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Can I just toss this out here? Spewing out any kind of hatred is not what Christianity is about, the people who do that are getting it all wrong.
As a Christian myself (I work in youth ministry on a missionary's salary. I'm not pointing this out for a pat on the back or anything but to show that you could classify me as a person with very strong beliefs or even a zealot, as I do tend to do my job with some degree of zeal... ) I can say that the whole message of Jesus is about loving EVERYONE, and it is very clear.
It bothers me greatly when I see things like this, because all it does is serve to turn people against the Church, by depicting it as a judgemental bunch of hypocrites.
I don't care if a kid that comes into my drop in centre is gay, straight, bi, or anything. I don't care if they've spent time in jail, or come from a "perfect" home, it is my job, as a Christian, to love them for who they are, wherever they're at. And it should be the same for every person who claims the title of Christian. Unfortunately it's not, and it's doubly unfortunate that the current media of the world focuses on the boneheads who are, to put it simply, doing it wrong.
I should already be asleep, and this stupidity is just going to make it harder to do that.
