DustyInfinity
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White straight female Christian here. Just what is this pile of bullshit? Try explaining the policies of the current republican party to the rest of us. Me? Straight Dem down the line in Virginia, courtesy of today's republican party. You republicans hate me and every American who is not a white, straight, male from this phony brand of "Christianity" that you all are trying to sell. Your kind removed the republican party from the mainstream and you have only yourselves to blame.
Lysistrstrata, why do you think Republicans hate you? Let me put it this way, if you told your friends you were going to vote Republican, you would be ridiculed and persecuted. Republicans on the other hand would say welcome. They would not care what your color was, or if you were gay. Only Democrats care about that stuff. While Christianity doesn't normalize homosexuality, it certainly doesn't promote hatred towards homosexuals. Christians are about the most easy going bunch you are going to find. Not sure why people hate and fear them. This isn't medievil times. I'm not saying they are without fault, but in general, they are very good neighbors. Who exactly has told you over and over that Republicans hate everybody? I think Republicans would treat you much better than your 'Friends.'
Are you blind? No one has told me that republicans hate everybody. I have seen it myself. I have seen the behavior of the phony "Christian" cults in the U.S. The republicans' treatment of women, people of color, LGBTs, Muslims, Jews has been out in public for all to see. While they may live among us, they may not impose themselves on the rest of American society.
Don't say "Christian" without naming a denomination. The name of "Christian," pertaining to a world-wide religion, cannot be usurped to apply only to one particular cult.
There was a beautiful service at the National Cathedral the other day before the internment of Matthew Shepard's ashes. Years ago, I had the pleasure of being in a receiving line and shaking the hand of a well-known Christian theologian, and told him that the books he had written had saved Christianity for me, but that I thought that so much of what was being marketed as Christianity was B.S. He told me (to paraphrase) that so much of it was, but that there was truth there, and it was our journey to set out and find it. That there was a kernel of truth that we could all take home.
There was a beautiful service at the National Cathedral the other day before the internment of Matthew Shepard's ashes. It was a service of Christian burial, presided over by Christians. I am sorry that my circumstances did not allow me to be there. The homily delivered by retire Bishop V. Gene Robinson had me in tears, and he was crying, too.
Now explain to me the policies of the republicans and their phony "Christian" friends, who won't bake cakes or issue marriage licenses and we are all supposed to be upset about what happens to them. These phony "Christians" seem to be aligned with the republican party to the point where no one knows where the dividing line is.
So you are condemning a majority of Christians over gay marriage? I'll admit Republicans handled it poorly. I've made my position known before. Republican's were flat out wrong to fight civil unions. I also think democrats handled it poorly by forcing a change of the definition of marriage. Does it make me a bad Christian to think homosexuals should have all the same rights and benefits of heterosexuals without altering the definition of marriage? Again, I personally do not care if someone is gay or not, but according to you I am evil and have ruined Christianity? Civil Unions were the way to go. It protects everyone's rights and does not alter one of our longest traditions. I might hesitate to convict a majority of Christians of being phony because of gay marriage. Supporting traditional marriage was never the same as being anti-gay. Republican politicians blew it by being idiots over civil unions.