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"Jesus never said He forgave her, He said". Neither do I condmen thee". - mjrhealth -- That very statement shows he forgave her. The fact that he told her to "go and sin no more" shows that she did sin, He forgave her, and He expected her to discontinue the sin she was participating in. Yes...

"You should know that I have met Jesus face to face, and Jesus is the one that personally taught me that a Christian is dead to sin." - Thankful1 -- Un huh

""Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;" -- Your argument shows you are reading this wrong. The seconds half in and of itself shows that government respects the presence of religion. According to your standard, though...

"What you don’t understand is that there are two kinds of sin. There is sin leading to death. There are wrong doings/sins that don’t lead to death." - Thankful1 -- You be sure and tell Jesus that when you see Him face to face. He will likely ask you where you got that idea from specifically. I...

"God says," dont do a lot of things". yet christians have no toruble with doing a lot of what they are not supposed to do, but thgat never gets mentioned, nah lets pick on homsexuals," - mjrhealth -- LOL Really? This is what your argument is reduced to? You are trying to excuse homosexual acts...

"How is it worse to lose rights one already had than to never have been granted them in the first place?" - De -- De, either focus or stay out of our conversation. Aspen accused me of discounting times when certain groups have lost their rights. I have never done that so I asked for him to...

"I didnt realise the level of animosity towards Catholics until I joined this forum!" - mcorba -- I spent the first 20 years of my life a Catholic and haven't seen some of the stretching and twisting of scripture (or in some cases the outright ignoring of scripture) to justify Catholic...

"The false idea that there is to be no judgments against wickedness within Christ's Body is a lie from those who seek to destroy Christ's Body." - Veteran -- Bingo

"It sure seems like it when you count all the times Christians seem to lose their rights and discount all the times other groups seem to lose their rights." - aspen -- There you go making things up again... Unless you can actually provide a time when I have discounted a group that has lost...

-- Exactly correct. There are many on this board to are blaming Christians for speaking out against homosexuality. But they neglect the fact that they are simply speaking the truth, not attacking a person. Many times I have been approached because someone knows I am a Christian. They ask why...

"From your response, I take it you know classical Greek? If so, could you refer to the passages to which you're referring in the Greek?" - De Sure. Just as soon as you show that - as you claimed - all references to homosexuality in the NT are from the Greek word for "Male Prosititution."

"I'm pointing out that the change was relatively recent. When it comes to the discourse of persecution" - De -- But they HAVE changed. That is the point. It is changing for Christians, as well...but in the other direction. While homosexual practices and lifestyle are becoming accepted...

"All the references to homosexuality in the new testament are from the Greek word for "male prostitution," - De -- Some of them talk about the dominant sexual partner and the submissive, receptive sexual partner. But they do not speak in context of male prostitution only. "So, being under...

"there are places in which sodomy laws still make it effectively illegal to be gay." - De -- Homosexuals I speak with love to claim that sodomy isn't uniquely a gay activity. They point out that anal or oral sex between a man and a woman is still considered sodomy, as well. So would not that...

"sodomy laws were statewide bans in at least ten states before being overturned by the supreme court in 2003" - De -- So you are complaining about laws...that no longer exist? "Furthermore, anti-homosexual "conduct" laws still exist in Texas, Kansas, and (I believe) one another state. Also...

"Well, simply put, there's nowhere in America where it's illegal to be Christian, there are places in which sodomy laws still make it effectively illegal to be gay. " - De -- You are leaving out key elements in that statement. Like the fact while there are places like Pig Knuckle, Arkansas or...

"Jesus says that the most evil sin of humanity is rejection of Him. Homosexuality is a sin but it is not the sin that man or nations will be judged by anymore. And as a matter of fact it was not the main sin that Sodom was judged for." - web -- That is absolutely correct. While homosexual...

"People are more than their behavior and they are more than their sin. I think we are called to look beyond all that like Christ did when he died on the Cross. He didn't die for the act of child molesting he died for the person engaging in that behavior. " - aspen -- But you will note that...

"I have observed that the majority of people who post on secular forums , use their full names in public and for the whole world to see. I have observed that very seldom do people on christian forums do the same," - Martin -- I couldn't disagree more. I regularly visit a number of christian...

It all comes down to being unevenly yoked...