Gay marriages in the church??

Oladunni wrote: ModelessDiva wrote: Oladunni gal.... There's no point, trust me. Walk away before the other crew gets here. Either you are 100% for gay marriage or youre a hypocritical homophobe. Gay people were born gay, God made them this way. Then apparently changed His mind sometime after the fact and made it a sin to be gay. I mean, how DARE you be black and not be accepting of gay rights. After all it is the same right? What a shame. Girl i know! I'm just over here sealing the ends of these box braids and typing my beliefs! I know i am not going to change the mind of these non believers.

Was that the point? To change minds?

"These non believers," gee, it makes things sound so exclusive, like you belong to some kind of country club. Is that the point of religion?

If people want to hear an alternate religious view of homosexuality, Matthew Vines did a really interesting lecture about it.  I can see people disagreeing with the points he makes, but he makes some really solid arguments for why the Bible doesn't really condemn homosexuality.  He did a lot of research about the historical context of when the Bible was written to break why the several passages used contemporarily to condemn homosexuality are actually referring to something else.  I enjoyed it, but it's long.  Just tossing it out there. 

Midwest_Da_Gawd wrote: Bunnyahh wrote: Midwest_Da_Gawd wrote: It's funny how these gay marriage supporters like to bring up the pedophilia as if we don't already know that the devil is working in some of these spiritually dead churches. So they want to use that as an excuse to allow even MORE of the devil to corrupt the church?! LMFAO ooooo weeee all yall Brothas gon burn in hell. Crispy for all eternity! allowing gays equal rights in the church is not allowing more of the devil.   Yall should be trying to keep out the rapists, pedophiles, fornicators, & adulterers more than the gay ppl.  idk how yall can embrace them, yet protest 2 consenting adults that aren't hurting anyone or destroying your life I already acknowledged that many of these churches are spiritually dead. But allowing two Brothas to "marry" in "God's house" damn sholl aint helping the situation. You aint elevating that church in God's eyes. You would be doing the opposite. PERIOD. No debate. SMMFH you gon be skinny-dipping in that brimstone lake with Tokyo if you keep this up.

of course it will help the church.  More members=more tithes.  Why exclude ppl & reduce ur income?  And it WILL help.  Ppl would rather go to an open, non-discriminatory church than a close minded, bigoted one.  Why preach hate & separation instead of love & acceptance?

He talks about them all.  I'm not telling you to agree with it or even watch it.  I'm just saying there's an alternative view and it's a view that a lot of people share.  

And he's not lying.   You can argue that he's misguided, but he wholeheartedly feels this way.