Why would you think homosexuality is so much more of an abhorrent sin, than the couple or three moral teachings that can be gleaned from the Ten Commandments?

I believe you must be mistaken about that. Homosexuality didn't even make it on the list of "Ten" Commandments no no's! Saying its god's name with a shitty attitude is on the top ten list, but not homosexuality. So it must be that homosexuality is less serious a sin than swearing or talking back to your parents.

It was not written in stone!

Why would you think homosexuality is so much more of an abhorrent sin, than the couple or three moral teachings that can be gleaned from the Ten Commandments?

I believe you must be mistaken about that. Homosexuality didn't even make it on the list of "Ten" Commandments no no's! Saying its god's name with a shitty attitude is on the top ten list, but not homosexuality. So it must be that homosexuality is less serious a sin than swearing or talking back to your parents.

It was not written in stone!

If you were wiser, which you are not, you would realize that it's covered in "You must not commit adultery."

It's also covered elsewhere in the bible...

Leviticus 18:22
Do not practice homosexuality, having sex with another man as with a woman. It is a detestable sin.

Leviticus 20:13
If a man practices homosexuality, having sex with another man as with a woman, both men have committed a detestable act. They must both be put to death, for they are guilty of a capital offense.

1 Corinthians 6:9-10
Don’t you realize that those who do wrong will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, or who worship idols, or commit adultery, or are male prostitutes, or practice homosexuality, or are thieves, or greedy people, or drunkards, or are abusive, or cheat people—none of these will inherit the Kingdom of God.

1 Timothy 1:9-11
For the law was not intended for people who do what is right. It is for people who are lawless and rebellious, who are ungodly and sinful, who consider nothing sacred and defile what is holy, who kill their father or mother or commit other murders. The law is for people who are sexually immoral, or who practice homosexuality, or are slave traders, liars, promise breakers, or who do anything else that contradicts the wholesome teaching that comes from the glorious Good News entrusted to me by our blessed God.

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How long will I be allowed to remain a Christian?
Douglas MacKinnon
By Douglas MacKinnon | Fox News





“How long will I be allowed to remain a Christian?”

That was the deeply dismaying question posed to me by a friend with four young children as we discussed the plight of the Christian faith in America and around the world.

With each passing month, that shocking question becomes more relevant and even more disturbing.

To say that Christians and Christianity are under a withering and brutal attack in certain areas of the world would be an understatement.

In various parts of the Middle East, there is a genocidal cleansing of Christians being carried out. Women, men, and their young children are being slaughtered because of their faith and world leaders and most of the media turn their backs in bored indifference.

Here in the United States, Christians and Christianity are mocked, belittled, smeared and attacked by some on a daily basis. This is a bigoted practice that is not only increasing exponentially, but is being encouraged and sanctioned by a number on the left.

Too many of those who worship at the altar of political correctness have deemed that Christianity should no longer be respected. Rather, they assail it on a regular basis in a coordinated campaign to weaken the faith and its base.

The prevailing view in much of the media is that Christianity is aligned with Republicans, conservatives, or the views of President Trump – and therefore must be diminished and made suspect.

The New Yorker just described the opening of a few Chick-fil-A restaurants in New York City as “Pervasive Christian traditionalism,” and a “Creepy infiltration of New York City.”

Christianity is an “infiltration” to some on the left.

In college, they now teach about the evils of “Christian Privilege.” On Broadway and in theaters around the world, mocking Christians has become a massively profitable money-making venture.

In name, on the crucifix, and in art, Jesus Christ is desecrated in the most twisted and obscene of ways. In movies, on television and online, Christians are portrayed in the most dishonest, prejudiced and insulting of ways.

Across the country, Christian colleges are under constant assault from “social justice warriors” seeking to strip their accreditation and put them out of business.

Christian groups on campus are at times being persecuted, their offices and handouts vandalized, with members even being physically assaulted.

In a nation that is still majority Christian, those who follow the faith have been litigated or brow-beaten into being fearful to utter the words “Merry Christmas,” or to display a Nativity scene celebrating the one and only reason there is a Christmas Day.

Want to stay true to your Christian faith in the most innocuous and giving of ways?

To do so is becoming more perilous by the minute, when you stop to ponder just a sampling of the negative consequences. For example:

A high school football coach is fired for taking a knee in prayer. A teacher is fired for giving a Bible to a student who requested it. A Marine is cursed at and then court-martialed for not removing a Bible verse from her computer. Another Bible verse posted by sailors in a military hospital is labeled “extremism.”

For me personally, I continue to be ridiculed for writing and speaking about a vision I had regarding the 40 days after the resurrection.

If you are a practicing Christian in the United States and open about it, you, your congregation and your organization will become a target of some sort. It is only a matter of time.

Ironically, in some very real and ominous ways, it’s as if we are being transported back to ancient Rome.

Will we soon have to meet with fellow Christians in secret? Will we have to whisper our beliefs from the shadows? Will those Christians with “traditional” beliefs lose their jobs and livelihoods if discovered?

As more and more of the mainstream media, entertainment, academia and the hi-tech world continue to purge or discriminate against Christians, what future job fields will be open to young Christians?

Will those Christian children eventually be forced to renounce or deny their faith in order to get a job and provide for their families?

As a Christian, I truly do have the deepest respect for every faith. The vast majority of people of every faith are beyond good and do seek to follow the golden rule: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”

Why do so many on the left, in the media, entertainment and academia not practice that most simple, loving and humane of rules when it comes to the Christian faith?

Douglas MacKinnon is a former White House and Pentagon official and author of the memoir "The Forty Days: A Vision of Christ's Lost Weeks." (Simon & Schuster, 2016).
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On one hand I can support the idea of someone saying in a nice way, I have a problem with making a cake for gays. On the other hand would it be okay to tell a black person that they won't make a cake for darkies, find another bakery?

Does the person who has a business have the right to have a public business that deprives anyone of the service or product that they offer?

On one of the hands involved in this a person who has a business that's open to the public doesn't have the right to not to serve blacks, or Muslims, or gays. The person who has beliefs that are this strong is not fit for operating a business that serves the public.

Christians would be pretty upset if a bakery told them that they don't serve christians. We just plain don't walk into stores and expect to be told we don't serve your kind here. It's a bad precedent, and religious beliefs sure as hell are a path to a civil war when taken to this extreme.

I would fully expect that same person who had such a problem with gays to be the same exact way about the Muslim who comes in with a turban on. Is it the right of a store owner to tell this person we don't serve Muslims here, go home? There are people who would go there and they should not own public stores.

But very simple example, would you as a store owner be allowed to turn a black person away? Same thing, you could not turn away an Indian wearing a turban, and doing that same thing to a gay person is no different. Prejudice, bigotry, is no different if it comes from social attitudes or religious attitudes. It's all the same thing. Individual rights are all exactly the same thing, and gays have the same rights as blacks or christians.

Christians better figure out real quick how they want to be treated, and start treating others the same way, because the attitude you have toward someone else could quickly be the attitude others have toward what you are.

OPINION
8 hours ago
How long will I be allowed to remain a Christian?
Douglas MacKinnon
By Douglas MacKinnon | Fox News





“How long will I be allowed to remain a Christian?”

That was the deeply dismaying question posed to me by a friend with four young children as we discussed the plight of the Christian faith in America and around the world.

With each passing month, that shocking question becomes more relevant and even more disturbing.

To say that Christians and Christianity are under a withering and brutal attack in certain areas of the world would be an understatement.

In various parts of the Middle East, there is a genocidal cleansing of Christians being carried out. Women, men, and their young children are being slaughtered because of their faith and world leaders and most of the media turn their backs in bored indifference.

Here in the United States, Christians and Christianity are mocked, belittled, smeared and attacked by some on a daily basis. This is a bigoted practice that is not only increasing exponentially, but is being encouraged and sanctioned by a number on the left.

Too many of those who worship at the altar of political correctness have deemed that Christianity should no longer be respected. Rather, they assail it on a regular basis in a coordinated campaign to weaken the faith and its base.

The prevailing view in much of the media is that Christianity is aligned with Republicans, conservatives, or the views of President Trump – and therefore must be diminished and made suspect.

The New Yorker just described the opening of a few Chick-fil-A restaurants in New York City as “Pervasive Christian traditionalism,” and a “Creepy infiltration of New York City.”

Christianity is an “infiltration” to some on the left.

In college, they now teach about the evils of “Christian Privilege.” On Broadway and in theaters around the world, mocking Christians has become a massively profitable money-making venture.

In name, on the crucifix, and in art, Jesus Christ is desecrated in the most twisted and obscene of ways. In movies, on television and online, Christians are portrayed in the most dishonest, prejudiced and insulting of ways.

Across the country, Christian colleges are under constant assault from “social justice warriors” seeking to strip their accreditation and put them out of business.

Christian groups on campus are at times being persecuted, their offices and handouts vandalized, with members even being physically assaulted.

In a nation that is still majority Christian, those who follow the faith have been litigated or brow-beaten into being fearful to utter the words “Merry Christmas,” or to display a Nativity scene celebrating the one and only reason there is a Christmas Day.

Want to stay true to your Christian faith in the most innocuous and giving of ways?

To do so is becoming more perilous by the minute, when you stop to ponder just a sampling of the negative consequences. For example:

A high school football coach is fired for taking a knee in prayer. A teacher is fired for giving a Bible to a student who requested it. A Marine is cursed at and then court-martialed for not removing a Bible verse from her computer. Another Bible verse posted by sailors in a military hospital is labeled “extremism.”

For me personally, I continue to be ridiculed for writing and speaking about a vision I had regarding the 40 days after the resurrection.

If you are a practicing Christian in the United States and open about it, you, your congregation and your organization will become a target of some sort. It is only a matter of time.

Ironically, in some very real and ominous ways, it’s as if we are being transported back to ancient Rome.

Will we soon have to meet with fellow Christians in secret? Will we have to whisper our beliefs from the shadows? Will those Christians with “traditional” beliefs lose their jobs and livelihoods if discovered?

As more and more of the mainstream media, entertainment, academia and the hi-tech world continue to purge or discriminate against Christians, what future job fields will be open to young Christians?

Will those Christian children eventually be forced to renounce or deny their faith in order to get a job and provide for their families?

As a Christian, I truly do have the deepest respect for every faith. The vast majority of people of every faith are beyond good and do seek to follow the golden rule: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”

Why do so many on the left, in the media, entertainment and academia not practice that most simple, loving and humane of rules when it comes to the Christian faith?

Douglas MacKinnon is a former White House and Pentagon official and author of the memoir "The Forty Days: A Vision of Christ's Lost Weeks." (Simon & Schuster, 2016).
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You will always have the freedom to believe whatever you want to believe, and congregate in your churches or mosques or whatever. Christians will not have the right to keep infringing on others who do not believe in god to tell people that gays can't get married, or women can't get abortion or even healthcare because christians are against it.

You get to believe whatever you want and always will, because I who do not believe will fight for your right to believe what you want, I will take on fights to protect other people's rights who are different than me. I will not fight for your right to "practice" your religion if it means saying a county clerk who doesn't believe in gay marriage won't issue marriage licenses when their job is to issue licenses. It is a christian's right to go get a job where they won't be required to do something that is against their religious beliefs.

That is not persecuting christians, that is protecting the people who suffer losses of their rights due to someone else's beliefs.

You are widening the divide with this poor persecuted christian BS. This is the freest country in the world in terms of being able to believe what you want, the line is drawn at practicing your religion when that means infringing on anyone else's rights.