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jhrobbins Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 02:43 PM
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I stumbled across this 'lovely' rant about the GLBT community...
from a Pentecostal 'adherent'. I cannot believe that this is the position of the Pentecostal church-tell me I am wrong.

http://home.earthlink.net/~thogmi/fag/fag.html
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 02:45 PM
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1. If I were God, I'd be pissed
These people give God a bad name.
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zonmoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-14-07 10:40 PM
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23. assuming that god isn't a bad guy who actually supports
these bastards.
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formerrepuke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 02:47 PM
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2. That's got Westboro Baptist Church written all over it... like somone just
did a copy & paste directly from the WCB's own website... not that I'm willing to go to their site and verify it, though.
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Catherine Vincent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 02:47 PM
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3. I can't read it here while at work but I can imagine what was said.
And yes, the pentecostal church is so far out there, it's ridiculous. I have a niece that switched to that religion and she would tell me all the rules they had. She told me once that she doesn't listen to music by Luther Vandross anymore because his music makes you want to have sex.(well, it does sort of). LOL!
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Mythsaje Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 02:48 PM
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4. Methinks he doth protest too much...n/t
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La Lioness Priyanka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-10-07 12:26 PM
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18. ofcourse every homophobe is gay.
:eyes:
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-14-07 02:59 AM
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20. Actually, I remember seeing a study recently...
only about a quarter of homophobes in said study turned out to be gay. :) They tested this by testing their reactions when they saw gay porn... and about a quarter of men who claimed to be homophobic were turned on by it.
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SteppingRazor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 02:56 PM
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5. Of course it's not the "official" position
some nutcase going off half-cocked on a Web site doesn't make it an "official" church policy, after all.

And it'd be tough to call anything "official" Pentecostal doctrine in any case, since even the oft-incomplete wikipedia lists dozens of Pentecostal sects:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_denominations#Pentecostalism


All that said, Pentecostal churches tend to be quite conservative and evangelical -- speaking in tongues being a common trait of many of the sects, for example -- and so I would hazard a guess that most Pentecostal churches wouldn't exactly be friendly to the gay community.

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donco6 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-14-07 03:01 PM
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22. Gays are "darksided" to Pentacostals.
But you're right in that anyone claiming to have an official position on *anything* in the Pentacostal church is probably a liar. When your doctrine is delivered each week from someone writhing on the floor in a fit of angelic possession, it's hard to be consistent.
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acmavm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 03:03 PM
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6. That person is barely literate. Why does that seem to be a
common trait amongst that type of person?
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TaleWgnDg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 08:37 PM
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15. Ummmm, Karl Rove said . . .
Edited on Tue Jan-09-07 08:49 PM by TaleWgnDg
.
    "As people do better, they start
    voting like Republicans ... unless
    they have too much education and
    vote Democratic, which proves there
    can be too much of a good thing."

To which I add . . . he's correct except for the tag line attempt at "humor."

And then, of course, there's the well known fact that religious entities take hold off, and grab, the uneducated, the illiterate. This uneducated/illiterate religious blindness is the grouping of peoples that George Walker Bush and Karl Rove is using as is the entire rightwing of the Republican Party as well. So there you have it.



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AndyA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 03:04 PM
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7. The site is hosted on Earthlink.
It may not do any good, but I suppose we could complain about the offensive hate language on that page. They might pull the whole site down.
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frankmancini Donating Member (1 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 03:26 PM
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9. censorship
Sure. Then we could censor everything we don't like. I am VERY dedicated to the idea of free speech, especially on the internet. This composition is so poorly written that I couldn't really call it hate speech, and besides, the piece outlines some tenants of the Pentecostal faith. While they might be poor tenants, as long as they don't go around stabbing people they suspect might be gay, they should be able to say it all they goddamn want. Just like I can say that anyone who espouses these beliefs is an ignorant, barely human piece of garbage.
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Kerrytravelers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 03:18 PM
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8. This one also says that women are "unclean" because we have periods.
:eyes: I think that is the Official Belief of the Unity of Fornicating Fools (i.e. Fucking Idiots.)
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BR_Parkway Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 03:31 PM
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10. Most fags are unaware that a loving God not by genetic coding programmed them into the queer lifesty
hmm, this guy knows better than God? Isn't he say God made me queer? And he has the arrogance to think that he knows better for me than God?

Ignorance truly must be bliss -
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Arkansas Granny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 04:27 PM
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11. This person may be a member of the Pentecostal church, but
I don't believe he speaks for the Pentecostal church. Seems to me this is one sick individual who is absolutely obsessed with sex and the desire to keep women subservient. This one has some serious hang ups.
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hashibabba Donating Member (894 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 04:43 PM
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12. Why would anyone even believe this guy or give an ounce of
credence to his sicko comments. He definitely does not represent how all Pentacostals feel. Yes, there are some out there who are that deluded, but there are many who are not that hateful and ungodly.

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VaYallaDawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 04:51 PM
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13. Looks like he missed that part about casting the first stone, too.
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Tyo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 05:49 PM
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14. Man, that was pretty.... impressive.
A lot of time and creativity went into that piece of work. I'd take bets that the guy who came up with it (and I'm almost certain it was a guy) was getting turned on putting it together.
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hyde Donating Member (90 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 10:51 PM
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16. Corporate nuns in sensible shoes
would make a really awesome band name. That's about all that I took away from that ridiculous article. I would never in a million years take that crap seriously. Anyone who would is unhinged.
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moose65 Donating Member (525 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-10-07 08:33 AM
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17. This is my favorite one:
"Girls snare men by wearing tight fitting T-shirts with pictures and sex slogans that acentuate their perky TEATS, and awaken in men the spirit of adultery, and fornication."

So there you have it! It's all your fault girls! Sheesh.

Notice there is no "about me" section on that website. You can email him, though <eg>

What a loser!

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gator_in_Ontario Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 10:09 AM
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19. omg lmao all my lesbian sisters
need to read the dyke section...so we will know how to recognize each other... it's in red...ya can't miss it! I have to go now, and clean the coffee off my keyboard:rofl:
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-14-07 03:00 AM
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21. Does anyone know what Earthlink's policy is on hate speech on their web servers?
Just wondering...
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RedXIII Donating Member (749 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-14-07 11:18 PM
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24. He would make...
Zealots like Tomas De Torquemada proud. ):
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election_2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-16-07 01:48 AM
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25. They spelled "straights" wrong
I stopped reading after running into the mispell "strights"...
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