njlauren
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ORIGINAL: njlauren So much for "Christian" compassion, about love the sin and hate the sinner, etc..religious people complain that they are targeted for abuse, are called intolerant and mean and such, but where is the outrage for them at this stupid, stupid family? Evangelicals claim to be spreading the love of God, yet they are routinely like this, judgmental, mean, etc. It is funny, years ago there was a case where some of the morality police were able to pressure a hotel into canceling a leather event called "Beat Me in St. Louis", from a Howard Johnson's hotel there (the event had the whole hotel booked, so no 'vanillas' would be put out). I got involved (turns out the corporate parent of Howard Johnson's hotels literally is in my back yard), and the hotel chain as a result issued rules to their hotels telling them not to ever do what the hotel in St. Louis did, that their basic credo was as long as the groups activities were legal and were willing to be accommodating when concerns about mixing with others in the hotel were concerned i.e being discrete where needed, everyone was welcome.I spoke to someone at the headquarters (literally made an appointment to talk to them) and the woman laughed, said they got feedback from employees at the hotel, who said the leather people were fun to work with, were good tippers and were just great people. Meanwhile, not long before, some evangelical conference was there,and the employees said that they never worked with a nastier group of people, complained about everything, and often refused to tip, claiming that a good job done is reward enough and other BS...... Yes they were assholes. They are obviously bigoted toward gays. They look at the actions of one and apply it to the whole group. And we all know that is wrong. To turn around and try to paint all christians as hateful because of this is just as wrong. Now there were all kinds of things you could have said about the couple who actually did this, but instead you felt to use this to further your hatred towards christians. How are you any better than they are? lauren was quite careful to never bash all Christians. Why are you claiming she did? I guess because I can comprehend english better than you. You didn't comprehend very well, when I wrote my original piece I wrote "Christians", which is generally a way to designate the fact that I don't consider their actions very christians. I didn't bash all Christians, I simply wrote that these people were likely self proclaimed Christians and that they weren't acting like it.......nowhere did I say all Christians were hateful, just that the waitress ran across the type that is. The fact that they bothered to leave a note like that and the wording they used told me it was probably evangelicals, and one local paper claimed to have tracked the family down and they were members of an evangelical church.. And maybe, just maybe, I have seen this kind enough to smell them out by their actions. I belonged to a very liberal church for a while that had a large lgbt population, and there was an interfaith charity drive to try and help poor families out during the holidays, all kinds of churches were involved. The overarching group reached out to several evangelical churches in the area, and the churches asked what other churches were involved, and because of my church, a couple of local UU churches and three or 4 UCC churches were involved, these various churches told the head of the group that they weren't interested in being involved with, "churches promoting the homosexual lifestyle"..and this, mind you, was an effort to help the poor, it had nothing to do with gay rights, it was about helping the poor, which last I checked Jesus kind of thought was a good thing..
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