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This is why Christianity is losing credibility and popularity. I was at a crawfish boil recently for a buddy's second wife's daughter. They were celebrating the out of wedlock birth of her second child. After 8 or 9 beers he went off on a tangent about "queers" and all the rights they're getting. You see where i'm going with this? After divorcing and remarrying, while celebrating the results of his step-daughter's premarital sex, this guy got drunk and then railed against homosexuality and how it was ruining the country. I've asked many conservative Christians, but very few of them can come up with even a bad explanation as to why homosexuality is a worse sin that the ones they are committing every day. They certainly can't do it with scripture.

No, the beauty of hypocrisy is that you get to CHOOSE which sinners are okay and which sinners should be shunned.

He's not comparing them as sin, he's comparing them as acts that hurt nobody else, but people have tried to make them illegal simply because they made them uncomfortable. I dated a black girl briefly back in the good old days of 1999 and took crap for it. not 1969. 1999. So when I see what homosexuals deal with, I understand, and take no offense at all when people compare interracial relationships to homosexuality, because they're not comparing the actions, they're comparing other people's reactions.

I don't at all see why any straight white or black person would be offended by his comments. I doubt people in interracial relationships would either. Anyone who's been in that type of relationship, especially back in the day, has dealt with discrimination simply because of who they dated. it's a fair comparison in my opinion, considering that interracial marriage wasn't legalized until 1967, many decades later than it should've been.

NASA? Are you kidding me? I think i'll stick to westernjournalism, thank you very much.

I'm very pro-gay rights, as most of you know, but I do have a problem with this. I don't want someone with a penis in a public restroom with my wife, and if I had a daughter I'd have an even bigger problem with that. It also opens up the very real opportunity for sex offenders to exploit the rule and gain access to women's restrooms.

If this is in fact the case, I'm a lot more okay with my tax dollars going towards this program than I am most tax-funded programs.

Johnny Manziel is rooming with Josh Gordon. Glad to see he's learned from his mistakes.

this is true. based on the book that everyone loves to quote so much, it is an absolute fact that Jesus would serve a gay person food or let them into his house. Now I can certainly see the argument about an actual wedding in the church, and among more conservative denominations, especially, and i don't have a problem with it. That being said, apart from actual services related to a wedding, no Christian should be refusing service to a homosexual in the name of Christ. That is as un-Christlike as you can be. Jesus loved the sinners. He did not refuse them, and there is no interpretation that you can find me in the New Testament that will ever convince me that what Christ wants is for Christians to discriminate against any sect of people, sinners or not. You'll also have a tough time providing me with the scripture that says that homosexuality is worse than adultery, out of wedlock sex, pornography, divorce, drunkenness, (insert your sin here), etc. etc. etc.. I guess maybe Christians have latched onto this major movement against homosexuality because it makes them feel like their sins aren't as bad? or maybe it's because this sin just feels grosser and makes them uncomfortable?

they have everything to do with one another.

tons of sin is allowed by law made by government. no outrage.

many Christians sure have a lot stronger beliefs about homosexuality than they do about the multitude of sins that they're committing daily in their own lives.

I actually fall on both sides on this one. I don't believe a church should be forced to marry a homosexual couple, and i actually don't have a problem with someone not wanting to cater/make a cake for a homosexual wedding because of their religious beliefs. This being because the act of homosexuality and the wedding are related, and do in fact go against those folks religions. That being said, i have a major problem with someone not serving homosexuals in a restaurant or not allowing them in their store. We all sin, and if you don't want sinners in your place of business, then shut it down and go dig a bunker somewhere and crawl into it. Sexual orientation and religious beliefs have nothing to do with pumping gas or eating dinner, and the gas station owner who will not serve a homosexual but sells a daily twelve pack to a neighborhood drunk is a prime example of hypocrisy, not christianity. So to recap: if the behavior that is against your religion is directly related to the service that you're being asked to perform, then i don't have a problem with the refusal. if it's not related at all, then you're no better than business owners who made blacks eat behind the restaurant or drink from a separate water fountain.

these silly progressives have these poor kids confused thinking that they shouldn't be discriminated against because of their sexual orientation.

How many homosexuals have you talked to about this topic?

well, i've talked to many homosexuals who've told me that they were born that way. never had one tell me that they made a choice. but I'm sure the occasional propaganda piece about the one homosexual in a hundred who "went straight" is more accurate.

I would guess they were bisexual to begin with. I know I could not make the choice to be attracted to men. I'm not wired that way. that was never a choice for me.

How old were you when you decided to be straight?

Kennedale is ridiculously good

kickoff at 2:30.

Did anyone get to watch Jasper today? I'm curious how they played. I know the score shows it was a close game, but I've been in games where we won 1-0 and could've won 6-0, and I've won 1-0 games where we could've lost 6-0. Anybody get to watch it?

Jasper will face Kennedale, who thumped Kilgore 6-0 today.

well, they've got 4 games today. If they rented the stadium for $2000, they might be $3000 in the hole for the whole shebang before collecting the gate, and i don't know what kind of arrangement they have for splitting concession profit (if any). Also, is your rental price per day, or for the duration of the tournament?

i doubt much (if any) was lost. with employees, refs, and electricity for the scoreboard i doubt they spent much more than $500 or $600. doesn't take many fans to generate that kind of revenue.

Lets go bulldogs!