Honolulu Star Advertiser
June 20, 2013

Evangelicals are being challenged to change their views of gays and lesbians, and the pressure isn't coming from the gay rights movement or watershed court rulings: Once silent for fear of being shunned, more gay and lesbian evangelicals are speaking out about how they've struggled to reconcile their beliefs and sexual orientation.

Students and alumni from Christian colleges have been forming gay and lesbian support groups — a development that even younger alumni say they couldn't have imagined in their own school years. Gay evangelicals have published memoirs that prod traditional Christians to re-examine how they think about gays and lesbians. Among the most recent is Jeff Chu's "Does Jesus Really Love Me? A Gay Christian's Pilgrimage in Search of God in America." Paul Southwick, a gay evangelical attorney in Oregon, has started an "It Gets Better" style video project, "On God's Campus: Voices from the Queer Underground," with testimonials from gays and lesbians at the Christian schools.

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Wow! Just when you think it can't get any worse.
They might be evangelical Christians but apparently they don't believe the Bible when it plainly states that homosexuality is a sin.
Now, they want to proudly display their sins and even worse, want me to accept them as being "acceptable."

Go get married in a civil service and leave my church alone! God does not recognize same-sex marriage and it's too late to change the wording of the Bible!

Well, if these schools and churches are going to let gays in and run things, they better not be surprised when they are eventually talked into putting glory holes in their church rest rooms.

Militant homosexuality has infiltrated the seminaries to such a degree that every church needs to examine their new staff very closely. Who is heading up the Children and Youth ministry will help to shape the moral views of the next generation.

I fear that the battle was lost decades ago, before I became a Christian and a mother.

What they want to do is re-write the Bible to suit their needs. Mocking God is a serious offense to practicing Christians but we are getting less and less respect for our beliefs. I'm no fanatical Christian but I do know what the Bible has to say and it's not going to be re-written to justify our own individual sins.

Quote: Olivia wrote in post #5

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What they want to do is re-write the Bible to suit their needs. Mocking God is a serious offense to practicing Christians but we are getting less and less respect for our beliefs. I'm no fanatical Christian but I do know what the Bible has to say and it's not going to be re-written to justify our own individual sins.

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God loves Homo's but he also loves Rapists, Robbers, Peds,and Sheep Lovers!

What God doesn't Love is the practices that these Homo's, Rapists, Robbers and Sheep Lovers engage in!

He also (God) will NOT be mocked if as some Christians believe .. we accept these practices as the new normal!

A terrible day of Judgment will come upon us (Accepting Christians) too!

As we have been taught .. Love the sinner but hate the sin!

/sermon

Quote: freeperjohn wrote in post #7

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As we have been taught .. Love the sinner but hate the sin!

/sermon

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Quote: Frank Cannon wrote in post #8

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Quote: freeperjohn wrote in post #7

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As we have been taught .. Love the sinner but hate the sin!

/sermon

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Thanks, but I'll pass. I will continue hating everyone regardless of being a sinner or not.

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Quote: freeperjohn wrote in post #9

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'Except' me .. Of course!

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Quote: Olivia wrote in post #5

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What they want to do is re-write the Bible to suit their needs. Mocking God is a serious offense to practicing Christians but we are getting less and less respect for our beliefs. I'm no fanatical Christian but I do know what the Bible has to say and it's not going to be re-written to justify our own individual sins.

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