Le Dance Pathetique…as choreographed by Jerry Buell, Mount Dora High School’s Teacher of the Year…
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Jerry Buell, a long-time Lake County social studies teacher, said during a recent Facebook exchange that he “almost threw up” in response to a news story about legalized same-sex marriage in New York.
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On the same July 25 Facebook post he said same-sex marriages were part of a “cesspool.”
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He went on to call the unions a sin.
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“It wasn’t out of hatred,” he said in an interview with the Orlando Sentinel.
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“It was about the way I interpret things.”
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“I’ve had kids that I’ve known that have been homosexuals,” he said.
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“They know that I don’t hate them. I love them.”
Le Curtian…Applaus a vous…
Merde.
These people are so self-delusional. “I love them,” they say and then continue with all the insults they can dredge up. Yes, we all can feeeeeel that love.
Does the word “love” have a different meaning for these a******s than it does for the rest of us?
Yes it does Bill. Yes it does.
Fundo-Christian Love is merely a performance, and a poor one at that. Their script tells them to love us, so they simply say that they do. Part of the Born Again Lifestyle often seems to involve the rejection of authentic human emotions, and instead, following the script.
He almost threw up? He has a problem, and it isn’t same sex marriages. The problem is in him.
in 1973, Dr. George Weinberg wrote in his book Society and the Healthy Homosexual in a chapter titled Homophobia: “I would never consider a patient healthy unless he had overcome his prejudice against homosexuality.”
The whole book is quite good and explores at some length the bias against gay people. It is one of the first books I read when I was coming out in the Seventies. A gay social worker friend of mine recommended the book to me.
I grew up in a more moderate version of Christianity which I ultimately rejected. I am speaking for myself here, so if any Christians want to chime in, be my guest.
My experience with Christianity is that God’s love is conditional. He only truly loves you if you believe he sacrificed his Son on the cross for your sins and accept him as your Lord and Savior. If you reject this belief then God still “loves” you, but He has “no choice” but to “honor your decision” to spend eternity apart from Him in hell because you chose to spend a few decades living in sin rather than believing in Jesus, going to church, tithing, praying and, apparently, hating homosexuality.
This all-powerful, all-loving God could have created any universe he wished. He chose to create one where, by Christianity’s own admission, the majority of people go to hell when they die for not BELIEVING in something very culturally specific and for which there is no evidence apart from a book that also tells us, contradictory to all rational evidence, that the earth was created in 6 days 6000 years ago. And even if it really did happen, the “sacrifice” of Jesus is no real sacrifice at all, since God pre-ordained it and he rose from the dead in three days anyway. Yet God loves us all, even though he knows most of us will go to hell under the system He created.
Heck, human parents, with all their flaws, love their own children more than this supposedly all loving God does. If I knew my child’s ultimate fate was to burn forever in a fiery pit, would I bring him or her into the world? Of course not, I am not that heartless. But God does that every day, for millions of people. Yet He still “loves us”
So yes, based on my experience, Christianity in general, and fundamentalists even more so, have a very warped definition of love.
Well said, Reese M.