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dsc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-10 05:06 PM
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Yet another radical cleric speaks out
Where, oh where are the moderate Christians when the American Taliban runs riot.

http://minnesotaindependent.com/71696/minnesota-family-council-pushes-back-in-anoka-hennepin-anti-gay-bullying-controversy

The Minnesota Family Council (MFC) is pushing back against efforts to improve the climate for LGBT students in the Anoka-Hennepin School District, where community members are mourning suicides by four LGBT students in the last year. The real issue is “homosexual indoctrination,” not anti-gay bullying, says MFC’s Tom Prichard, who says the students are dead because they adopted an “unhealthy lifestyle.” MFC’s campaign against anti-bullying education comes as national religious right groups mount a similar campaign in the aftermath of nearly half a dozen suicides by LGBT students around the country in the last month.


Prichard asserts that the suicide death of 15-year-old Justin Aaberg was not due to anti-LGBT bullying. Aaberg took his life in July, and his mother and friends say anti-LGBT bullying played a factor Prichard claims that “homosexual activists” are “manipulating” his death to get homosexual indoctrination programs into the school district.

“Whatever the exact reason for Justin’s suicide it’s an enormous tragedy that shouldn’t be manipulated for ideological purposes which is what’s being done now,” he wrote on Thursday. “I’ll of course be accused of being unloving, hateful, etc. But is the loving thing to encourage and promote unhealthy and harmful behaviors and practices?”

He continued:

I would agree that youth who embrace homosexuality are at greater risk, because they’ve embraced an unhealthy sexual identity and lifestyle. These alternative sexual identifications or lifestyles deny the reality that we are created male and female. To live or try to live in conflict with how we are made will invariably cause problems, e.g. emotional, psychological and social. Notwithstanding gay activist assertions to the contrary, people aren’t gay, lesbian, transgender, etc. by God’s design or nature. We are male and female with sexual expression designed for a lifelong union between a man and a woman. Denying or fighting against this reality is the reason alternative forms of sexual expression, whether homosexual or heterosexual, will put people at greater risk. To assert otherwise is to deny reality and involves “kicking against the goad” to use a biblical analogy.

Prichard echoed a similar sentiment in the Star Tribune.

“I don’t think parents want their kids indoctrinated in homosexuality,” he said, adding that Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs), often the only safe space for LGBT students on campus, should be removed from schools. “It’s sad and harmful for kids to celebrate homosexuality when in fact it’s not a healthy lifestyle,” he said.

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Moderate Christians owe it to society to go after these radical clerics who hate what America stands for. The American Taliban are just as much terrorists as the ones from the Middle East. Just how many dead gays do we need before we admit that?
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-10 05:14 PM
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1. Mainstream Christians have dropped the ball for 120 years
against the Dispensationalists and other obvious heretics. I don't see them bothering to take them on now, preferring to groove on a false Christian solidarity with these goofballs than saving the lives of their youth.

This isn't my battle. It's theirs.
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TexasObserver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-10 05:17 PM
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2. recommend
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EC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-10 05:19 PM
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3. Yet they don't think
that they are the ones creating the unhealthy climate? Being gay isn't an unhealthy sexual preferance or lifestyle in and of itself...
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Ruby the Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-10 05:38 PM
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4. It is people like this that make the "identity" and "lifestyle" unhealthy!
Emotionally and otherwise.

One has to wonder how many times Mr. Pritchard and those in his organization have been married. How many step-kids do they count among them...

I'm not GLBTQ, but if this issue is getting under MY skin this much, I can only imagine how my GLBTQ brothers and sisters are feeling.

:grr:

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hootinholler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-10 09:22 PM
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5. "not a healthy lifestyle"
Um, Richard Simmons?

I rest my case.

Oh, BTW I call them the Talibornagain, you can to if you like.

-Hoot
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