'They decided that they couldn’t serve food to the homeless with those who thought gays had rights'

[Are_grits_groceries]

K’zoo Churches: we can’t be seen with tolerant Christians
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Take as example a situation that is happening in Kalamazoo, MI. Eight churches had joined together to provide food for the homeless. They would provide food and religious support hoping to gradually draw the homeless back into society.

But then in June the city council of Kalamazoo voted to ban housing and employment discrimination against LGBT people. And some of the churches in Kalamazoo said, “Treat all God’s children with dignity? Yeah, I think we can get behind that.” But when the voters of Kalamazoo passed the non-discrimination ordinance with 62% of the vote, this became too much for some anti-gay ministers.

So they decided that they just couldn’t serve food to the homeless with someone who thought that gay people should not be, well, homeless. And because some of the other Martha’s Table participants supported the ordinance, then they took their ladles and went home.(Mlive)

Martha’s Table, through which eight churches have provided Sunday afternoon worship and meals for the needy at First Congregational Church, is losing three of the churches because of the issue of homosexuality, even though the ecumenical ministry takes no position on it, said the Rev. Matt Laney, pastor of First Congregational.

Agape Christian Church and Word for Life Church of God plan to withdraw from Martha’s Table at the end of the year, and Centerpoint Church (formerly Third Reformed Church) has already done so, Laney said.

For them, it wasn’t about caring for the needy. It was about using the food as a bribe to “bring souls to Christ”. (WWMT)

says that helping the homeless alongside supporters of the ordinance is something the bible just won’t let him do.

“I don’t feel comfortable recommending people that I love and I care about, that I’m trying to lead to Christ, to go to a church that I feel that may lead them astray with their interpretation of the scriptures,” said McNalley.

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http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2009/12/17/18434
That is stupid on every level and makes no theological sense.

Baby Jeebus wouldn't get any food from those idiotic fuckers.

[Cronus Protagonist]

1. SNAFU

If you can't exclude SOME people, how can you be different?

[G_j]

2. Jesus is gonna kick their igorant butts

:mad:

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. There is no Agape in this decision. None at all.

[Are_grits_groceries]

4. That was confusing.

They apparently don't have a clue what Agape is.

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. Apparently not.

[mrcheerful]

6. This is exactly why welfare can't be trusted to the non profit religious net works

out there and why government took over the welfare of its citizens, unlike the government, religions decide who is worthy of their support and who isn't. I went to a food bank once that demanded that you pray with them before they gave you a bag of food, needless to say I walked out of the place without the food. They really need to read about the good Samaritan and see that they are exactly who Christ was talking about in that story.

[msongs]

7. hey it's DADT in another form nt

[Berry Cool]

8. They really need to read their Bibles.

Malachi 1:6
"A son honors his father, and a servant his master. Then if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is My respect?" says the LORD of hosts to you, O priests who despise My name. But you say, "How have we despised Your name?"

Matthew 7:21
Not everyone who says to Me, "Lord, Lord," will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.

Luke 6:46
Why do you call me, "Lord, Lord," and do not do what I say?