Gay rights protesters disrupt Sunday service

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you...

As ye reap so shall ye sow...

somebody should be so kind as to point to those and other little gems of scripture to these bigoted fundamentalist christians...

irony? or the lord working in myterious ways?

As a follower of the Latter Day Church of the Zappa, I believe his message to be true..

" [...] God knows what he's doin'
He wrote this book here
An'the book says:
He made us all to be just like Him,"
so...
If we're dumb...
Then God is dumb...
(An' maybe even a little ugly on the side)"

Aaaaaaa-may-n!

What do spoiled children do when they don't get their way? They stomp, throw things, and scream. Wow...sound familiar?

Repent - accept Christ while you still have time. When you are on the FEMA cattle car, heading for the gas chamber, it will likely be too late.....

Romans 1:21-25 NIV

21For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

24Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

Originally posted by nyk537
As I've said in another thread, it's quite ironic that they keep disrespecting others in order to gain respect for themselves.

I'm all for protesting and freedom of speech, but there is no reason to bust in on a church service and start disrespecting others just to make your point.

James Farmer Jr.:

In Texas they lynch Negroes. My teammates and I saw a man strung up by his neck and set on fire. We drove through a lynch mob, pressed our faces against the floorboard. I looked at my teammates. I saw the fear in their eyes and, worse, the shame. What was this Negro's crime that he should be hung without trial in a dark forest filled with fog. Was he a thief? Was he a killer? Or just a Negro? Was he a sharecropper? A preacher? Were his children waiting up for him? And who are we to just lie there and do nothing. No matter what he did, the mob was the criminal. But the law did nothing. Just left us wondering, "Why?" My opponent says nothing that erodes the rule of law can be moral. But there is no rule of law in the Jim Crow south. Not when Negroes are denied housing. Turned away from schools, hospitals. And not when we are lynched. St Augustine said, "An unjust law is no law at all.' Which means I have a right, even a duty to resist. With violence or civil disobedience. You should pray I choose the latter.

The Great Debaters

Seeing as there have been hate crimes amongst the gay community and the extremists are on both sides of this current issue, I feel the above is quite apt. Especially the italicized bold statement.

To refute gay marriage is indeed an effort in alienation and division. We are better than that...or at least should be.

reply to post by Patriot_1776

Repent - accept Christ while you still have time.

You think Christ would be proud of current Christians? What does that old, contradictive book you follow say about judgment? You repent, and don’t assume what your God wants others to repent for, or that your God needs you to judge others for him. You Christians complain about anti-religious people on ATS but you are the most sacrilegious people around here, and you don’t seem to realize it at all. Quite sad.

We all know the history of the Church and their treatment of gays... They were publicly executed for all to see. Has there ever been an apology made for this? Not to my recollection. Luckily, it is illegal to burn gays at the stake but the Church and all it's branches still has ways of making gay lives more difficult and frustrating. When they (politically motivated churches) are persuading the masses about politics from the pulpit... then they shouldn't be surprised to see the politcal circus that ends up in their services.

The only real threat to traditional marriage is divorce. Where is the rally cry to ban divorce?? Notice the silence.

Originally posted by nyk537

Well, well, well. It looks those gay rights protesters keep disrespecting the rights of others.

As I've said in another thread, it's quite ironic that they keep disrespecting others in order to gain respect for themselves.

I'm all for protesting and freedom of speech, but there is no reason to bust in on a church service and start disrespecting others just to make your point.

I don't think this is helping their cause.

At least they didn't push any old women down this time.

www.lansingstatejournal.com
(visit the link for the full news article)

Mod Edit: Changed thread title to reflect actual article headline.

[edit on 11/12/2008 by maria_stardust]

are you saying these church goers respect rights??? yeah right...only the ones they want and not everybody elses. i actually think that the protesters should be demostrating at every mormon church, since they were the ones that put in 20 million dollars for the yes on 8 vote. religion has no right defining what marriage is in this country. they only have that right in their own church. the taliban defines that right, along with alot of other laws to live under religous rule.

Many people are implying that this group is only upset about prop 8. This group was active long before prop 8 and it's about more than civil rights for gay people. It's about equal rights for all. Do any of you even know what challenges the transsexual community is facing? The issue is much broader than marriage or prop 8.

I'm not saying that their action was right or wrong. I'm just saying that maybe some of you should really understand the problem before you continue to criticize one group's possible solution.