Republicans Fight Back (Straight Pride Week)

[academic punk]

Here's the thing: Gay Pride Parades were established (and continue to be held and celebrated) to display to the world that there is nothing shameful in their sexual orientation and to ask the world for tolerance.

If you go past the 98 lb Puerto Rican dancing around in a pair of glittery American Flag speedos dancing around on a float you will hear that the focus of these parades is to tell the community and the world of the progress this minority has made over the past annum, and where they want to go in the coming year and what it will take to get there.

Again, the reason for these parades is because the homosexual community is a MINORITY, and one that is disgracefully biased against CONSTANTLY: from religious groups, from job opportunities, from housing.

Has any staright person been convinced that there entire life due exclusively to their sexual orientation is a sin, and committed suicide as a result? Has a straight person ever been discriminated against b/c of their partner's happened to be the same as theirs?

The Parades are primarily a vehicle to ask the outside community for tolerance.

And if it is a sin, you know what? It's THEIR sin. It's got nothing to do with you. So leave them be, okay? That strikes me as more Christian than what I'm reading here.

p.s. explain mary cheney.

[Nickdfresh]

Originally posted by BigBadBrian
Which gene is the "gay" gene?

I really wouldn't know.

[Nickdfresh]

Originally posted by ELVIS
So, the guy, for one reason or another is attracted to guys...

That makes it right ??

I don't know, but I can think of things worse such as teen or otherwise unwanted pregnancy, dead-FUCKING-beat dad's, rapists, spousal-abusers, abortions, etc. Much of which has more to do with heterosexuality.

[BigBadBrian]

Originally posted by Nickdfresh
Doesn't the Bible also say slavery is cool in some parts?

WTF, I'm beginning to sound like Seshmeister... Cheers!

A slavery to a mastery and a slavery to Christ are seperate issues. We don't have enough time (at least I don't) to get into that now.

To sound like Sesh, you'll need to pound down another bottle of booze while chain-smoking Marlboro's as fast as your lungs are able. Then cop an unreasonable attitude about religion because some priest popped you in the poophole when you were a wee little wanker.

[academic punk]

Originally posted by Nickdfresh
I don't know, but I can think of things worse such as teen or otherwise unwanted pregnancy, dead-FUCKING-beat dad's, rapists, spousal-abusers, abortions, etc. Much of which has more to do with heterosexuality.

I see nothing wrong with abortions. And I don't think "unwanted teen pregnancy" is "wrong", just sad and unfortunate.

[academic punk]

By the way, triple b, my earlier comment was obviously a joke. I've put up some of yours, so come on, lighten up.

[ELVIS]

Originally posted by Nickdfresh
I don't know, but I can think of things worse such as teen or otherwise unwanted pregnancy, dead-FUCKING-beat dad's, rapists, spousal-abusers, abortions, etc. Much of which has more to do with heterosexuality.

Sin is SIN!

There is no scale...

There is no sin more or lesser than another...

God looks at sin as sin...

[academic punk]

Originally posted by ELVIS
Sin is SIN!

There is no scale...

There is no sin more or lesser than another...

God looks at sin as sin...

Of course there is scale. If there isn't, ELVIS, well, then, we're ALL shit out of luck aren't we?

What about redemption? What about penance? What about HOPE?

What about your own past sins (which, BTW, I view simply as MISTAKES) and the way you've tried to reconstruct your life since? God doesn't see or care about that?

Bullshit. God is good, God is tolerant, God is LOVING.

One instance does not define your entire life. Not even three or four or four hundred. Your whole life is what you are judged by.

Again, if I'm wrong about this, I don't think any of us is getting to Heaven anytime soon.

[FORD]

Originally posted by BigBadBrian
Which gene is the "gay" gene?

The one that looks like this.....

[Nickdfresh]

Originally posted by ELVIS
Sin is SIN!

There is no scale...

There is no sin more or lesser than another...

God looks at sin as sin...

If it doesn't make my taxes go up, I really don't care. I'm not gay but I've had premarital sex, am I a sinner any worse than a gay man? I pay taxes and all that.

What are your options? Legislating morality? Banning gays from owing establishments or not hiring someone because they are gay? None of which has worked.

[academic punk]

No one has answered how gay republicans are supposed to go about with the rest of lives...

[academic punk]

I would like to add I'm a big fan of how the straight pride festivities are proposed to last a WEEK.

The gay parade - the community most known for excessive partying and who invented the phrase "OTT" - only lasts a DAY!

Sheesh!

[Big Train]

"Gay Republicans" should go about their lives as scheduled. Don't confuse the word "republican" with the word "religion" although a lot do. THey are two separate words in two different realms.

Nick, as too your question earlier, genetics vs. envoirnment can be debated night and day. However, if a person choses not to accept a behavior whether genetically scripted or not, that is not "hatred". Acting in a violent way is hatred. Simply saying you don't approve of the liefestyle is not.

[ELVIS]

Originally posted by academic punk
Of course there is scale. If there isn't, ELVIS, well, then, we're ALL shit out of luck aren't we?

What about redemption? What about penance? What about HOPE?

Why do we need to repent? God tells us that we have broken HIS LAWS in Adam and personally as well. In so doing, we have alienated ourselves from Him as enemies. The command is given in Mark 1:15, "...repent ye, and believe the gospel." It is a direct command from the God of Heaven to repent! Still we say, "We'll just trust our church; we're all right; we haven't done anyone any harm." "I don't beat my wife or kick my dog." So man feels pretty safe, but have you

repented??? Acts 3:19, "Repent... and he converted..." Luke 13:3, "... except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish." It is not what we think but rather what God says. It is by His STANDARD, the Word of God, that we will be judged. It is our sinfulness in Adam that brought the fall of man and offended God. That offence can only be taken away by the blood of Christ. ONLY a blood sacrifice would satisfy the righteous demands of a Holy God. Not water sprinkling, nor communion, not confirmation, but it took the once for all payment of the shed blood on Calvary. God will accept nothing else in its place today. Heb. 5:9, "And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him "

We need to recognize our sinfulness and REPENT. You see, it is important, for we will either be in heaven or hell for all eternity. John 5:28-29, "Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth..." Even the grave will not keep you from meeting your judge. To repent means to change your mind and to recognize your lost hopeless state before God without Christ as your personal Saviour. It is to humble yourself and to ask for the forgiveness of your sinfulness. Without repentance-no salvation, and without heart knowledge of our lost condition it is impossible to repent. Heb. 9:27, "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment." Acts 17:30, "And the times of this ignorance God winked at,, but now commandeth all men every where to repent: because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained,- whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead " THE COMMAND IS THAT ALL MEN EVERYWHERE ARE TO R E P E N T!

III. BELIEVE THE GOSPEL.

What is the gospel?? In Mark 1: 15 we are given a command, "... believe the gospel" Many religious people go to bear their pastor or their priest faithfully and never come to know what the gospel is. If we were to ask you, what would you say? Many have told this preacher that they do not know or are not sure, and yet claim to be receiving the gospel message.

Rotn. 1:16, "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek." Is it then not vital that we know and believe the gospel?

My friend, if you want this salvation that God freely offers through the shed blood of His Son, then you must come as every other person that is saved has come. Acts 20:21, "... repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ." You're going to have to come God's way, not the way you think.

Paul states in I Cor. 15: 1, "Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand,..." It is the same gospel that man must hear today and receive to be saved. I Cor. 15:3-4, "For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures." It is not just believing some old story about some person called Jesus. It is believing the scriptural account of the fall of man, our great need to be saved, and God sending the sacrifice in our place by His own Son, as the Bible verifies. It is the placing of our trust in the sufficiency of that shed blood to take away the offence of out sinfulness against God. When we believe and receive the Son, we become BORN AGAIN, having a new birth, by which a poor, lost, guilty, hell-deserving sinner receives a pardon, a stay of execution. That execution has been placed on the Son and then we no longer are under the wrath of God. So you see, we can be free from the judgment of the condemnation of the eternal lake of fire.

John 1:12, "But as many as received Him, to them gave He power (authority) to become the Sons of God..." What a change of direction-to be changed from a child of the devil to a child of God.

I beg of you today, if you have never before known a time when you were lost in sin, listen to these words of Rom. 3:19, "Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: THAT EVERY MOUTH MAY BE STOPPED, AND ALL THE WORLD MAY BECOME GUILTY BEFORE GOD. Recognize yourself to be in the group, the ALL the GUILTY ones, REPENT and BELIEVE the Gospel of the Bible and receive the forgiveness Of sins and eternal life.

James 4:6, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble." James 4:10 "Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up."

It is humbling to admit that we've been wrong, and are wrong, both before God and man.

The offer is for all to come that labor and are heavy laden and Christ will give you rest. Come and trust Him Today.

[FORD]

Originally posted by ELVIS
"I don't beat my wife or kick my dog."

Maybe not, but James Dobson does.