Gay bashing on a forum, a neocon hobby ?

[twobombs]

No, I am not gay, but I find the amount of gay bashing forum topics shocking, especially since this is the prophecy forum [and therefore off - topic]

[sincereheart]

Prophecy - Current Events is the area and that sounds about right.

Guess it depends on what your idea of gay-bashing is....

If saying that homosexuality is a sin is bashing, then the Bible is bashing??  ....

[twobombs]

Oh, it's a sin allright...  a very grave one, I might add as it invokes other lifestyle-ish bondage that even runs 3 generations.

But when you look at the poll you can clearly see that someone actually voted for :

gays and all those other ppl that don't live in texas/USA don't have rights

Now...   that just illustrates my point and that vote behaviour is called blind hate; that brother needs to repent from that, I tell ya !

[Tibby]

Oh, it's a sin allright...  a very grave one, I might add as it invokes other lifestyle-ish bondage that even runs 3 generations.

But when you look at the poll you can clearly see that someone actually voted for :

gays and all those other ppl that don't live in texas/USA don't have rights

Now...   that just illustrates my point and that vote behaviour is called blind hate; that brother needs to repent from that, I tell ya !

Actually, it illustrates nothing. I voted for it. As a Texan, I thought it was a gag poll, so I voted for that one... Do you honestly think people truly believe that? Of course not! This blind-stereotyping of Texans is offencive.

Serously, Stop living in lalaland, come back down to Earth, my friend. Get in touch with your fellow man before you attack him for his "blind hatred."

[AJ]

Hmm Gays? well its an open sin.. certainly not hid much these days...Anyway i asked the lord once, how bad is this sin compared to my sins at the time, i was just a new convert...The lord spoke to me and said.

He who has no sin.. let him cast the first stone.

[twobombs]

oh.. I get it; i'm the bad guy now

[Tibby]

No, but I have to admit, your fun to harass. ;-D Honestly, I think you and AJ are looking at Homosexuality all wrong. Dealing with sin in your life, and defining you life by the sin are to different things.

I may fight lust at times, but still I FIGHT lust. Homosexuality implies the person committing it has stopped even caring to fight it, they have completely given into the sin, and let it consume them. Homosexuality doesn’t  just represent the control sin has in our culture, it represents our apathy as a whole for sin. We may lie, and lust, and envy at times, but we fight it.
We do not indulge in the sins. We don’t just sin there and look at porn all day.
We don’t let it define us. we do not walk around saying “I’m a womanizing lust-aholic, but you can all me a ‘lusto’ for short”

Our sin and the sin of a homosexual is not the same thing.

[ebia]

Our sin and the sin of a homosexual is not the same thing.

I expect that's pretty much what the guys featured in John 8 1-11 thought.

[Shylynne]

Our sin and the sin of a homosexual is not the same thing.

pretty good rationalizing, but that statement completely opposes the scripture.

[JudgeNot]

I didn’t vote – there are no proper choices.  

When one is under attack, one tends to fight back.  The radical homosexual agenda is attacking everything Christian – from marriage to the definition of sin.  They are calling Jesus a homosexual.  They accuse non-homosexuals who do not support their agenda “Nazis”.  They would have our children practicing homosexuality in middle-school.  It’s their way or no way.  They are shoving their homosexuality down our throats and they will not rest until we “like it.”  If we disagree with them they accuse us of being filled with “hate”.

They are right!  I HATE sin.  All sin.  I am guilty of sin.  I know what it does to a person – that’s why I hate it so much.  I will always fight against sin.  If someone wants to call that “gay” bashing – then by all means, go for it!  Call me what you will.  I guess I’m also a “liar basher” and “thief basher”.  Yep!  I’m a basher.  I will protect myself and my family against it everyway I know how.  I bash sin.  But I can still love the sinner.  

If this forum isn’t the place to attack sin, then I’m in the wrong place.

Your friendly sin basher,
JN

[twobombs]

Judge: apparently many in the USA have been living a life that I know not of; therefore I am only able to tell how i/we 've been living in Europa.

Living as a christian in Europe learned me one thing : keep my eyes focussed on Jesus and His anointing that breaks every yoke.

Watching and bashing sin and/or sinners in not high on my agenda.
Sin makes my cry, sinners make me weep.

[JudgeNot]

Twobombs,
Ah!  I just noted you are from the Netherlands.  Is the Bible hate speech there (as parts of it are in Canada, now)?  I’m not very familiar with the politics in your country.  I know that Europe is very ‘liberal’ – I can see why you must stay focused!  I can definitely offer you my prayers!  

When I say I’m a basher – I of course mean the sin and not the sinner.  I was ‘righteously angry’ when I posted my reply.  

(I'm better, now.)  

I am one who will not walk across the street to confront a pair of homosexuals showing public affection (I do work in San Francisco, after all) but if they approach me and ask me what I think about it, they’ll get both barrels!  I will never publicly or privately dismiss the homosexual act as a ‘normal, God given passion’ as the activists claim it to be.  

“Sinners make you weep” – yep, I empathize with that – I surely do…

[Tibby]

Our sin and the sin of a homosexual is not the same thing.

I expect that's pretty much what the guys featured in John 8 1-11 thought.

Call me when my apathy toward homosexuality turns them back Straight. John 8 is referring to attacking those with sin. I am not condoning to attacking of sinners, I trying to explain how the sin of Homosexuality is different from other sins we deal with.

pretty good rationalizing, but that statement completely opposes the scripture.

Then oppose it with scripture, if you will.

[Shylynne]

There is no scale of sinfulness in the Bible where one sin is worse than another, mankind in his arrogance and pride thought this one up, and without any inspiration from Gods word .

Jam 2:10  For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one [point], he is guilty of all.

Rom 3:9  What then? are we better [than they]? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
Rom 3:10  As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

Perhaps you would also like to reread John 8:3-11
then go reread I John 1:8.

[ebia]

Our sin and the sin of a homosexual is not the same thing.

I expect that's pretty much what the guys featured in John 8 1-11 thought.

Call me when my apathy toward homosexuality turns them back Straight. John 8 is referring to attacking those with sin. I am not condoning to attacking of sinners,

Did I say you were.  John 8, like just about any bit of John, has heaps of messages at different levels - to say John 8 deals with this [and only this] is so far off a reasonable approach to St John's gospel it's laughable.   Now try re-reading what I said for my meaning not yours.

I trying to explain how the sin of Homosexuality is different from other sins we deal with.

And failed.  Sin, is sin.