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Originally posted by lurkette
I find this offensive, not just for your choice of epithet, but because you assume that you know what "joe faggot" is like. I know a lot of very religious gay people who find a lot of meaning in the Bible. There's a lot of compassion and wisdom in it, and for those who aren't uncomfortable thinking that times change and interpretation of scripture can comfortably change with it, there's no contradiction at all in gay people being Christians. In fact, most of the gay Christians I know are much better Christians than most of the closed-minded, hate-filled Bible-thumpers I know.
If the church alienates anybody because they're uncomfortable with gay leadership, then so be it. A lot of churches lost parishioners in the 60s because they stood up for racial equality. Did that make it a bad decision because they alienated the racists?
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Clearly my epithet was completely accurate and hilarious.
Compassion and wisdom towards whom? Racial equality, sure, that works with the bible well enough. Not gays though, the bible says homosexuality is an "abomination" to god, and that the penalty for such actions is "death." Now, before you go digging around for scriptures contrary to this one, as I'm sure you will, you should ask yourself why joe faggot would want to be a part of a religion that 1: Says this in the first place, and 2: Says something later completely contradicting itself. A strict disciplined lifestyle is good, I applaud that, but the bible is most certainly not the only place to learn morality.
I think most people know this, and they're not going to join the church because gays are allowed to go. I know what most people are like, they don't much care for you telling them you're an abomination and you're going to kill them. But I'll put money on a lot of people switching denominations because of this, it is not a good move.