Tennessee store owner sells out of anti-gay merchandise

[brinny]

Distract> deceive> divide> indoctrinate> disarm> socialism > corruption> tyranny

The Left has progressed to just about there by now.

LOL! It sounds like a strategy, doesn't it?

It's almost as if there are classes/training to learn it

 

[brinny]

Nothing wrong with rainbows.

Awesome!!!

 

[Sistrin]

LOL! It sounds like a strategy, doesn't it?

It's almost as if there are classes/training to learn it.

They are called Public Schools.

 

[brinny]

They are called Public Schools.

LOL! How astute of you.

 

[AHH who-stole-my-name]

Wow not real helpful toward showing Christian love! What ever happened to love the sinner, hate the sin...not by hateful paraphernalia tho

When you speak of love you speak to the individual instead of the trait of love. When you get into an ideaology like religion, you get into absolutes that are the sole territory of those who embrace religion. There are always those in any type of ideaology that sees themselves more pure than others and they gauge that by their own interpetation of adherance to that ideology.

Love is one of the fundamentals of Christianity but some see a greater measure of rightiousness by concentrating on the sacrificial aspects of their faith. They think that those who are gay should sacrifice their right to act gay to provide a more wholsome environment for society. Some Christian's focus on what they consider the wrongness in the world and have determined that the more they oppose that world the closer they get to God and that, to me is missunderstanding what Christ ment when he spoke of love.

Love is something like the Christian understanding of God, which is it and he are everywhere. It's not a right but a responcibilty and all Christian's must act responcibile in granting it, unconditionally because that was what God did for us and we need to recepricate. If not we are no better than the horders you see on these various reality shows that live pathetic lives by themselves with only the rotting remains of something once useful decaying around them. Love is nothing unless it is spread around, since that is the nature of love. Why do you think that those who have not found another to share their love with become so sarcastic? It is because they are romantics who have never been coated with the dust of unuse. It is the most traject of tradigies, but it happens all the time.

The giving of love does not mean conformity and acceptance of the world around you or the personal involvement in things which is not proper for a Christian to do, but it also does not mean that you punish others for being what they are. You simply hug them and go about your bussiness of being a Christian and work at making yourself a better person. Let's face it. God will not be looking at another person when he is considering your worth, but he is looking at how you treated that person. Some Christians get lost in that area and it should not be so. We are not the police of anyone other than ourselves, but we are the caretakers of all who are around us.

 

[seekingsolace]

The store owner is an individual, not a representative for Christians.

Can we stick to the topic, this isn't Christian theology 101.

 

[Marius27]

The store owner is an individual, not a representative for Christians.

Can we stick to the topic, this isn't Christian theology 101.

And yet he seems to act like so many right wing Christians these days who haven't gotten the memo that their attitudes and methods are quite anti-Christian.

 

[seekingsolace]

And yet he seems to act like so many right wing Christians these days who haven't gotten the memo that their attitudes and methods are quite anti-Christian.

Is that anything new? Or should we continue to give publicity to attention seekers.

 

[Hetta]

http://wjtv.com/2015/09/09/tennessee-store-owner-sells-out-of-anti-gay-merchandise/

I don't know about you guys but this is just being mean.

Anti ... gay ... merchandise. Wow. All those "loving" Christians walking around wearing "choose God or gays" apparel can never have read the Bible.

 

[Hetta]

Distract> deceive> divide> indoctrinate> disarm> socialism > corruption> tyranny

The Left has progressed to just about there by now.

I consider this to be flaming and goading on your part. Consider it reported.

 

[Crowns&Laurels]

I consider this to be flaming and goading on your part. Consider it reported.

That's nice. It's neither, the Left is a political entity, and it's an opinion of where it's heading.
I'm sure you've reported a lot of my posts before. Consider that I will speak upon that to them, as there's a difference between reporting something against a rule and using it as a means to make someone unpopular or frustrate someone else.
Classy.

 

[JGG]

Well, this should be fun...

 

[classicalhero]

Anti ... gay ... merchandise. Wow. All those "loving" Christians walking around wearing "choose God or gays" apparel can never have read the Bible.

You means Romans 1:26-28 shows how homosexuality is a major rejection of God?

 

[ChristsSoldier115]

http://wjtv.com/2015/09/09/tennessee-store-owner-sells-out-of-anti-gay-merchandise/

I don't know about you guys but this is just being mean.

Westboro must have stopped by on their way to protest a funeral.

 

[Supreme]

What this guy is doing is, in my opinion, incredibly unethical. He's spreading hate. I also don't think it's lawful for him to ever refuse service to someone based on their sexuality. However, he has a right to sell whatever merchandise he so chooses, and people will vote with their wallets as to whether they like that merchandise.

 

[trunks2k]

I also don't think it's lawful for him to ever refuse service to someone based on their sexuality.

To my knowledge Tennessee doesn't have sexual orientation as a protected class, and it's not one on the federal level. So unfortunately, it's lawful.

 

[Marius27]

You means Romans 1:26-28 shows how homosexuality is a major rejection of God?

Romans 1 has nothing to do with gays.

 

[Hetta]

That's nice. It's neither, the Left is a political entity, and it's an opinion of where it's heading.
I'm sure you've reported a lot of my posts before. Consider that I will speak upon that to them, as there's a difference between reporting something against a rule and using it as a means to make someone unpopular or frustrate someone else.
Classy.

I'm not a "reporter" as a rule, and you don't generally cross my mind, but I'm tired of being told I'm a liar and all the rest of that crap. Speak to "them" as much as you please. Why would I care?

 

[Hetta]

Choose God or Gays, eh?

That puts me in a serious dilemma. Forced to make a choice, I have to go with my fellow human beings.

Atheism's looking good again.

I know, right.

 

[Crowns&Laurels]

Romans 1 has nothing to do with gays.

One could bring up any passage in the Bible and you'd say the same thing, no matter how obvious it is. See, instead of just accepting the plain biblical interpretation that homosexuality is among the sexual vices as an anomalous, natural dissidence and betrayal to natural order, one merely shifts or interprets the scriptures to mean something else. To mean everything except homosexuality.
This happened right at the rise of the agenda- sort of funny, isn't it? That through the very beginning of Christianity in classical Rome and Greece, when homosexuality was stamped out, to the rise of homosexual acceptance now- the scriptures meant what they meant.

It's not my intent to go into details of the morality of homosexuality, but it's just a point to be made on society's current bias on the matter and how it adulterates perception.

Anti-gay merchandise is insulting, but calling something good which is clearly not is much worse. Think about the contrary propaganda and merchandise, which upheld compassion for a grave sin that many Christians themselves ate on up.
I didn't see too many challenge all that, and those who did were shot down. So it's to no surprise that now since the agenda has reached it's apex, so to are basically any of those against it are speared with an apex condemnation.

I'm not a "reporter" as a rule, and you don't generally cross my mind, but I'm tired of being told I'm a liar and all the rest of that crap. Speak to "them" as much as you please. Why would I care?

Yeah, whatever that's supposed to mean.