Advice from Prominent Christians: Don't Support Anyone Who is Gay


It is laughable how many times a publicly known Christian has criticized some other public expression of support for gay people. Always present is the deep desire to shame and look down on others.

A U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle publicly condemned a fictional TV character for being gay. A comedian asked, "Does the Vice President realize she is a fictional character?" Country Western singer Amy Grant attended a gay marriage ceremony of a close relative and was criticized. The dufus Franklin Graham is having a cow just now because video home improvement couple on You Tube is renovating the home of a gay couple with children. Shame,     says Franklin Graham, on the video producers for making a living while treating every customer with respect.

Everyone who has studied the issue of discrimination against gay people knows discrimination, selecting some group to look down on and be considered evil, is part of both human history and Christian history. I'm sure every Christian who looks down on gay people would see themselves back in the days of slavery as in the group back them who was opposed to it. Instead, they are same people who have merely replaced religious-based distain for black people with religious-based distain for gay people. 

The Bible warns us against people who are different. Leviticus 21:18 says let no one who is lame, disfigured, blind or with a club foot near the worship. I've read commentators who say this is the result of "cultural values of the time." Yes, and so is the entire Bible and the stories in it. So is today's condemnation by Christians of gay people. 

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