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Originally Posted by alansmithee
By your view then, we are all "intolerant" of murders, pedophiles, rapists, and thieves, correct? Because apparently, finding certain behaviors or lifestyles wrong and/or sinful is being "intolerant".
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Actually, our society is much more tolerant of most of those people, while there is a misplaced zeal to co-locate the term "homosexual" with "pedophile". I've also heard preachers who profess to follow the Christian faith claim that homosexuality was the same as having sex with pets and dead people.
Take Jerry Falwell... He sincerely lobbied then Governor Bush to commute Karla Faye Tucker's death sentence. Conversely, he claims that AIDS is a God sent remedy for "the Gay problem". I went through Stephen ministery training three years ago and was amazed at how eager some of us were to counsel convicts, but nobody seemed to want to spend time in the hospital with the terminally ill.
We welcome these people who have, in many cases, left indelible marks on people and families, wounds that will never heal into a faith that is supposed to be loving and caring. We hold up the stop sign and disallow those who follow their natural instinct in their partner choices.
So, kill somebody? Yes, it's one of the big ten no-no's, but you can still be a Christian minister in almost any (if not all) denominations. Queer? NOT one of the big ten, but no. This club is now exclusive and private.