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Posted on December 30, 2008

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God Is My Judge, West Hollywood, California
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  1. ozgurl December 30, 2008 8:27 am

    I could not agree more with this philosophy. If only the world would stop, look around, and see that everyone is unique and precious and that we should value each other and what we individually and collectively give to the world and not polarize us because we hold different beliefs, have a different color, are a different gender, or have different sexual orientation. At our core, we are all human and bravo to this Church for validating that.

  2. Aaron December 30, 2008 5:04 pm

    Just because every person is “unique and precious” (which is true) does not make everything they do right. Conversely, saying that someone is doing something wrong does not make that person any less special or loved.

    Also, if the church is going to sanction the common beliefs of the popular culture, then the church becomes no more than a social club.

  3. Dann December 30, 2008 9:05 pm

    Point taken. It depends on the semantics of the debate. I think every church has the right to come to its own biblical interpretation. Some interpret things more literally, others more figuratively. Neither is wrong, per se, it’s just a different way of approaching a subject. My main concern as a voter isn’t what churches do in private–but what civil rights my fellow citizens should have. Should they be able to visit each other in hospitals? Receive the tax cuts that we hetero couples get?

    When we say in the Pledge of Allegiance, “with liberty and justice for all” what does that mean? To me, it represents that we grant everyone liberty to believe and do as they wish. And we do this–whether we agree with them or not–because we acknowledge that the very definition of justice is equal protection under the law.

    Equal civil rights for everyone tempered with the religious freedom to believe about homosexuality whatever you choose. What’s so wrong about that?

  4. Christopher Wing January 30, 2009 2:44 pm

    Perhaps this should be the only church we don’t tax…

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