I'm a tear right now.
I just watched the news and I'm fed up with some church who thinks it is their First Amendment Right to demonstrate at soldiers' funerals and wave signs that say pray for dead soldiers. Not that they want prayers for the dead, but that they become dead.
They claim the was is God's was of punishing our country because people are allowed to live and be homosexual.
Personally, I'm not going to get into a lifestyle choice. And I'm all for First Amendment Rights.
But, to claim they are doing it as Christians? Sorry, folks, as a Christian, I don't want anything to do with that unloving militant group. Jesus said there the commandments could be summed up with these two ways: Love God with all your heart and love your neighbor as yourself.
I don't know about you, but I don't think that group is being very loving, especially to a group of people who are hurting because their child, spouse, or friend was killed in war times.
And they certainly aren't very losing to those folks who are gay.
It might be what they claim as their First Amendment Right to demonstrate, but just because it might be legal (I am waiting to hear what the Supreme Court decides, that's why I'm sort of waffling here), but it is kind? Is it moral?
Somehow, I don't believe God sent this group to be this cruel to get his message across. I hate to announce to them that God is fully capable of punishing folks without man's help.
So, forgive my rant, but if this is loving, I don't think I want to be a part of THAT church!
In the Name of Christianity
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This is a thought-provoking post. DH and I have been talking with the kids about stuff like this lately (they're 6th and 7th grade). We've concluded that not all Christians act like Christians, a name-only sort of thing. And there are plenty of moral and ethical people out there who aren't *gasp* Christian. Our agnostic friends are more considerate and better stewards of their resources than our born-again acquaintances. To kick someone when they are down rather than extend a hand of a support is just wrong. No two ways about it.
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I hope there's some law that makes this not protected speech. It's about time they were kept away from funerals.
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Jerry
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Oh... as an Irish person, that is just shocking behaviour. I don't think it would happen here. If they tried, they would probably be man-handled out of the way by relatives and friends of the deceased or arrested by the Police.
That is really low. These people are brainwashed by a fake plastic idea of religion. They are to be pitied. God is Love in my mind. They don't seem to know what love means.
October 23rd, 2010 at 02:27 pm 1287844041
My YD did a military funeral last January (she is a military wife) here in California and the Vietnam vets with their leather jackets, long hair and motorcycles were all over the place working security. They even kicked out a media photographer from the funeral, my daughter was the only one authorized to shoot pictures (and she is only 23!).
Those people (who protest at military funerals) are not Christians in any sense of the word.
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