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On Monday morning, a Kansas-based hate group attempted to spread its message to high schools in Washington, D.C., including the Sidwell Friends School.
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blainegarrett1 week, 4 days ago
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"Westboro Baptist Church maintains a web-site that celebrates the murder of Shepard by counting the days since he has been in "Hell"
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They protested at the funerals of straight 35w bridge collapse victims and straight iraq war casualties because of the Twin Cities large GLBT community and "don't ask don't tell" respectively. These people are ridiculous. -
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TimALoftis1 week, 4 days ago
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FTA;
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Nearly 200 Wilson students who gathered to meet the hate group covered the rainbow of student interests. Although both schools downplayed the protest --- one Wilson teacher said that he learned of the protest through Facebook --- to avoid giving credibility to the group, the students felt compelled to take a stand.
One student at Wilson held a sign saying "Make the world safe for me to be straight or gay with dignity." According to a parent, the girl had first held that sign as a 1-month-old child in a parade in support of gay rights. Other signs called for peace or proclaimed that 'I'm gay and God loves me" and "I'm straight but not narrow." -
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Sabretooth1 week, 4 days ago
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hamy1 week, 4 days ago
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I've said it before and I will say it again. Catholics who don't protest what the pope is saying are no better than the Westboro clan. Mormons who don't protest their church funding campaigns to deny rights to LGBT people might as well hold up one of their God Hates **** signs. If you are against marriage equality and believe the ads that say that allowing everyone the same rights is the same as "teaching gay marriage to our children" should head down to the nearest funeral of a fallen soldier and meet up with the rest of your peers.
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Bigotry is bigotry.-
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Dionys1 week, 4 days ago
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"Catholics who don't protest what the pope is saying are no better than the Westboro clan."
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I disagree to a point. I think that they absolutely should protest the garbage the current Pope is spewing, but I don't think that not protesting puts them on equal footing with people who go out and actively attack homosexuals and homosexuality (and soldiers, et cetera).
Passivity isn't active hatred and bigotry. There are any number of people who do not support the actions of the Catholic / Mormon / neo-Evangelical churches and who make their friends and family aware of it without engaging in 'public' protest.
"" If you are against marriage equality and believe the ads that say that allowing everyone the same rights is the same as "teaching gay marriage to our children" "
Again these people are misinformed and certainly hateful, but not protesting soldiers returns. That they are misinformed is sad, and one should try to help correct their misinformation and point them towards Christ's example. -
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Albmore1 week, 3 days ago
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Lets make something clear Jesus hates sin, but not the sinner. To sin is a matter of choice. Just like it is a matter of choice to except Jesus or not. We are not judges but servants. So those who are claiming to be christians serve.
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jnsprngslvr1 week, 3 days ago
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10/11/09
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I think all people who think that God does not see that
sexual perversion, sodomy and all other variations on the
theme of un-natural sexual activity as an abomination had
better read Romans 2 and all of Leviticus. In fact all these
people who consider sexual unions between same-sex couples
as the same as between a man and woman with the blessed covenant of God that seals it, are either delusional or praying to the wrong God.
Get the Bible out and do a little study, I think you'll find that God's idea of sexual sin is not as tolerable as you try to pretend. Judgement day is coming and God's wrath
is nothing to play with!!! He will not be mocked and you can't
make God a liar by flaunting His Law!!!!-
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jordan111 week, 3 days ago
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Dionys1 week, 3 days ago
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" theme of un-natural sexual activity as an abomination had
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better read Romans 2 and all of Leviticus. "
Try reading it in Hebrew and Greek. It doesn't say what you think it says.
Plus if you're going to mention Leviticus you better hope you don't cut the corners of your hair or wear cloth of two kinds of fabric (like stretchy socks?) or you're violating the same guidelines as the ' homosexuals ' (even though it doesn't say ANYTHING about homosexuals or homosexuality in Leviticus).
"Get the Bible out and do a little study, I think you'll find that God's idea of sexual sin is not as tolerable as you try to pretend. "
You get it out. In the original languages. Then read it without centuries of dogma coloring what it actually says.
"Judgement day is coming and God's wrath
is nothing to play with"
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slate1 week, 3 days ago
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But what you fail to grasp is God still loves sinners, that's why God loves even you. Sin is sin is sin. It's all supposed to be wrong. Take the two by four out of your eye the next time you read the bible and you'll get that notion.
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NoWayMan1 week, 3 days ago
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FTA: "Westboro church, headed by Pastor Fred Phelps, is notorious for its anti-gay protests and proclamations that natural disasters and tragedies are God's punishment for a society that tolerates homosexuality."
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so the "logic" coming from Phelps and the Westboro Church is that God is punishing us for doing and being what and who God made us.
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david_nwpa1 week, 3 days ago
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The WBC is nothing more than a violent, hate-filled group who espouse violence against gays and lesbians. The trouble is, because his little cult is considered a "church" his nutty group can protest and incite riots without repercussion. The more people fight back against the Phelps' clan, the less sway they will have.
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vettenut1 week, 3 days ago
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The WBC is indeed a sorry "example" of a "Christian Church."
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Christian Churches are not to be "houses of hate."
Not toward anyone. Period.
There are few things more ironic than when a so-called "Church" stops being "Light" to the world, and instead, appoints themselves as "Holy Blowtorches" directed toward their "enemies."
The folks at the WBC should read what Jesus said in Matthew 5:44 and Luke 6:27.-
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Natureboy1 week, 3 days ago
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The folks at the WBC are probably better at citing biblical verses than most of us.
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And that fact, taken with their addiction to hate, shows pretty clearly how fallible the Bible is as an agent of transformation.
Really, much of that book is the collected rantings of genocidal nomads who were convinced they had God's OK to murder other tribes and take their land. Why would you accept THAT as the infallible guide to good behavior? -
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jakesguile1 week, 3 days ago
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I gotta neg you on character for the "Black activists" comment; that was grossly unnecessary to add the qualifier before it. Wright, Jackson and Sharpton are activists and I'm not fond of them either but it was so not necessary to create a special qualifier based on their race.
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straightstreet071 week, 3 days ago
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I don't know much about this Church, but from what I have read it seems that they are over-emphasizing Jesus' disdain of sinful lifestyles such as homosexuality and many others. If all they do is talk about Hell and damnation and judgment, which is very much reality, then where is the love of Jesus that compels people to be saved?
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They are unbalanced indeed and need to be more merciful with how they treat people, but without compromising Biblical standards for the likes of modern people living in the New Age fantasy world of "everyone is ok".
The Bible and Jesus Himself are CLEARLY anti-sin. Homosexuality is CLEARLY sin. God also destroyed Sodom and Gomorah not only because of their rampant homosexuality, but that did tip the scale for sure as recorded in Genesis.
The reality is no Jesus wouldn't act the way these people are acting, but let's not think that Jesus THINKS they way many posters here do. "Marriage Equality", as many have deceptively put it instead of calling it "Marriage Redefining" which it REALLY is, may be in some liberals' agenda, but it is against Jesus' agenda. God's standards do not change for anyone at any time.-
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djn3nunez31 week, 3 days ago
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What exactly did this Jesus say about Homosexuality?
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Did his distain also cover Mary Magdalene's sins?
If in your religion it is some kind of supernatural being that sanctions marriage as only bewtween a man and a woman, that's fine with me, but what if my religions' supernatural being does sanction the marriage between any two loving human individuals, is that okay with you? -
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hamy1 week, 2 days ago
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Remember though that the bible and christianity isn't where our laws come from. Our laws govern ALL Americans. Jews. Atheists. Agnostics. Wiccans. Pagans. Hindus. Muslims. EVERYONE.
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So why can't gay people marry if it doesn't affect your life? Sodomy is not illegal and, I know you will find this shocking if you have never seen a porno in your life because you are such a moral person, but straight people engage in sodomy too! Any sexual activity other than intercourse is considered sodomy by law. So you see, homosexuality is not illegal. Therefore why shouldn't marriage be the same for everyone? Not just the straight.
How would it affect your marriage if I am allowed to marry the person I want to marry?
And don't give me the slippery slope argument. That has no merit.
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jakesguile1 week, 3 days ago
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I have a warning to Beck: You will be fired, wind up broken and alone and discover very few people actually give a d@mn about you when you start telling the truth instead of lies.
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...And your crocodile tears and toupee aren't fooling anybody -
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