FresnoJoe (09-28-2015)
I have many friends who are quite happy. :)Out of interest, does anyone saying no actually have any gay friends?
The question was "what redemptive quality can be found". Any form of love can be a redemptive quality. Any form of love heals, soothes, repairs. A relationship with love in can close deep wounds. That relationship might end one day, but the curative effect of the love will still be there. That person will still have changed for it, and will be on a new path, a new trajectory in life. I don't know, maybe that new path might be able to take them closer to God than would have been possible before, without the initial healing of those wounds.
(Or they could just live happily ever after)
FresnoJoe (09-28-2015)
FresnoJoe (09-28-2015)
Yet he attended the home of sinners and Publicans...guess He was never asked to any REAL BAD sinner's houses!
Actually I do understand the position...but we really do need to distinguish between SUPPORTING a sinful behavior treating it as NOT sin and associating WITH sinners...Jesus associated with the outcasts that the religious disdained..
Attending a sinful celebration is participating...going to dinner or a movie with gay friends is not..any gay friend would be welcome for coffee at my home, welcome to come to dinner at my home and I wuld hope I am welcome at theirs...but as femme said in one post..if they KNOW my faith is true to scripture they most likely would not test the relationship to that point and if they did I would be fairly confident they were knowingly asking me to move my line in the sand...
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I would not attend my son's wedding if he was marrying a wiccan high priestess. I could think of dozens of scenarios in which I would not attend my son's wedding. A gay union is the literal antithesis of biblical Christianity. It's not just a party or gathering. You are there to endorse, with your presence, the union. That is the entire purpose. My conscience would not allow me to do that. It is not mean to not attend.
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