Apparently one million people attended the Gay Pride parade in Toronto today:
TORONTO – More than one million people jammed the streets of downtown Toronto on Sunday, sporting rainbow-striped outfits, corsets and glitter for the country’s largest gay rights parade.
The crowd whistled and cheered as the Pride parade’s colourful floats many covered in balloons and blaring Lady Gaga music winded down Yonge Street under the blazing sun.
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Still, one person was noticeably absent from the crowd – Toronto’s mayor, Rob Ford.
This is what one million people looks like:
Obviously, there would have been no room for Rob Ford. Come to think of it, there would have been no room for a parade either.
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How about a Christian Pride parade at Easter, just a rousing chorus from the marchers
The oposite of Gay Pride is not “Christian Pride”. Being a Christian is no synonymous with being anti-gay. There may be some objectionable things in the Pride parade, but there is always the possibility that some young person (or maybe not so young) will lose their fear of who they are and stop loathing themselves even to the point of wanting to end their lives. Teen suicide is often due to the bullying and ostracism young gay people face and they cannot choose to be straight. They did not choose to be gay. It’s immoral and inhuman for so-called Christians to be among those encouraging this rejection and promoting their exclusion. Christians who attack gay people even in print are engaged in a sort of bullying. How Christ-like.
Derek,
It seems to me that there are a number of problems with your position:
First,Christians who believe that homosexual activity is sinful are not anti gay. An activity that is sinful harms the person who is engaged in it: therefore, a Christian who believes that homosexual activity is sinful would only be anti gay if he tried to make out it isn’t.
Second, from a Christian perspective simply accepting who we are won’t do. The Bible tells us we are all sinners, but it doesn’t tell us to accept that, but to remedy it by accepting Christ’s atoning sacrifice and by resisting sin.
Third, bullying is always wrong: bullying a homosexual is no more wrong than bullying anyone else: liberal Anglicans have only chosen to single out this particular species of bullying because they – and you, it seems – are obsessed with normalising homosexual behaviour.
Four, when you say they did not choose to be gay you are entirely missing the point. Everyone is born with sinful inclinations: resisting them is a part of being a Christian. What is not part of being a Christian is going to extraordinary lengths to justify indulging them.
Five, your use of the word “exclusion” does violence to the language. You claim that to welcome a homosexual into a congregation but not encourage his inclination to engage in sexual activity with someone of the same sex is to “exclude” him. It isn’t any more than it would be to welcome a professional burglar and suggest he seek other employment.