Let’s just be clear; no one chooses their sexuality. Yet, most people do choose their clothes.

Basically, the kid said something along the lines of “She thought it was OK to come on my campus and make me uncomfortable, so I thought I’d turn the tables for once.” His sign wasn’t really a personal attack so much as satire, and he later added “Ask a gay, we can help!” to it. This lady and her husband drew a crowd of almost 100 counter-protesters, mostly holding non-personal signs like “Honk for gay rights!” or “We gave you Glee.” Surprisingly, there were no screaming or shouting matches reported, and it all peacefully dispersed sometime late that night. (Incidentally, she was protesting on private university property, and protesters who might cause a disturbance are usually asked to move to public property across the street)

“The behavioral genetics data suggest that the hereditary predisposition to homosexuality is not overpowering. Environmental influences of some kind probably contribute to the development of homosexuality”

But take heart, Christ overcame sin. You are free from your sin if you believe

And no, I am not suggesting that if you still have homosexual inclinations you must not be saved by Christ. Everyone is tempted by sin friend, creation itself is tainted by sin, and even those who believe fall to sin. But Christ gave his life to cover our sin past, present, and future.

I’m sorry to hear you were treated so terribly by your church and others.. You are no more a sinner than any of them. We all fall short of perfection.

“The behavioral genetics data suggest that the hereditary predisposition to homosexuality is not overpowering. Environmental influences of some kind probably contribute to the development of homosexuality”

I’m also not sure where you read “cured” that you felt the need to quote it as it has not shown up anywhere in this thread. If that is your interpretation of her intention please drop the quotation marks. No one said they were trying to “cure” anyone.

And “20 people outside your house”? Are we talking about the same situation? Because from what I read of the news article this was outside of a university and involved two people, not twenty. Please check your facts.

And as for having your actions labelled a sin changing people’s opinions of you: Well, I hate to break it to ya, but even a cursory look through the bible will tell you that everyone is labelled a sinner whether we like it or not.

This is where I believe a lot of Christians go astray. They believe that homosexuality is some sort of super sin that is separate from all the rest. Well every sin is just like the other and everyone is guilty of at least one. Homosexuals are as guilty of sin as any pastor. But this is of course where the love of Christ comes in to pay the price for our sin and “set you free”

I don’t know about the shirt thing. I’d make out with her.

If someone doesn’t believe in God then they wouldn’t care that their actions are sinful. If however they do believe in God then they are probably already aware that their actions are sinful and she is trying to reach out to them with her best intentions.

I don’t believe in her really powerful friend of course, but you can understand why this offends me anyway. In the immortal words of Captain Janeway, “I don’t respond well to threats.”

Also, let’s not forget that people like her voted (and encouraged other people to vote) for Prop 8 in California and Prop 1 in Maine, thus demoting gays to second-class citizens, taking away their constitutional rights. So yeah, I think her actions are insulting and harmful in more ways than one.

“Love warns people. It would be unloving of me not to warn them,” he said. “God is the judge. There are going to be consequences. They can do that, but one day God is going to judge them, just like he will all of us.”

Even if you don’t agree with them and think they are “feeble minded” they are still, from their perspective, sincerely trying to help people reach freedom from their sin.

And besides: If one doesn’t believe in God why do they care if someome labels their choice a “sin” anyway?

I have to think her primary motivation is homophobia, and the Bible only serves to enable her to act it out.

Leviticus 18:22 (NIV)
Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable.

Leviticus 20:13 (NIV)
If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.

Romans 1:26-27 (NIV)
Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

1 Corinthians 6:9 (NIV)
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders

And the obvious fact that lots of other regulars took a different position on what the Moomin said also shows that your assumption is wrong.