Isn't Christianity about accepting people? That's what I was taught in bible study when I was growing up. A few years ago I was walked out of a church for sitting with my girlfriend... so much for being accepting. I have my faith, and I am gay. I don't believe for one second that I will be denied access to 'heaven' because I lay in bed with a female. From what I remember, god doesn't work that way. I think these boycotts against the homosexual community only show how truly hateful these moms are. How truly unchristian they are. Love thy neighbor.

@PrisonerxOfxLove@xanga - Hitler wasn't an atheist. He invoked Christianity into all of his speeches.

that is fucked up. but so is christianity.

@ColdSkivvies@xanga - Not to mention the fact that the same tired old bullshit arguments were used to keep interracial couples from marrying. It was stupid then, it's stupid now, and thankfully, it's on the way out as more people embrace diversity and stop being so afraid of those they do not understand.

@When_We_Were_Both_Cats@xanga - There was nothing Christian about Adolf Hitler's brand of fascism. The NAZI's believed the Germanic peoples were superior to any other. And in the East, Hitler engaged in what he called a War of Annihilation.

@ShimmerBodyCream@xanga - I'm curious to see how they will react to Jim Parsons being gay, I mean his character on The Big Bang Theory is from a devout Christian family

@biggirlsdontcriyiyiyi@xanga - I don't know what they taught you, but from what you said, they lied to you. Jesus is not "accepting" or "tolerant." He commanded people to repent of sin and trust in His death and resurrection to pay for their sins. And, yes, homosexuality whether it be two men, or two women, is clearly stated to be a sin. See Romans 1.

JCP rocks!

Can J.C. Penney boycott them?  Like sometimes for reals, I wish companies could boycott Million Moms or Westboro or whatever.  No shirts, No Shoes, No Compassion, No Brains, No Service.  

We find about 7 or  8 scriptures about homosexuality, and rather than putting them in the Greek context, and the context with which people then lived, we put our own bigoted feelings and attitudes about them in place, going around making darn sure than those who've never been attracted to the opposite sex must never attend our churches, or be a part of normal civilization.  It's immature and hateful, and when we have two same sex people adopting children, we just love to go around punishing the innocent children for our behavior, behavior that Christ never once proclaimed.

@jim_the_american@xanga - The demand of gay rights advocates to redefine marriage has nothing to do with tolerance.

Good grief, some of the comments on this story take away my hope for humanity.

God came into the world, whose life, teaching, death, and resurrection overcame  alienation and renewed the relationship between God and God's people.  This perspective is absent from the current debate about homosexuality in the churchl  The Bible hardly ever discusses homosexual behavior, in contrast to, let's say, economic injustice.  Only Romans 1 deals with some of the central themes of the Bible.  Let's just take our Old Testament stories as examples.  The sacred obligation of hospitality  for travelers, and the ways in which sinful people often violated this sacred obligation, make us aware that  to be exposed to the elements at night could mean death.  Sodom and Gomorrah 19:1-29 and Judges 19:1-30 tell stories of a host inviting men into his house.  Later an angry mob surround the house and emend that the host turn over his guests.  Foreigners are clearly not welcome and they may be raped or killed.  Then, homosexual rape was a way to accentuate the subjection of captive enemies.  The most humiliating experience for a man was to be treated like a woman, and raping a man was the most violent ssh treatment.  Notice the cultural emphasis on the superiority of men vs. women as the hosts offer the women in their households over their guests.  Culturally, it was also against the law for a woman to, let's say, take charge of the sexual act by being on top of the man.  We have seen  Biblially that in was the law to have superiority over women, whether they left the home, spoke publicly, and whether or not people had slaves.  Over time we've seen these things change, such as women speaking in church, and having a Civl War to start the  beginnings of getting rid of slavery.  Yet we speak of no changes Biblically concerning these things.  We speak not of Christ using women actively in his church, yet fundamentalist churches continue to deny women any kind of pastoral status.  Back to the sins of Sodom.  In that culture the hosts felt in was more important to protect male visitors than to protect women, even their own daughters or common law wives!  The hosts do not seem to think of the attackers as primarily homosexualsl, or they would not offer women for them.  The sins of Sodom are described as greed, injustice, inhospitality, excess wealth, indifference to the poor, and general wickedness.  In the New T.,, when Jesus referred to the sin of Sodom, as recorded in Luke 10:12 and Matthew 10:15 he was passing judgment on cities that refused hospitality to his traveling disciples.  A focus on the supposed literature influenced by Greek philosophy, comes later in non biblical literature.