The Church's record of minister's sexual offences including Catholic Priests offences with children, is hardly a good one. There are as many homosexual Christians as there are those who prefer not to acknowledge conventional religious groups. What an utter load of hypocrisy. What people choose to do in their private lives is just that PRIVATE.
2007-01-09 20:01:54 · 12 answers · asked by robinrtbtv 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
I don't see what paedophilia has to do with homosexuality, but according to your logic what's done in private is private, so do you mean it's OK to abuse kids if it's done privately?
Homosexuality is not something that should be just OK in private, it should be openly acknowledged.
2007-01-09 20:10:29 · answer #1 · answered by mini metro 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Okay, let's suppose just for the sake of this question, that there is a god and that he is the Christian God...
The brands of Christianity now practised are so far removed from the early teachings of the christ and those who followed him for the four hundred years before anything actually got written down and formalised that it's quite the norm to just pick and choose what constitutes a sin.
The modern religions are basically a form of social control for the upper middle classes over the plebs. The moralistic right wing straight lacers like to pretend everything is apple pie and ribbons and prefer to sweep nastiness under the carpet. It's kind of okay that there are gays - so long as they keep it secret and don't sit next to you in church. It gives you something to gossip about, I guess.
Meanwhile, in the real world, who actually gives a shite who you shag? There is no God, only bigotted fuckwits who like telling others what to do and what is sinful and disgusting.
If you actually stick to the bible (what's left of it after millenia of hacking, translating, cut and pasting etc.) it is also against God's law to eat many animal products - gelatine for example. Maybe we should stone any child found scoffing jelly babies at break time? There are several more, but I think I've made my point.
2007-01-09 20:20:33 · answer #2 · answered by dr.twaticus 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
To be a true Christian means following the laws of God found in the bible. It states that it is not right to have sex with those of the same gender as you. Many people have a faith in God without understanding the religion properly. Some people take parts of the bible and ignore other parts. Why do some Christians fight the cause of gay rights? Because of the teachings of the bible. Nowhere in the bible does it say "Go out and pick on gay people". However Christians generally have a strong opinion on human rights. God gave man free will and it is an important part of the faith, ie, to choose for yourself the right or wrong path. Also Jesus said to love others as you love yourself. This means treating people as you wish to be treated and not judging others, but to forgive people and accept them just as they are. By supporting gay rights it doesn't always mean they agree with the cause. It may be that they believe simply in free will and equality. True Christians should not judge others anyway. Just because it is in a Christian's belief to live their lives in a certain way, obeying God's laws, it doesn't give them the right to judge people who don't live like they do. A true Christian who 'walks with Jesus' would try very hard not to judge others badly 'lest they be judged'.
As for catholic priests abusing kids. There are some sick puppies out there who use there position of power/status/trust etc for there own ends. That is not just confined to catholic priests though! Most children are abused by people who are close to them, friends, family, teachers, etc. When it does happen by someone in such a trusted position, like a priest, it is shocking and disgusting and it gets thrown in the faces of REAL religious people who are just as offended about it as non believers. Child abuse is terrible in any situation, regardless of who the abuser is!
I doubt there are as many homosexual Christians as hetrosexual Christians. But Homo, Hetro, Black, White, Religious, atheist, or otherwise, it is all about the individual. What is good for one person is bad for another and that's just life. People think way to deeply about these things and get themselves all irate. Enjoy everything life has to offer and be decent to people, live and let live! . . . And they all lived happily ever after lol!
THE END!
2007-01-13 13:18:43 · answer #3 · answered by loopyannielou 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not sure what you mean. The laws in the UK are determined by people from many religions. The reason there are so many anti laws is that we live in a PC world that has made so many rules that nothing works anymore.
Come the revolution brothers when we can get back to normality and throw out all the freeloading empire builders.
2007-01-09 20:14:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
as much as a element, i think of this ought to be ideal. no person would desire to have the means to tell a Catholic Church that it has to have a woman priest, or a mosque that it is going to settle for a gay imam. For a small selection of roles that are critical to religious communities, i think of the community itself would desire to have the means to come again to a determination who's and who isn't ideal for the interest (and, of path, it would desire to not be that long formerly Catholic church homes do have women human beings clergymen, and suburban mosques have lesbian imams). the priority is finding out precisely what the bounds of this are: would desire to church homes have the means to discriminate against specific communities of their determination of young human beings workers and musicians? I certainly have a tendency to think of not. this is the question that's attracting some controversy in British regulation at cutting-edge (under British regulation, religious communities do have very limited exemptions from equivalent opportunities rules). i assume this is this type of undertaking you recommend once you communicate approximately "discrimination." on the entire, I certainly have a tendency (in an fairly British variety of way) to think of that those issues would desire to be pragmatically regarded after out on a case-with the aid of-case foundation; human beings have a tendency to allure to wide ethical concepts. while situations of conflicting rights are worried, i'm undecided this is consistently the main suitable thank you to bypass approximately issues.
2016-10-30 12:29:47 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If there were a god who created the four hundred billion or so stars in our galaxy and all the planets orbiting them and the four hundred billion or so other galaxies containing four hundred billion stars with planets orbiting them, I would think s/he would have a lot of worries about a lot of things. I am quite certain that what I do in bed is of absolutely no concern to this god.
Why it should be of concern to the god-botherers, I have no idea. I think they are just jealous that I am having fun and they are not.
2007-01-09 21:05:26 · answer #6 · answered by tentofield 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
People who molest same-sex children are not homosexual, they are mentally disturbed. Don't class male-to-male pedophiles with male homosexuals--you wouldn't compare male heterosexuals to male-to-female pedophiles.
Other than that, I agree with you. Taking such a homophobic stance only drives homosexuals away from the church, which should be the opposite of what truly spiritual people would want.
2007-01-09 20:14:59 · answer #7 · answered by Iris 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There aren't actually that many of them, they just know how to make themselves heard. Now, if everyone who believed in equal rights made themselves heard in the same way, we'd be living in a much better world.
2007-01-12 05:20:08 · answer #8 · answered by snowshoe134 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not only christians m8y, u should try living under sharia law, you'd loose ur head :P
2007-01-09 20:05:51 · answer #9 · answered by Pilgrim 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
And the question is?
Rob.
Looks like a statement to me,
No more,no less.
2007-01-09 21:03:14 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋