(July 7, 2013 at 4:33 pm)Consilius Wrote: If gay people were gay on purpose, that would fit the qualifications for a sin. They would have to be corrected, like drug addicts or liars.
Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone...
We don't live in a theocracy and Christian sins do not qualify as reasons to discriminate, or to deny equal rights under the law. Christians should live their lives according their beliefs, if they want to, and leave everyone else alone. Whether or not being gay is a choice, being an asshole certainly is.
Quote:Those who are against homosexuality today seek to scold and correct them. It's about the "love the sinner, hate the sin" thing. Few Christian communities actually discriminate against them.
Those who are against homosexuality seek to demonize, belittle, and exclude them from society to whatever extent they can get away with.
Quote:And so, it's not the Christian community as a whole, but a few Christians who actually discriminate based on sexuality.
The 'few' Christians who have, so far, successfully managed to make gay people second class citizens in America did not accomplish this in spite of the efforts of the Christian community, but with the Christian community's implicit (and often, explicit) approval and support. If there are so many individual Christians who find discrimination abhorrent, why don't they join together to make it stop?