Originally posted by Josiah
I just can't understand why my brother or sister (in Christ) would argue FOR someone's WORLDLY rights.
I argue for the rights of EVERYONE, as human beings. When society seeks to defame us for our beliefs, I speak up. When society seeks to limit the freedoms of any other group, I speak up. Regardless of whether I like them or not. It takes a great deal of integrity and a grain of salt to argue evenly across the board for everyone, even those you don't agree with. But I do it, because I truly love everyone. Even when I hate the sin they commit.
To be honest with you, I know more than a few heterosexual couples
The saying goes: 'Love the sinner,Hate the sin' But in the attitudes of most Christians I have met and talked with on this and similar subjects, their attitude seems to be: 'Hate the sin, then say you love the sinner. Then look down upon them, talk about how evil they are and how we are much better than that, then ostracize them so that they may see the error of their ways. That will teach those dirty sinners.'
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I love my country, but fear my government and the 'Big Brother' idealism that I see it moving toward. The less government control over our lives the better. I will not support any ordinance or law that restricts the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness of any social orientation. Because the backlash has the potential to be tremendous.
So many changes to our personal freedoms have taken place over the past 30 years, that if they happened all at once nobody would have stood for it. But each restriction on our individual liberties has been subtle and insidious.
That's why I speak so vehemently on the rights of any and every individual. Because the day will come when someone out there wants to restrict OUR rights and priveleges to practice our religion and study our Bibles the way we should be able to. When that day arrives, the groundwork will have already been laid.
I can just hear it now. "You HATEMONGERS have crusaded against the rights of everyone you think us unholy, now we crusade against YOURS !!!!!!!!"