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From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: gay christians??????
Message-ID: <315@cybvax0.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 11:18:56 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 14 11:18:56 1985
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References: <210@teklds.UUCP>
Reply-To: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
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Summary: 

In article <210@teklds.UUCP> larryg@teklds.UUCP (Karen) writes:
> 
> I do not understand, why would someone want to be a Christian and
> a homosexual.  That is the same as saying, Hi, I am a Christian rapist,
> or Christian murderer, or a Christian adulterer.  You can't follow Jesus
> and still remain in sin.

While it may seem funny for me to defend people's desire to be Christian,
I can't resist the unChristian illogic of this statement.

1)  In any number of Christian theologies, we are perpetually sinning no matter
    what we do.  In Roman Catholicism, only mortal sins (of which homosexuality
    is not one) will prevent eventual access to heaven.

2)  Let [s]he who is without sin cast the first stone.  The wealth of Americans
    is so stupendous by Biblical standards (which are quite reasonable by the
    standards of the rest of the world)  that I really don't see how any
    middle-class American can call him/herself a Christian.  "It's easier for
    a camel to fit through the eye of a needle..." etc.
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Mike Huybensz		...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh