Editor:
Montana is again experiencing a growth in groups that claim racial, ethnic or religious superiority, and demonize those whom they consider inferior to themselves.
The members of the Montana Association of Churches stand against the theology and politics of division and hatred. We affirm that all people are created in God’s image.
We repudiate any teachings that place one race above the others, one set of people above the others. It simply does not fit with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
As citizens we honor others’ right to practice their own beliefs, however much we might disagree with them.
But as Christians we stand firm in repudiating any teachings that dehumanize any of God’s children, regardless of race, religion, gender, ethnicity, ability or any other criteria. In light of the growth of hate groups in our state, we encourage congregations and leaders to speak out, both within the religious community and in the public sphere, modeling the barrier-breaking love of Jesus Christ for all humanity.
“There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus” (Galatians 3:28).
Pam Shelden
Administrator, Montana
Association of Churches
Whether it's PC or not, God doesn't allow homosexuality. Or random promiscuity. Regardless of how those that do not KNOW HIM would pervert his word.
Now hear the word of Our Lord God:
Genesis 2:24-25 says, “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.”
Hebrew 13:4 says, “Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.”
Romans 1:26-27 “For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.”
1 Corinthians 6:9 “Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind.”
The Greek word from which the King James Bible gets the word “effeminate” is malakos, which literally means something soft to the touch, but is used as a negative metaphor to refer to a boy kept for homosexual relations with a man. The “abusers of themselves with mankind” are those men who engage in unnatural sexual relations with other men – homosexuals.
Now...
I KNOW that I am about to unleash the wrath of the gay community for what The Lord God has said here in His own scripture. I don't make the Bible up, I am just placing it here because His words are beyond contestation, perversion, corruption, revision and so on. To the moderator of this forum, I am doing NOTHING that could be construed as hateful or discriminatory. THEY chose to bring God's word into this...
I am simply posting it up as it appears in The Book Itself. It's not about HATE...it's about people trying to assimilate a faith to save their souls when they practice deviant behaviors that are expressly forbidden by that faith. They KNOW there is something NOT RIGHT. Homosexuality CAN NOT procreate our species, therefore...we would CEASE TO EXIST should it prevail. It really is that simple...whether it's someone's "right" or not.
Sodom (as in sodomy) and Gomorrah. God DESTROYED these places for WHAT offense to His Eyes??? Spare me the scripture twisters...just know God's word for what it is...The One and ONLY Truth.
Regardless of how some would attempty to pervert it in a vain attempt to declare their souls saved when that power is not given unto them....
Just sayin'
BTW: I have JUST as much "right" to speak The Word here as those others who pervert it do. Suppression of my opinion here should not be permitted within the bounds of the 1st Amendment. Thank you.