Mar 1, 2010 -- 7:14AM, Austa wrote:

Faith, frankly, woman to woman, your ideas are a disgrace to Christianity!

Ditto.  And we are both straight.

 So, Dar, let me get this straight, so to speak, you're a self-avowed, admitted and committed proponent of the HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA?  You're comin' clean at last?  Your secret revealed for all to see here today, right now, on this belief.net thread? Are you watching and reading, Faith?

 Dar, you admit to: parenting, cooking, counseling,  doing BOTH dish and clothes washing, organizing kids lives and arranging visits with their gay(!!!) dad, other admitted activities like public service projects, various errands, planning business trips AND making a dental appt?

The HORROR!  The HORROR!  Faith take note!  Lesbian mom comes clean about her real agenda.  The sky is falling, grab your kids, bolt your doors, cower in fear! Gay mom is being a (gasp, gasp!) Lesbian.  Save us all from the Homosexual Agenda.

Calling, Faith; Save us with some more clobber verses, quickly before common sense takes over.

Oh this is an easy one.  I serve the Goddess of Love.  She has had many names and many faces over the ages but for the purposes of this post we can just say Aphrodite.  There are a few things to keep in mind when worshipping Her.  Speak Her sacred hymns (Sappho's being my favorite), make offerings that are pleasing to Her (not burnt offerings mind you), take care of my skin and moisturize often, and have compassion for other beings. 

I extend that compassion to this thread's creator.  I am concerned for you that you might be following a faith that reinforces the idea that you and other humans (specific groups of humans in particular it would seem) aren't beautiful and at all times loved by the divine.  If your faith tells you a group is outside of your god's love, I can see that would make you feel a subtle sense of superiority toward them that you might not even notice. 

That is my choice, She is worthy of my service, and straight love, gay love, and most consensual forms of love are Her gifts.  If people of another faith disapprove of that love then I pity them for their loss.

Mar 1, 2010 -- 7:14AM, Austa wrote:

  Do you endorse stoning gays too?

"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone." 

This is another counterfeiting of the Scriptures many have tried to use to shame us for what we do in his name. "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone" is not  speaking to judging. 

As stated in a previous post, Christians should follow the example of Jesus. Did He stone the adulteress? No.

OTOH, He did not condone nor support her sin. 

Jesus was not arguing with the judgment. Nor was Jesus arguing the law nor the woman's guilt. Jesus was arguing with our right to execute the woman. Once all the men had dropped their stones Jesus confronted the woman and asked her if any of the men were still there to condemn her. When she answered "No man, Lord", Jesus told her that neither did He - He forgave her of her sin. He did not excuse the sin of adultery/prostitution, he forgave her of it. All behavior and thought that is sinful before forgiveness is still sinful after forgiveness. Not only was Jesus not afraid to call a sin a sin, He was not afraid to call a sinner a sinner. He even reminded her of the sin of adultery/prostitution by telling her "Go and sin no more."

Mar 1, 2010 -- 7:14AM, Austa wrote:

 Faith, frankly, woman to woman, your ideas are a disgrace to Christianity!

Frankly, those Christians who support or condone sin are a disgrace to Christianity.

Some have told us we should be more tolerant. "Tolerance" has become quite probably the most abused and misused word in the English language. We will not  situationally redefine or conditionally apply His Word to suit political correctness, cultural tolerances, modern ethics and false religions or even to avoid invading the comfort zone of Christians. Jesus spent three days in Hell so you and I would not have to spend one moment there! For too long, well-meaning clergy have pabulum fed the people with watered down Scriptures to avoid invading the comfort zone. We will not do that. We love you too much to feed you lies or less-than-truths. It is people who do who pull  people away from the CHRIST of Christianity. Practicing the Christian faith and what is expected of it is being very  intolerant ... of sin ... even our own by His  Word, not yours or mine, by embracing the sinner but not  embracing the sin; by helping the sinner, even ourselves, out of bondage to the sin by loving him/her enough to tell the Truth.

Mar 1, 2010 -- 9:33AM, Tudobem wrote:

From my straight male prospective I see Faith as someone.......... commits the sin of judging gays, something that the Bible specifically condemns:  JUDGE NOT! 

John 7:24 Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

Look at John 7:24. There, Jesus tells  us to judge, but to do so righteously. Righteously means to use the Truth of the Word to discern sins and not  by appearances only. In 1Cor. 6:2-3 Jesus authorizes us to judge. Judge we must else we could not discern good from bad, proper from improper, righteousness from evil. But judge behavior,  not the individual; the deed  not the doer; the choice  not the chooser. The individual/doer/chooser is accountable for his/her deed/choice, but judge the deed/choice in your judgment. Jesus could see a king in a shepherd boy. And an Apostle in a murderer. So while we must judge one's behavior we must we try to nurture the goodness in an individual: to separate the deed from the doer.

www.capalert.com/judgenot.htm