NYT Writer: Christians Must Be Made To Embrace Gay Lifestyle

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Apr 9, 2015 12:33:58 GMT -5 AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP said:

The other thing that occurs to me is that Jesus still has the mob rending their garments and gnashing their teeth after 2015 years.

So does Wicca, Budda, Mohammed, whatever the Hindu gods are, Atheists...you get my point.

[Phoenix84]

And you only seem to want to focus on Christians, so I guess we're the same

[Phoenix84]

Apr 10, 2015 0:02:55 GMT -5 b2r said:

This is why I identify with the story of Jesus. And frankly, it is the only story there really is. This white, blond-haired, blue-eyed, gun-toting, Bible-quoting Jesus of the religious right is a god of their own making. I call this god, the god of white supremacy and patriarchy. There is nothing about their god that speaks to me as a Black woman of working-class background living in a country where police routinely murder black men and beat the hell out of black women, where the rich get richer while politicians find ever more reasons to extract from the poor, and where the lives the church imagines for women still center around marriage and motherhood, and no sex if you’re single.

This God isn’t the God that I serve. There is nothing holy, loving, righteous, inclusive, liberatory or theologically sound about him. He might be “biblical” but he’s also an asshole.

The Jesus I know, love, talk about and choose to retain was a radical, freedom-loving, justice-seeking, potentially queer (because he was either asexual or a priest married to a prostitute), feminist healer, unimpressed by scripture-quoters and religious law-keepers, seduced neither by power nor evil.

That’s the story I choose to reflect on this Holy Week. The Christian lawmakers seeking to use the law to discriminate against gay people are indicative of every violent, unrighteous, immoral impulse that organized religion continues to represent in this country.


Brittney Cooper is a contributing writer at Salon, and teaches Women's and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers.

www.salon.com/2015/04/01/the_rights_made_up_god_how_bigots_invented_a_white_supremacist_jesus/ 

There's so much wrong with that article and the authors argument it's hard to know where to even begin....

[Tennesseer]

Apr 10, 2015 8:49:02 GMT -5 Phoenix84 said:

Apr 10, 2015 0:02:55 GMT -5 b2r said:

There's so much wrong with that article and the authors argument it's hard to know where to even begin....

Feel free to begin.

[Tennesseer]

Apr 10, 2015 8:31:35 GMT -5 Phoenix84 said:

And you only seem to want to focus on Christians, so I guess we're the same

As the majority of citizens in the U.S. are Christian, why would I not focus on Christians actions during the past hundred years here.

[weltschmerz]

Apr 9, 2015 16:50:14 GMT -5 deminmaine said:

Mother Theresa was a person one day.... and a Saint the next!

Lot was a person one day and, you guessed it...... a pillar of salt the next!

Amazing things happen to those who believe.

Lot wasn't turned into a pillar of salt; it was his wife.

Lot went on to have sex with his daughters.

[Robert not Bobby]

Apr 8, 2015 22:24:37 GMT -5 AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP said:

www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/04/08/nyt-writer-christianity-must-be-made-to-embrace-gay-lifestyle/

Well, we used to believe it was a free country.  Obviously people at the New York Times still feel like they're free to be an idiot.

I like that lady, that symbolizes liberty.
 

...so what is your point?

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

What does any of this crap have to do with forcing people at gunpoint to approve of and embrace the gay lifestyle as certain high profile, loud-mouthed gay activists define it?

[mmhmm]

Apr 12, 2015 17:08:44 GMT -5 AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP said:

What does any of this crap have to do with forcing people at gunpoint to approve of and embrace the gay lifestyle as certain high profile, loud-mouthed gay activists define it?

Nothing. That's probably because nobody is forcing anyone to approve of, or embrace the gay lifestyle - at gunpoint, or otherwise.

[Opti]

Apr 12, 2015 17:08:44 GMT -5 AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP said:

What does any of this crap have to do with forcing people at gunpoint to approve of and embrace the gay lifestyle as certain high profile, loud-mouthed gay activists define it?

I'm just wondering what is the difference between old Paul and the new one that

apparently embraced the gay lifestyle? I guess this means his concealed carry did not

end in a draw?

[Tennesseer]

Gunpoint

[mmhmm]

[Tennesseer]

Some day the captain will be promoted to major general because we sure need him right now.

[weltschmerz]

Apr 12, 2015 17:11:36 GMT -5 mmhmm said:

Apr 12, 2015 17:08:44 GMT -5 AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP said:

What does any of this crap have to do with forcing people at gunpoint to approve of and embrace the gay lifestyle as certain high profile, loud-mouthed gay activists define it?

Nothing. That's probably because nobody is forcing anyone to approve of, or embrace the gay lifestyle - at gunpoint, or otherwise.

If he said it, it must be so. Don't doubt him, ever.

[tallguy]

Speaking only for myself, of course, I don't think there has ever been anyone I doubted more.  EVER!