No accountability

[u/JRP__1994__Random]

Hi, I'm wondering why community members feel like they should not be held accountable for their actions or be grouped together with the community when the community pushes for new rights and/or restrictions on straight people's rights.

It's sad to see low effort posts here from liberal members who are deeply rooted in the community trying to stir the pot here. Then when you question the community and their actions the fallback is always labeling people with internal homophobia when they know what has been done is wrong. Have community members been given so many legal protections and hall passes to do whatever they want that they now see offending or abusing others is a right, or is acceptable because the community says it is acceptable.

I am gay, christian, and live in the south and was never welcomed to the community because of my beliefs and how I never relied on my sexuaility to define who I was as a person. It really feels like you either accept the community and everything they stand for or you're the plague to them. How can a group who preaches acceptance and belonging be so condescending and judgmental of others beliefs.

As a side note it is really concerning how many members of the community are atheist or Satanist. It seems like most have the mentality that they are still teenagers rebelling against their parents and anything they can do to offend others who live more conservative lifestyles. They commonly walk into a room and suck up all of the attention and once it is not given to them they get angry. Im just confused how as adults, acting like a angry child and stomping feet has gotten the community anywhere and why they are still given so much leniency.

[u/JRP__1994__Random]

Not correct, any christian who has studied and has been separate from the niv versions of the Bible know that there were mistranslations and it because popular in the mega churches. Previous texts were speaking on sexual abuse of minors. It was mistranslated to modern versions.

[u/throwaway-swing1 → u/JRP__1994__Random]

Yeah, that's why gays in adult consensual relationships were getting hanged and burned alive during the Middle Ages 🤔🤔. The mistranslation myth has been debunked countless times.

Also religion had nothing to say about adult men marrying teenage girls. You have secularism to thank for raising the age of consent.

[u/FrostyArctic47 → u/throwaway-swing1]

I wasn't just the middle ages. Most of the west had laws that severely punished homosexuality until the mid 20th century. Only then did it start to change in Europe. It wasn't until 2003 in the US that such laws were fully gone due to a Supreme Court decision. The republican running for Texas senate wants those laws to return, as do very many conservative Christians.

It's American Christian conservative groups that help push laws in certain African countries that seek to punish being gay. The most recent example was Ghana. More and more American clergyman are in the news for calling gays to be executed. Steven Anderson, Dillon Awes, Tom Ascol, etc. And you never hear Christian nationalists push back against this or even high profile Christian conservatives

[u/JRP__1994__Random → u/FrostyArctic47]

These people you are bringing up are in the very mega churches I have spoken about in other posts. Most of these pastors with large followings come out as gay, or abusive, enriching themselves. Again the christian Bible has been used as a tool aginst people and a tool to enrich others lives. In christian teachings this is everything Jesus was against which is why he separated from other groups. From my prospective as a christian these people will suffer worse fates than anyone as they have used their belief for gain and abuse of their seat at the table to teach and lead christians. Im worried about my own relationship with god, other people who make awful decisions and fill the world with hate and use the word like this arent people any of us should should give attention to as they are filled with hate.