Retired Green Bay Packer LeRoy Butler tweeted “Congrats to Jason Collins” after the NBA player came out. Apparently a church he was scheduled to speak at canceled his appearance (and the $8500 fee that came with it). But the kicker is they said they’d still let him speak if he apologized, deleted the tweet, and asked God for forgiveness.
I suppose they were hoping for something like “God, please forgive me for saying something nice to a gay man. What I meant to say was ‘You’re going to hell to burn for a billion years’.”:rolleyes:
To his credit, Butler told them no. My favorite part of his response: “blame it on my mom because my mom brought me up to love everybody”.
I like this part, “Butler recently tweeted that the church apologized for the incident and thanked him ‘for not releasing the church name.’” I’m amused that the big issue for them seems to be that they weren’t publicly identified.
Yeah, if they were hoping to take a principled stand against the evils of tweeting supportive messages to gay people, they’re kind of doing it wrong with the whole secrecy thing.
The church’s ignorance and intolerance is par for the course. Gotta love a system that claims to take orders from an almighty source, yet they gloss over proven homosexual child molestation, and condemn everything having to do with two people of the same sex making a commitment to each other. I doubt they’re trying to hold the ceremony in these idiot’s church.
I also love how whenever a contradiction is found in the bible, there’s either silence or a really awkward and clearly made up explanation for it.
Back to the point. $8500 to talk at a church?!? I can see the church maybe funding his travel costs and a per-diem, but WTF? He’s happy going church to church taking money from parishioners that donate to feed the needy, cover operating costs for the church etc.
Not one thing about this entire situation, and anyone involved seems even remotely close to “What Jesus would do”. Shame on all these people. Not Jesus though, because he died on the cross, and therefore cannot be blamed.
Think of the worst crime you can think of. The most immoral, unholy, disgusting, violation of human decency. Torture, beheading, water-boarding, decapitation, rape, sodomy, genital mutilation, “ethnic cleansing”, etc.
These are pretty much the worst things that people can do to one another. Atrocities like these happen every day around the world.
Somebody forgot to phone Jesus. These things seem to still be happening.
