I pray for you and all the commenters/readers all the time. We are a vicious bunch, aren’t we? So concerned with Being Right instead of being righteous and loving law instead of loving our fellow humans. I’m sorry we flood your inbox and pollute the Web at large with our pointless dithering and ceaseless striving to prove a point, a point which rarely takes into consideration the people those points obscure.

If we spent more time with the women considering abortion in desperation or the homosexual brother or sister struggling with this “choice,” maybe we’d quit prooftexting so much and start being Christ to them. God forgive us for our debates.

Obama glorifies sodomy, socialism, abortion on demand (including late term), and refuses to state that no one comes to the Father except through Jesus.

The fact that the person whose full-time job is to try to convince Christians to vote for someone like that is a member of the Lord’s Church is very dissapointing.

You asked Mike’s opinion, so I linked a previous post. Am I only supposed to blindly argue my point and not provide information that contributes to the discussion regardless of whether I agree with it?

I cited Mike, because in spite of his view, he suggests that as Christians, we shouldn’t force a secular society to play by Christian rules, and to some extent, we should support those who are oppressed. (Loosely paraphrasing).

To me, people who are homosexual and choose to enter into those relationships do not violate my rights or my heterosexual-ness. They should be allowed to do whatever they want. To deny them their own personal liberty as Americans (regardless of religious belief) is oppression.

I agree that on the surface my opinion that homosexual activity is sinful may fit some people’s definition of homophobic, but that has not been my experience with gay friends of mine from graduate school. They respect my belief that their activity is sinful, with a couple of these frineds we actually talked a lot about why I believed that way.

When I first met several of these gay friends I was straight out of ACU. When they learned what university I got my undergrad at they were vary wary of me, maybe even a little scared. Each person had had at least one personal very negative experience with a Christian. When they saw that I was not like the Christians they had encountered before (and/or those shown in the media), we were able to become friends. All of that to say I think it is possible for a Chtistian to be convicted of the sinfulness of homosexual activity but still treat homosexuals in a loving way, and to have that tretment recognized and appreciated.

I understand that as a group conservatives tend to give more financially (they are also wealthier as a group), but public perception matters too. Regardless of what the true facts are, what people actually belive matters a whole lot.

Also, the media isn’t just against the conservatives. Have you seen the publicity gay pride parades get? The people in those parades are not exactly representative of the gay populaiton as a whole!