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Jesus tells everyone that, for we are all sinners. The cruel and hateful, the greedy and selfish are sinners who hurt others. Gay people do not try to hurt others. The overwhelming majority want to be accepted, raise families, be good neighbors, and be accepted.
Are you speaking of 'illegal immigrants' or of legal immigrants? The legal immigrants are not necessarily in favor of illegal immigrants, particularly the gangs that are adding significantly to crimes like drug running and turf wars.
So basically your standard for morality is it is okay to do whatever you want as long as others are not harmed. So, based on your logic, pornography, alcoholism, gambling addictions, suicide, and sexual immorality, and idolatry are not sinful.
LGBTQ going around chanting "WE ARE COMING FOR YOUR CHILDREN!" while infiltrating their schools, libraries and cartoons etc, reap what they sow. Exploiting children is not a human right.
On the contrary it is predominantly western Christianity that has become more susceptible to the acceptance of sin. It’s actually extremely rare in the eastern churches. And what you call “oppression” is in reality a disapproval of sinful behavior. Are not murderers oppressed? Or thieves, or drunkards, or rapists, or liars, in the same fashion? And yet those who repent of these sins are no longer oppressed. It’s not the people who are being oppressed by Christians only their sinful actions that are considered unacceptable. You claim that disapproval of sin is contrary to the character of Jesus, can you provide ONE SINGLE EXAMPLE of Jesus ever condoning sin? We both know that I can provide numerous statements that Jesus made where He forbad sinful behavior. Take the adulterous woman for example, yes He had mercy on her and what did He say to her? “Where are your accusers? Then I do not accuse you either, GO AND SIN NO MORE”. He had mercy on her but He didn’t tell her to go back to doing what she was doing before. And if you read Revelation 2-3 He held the same standard for Christians within the church. So your claim that disapproval of sin is contrary to the character of Jesus is COMPLETELY UNSUPPORTED BY SCRIPTURE.
No I would say that there are some extremists who do not reflect the mercy of Christ. Like the pastor Steven Anderson for example who has openly stated that he wants LGBT to be put to death. But I would also point out that Steven Anderson doesn’t represent the mentality of the vast majority of Christianity. But it’s because of these extremists who slanderize the character of Christ and drag the integrity of the church thru the mud which is precisely why you can’t stereotype all Christians into any category based on the actions of some within the demographic.
The LGBT movement is demonic to its core.
Yup. Don’t agree with the LGBT lifestyle, see how much hatred they respond with. They know deep down it’s wrong. It’s their own guilty conscience that is bothering them.
Yup. It’s downright evil. Cries out to heaven for vengeance.
Who cares what the LGBT community thinks? No one rights are being threatened.
I don't see how any Christian can't see that it's a contrivance of the enemy to warp God's children.
Agreed, we’re not called to judge those outside the church but we are called to preach the gospel and all that Christ taught. So what they do in their own lives is not our concern but if they’re going to promote sinful behavior to the public whether people like it or not, it’s our responsibility to be the voice of opposition whether people like it or not. So they can exercise their right of freedom as speech and we’ll exercise our’s and people can decide for themselves which path they want to take.
