Indiana church that booted gay choir director to close due to falling attendance

[taxslave]

When did you start ?

I always been good. Ask any of the girls.

 

[gopher]

A Methodist church in Indiana that suffered a massive walk-out after forcing its gay choir director to resign, will close its doors for good at the end of 2014.

God punishes.

 

[coldstream]

Bullshyte on your entire diatribe. Homosexuality was brought up by the jews in the OT along with a lot of other bullshyte. The majority of the "other" bullshyte didn't get carried over but the prejudice against homosexuality did. Leviticus was "man's" laws, NOT God's. The 12 commandments are God's laws. So pull your head out of your a$$ and start listening instead of blindly following.

F U C K does this P I S S me off. It's homophobic. useless tits like coldstream and others of his ilk that give Christianity and Christians such a bad name. They aren't forgiving, they aren't inclusive, they aren't ANYTHING of what Christ said we should be striving to be.

Homosexuality will AlWAYS be profoundly disordered. .. The practice of which will sabotage all sense of grace, purpose, dignity or destiny to human life.. leaving just hopelessness and capitulation to one's most prurient and temporal gratification. It's certainly not the only sin of that sort, but it has become the flagship issue of the post structural (post Christian) Culture of Death of our time.

There has never been any ambiguity of Christian teaching on homosexuality. All of the affirmation and legitimization and celebration of homosexuality will never renconstitute its fundamental character. It will always be corrosive to the soul and subversive the community that accepts it as natural.. or inevitable. True Christianity rejects violence, isolation, slander, persecution, villification towards the homosexual person.. but makes no bones about the intrinsic Evil of its practice.

That is product of both scripture and reason. As is well elucidated here.

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/c...faith_doc_19861001_homosexual-persons_en.html

 

[lone wolf]

Live and let live - unless it gets in the way

 

[Harikrish]

There must be a better way for Christians to support gay rights. Closing down churches in protest only hurts Christians. There aren't too many places willing to accept them.

 

[Sal]

There must be a better way for Christians to support gay rights. Closing down churches in protest only hurts Christians. There aren't too many places willing to accept them.

it really doesn't hurt Christians at all...these people banded together to do what was right...usually people say they will but they don't

I think these people did an amazing job of showing Christian values and love. To stay in such an environment is poisonous

 

[gerryh]

Homosexuality will AlWAYS be profoundly disordered. .. The practice of which will sabotage all sense of grace, purpose, dignity or destiny to human life.. leaving just hopelessness and capitulation to one's most prurient and temporal gratification. It's certainly not the only sin of that sort, but it has become the flagship issue of the post structural (post Christian) Culture of Death of our time.

There has never been any ambiguity of Christian teaching on homosexuality. All of the affirmation and legitimization and celebration of homosexuality will never renconstitute its fundamental character. It will always be corrosive to the soul and subversive the community that accepts it as natural.. or inevitable. True Christianity rejects violence, isolation, slander, persecution, villification towards the homosexual person.. but makes no bones about the intrinsic Evil of its practice.

That is product of both scripture and reason. As is well elucidated here.

Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons[URL="http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19861001_homosexual-persons_en.html[/QUOTE"][/URL][URL="http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19861001_homosexual-persons_en.html[/QUOTE"][URL="http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19861001_homosexual-persons_en.html[/QUOTE"][/QUOTE[/URL][/URL]]




Ratzinger. Nuff said.

 

[gopher]

There must be a better way for Christians to support gay rights. Closing down churches in protest only hurts Christians. There aren't too many places willing to accept them.

Christians did not close it down - they merely walked out. Churches are incorporated so that it would take a board of directors to close it down.

God punishes.

 

[taxslave]

Homosexuality will AlWAYS be profoundly disordered. .. The practice of which will sabotage all sense of grace, purpose, dignity or destiny to human life.. leaving just hopelessness and capitulation to one's most prurient and temporal gratification. It's certainly not the only sin of that sort, but it has become the flagship issue of the post structural (post Christian) Culture of Death of our time.

There has never been any ambiguity of Christian teaching on homosexuality. All of the affirmation and legitimization and celebration of homosexuality will never renconstitute its fundamental character. It will always be corrosive to the soul and subversive the community that accepts it as natural.. or inevitable. True Christianity rejects violence, isolation, slander, persecution, villification towards the homosexual person.. but makes no bones about the intrinsic Evil of its practice.

That is product of both scripture and reason. As is well elucidated here.

Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons

ROFLMFAO. you do come up with some dandies. You do realize that what you just posted should be in purple? Don't you?

 

[darkbeaver]

Certainly any church bent on a homosexual flock will of course suffer diminished attendance in the course of time oweing to it's inability to reproduce it's sheep.

 

[taxslave]

Certainly any church bent on a homosexual flock will of course suffer diminished attendance in the course of time oweing to it's inability to reproduce it's sheep.

Hence the constant solicitation of converts. Fortunately for them two hetrosexuals often produce a homosexual.

 

[darkbeaver]

Hence the constant solicitation of converts. Fortunately for them two hetrosexuals often produce a homosexual.

I know nothing about church affairs and I just imagined that breeding pairs of stock would be the organic approach.

 

[Harikrish]

Why didn't they just ask the man to pull his pants up instead of getting rid of the director altogether.