“One of the greatest tragedies in mankind’s entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.” ― Arthur C. Clarke
A Southern Baptist becomes a Christian.
Pastor Danny Cortez is a good man, who would have made Jesus proud,
Danny Cortez is the Pastor of New Heart Community Church in La Mirada. Being unusually empathetic for a Southern Baptist he listened to his parishioners.
He became increasingly aware of how hurtful the church’s attitude to gays was. And by August 2013 he came out as “gay affirming”. Soon after, his 15 year-old son came out. And Cortez reacted by saying, “I may have destroyed my son through reparative therapy.”
Although the Church was displeased with the abruptness of Cortez’s announcement the elders voted to keep him as Pastor and pursue a “third way” – neither condemning same-sex relationships nor supporting gay marriage.
A first class bigot.
On the other end of the compassion scale is Tony Perkins, President of the Family Research Council. He doesn’t like gay marriage. It offends his religious sensibilities. Fair enough. The Constitution entitles him to his opinion, and to express it.
Tony Perkins is an odious little man – who greedily grabs rights he denies to others.
But it isn’t enough for Perkins to have his constitutional liberties. It is necessary that others are denied theirs. He says, “Increasingly, Americans are being forced to celebrate unions that not only step on free speech and religious liberty but also deny children a mom and a dad.”
What about the free speech and religious liberty of gays? What about denying a a parent couple to children of gays. Nobody has to celebrate anyone else’s marriage. if you receive an invitation to attend a gay marriage, don’t go – you don’t even have to send a gift if you’re cheap as well as bigotted.
(Note: If you want proof that Perkins stance is motivated by bigotry and not theology ask why he doesn’t protest the marriage of divorced people – or divorce itself, for that matter)
The Courts are unanimous on gay marriage.
Since the Supreme Court struck down DOMA, every court decision on gay marriage law has been in favor of equal marriage rights. Tony Perkins’ rant was in response to a court’s decision striking down Wisconsin’s gay marriage ban.
The Supreme Court will have to decide the issue for once and all. And it may have already tipped their hand – recently declining to stay the decision by a lower court to strike down Oregon’s anti-gay marriage laws.
Alabama’s Chief Justice shreds the Constitution.
Judge Roy Moore is a legend in his own mind. As far as he is concerned, If it’s good enough for him, it’s good enough for the Founders.
Judge Roy Moore is bewitched by Christianity. He is so in its thrall that he claims that God is necessary for the law and courts to function – thereby thumbing the founders in the eye and shredding the Constitution,
For emphasis Moore drags in the Pledge of Allegiance and its phrase “under God’. Here he ignores – or is ignorant of – the fact the Pledge did not exist until 1982, wasn’t the official Pledge until 1942, and didn’t include the “under God” bit until 1954.
Why are some Christian theologians so obsessed with the naughty bits?
There is more sex talk in the Church than primetime TV (just). In response to a Time cover featuring Laverne Cox, transgender star of “Orange is the New Black”, theologian John Piper said that genitals are gender. Piper is firm. If you have a penis, God made you a man – a vagina, a woman.
So what’s an Hermaphrodite? God’s idea of a joke? Or A Siamese twin? Or a baby born with its brain outside of his skull? God is definitely sloppy with the physical.
And why not the other way around? Why isn’t it that God gave every soul a gender and once in a while mismatches the genitals.
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