Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve

Anti-Gay Pastor Responds To Being Called Out By Ellen DeGeneres

http://instinctmagazine.com/post/anti-gay-pastor-responds-being-called-out-ellen-degeneres

Time to air some grievances.  This may contain offensive content, so read at your own risk.

"Love the sinner, hate the sin" is a bullshit cop-out way of passing judgement without taking responsibility for the loathing your feel for the "sinner".  As long as you claim to "love" your fellow, then you can condemn their behavior in a 'tough love' kind of way.  Grow a set, and say what you're really thinking.  "You're a sodomite and I can't wait for God to judge you and send you to hell".   Well, I withdrew my membership from that club a while ago, so your idea of sin doesn't apply to me - only you.  Your pathetic attempt to hide your bigotry in love is appalling and stinks of coward.

Next,  your argument against marriage equality based on what is in the bible is again, irrelevant.  It does not apply to me.  I am not a member of that club.  So if you or your clergy, or our church does not approve, I could not give a big rat's ass.

I've been following this very public conversation between this douche-bag homophobe and Ellen, she surely must be banging her head against her dressing room table because she has had to live with the same bullshit accusations just like the rest of us.

Get this through your head.   Your religious convictions has absolutely zero bearing on how I live my life.  I don't care if you eat meat, or not.  I don't care if you go to church every time the doors are open.  I am not bothered if you circle around a fire at the full moon and offer wine and biscuits to one out of hundreds of deities.  If that fulfills you, then who am I to stand in the way of your remedy  for coping with this life, and I would appreciate the same courtesy.  The way I see the world and the way I choose to live in it has nothing to do with you, unless I come to your doorstep and try to convert you to become an atheist, or unless I cut off your head because my faith says your are a heretic.

Personally, I've received 99% support from my Facebook friends and family and I am very grateful.  I did have a cousin say some pretty nasty things, but he was only a click away from being removed from my world (thank god for the delete button).  I went 20 years without hearing from him.  I won't miss him in the next 20.

If you and I ever have a discussion about marriage equality, leave your Bible at home and be prepared to tell me how my marriage affects yours (first, second, or third). Quoting the Bible to me would be about as effective as if I used tarot cards to tell you how to live.   I don't want to hear about Sodom and Gomorrah.  Quoting Leviticus to me will be useless because I know another scripture that will take you straight to hell with me.

Without the Bible as your weapon, you will not have one single solid piece of evidence that would prove that allowing people of the same gender to marry is the cause of 9/11, earthquakes, tornados, tsunamis, etc because I got married to someone of the same gender.  Pat Robertsons and Fred Phelps are total jackasses who has lost all touch with reality and live in a fantasy world where they believe they will someday walk on streets of gold as long as they keep people dumb, confused, and under control.

"God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve"  Seriously?  You really believe there was a physical Adam and Eve ... and a talking snake ... and a magic tree?  Besides, that is the lamest cliche ever and speaking it in public will illicit an epic eye-roll at your blatant unoriginality and puffed up pride because "you told me!", right?  Ooooooooh! Burn!

When someone joins the military, or wins an election for office, or take up jury duty, they swear to uphold the constitution, not the Bible. The constitution yearns for more freedom, not less.  All men and women, and other, are equal. Not sinners/saints, or black/white/Latino or gay/straight or anything in between. #alllivesmatter

Founding fathers.  I normally can't help myself from that epic eye-roll when someone starts spewing what they think the "founding fathers" said about why America was founded.  So Stop.  Scholars spend their entire lives studying the words and letters of the "fathers", so hearing an armchair talking head project their ignorance into what the "fathers" intended this country to be make me want to violently purge my entire GI tract from both ends until nothing is left but skin and bones.   Yes,  It causes a visceral reaction that strong.  My first thought - "This person (who is probably a high-school drop out) is a baffoon."

I feel really badly for the decent folks who are Christian but are represented by bigots.  The squeaky wheel gets all the grease. Real Christians love their friends and family, do not judge, and demonstrate their faith by loving unconditionally and without judgement. Do your faith a favor and start denouncing these pseudo-Christian politicians who believes that everyone should live by their moral code regardless of how ridiculous it is.

One last comment.  I've said it before and I'll say it again.  Scratch a homophobe, find a queer.  In other words, you show me someone who is vehemently against marriage equality, or waves a sign that screams GOD HATES FAGS, Ill show you someone who is living in torment and the frustration of that life becomes evident when they lash out at the very people they secretly want to be.

http://instinctmagazine.com/post/anti-gay-pastor-responds-being-called-out-ellen-degeneres