For christians......?

Question

Have you ever felt descriminated against because of your biblical views, oh say like your views against immoral sexual acts?

I didn't expect such a great responce. For the person who asked me to be more specific, I mean like losing an account or being silenced in school or work because someone else found your views offensive, but their views were basically shoved down your throat, the key point being they initiated the conversation. One time I worked with a gay man and he was having some guilt about his sexuality, I told him it wasn't the time or place to discuss it. He ignored my request and began talking about how his weakness was his love for the penis, I told him to shut up, I was written up for my rudeness towards him! That is what I mean about discrimination. ;-)

Answer 1

Absolutely. Mainly in the workplace. I had to fall back on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to keep my employer from harassing me for not "embracing" homosexuality. I am talking a fortune 500 energy company in the Midwest. I have also worked as a legal intern for Liberty Counsel and can verify that when ordinary, peaceful Christians try to exercise their constitutional freedoms, they are very likely to have legal opposition that can include incarceration, police harassment, job loss, and so forth. Those who despise Christian "meddling" in the public square are becoming more numerous, and are more than willing to tyrannize these good people through blatant misuse of the law. They demonize them, make them out to be this giant threat, like Jews in Germany were supposed to be before you know who proposed his final solution. Please do not think that society is incapable of going there again. Nevertheless, we as believers need to retain that sense of grace and love by which our Savior said we would be distinct from the world. And we can do this because we know what Jesus said is true:

"These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." John 16:33.

Answer 2

I don't think so.

Whats with the immoral sexual acts question? LOL!!

Why would my views on sex ever come up in a conversation where I could be discriminated against?

I pretty much keep my sexual views to myself.

Answer 3

Define "discriminated against". Like when blacks weren't allowed to eat at the same lunch counters as whites a few decades ago? Or when homosexuals get fired from their jobs because it is found out they are gay? Or when immigrants aren't allowed in certain bars because they aren't fluent enough in English? Could you be more specific?

Answer 4

Not in a legal sense. But, I have felt put down because of my beliefs. But then I try to take that with a grain of salt. Nothing has ever happened to me wrongfully because of my beliefs other than some people shun me. But I have many Christian friends whose opinions and friendship I value highly.
Too bad really. Blessed are the persecuted, Jesus said. I take it where I can get it.

Answer 5

Yes i have, but in the bible doesn't it say that we will be prosicuted? sometimes being prosicuted means exactly what you dicribed, and sometimes it means being horribly tortured and killed. something that I found helped me was to read DCTalk's (yeah the band) voice of the myrters, this book helped me to not feel the sting of peoples prosicution towards me. I mean how can you feel bad for your self when you know that christians got rolled on glass with out clothes on? ill try to find a site about the book for you.......

Answer 6

Discriminated, no. Mocked, yes. But to me there is a big difference. Discriminated means you are not allowed to enter certain restaurants, public schools do not allow you, etc. People have disliked my views, but never have they had power to impede me from what I wished to do or think.

Answer 7

I have experienced hostility but not actual discrimination, except when I have expressed anti-abortion views; I have experienced discrimination for that; in fact I was fired.

Answer 8

"For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do—living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry. They think it strange that you do not plunge with them into the same flood of dissipation, and they heap abuse on you. But they will have to give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. (1 Peter 4:3)

Answer 9

well, if you've been shown the middle finger because of your views against immoral sexual acts maybe you should simply mind your own business. unless you're seeking to call attention to the abuse of a child or an animal sticking your moralizing nose into the bedrooms of consenting adults will, of course, lead to your "persecution".

Answer 10

Yes, in fact anyone try being a born again Christian in today's society; its not easy! Regardless of how big a percentage our "Christian"population is.