and also not trivial sign when our society speaks out w/ fury against hatred and biogtry. It was not always so.
Kind of like the current Muslim community and their lack of denouncing the hijacking of their religion.
If these guys were black instead of gay...and the landscapers wrote them an email stating they couldn not do the lawn of someone who was black, they would be in violation of the federal civil right laws and could be sued. The only reason nothing is happening is because discrimination against homosexuals isn't illegal.
Ummmmm, yeah. He doesn't mistreat them, just like these landscapers didn't mistreat that prospective client. God just makes a choice not to accept them into His kingdom unless they change their ways. (Does that make Him a bigot?) However; unlike this couple, God does let them hang around for the time being and does attempt to communicate with them from time to time in hopes of getting them to change, at least those homosexuals that God is interested in. God isn't interested in all homosexuals any more than He is interested in all people. There are just some people that God isn't interested in. If those that God deals with choose never to change, then they are eventually cut off and God will cease to attempt to communicate with them. And when God is through extracting from the homosexual community all those that will be His, then He will sever his relationship with them completely. Of course, when God is through extracting from this whole world all those that will be His, then he will cut off the whole world too. This couple is fighting a fight they cannot win, in this life. Because the Kingdom of God is not a natural kingdom. And the homosexual community is waging a war that they will eventually be annihilated in. Because ultimately they are fighting against God and God always wins the wars He participates in. God is patient, long suffering, forgiving, charitable, mannerly, all of those qualities. But, eventually there is a day of reckoning, a day when the books are balanced out, and that day is fast approaching. It has been right around 2000 years since God sent His Son and His Son walked the earth providing an example of how we are to live. And the gospel message has been preached from one end of this planet to another to practically all of mankind. The seed has been sown and now He is looking for His harvest. And He will separate the wheat from the tares at the time of thrashing. Until then, we all grow up together, those of us that have been planted in the field, that is. And the cares of life, deceitfulness of riches, haven't choked out the seed or the evil one hasn't removed the seed from us. Bash on.
^^^^^^^^ Everything wrong with modern "christians" summed up nice and tidy. Just the perfect anecdote to my comments here .
Not that I am aware of. They have a bible passage on their website that doesn't mention homosexuals, but talks about how a man should love his wife. Other people posted this whole fiasco on the sites forum pages.
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Ah, I only looked at the front page and a few random other pages. The site that is linkked to certainly has elements of bigotry. My mistake.
Hopefully God will be patient and forgiving of you as well when it comes time of the books to be "balanced out". I am not sure what homosexual community you are talking about that is waging a war against God. I pray that you will find understanding and your heart will be free of its misconceptions.
The homosexual lifestyle is against God's law. The homosexual community that believes in God is waging a war of trying to convince people that God accepts their homosexuality. He doesn't. Of course, the "modern christian" that somebody referred to earlier believes all sorts of things about God. Some of them believe that everybody goes to heaven. Some of them think that you don't have to believe in Jesus, all you have to believe in is God. Some of them think that you don't have to believe what is in the Bible, that the Bible is not necessarily written and inspired by God. Some "modern christians" even believe that homosexuality is acceptable and "normal" in God's eyes. They promote the idea that as long as they are "faithful" to their partner and monogamous (spell) that they are not sinning. Some of them will even try to convince us that Jesus, the Apostle Paul, and King David were all homosexuals. But all that is a lie and deceit of the enemy. Just as big as the lies and deceit that go on in most "modern churches" today that preach and teach that a human can't quit sinning. Or the lies and deceit that Jesus was just a "good man" and not a deity and that even if you don't believe that Jesus, the Son of God, came in the flesh, you will still live eternally just as long as you are a good person. The truth is those that do not believe that Jesus is the Son of God come in the flesh, are actually antichrist. There are many antichrists (against Christ) today, not just one. Are you one of them?
