I'm happy to know that climate change is not controlling my actions. Sheesh.

There's no record that Jesus Christ ever mentioned homosexuality, so Palin's views on the state of gayness don't represent those of Christianity -- the religion of our friends notwithstanding.

Yeah, but there's no genetic component of Christianity. Unless of course you dig way down to the tendency of any social species to follow the crowd, which is adaptive in evolutionary terms.

Liberty and justice for all.

My home

in fact...some of them are preachers. But they respect me enough to let me respectfully disagree with them about religious things.

Unfortunately, some of the people who have least respected my right to believe what I believe in are also fundamentalist, right-wing, conservative Christians. Jesus Christ as far as I can tell was all about tolerance for differences in people. The only thing he did not tolerate was money changing in his Father's house, i.e. the Temple in Jerusalem (the Holy of Holies). That and executing people for getting caught sinning the same kind of sins you yourself are guilty of (correct me if I'm wrong, but in God's eyes all sins...big or little...are equally bad if you don't repent of them and ask for forgiveness right?).

On the whole I believe the world would be a whole lot better place to live in if people could get their noses out of other people's bedrooms and pants. You got enough crap of your own to deal with without worrying about who is sleeping with whom or what positions they use.

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"You can't fix stupid..." ~ Ron White"
"I never said I wasn't a brat..." ~ Talidapali

Yeah.... the members of my Christian church.

"liberal/progressive" and "Christian" are not contradictory terms.

Is that what you are insinuating?
If so, could you back that up please?

Or are you just trying to make Christianity itself another cynical "wedge" issue? Why would you want to degrade your own faith like that?

I'd like to see Obama vs Palin regarding their understanding of the Bible and their ability to live by it. Palin would look like Jimmy Swagert. Obama would look like the thoughtful, principled Christian he is.

-Sugarfatpie (AKA Alex Pulsipher)

"X-Rays are a hoax."-Lord Kelvin

Yeah, I've got lots of Christian friends and even some christianist ones.

But I don't condemn them for it nor do I expect they should be second class citizens with fewer rights than non-Christians.

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
Hunter S. Thompson

Well, my own church is a Metropolitan Community Church, so if anyone there thinks homosexuality is wrong, they really need find another church...

But outside of my own church, yes, I have Christian friends who think homosexuality is wrong. They're still my friends, we just disagree. I've got friends from all across the political and religious spectra.

Or that humans and dinosaurs walked the earth simultaneously, or that witches have such immense power that they should be run out of town, or that abortion should be denied to rape victims.

Wait...I only know of one person who believes all those things- Sarah Palin!

-Sugarfatpie (AKA Alex Pulsipher)

"X-Rays are a hoax."-Lord Kelvin

From the letter - "Several passages in the Bible speak of same-gender sex. In every instance, the Bible is talking about heterosexuals who, filled with lust, have become sex perverts."

Find where Jesus was quoted directly on this subject. You won't.

a man named Allen Ginsburg was the first Daddy bear to be born?

Thanks for the cultural links and lingo. I'm always fascinated by the diverse diversions our culture invents. It's important to keep up if one wants to be culturally literate.

Wouldn't it be a gas if the First Dude was gay and Palin knew it?

Trust me... Todd Palin would not hurt for a date on Saturday night if he were gay, at least among the bear community (Don't worry, the link is to a wikipedia entry, not a "naughty site".)