I expect simple behaviours here. Friendship, and love. Any advice should be from the perspective of the person asking, not the person giving! We have had to make new membership moderated to combat the huge number of spammers who register
Location: US/Canada
Registered: September 2009
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Throughout its 23-city “Summer for Marriage Tour 2010,” the National Organization For Marriage (NOM) has gone to great lengths to portray itself as a tolerant organization of Christians driven to oppose same-sex marriage by their religion. NOM has argued that its members are in a great “civil rights” struggle against intolerant LGBT counter protesters who have sabotaged its tour and threatened its members. Former NOM President Maggie Gallagher has described her supporters as “very peaceful and prayerful and respectful of the law, because that’s who our people are” while painting LGBT activists as “a real face of hatred.” “It isn’t just ‘we disagree with you, we’re supporting our point of view,” Gallagher quoted the counter protesters as saying, “it’s ‘you’re wrong, you’re haters, you’re bigots.’”
The blog NOM Tour Tracker has worked to expose the thin veil of NOM’s tolerance throughout their tour and has noted that NOM has coached its supporters to focus on the movements message of “love” when speaking with reporters. Yesterday, the blog cross-posted an item by Good As You’s Jeremy Hooper, which uncovered the homophobic record of pastor Brad Brandon, one of the speaker’s NOM’s rally in Minneapolis. Brandon had previously warned supporters that gays would teach children how to masturbate and compared gays to alcoholics, pedophiles and Hitler:
COMPARES GAYS TO ALCOHOLICS: “If you had an uncle who was a drunk and he was destroying his marriage and he was destroying his life and he was dying from problems that come along with drinking….Would you love him to go up to him and say, ‘oh, it’s okay, what you’re doing is alright?’ ….no you wouldn’t… But yet when it comes to the issue of homosexuality, all of the sudden, we have to keep our mouths shut, and we cannot say anything when it comes to this issue.”
COMPARES GAYS TO ADULTERERS, PEDOPHILES: “On the 17th, the ELCA convenes to vote on whether to allow homosexuals to be clergy. I mean, to me that’s like asking somebody who is living an open adulterous lifestyle to become a pastor. To me, that is like asking a pedophile to become a pastor.”
BELIEVES IN REPARATIVE THERAPY: “We need to preach Christ, the love of Christ, the saving grace of Jesus Christ. Get These homosexuals saved and get them out of this lifestyle.”
Location: U.S.
Registered: November 2009
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Only in America could someone like this Brad Brandon (name sounds like a porn star)preach about gays teaching children how to masturbate. I always thought the male body came with a built in instruction manual. These NOM people are a danger to the evolution of the human species.
But now, because I am gay and haven't taught any children how to masturbate, I feel left out of the Christian circle of hate. NOM is like 99% of these off the wall reactionary groups, and just plain blood suckers, they are stealing the life blood out of the religious movement. It is all a business, ask Jim Baker or Jerry Falwell, they were really good at it.
But this pastor Brandon ought to rethink his comments on masturbation. It seems that some preachers out there embarked on a course of independent study and blew it. (oops, did I say that?) I give you only two examples, there are dozens available online:
"According to his autopsy report, Rev. Gary Aldridge -- a friend of the late Rev. Jerry Falwell and graduate of Liberty University -- died wearing two rubber wet suits and a face mask, hogtied, with a condom covered dildo up his ass. Police say no foul play was involved. He killed himself in an auto-erotic asphyxiation accident." (the smoking gun.com)
"...the pastor of Trinity United Methodist Church in Big Stone Gap (Va.)is facing charges of indecent exposure.Police say Millard Clifton Tolbert, 58, was arrested after being caught on a video surveillance masturbating in the boys and men’s underwear isle of the Dollar General store in Appalachia.
(Bristol Herald Courier)
At least it's not exclusive to any one religion. Baptists, Methodists, they're all into it. Seems that preaching Christ isn't enough of a lube to get off...masturbating that is ;-D
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. (Sir Francis Bacon 1561-1626)
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