When the church found out that I wasn't exactly conservative, they weren't exactly happy. I'm kind of a strange anomaly... I support gay rights. I support gay marriage. I support choice. GOD gave us the ultimate choice. Taking away the choice because it's "un-Christian" is modifying God's plan. Give a woman the choice, her only judge will be God. God gave us free will, to choose Him. If he took away the free will, we would be his lemmings. Our love wouldn't be true.
If you think about it, Jesus was the ultimate liberal. When he came to be known, there were religious structures in place that he openly defied. He supported the "lame" and the poor. He forgave prostitutes, adulterers, sinners. He even liberated women. He was lover of everyone, even His enemies.
Read the Bible. You'll see it.
Conservatives constantly are aligned with Christians. They support the "Christian agenda"... it almost sounds like the religious right don't even see how much like the Pharisees they have become - the same group that Jesus called hypocrites!
What we need to get out of all of this is that we, as children of God, need to show God's love to EVERYONE. People who harm us, being who don't harm us, gay, straight, black, orange, every single person regardless of who they are need God.
Being gay doesn't stop someone from loving God.
I hear constantly about how people have fallen away from God... most of the time after the've come out as gay, or support the liberal agenda. They are disowned sometimes. Is the the way Jesus would treat them? No. It's not.
People don't understand, no, they don't know HOW it is to love everyone. They don't know how to forgive. It's the hardest thing we have to do as Christians. God tells us to live a life like this, try to be more like Jesus, and it's probably the most difficult thing for us to do.
What I don't understand, is with a man like Jesus, from God Himself (the same God who inspired Leviticus) who was so Liberal, that Christians so commonly align themselves with conservatives who want to take away equality from all people. How is this Christian?
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