Current Events > Christian group banned after discriminating

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http://www.towleroad.com/2017/12/iowa-christian-group/
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Good.

Love thy neighbor means nothing apparently.
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Christians don't discriminate because God teaches to love all. fake news.
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Good I hope they waste money in course and ultimately get shutdown again....
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Skimming through, seems more like they just denied him a leadership position in the group. Not seeing anything outside the headline saying they actually kicked him out. Sounds fair to me.
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More anti Christian garbage
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It's mindblowing that any LGBTQ person would choose to follow Christianity, with how bigoted its followers are against gays in general. Not to mention that the Bible literally describes their innate attraction to other adults of the same gender as sinful.

These are the same religious people who have fought tooth and nail to deny LGBTQ equal rights, prevent them from marrying, and withhold business services from them on the basis of their sexuality. Some nutjobs like Roy Moore would even love to see consensual homosexual activity be criminalized!

How could you ever get on board with those people??
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0AbsoluteZero0 posted...

It's mindblowing that any LGBTQ person would choose to follow Christianity, with how bigoted its followers are against gays in general. Not to mention that the Bible literally describes their innate attraction to other adults of the same gender as sinful.

These are the same religious people who have fought tooth and nail to deny LGBTQ equal rights, prevent them from marrying, and withhold business services from them on the basis of their sexuality. Some nutjobs like Roy Moore would even love to see consensual homosexual activity be criminalized!

How could you ever get on board with those people??

Being indoctrinated as a child into said religion and being at ends with yourself because of what your "faith" says you should be.

However not ALL christian denominations are prejudice against gay people, I could see someone who is gay getting involved with one of the organizations that is open to such a thing.
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Good. Christianity is slowly trying to become sharia law that they love to hate on so much.
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Wow what the fuck is this website? I'm so mad that's in my history now.
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VoightKent posted...

0AbsoluteZero0 posted...

with how bigoted its followers are against gays in general.

Self-proclaimed Christians who are bigoted against gays does not mean Christianity is bigoted against gays.

Careful now, it sounds like you're hinting at a No True Scotsman fallacy there...

I would argue that the religion itself is bigoted against gays, based on its description of homosexual activity as a sin. The only way a gay person can be a Christian without constantly sinning due to their sex life is to remain completely celibate (or to pick and choose which "rules" they want to follow, like many others do). While technically possible, that's a shitty cross to bear simply because of who you are naturally attracted to.

It is nice that a few offshoots of the big denominations are fully accepting of LGBTQ people, as @Dustin1280 noted. Sadly though, those are a rare exception for Christianity rather than the rule.
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you're a really poor troll account
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Seems like they're not arguing some sort of religious freedom shit, but just that they didn't boot the guy for being gay.

I don't really see an issue here.

VoightKent posted...

0AbsoluteZero0 posted...

I would argue that the religion itself is bigoted against gays, based on its description of homosexual activity as a sin.

Jesus also says that to even look at another person in lust is a sin, so stating that thinking about gays sex at all is a sin is a GIVEN, considering that all lust is a sin.

So Christianity is bigoted against all heterosexual people as well?

Nonsense.

Since that rule says that looking lustfully at others in either a hetero or homo way is equally sinful, it isn't targeted at people based on their sexuality and thus is in no way bigoted toward hetero people.

Pretty pitful argument on your part. Better luck next time
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0AbsoluteZero0 posted...

VoightKent posted...

0AbsoluteZero0 posted...

I would argue that the religion itself is bigoted against gays, based on its description of homosexual activity as a sin.

Jesus also says that to even look at another person in lust is a sin, so stating that thinking about gays sex at all is a sin is a GIVEN, considering that all lust is a sin.

So Christianity is bigoted against all heterosexual people as well?

Nonsense.

Since that rule says that looking lustfully at others in either a hetero or homo way is equally sinful, it isn't targeted at people based on their sexuality and thus is in no way bigoted toward hetero people.

Pretty pitful argument on your part. Better luck next time

basically, lol
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Such a silly book to base faith on. Ridiculousness from the first page, but still a pretty good read.
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Good, most likely their club was running on tuition money and they need to follow the rules from the college to continue getting funded. Because they broke the rule, they got deregistered accordingly.
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VoightKent posted...

0AbsoluteZero0 posted...

Since that rule says that looking lustfully at others in either a hetero or homo way is equally sinful, it isn't targeted at people based on their sexuality and thus is in no way bigoted toward hetero people.

Pretty pitful argument on your part. Better luck next time

It IS "bigoted" against heterosexuals, because the Bible specifically says all sex not designed for procreation is sinful sex.

What's next, heterosexual people banned from a Christian group suing them for bigotry because they admitted they wouldn't stop having sex out of marriage?

Completely ridiculous

Once again, if something applies equally to both straight and gay people, it can't possibly be bigoted because it isn't targeted on the basis of sexuality.

If you truly suggest you don't understand something that basic, you're either dense or trolling.
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If their religious beliefs make them against homosexuality, then I don't see why they should be forced to accept him.

They wouldn't be forced to accept other people that don't agree with their specific teachings like Muslims or atheists.
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VoightKent posted...

0AbsoluteZero0 posted...

Once again, if something applies equally to both straight and gay people, it can't possibly be bigoted because it isn't targeted on the basis of sexuality.

If you truly suggest you don't understand something that basic, you're either dense or trolling.

Why can't you grasp the very simple theological concept that all sexuality is sin? Do the words, "mankind is fallen" mean nothing to you?

If you want to believe something ridiculous like all sexuality is a sin, that's fine. It's still not "bigoted towards hetero people" since it applies to everyone equally. Stay in school, kid.
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Why would someone openly gay want to be part of a Christian group anyway

Something's fishy here.
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MakoReizei posted...

Why would someone openly gay want to be part of a Christian group anyway

Something's fishy here.

Some Christian groups approve of gay marriage and stuff. But if that's not the type of group this was, then I don't see what grounds the student has to complain.
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From what I know of Bible verses, I'm fairly certain there are more references to how adultery is a huge sin (I mean, there's an actual commandment on it in Exodus) over homosexuality. And some verses just talk about sodomy, which is, frankly, any type of anal sex (though yes, there are some verses which explicitly condemn homosexuality, especially in Leviticus...right alongside kosher food laws).
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MakoReizei posted...

Why would someone openly gay want to be part of a Christian group anyway

Something's fishy here.

Depending on the denomination, some church groups are actually pretty open about acceptance. Like the Episcopalians had a gay bishop pretty recently. And some groups are very openly against acceptance - which has a lot more examples.
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