{"id":1764,"date":"2005-08-11T12:33:47","date_gmt":"2005-08-11T16:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cgm13.net\/wordpress\/?p=1764"},"modified":"2005-08-11T12:33:47","modified_gmt":"2005-08-11T16:33:47","slug":"damn-those-homos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?p=1764","title":{"rendered":"Damn Those Homos!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/05300.gif\" alt=\"Hearts on Fire\" \/><br \/>\nWith the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rmnetwork.org\/convo\/\" target=\"blank\"><strong>&#8220;Hearts on Fire&#8221; Conference<\/strong><\/a> at the Methodist run Lake Junaluska Assembly fast approaching, the local newpaper is quickly becoming a forum for those who want to spout intolerance and hatred. This shit drives me crazy. God forbid that &#8220;Christians&#8221; love thy neighbor.<\/p>\n<p>My not-so-intelligent retort that I sent to the local paper:<\/p>\n<p><em>To the Editor:<br \/>\nWith the furor over the &#8220;Hearts on Fire&#8221; conference going on, it would be interesting to know how many of the &#8220;Christians&#8221; that use Leviticus 20:13 as their justification to decry homosexuality actually follow all the entire Levitical Codes themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly those codes, these Christians would:<br \/>\n&#8211; Never eat shrimp, pork, or any number of other animals deemed unclean (Leviticus 11)<br \/>\n&#8211; Never steal (Leviticus 19:11)<br \/>\n&#8211; Never work one day and get paid on another (Leviticus 19:13)<br \/>\n&#8211; Never plant two kinds of seed in the same field (Leviticus 19:19)<br \/>\n&#8211; Never wear clothes made with two kinds of cloth (Leviticus 19:19)<br \/>\n&#8211; Never eat meat cooked rare to medium-well (Leviticus 19:26)<br \/>\n&#8211; Never shave your sideburns or trim your beard (Leviticus 19:27)<br \/>\n&#8211; Never get a tattoo (Leviticus 19:28)<br \/>\n&#8211; Always worship and never work on Saturday (Leviticus 19:30)<br \/>\n&#8211; Always stand when someone older than you enters a room (Leviticus 19:32)<\/p>\n<p>Also these Christians would be killing anyone who:<br \/>\n&#8211; Swears at his father or mother (Leviticus 20:9)<br \/>\n&#8211; Commits adultery (Leviticus 20:10).<br \/>\n&#8211; Uses God&#8217;s name in vain (Leviticus 24:16)<br \/>\n&#8211; Kills another person (Leviticus 24:17)<br \/>\n&#8211; Works, travels far, or prepares a meal on a Saturday (Numbers 15)<\/p>\n<p>It seems to me that those members of the Christian religion would be better served with the &#8220;love thy neighbor&#8221; teachings instead of using The Bible as a way to spread intolerance and hatred in the name of God.<\/p>\n<p>Charles Mills<br \/>\nWaynesville, NC<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the &#8220;Hearts on Fire&#8221; Conference at the Methodist run Lake Junaluska Assembly fast approaching, the local newpaper is quickly becoming a forum for those who want to spout intolerance and hatred. This shit drives me crazy. God forbid that &#8220;Christians&#8221; love thy neighbor. My not-so-intelligent retort that I sent to the local paper: To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EnCu-ss","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}