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Prop 8: the best choice ever. For God's sake!!!
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shareI am a Christian and a large supporter of gay mariage and yes I am striaght. I believe that if Jesus were around he would also be a gay rights supporter because of his love of all living creatures which includes the gays.
shareI am a youth pastor at a Christian church, and I take my faith very seriously. I know that there are some verses in the Bible that say that homosexuality is wrong, but there are also verses in the Bible that say it's okay to stone people to death if they have committed adultery, or that you can have more than one wife. In John (New Testament) Jesus says "This is my command: Love one another the way I loved you." (John 15:12)
Jesus doesn't use the word commandment very often, and he tells us that the old laws were just that...OLD and outdated. His new laws were built on love. Loving Him, loving ourselves and loving all others. He doesn't say 'this is my command: love all the straight people and people who think the way you do'. The love Jesus gave was without condition, and that is the way that He wants us to love others. WITHOUT CONDITION; gay, straight, black, white, woman, man...it doesn't matter. We are ALL children of God.
As someone who is very proud of what I believe, I would never want that aspect of my life to be taken away from me. I am lucky that I live in a country where I have the right to worship who and how I choose and I am fortunate to know that my religion will never come to a vote. However, there are folks in our country that aren't free to marry the person they love, and I don't think that should be a voting issue either. If my best friend David gets to marry his boyfriend, who gets hurt? No one, so why does this keep coming up? All I see happening from this is a bunch of people who get to spend the rest of their lives married to the one they love. We all should be so lucky as to have that.
I know quite a few Christians who are gay, and they don't want just to 'live together', they want their relationship blessed by God the same way a straight married couple's is. I love that churches are starting to get wise to this fact, there are homosexual pastors and even bishops out there, and that there are some churches that will bless committed couples...but if the state doesn't recognize the union, it doesn't count as a marriage...which is bull!
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^ Well said.
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While I appreciate your inclusiveness, I take exception with your description of Jesus.
At times Jesus discards the old laws. But at other times, he berates others for not following the old laws, in particular noting that they are hypocrites for not killing their children (Matthew 15, Mark 7). Which Jesus do we believe?
Jesus does not love without condition. You must believe in a god, his god, and you must access that god only through him. That's not loving.
For example, Matthew 13 says (twice) that at the end of the world, Jesus will send angels to gather "them which do iniquity" and cast them into a "furnace of fire". Loving, right?
In Matthew 25, Jesus has his own version of the Good Samaritan law, but you don't just go to jail for violating it. You go to "everlasting fire". Because that's fair, right? Eternal punishment for NOT doing things during your short time alive?
Mark 3:29 and Luke 12:10 tell people that I am not forgivable, because I say there is no Holy Spirit. That's not even civil, let alone loving.
John 14:6 basically says nobody gets to heaven except through him. He's the gatekeeper between people and god. Loving? No.
And Jesus, although Jewish, is none too fond of the Jews in the Gospel of John. Consider John 8, for example.
This is just a handful of the not-so-nice things the Gospels tell us about Jesus. There's more elsewhere in the New Testament.
If you're going to tell people about Jesus, you really need to tell them about the whole Jesus, not just the good parts.