Gay Activists Admit to Online Hoax Targeting Southern Baptist Convention

[thelaughingman]

A gay activist group has taken credit for an elaborate online hoax attacking the Southern Baptist Convention for its opposition to gay marriage, calling the nation’s largest Protestant denomination “irresponsible and un-Christian.”

A group calling itself the Center for Responsible Christian Living created a phony website, a fake telephone number along with a press release that was sent to members of the national media.

The Nashville-based, pro-gay activists said they wanted their attack to coincide with New York’s legalization of same-sex marriage and the 42nd anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, long believed to be a turning point in the history of the gay rights movement.

"The SBC's intolerant and even hateful stance toward homosexuals directly leads to violence nationwide, and is in direct opposition to the Good News as demonstrated by Jesus Christ,” the group wrote in a press release. They called their attack a “friendly prank.”

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/06/29/gay-activists-admit-to-southern-baptist-online-attack/


Uh-huh.  Sure.  I bet if the SBC had done the same sort of thing against homosexuals, it would simply be hand-waved off as a "friendly prank."

Not.

[Ptarmigan]

I knew they were behind it. Center for Responsible Christian Living claim that they are being Christians. How intolerant and ignorant they are. 

[FlaGator]

"The SBC's intolerant and even hateful stance toward homosexuals directly leads to violence nationwide, and is in direct opposition to the Good News as demonstrated by Jesus Christ,” the group wrote in a press release. They called their attack a “friendly prank.”

This is interesting. Here is an Christian intolerant and hateful stance towards homosexuality. The question is how to address the three major arguments for biblical acceptance of homosexuality which are

1. Since science has proven that some people are born with desires for people of the same sex. That means, therefore, that God must have "created" them that way.

2. The bible addresses manipulative and abusive same sex relationships. It does not address monogamous, loving, same sex relationships

3. God is love and all love is from God...so if two people love each other why would the church stand in the way of it?

The good answer to question 1 is

It may well be, though the evidence is inconclusive, that some people are naturally drawn to others of the same sex through some biological/genetic factor. But that we may be born with an orientation toward a certain behavior does not mean that "God made us that way". People are born with orientations toward all kinds of behaviors--alcoholism, pedophilia, and, of course, heterosexual promiscuity to name just a few. Many behaviors have been argued to have some biological or genetic basis but we would not want to "bless" all of them.

The truth is, human beings are "fallen" by nature. (You might want to read through Romans 1:18-33; Romans 3:10-18 and Eph 2:1-3 at this point). That means that we are not who God originally created us to be. We are all born with an "orientation" away from God and toward the self. The way that orientation plays out is different for everyone and we should not be surprised that some are born with biological/genetic predelections to all kinds of behaviors that are not healthy or right. The average human male is, by nature, oriented toward promiscuity. Does that mean that promiscuity is God's will? Should men be permitted to sleep with whoever they want when they want because they were "born that way"?

No. The whole point of the gospel is that though we are fallen and enslaved by sinful orientations Jesus has come to give us new life and to redeem us. Not only to die in our place to pay the consequences for our sins but also to give us his own Holy Spirit to break free from the bondage to sin. So a Christian has the power, through Christ, to escape the bondage of sexual sin or alcoholism or any other enslaving orientation or addiction.

The question needs to be: is homosexual behavior something that God needs to heal and free people from or is it something that God wants to bless?

This whole post can be read http://www.standfirminfaith.com/?/sf/page/27558here

It is not a hateful or intolerant stance. It is to the point and biblically faithful

[longview]

   I'm not surprised at the lying by the ghey activists, and like the response by whomever in the SBC.

[delilahmused]

Hmmm...wonder if the DUmmies will discuss this?

Cindie