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Onion: Nation's Wealthy Cruelly Deprived of True Meaning of Christmas

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Blind Frog Belly White12/19/2013 10:05:45 am PST

re: #343 GunstarGreen

You know, I’m probably going to get dinged for this, but so be it.

It’s not possible to be both a pastor, and a person that supports marriage equality, simultaneously and with complete honesty on both ends. The simple fact is that the Holy Bible specifically condemns homosexuality, along with a great many other things that are today considered innocuous. When you put on the frock, you commit to devote yourself to that religion. If you’re not willing to fully devote yourself to that religion — including the patently absurd things about it — then you shouldn’t be wearing the frock. If you read ‘the good book’ and, as I did long ago, come to the conclusion that on many or even just several points God is dead wrong, it is dishonest to wear the uniform of his supplicants and spread his message.

I think the pastor did the right thing by acknowledging the rights of all of his fellow citizens to be treated equally and fairly. But I also can’t blame the church for de-frocking him based on the fact that he did violate their tenets.

Not gonna get dinged by me for expressing an honest thought!

BUT, in answer, I’d observe that the Bible says a lot of things, and many believers do not think God wants them to follow the literal word. My family, for example, all believe in God, and Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, and Salvation. They believe the Bible reveals the Word of God, but they simultaneously accept it as the mythology of a primitive desert people, and as having been written and edited by men for their own political purposes.

Some of them put themselves on the line for their beliefs, and yet they believe in marriage equality and believe it’s part of what God would want.

So, no, a pastor is not limited by what the Bible says, and is not turning her back on the Bible to support marriage equality.