Foreigner and marksman....
This thread is about confronting sin - the sin of Pride in people who witness to homosexuals.
-- I know. You have accused every single solitary Christian here - myself included - who has spoken with homosexuals of this sin.
And you have done it without evidence or regard for the facts. Just one big blanket accusation covering ALL Christians.
instead, it is causing them to rebel against God's Word even more.
-- Again, a blanket statement. You apparently feel you can speak for the actions all homosexuals as well as for the actions of all Christians.
Our church - as I have mentioned before - has a number of homosexuals attending who are there because they were spoken to face-to-face about Jesus.
I would point out where your blanket statement is wrong. Many homosexuals are "rebelling" not because of some overzealous Christians waving the Bible in their face and yelling, "Sinner!" They are rebelling because Christians won't put the seal of approval on their lifestyle when homosexuals demand it and have the audacity to say, when asked, that Jesus says something different.
Although, I wish that they would treat everyone else with the same decency.
-- lol......ahem......do I really need to search these threads and point out the number of times you have shown that same lack of "decency" towards someone here?
Physician, heal thyself.
I pointed out that Foreigner and marksman use language that is condescending and arrogant, which often is perceived as demeaning when posting in disagreement with me or others on this board. Instead of saying "hey, maybe aspen is right - I think I will look at my behavior and decide if I need to tone down the rhetoric", both decided to deny it,
-- First plank, then speck big guy. A quick perusal of your posts shows the same "tone" issues you are blaming others for.
(by claiming that they were the real victims of the mean homosexuals they were correcting), project their arrogance on to me and others,
-- You are again moving into the realm of the dishonest.
I ask (yet again) where I am claiming to be a "victim" in this situation.
You can see from a previous post that I said just the opposite. I don't feel "attacked," "threatened" or even that "my feelings are hurt."
Can you PLEASE and least TRY to be honest?
But when the person who opposes a homosexual, and then goes out and votes for prop 8 - they have crossed the line between opinion and violating a person's rights.
-- Opinions like this - and an opinion is all it is - are one of the reasons it is difficult to have a dialog on the topic.
Your statement that anyone who supports Prop 8 is "violating a person's rights" is so over the top, it defies logic.
When homosexuals are murdered because they are gay - laws need to be passed to address the issue, specifically.
-- Again, since it seems you need to have this pointed out, it is already illegal to murder someone because they are gay.
Just as it is already illegal to kill Christians, Democrats, Republicans, Blacks, Hispanics, Illegals, or just because you want someone's wallet or watch.
Your statement implies that motive of the murder dictates the severity of the punishment and that you can automatically tell what the specific motive was.