bullwinkle
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Hey, Tommy! What a thought-inducing post. I guess most of humanity is guilty of the top 3. The NT says that anyone who divorces and remarries is a adulterer. And I suspect we have all felt murder in our hearts a few times too. And committed thievery too even if by accident, like keeping a pen belonging to a business.Liars
Thieves
Adulterers
Murderers
Gays
The four groups/behaviours above are all pretty much frowned upon by certain strands of Christianity. But I am curious as to why Gays seemingly come in for censure, a lot more so than ,for example, adulterers .
Nobody ever refused a liar a cake. They probably wouldnt have much business at all if they did.
I would argue that a devout,honest,faithful,non violent gay person would be a better individual than the others. Certainly of a higher moral standard. And yet nobody campaigns against the pension rights of murderers. Or the rights of adulterers.
I have never seen one thread on this board giving grief to liars and cheats but hundreds condemning gays.
How do you work out who gets the cake baked ?
But gays are a minority..not like 'us', and we paint them as perverted. I'm thinking of an old KJ Bible I once had that had paintings of all the apostles inserted in the center. It showed 11 of them all sweet and gentle and looking heavenward. But the picture of Judas showed a wild haired, snarly man...not like the rest at all...and giving the impression that he is not like 'us' either. He stood out like an onion in a petunia patch. Yet he preached, he healed, he was a faithful apostle too. And when I think of his gripes, his lack of understanding of the mission...well maybe he was more like 'us' that the rest of the near-perfect band. He complained of liberal use of money and not attacking earthly Rome. Sometimes I think he would fit right in most of our churches today.