Well, the difficulty I have with your reasoning is I find the implications of your argument impalatable. Without being inconsistent, hypocritical, or duplicitous, how do we preclude discrimination because of a sincere religious belief non-whites are inferior? Or discrimination against those on the basis of religious beliefs, such as atheists or people of a different faith, because both are infidels?
I understand the religious freedom argument you are espousing and I am sympathetic to it but I believe fairness and consistency would require such a freedom to extend to permit or allow other forms of reprehensible behavior, reprehensible discrimination. In my opinion, the abuses of this freedom outweigh the positives of this freedom in this one specified area thereby permitting a fair blanket prohibition.
Sorry, I cannot parse this. Are you saying you understood the sarcasm of my post, but contradictorily, you feel it had no sarcasm? And that I was serious?
As a christian with several gay friends, many of whom are also christian, I have to say the OP’s lack of understanding of the true meaning of christianity is eye-rolling at the lowest level and offensive at other levels. But GEEPERS is not unique. There are many “christians” that share his beliefs, and as a result find comfort in each others fears.
The futile efforts to logically sway the opinions of such people do little more than feed their own feelings of superiority. DFTT.
You said he was gay. The Bible is quite clear that the act is unnatural and sinful.
Matthew 7:3-5 clearly gives permission to judge others as long as you have self-examined and corrected your own behavior first. You don’t know me, and therefore, do not know if I have removed the log from my eye or not. That’s assuming.
Didn’t you maintain a pro-gay stance in earlier posts? If you are saying that this act is perfectly natural and approved by God then you are certainly misleading your friend. The Bible that you like to quote says otherwise.
Ironic thing is your post sits in arrogant judgement of me.
Common sense makes it quite clear that it’s an inherent trait. Don’t you think you should reject interpretations of the Bible that contradict things you know are true?
It’s not nearly as clear as you say it is. I’m not sure if you’re aware of this (as it turns out you were with regard to the views of many other Christians on gays) or if you really don’t know much about the scholarship on this point, but on this point - same as the race issue and many others - not everybody agrees about what the Bible says or what it means for a believer, and readings have changed over time.