Bishop Harry Jackson Jr. at Values Voter Summit 2009 Part 2

Bishop Harry Jackson Jr. at Values Voter Summit 2009

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[Kestra84]

He is so wrong I can't even begin to counter all his arguments, but I think I'll try anyway. For starters: *If* (and that is one HUGE if) we are all, as he says, "God's Creations," then why would God create people to be attracted to the same sex, and then punish them for acting on that attraction?

Secondly, if you want to talk about the "strange fruit" of the South, and insist that "so-called Gay" people don't know anything about that, what about the body of Matthew Shepard tied to a fence?

[dgymail]

This man is immoral--he wants to press his belief onto everyone else. STOP IT!

Marriage Equality Now.

[pfferberg]

Well i am sorry Queen Blanche its not my "community" as you nicely put it, trying to take civil liberties away from a another group with a big fat smile too boot. Don't even make me quote statistics from the FBI on hate crimes and who the most likely victims are. Eventually this will all be a moot point anyway so why are we even arguing. Equality = Freedom for eveyone

HDtexan get a life you idiot.

[queenblanche]

@Hdtexan Get off this forum, you narcissistic twit!

[queenblanche]

@americana83 Amen to that ! As I've stated before, though, we are still buying that serpent's bill of goods if he can persuade us to go against the will of God.

[queenblanche]

@pfferberg I'd suggest the same advice for the 'gay' community out there; STOP PLAYING THE VICTIM!!

[queenblanche]

@Kestra84 That's just it. He didn't create us to be attracted to the same gender. That came about as a result of the fall. The sad thing is that we're still buying that serpent's bill of goods when he tells us to go against our Creator.  As for Matthew Shepard, I have nothing but the utmost sympathy for the Shepard family in their loss, but it was revealed on a 20/20 broadcast that the crime had nothing to do with Matthew Shepard being gay as much as it was a drug deal gone sour.

[pfferberg]

Thats right Bishop respect and dignity, but only for your flock..please..stop playing the victim card...again. The hilarious part is the caption at the bottom, "Hope" xtian church. Hilarious.

[Kestra84]

PS: "Madkind" is awesome! A rare flash of brilliance from an otherwise stultified & static mind. I will shamelessly appropriate that for my own use.

[Kestra84]

Oh, I know what Genesis says. I simply don't belief a word of it, and I utterly reject a god so petty and self-absorbed.

But back to the topic at hand: People are not "attracted to" other people's property or to killing each other. They make an active choice to take something they don't own or kill someone they don't like.

This IS NOT comparable to sexual attraction. People DO NOT CHOOSE to feel attracted to any specific gender. To argue otherwise is disingenuous in the extreme.

[janonda42]

No one has to "bless" anything. They just don't have a right to infringe on the happiness of others - plain and simple - end of debate.

[americana83]

The Old Testament first said it, and it was reiterated in Romans Chapter 1.

The verse you are referring to is this one:

Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 5:10)

Given the Biblical context (Romans 1), where God calls deviant sexual activity the product of a reprobate mind, it is very doubtful he had persecution for that in mind with that verse you quoted...