Many mainstream faiths believe that people are made in The Creator’s image, and we are all very much loved. If God our parent is capable of consternation, though, surely the bigotry and violence humans inflict on each other must make freewill seem like a questionable gift.
In the face of some of the worst kind of bigotry and violence, faith has brought Tucson’s LGBTQ community and its Multi-Faith Pride Service to their fifth year. The fifth anniversary event, Sacred Presence, kicks off PRIDE Week with a service from 3 to 4 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 6, at the Scottish Rite Temple, 160 S. Scott Ave.
LGBTQ-community members, their friends and allies will experience interconnected stories from different faith traditions set to rituals, music and words. A reception follows. There is no charge; parking is free and the space is fully accessible. All are welcome.
There also will be information about Signs for Change, a mural art and sign project for marriage equality. Visit signsforchange.org for more information.
This article appears in Oct 3-9, 2013.
SICK, PERVERTED, TWISTED, CONTORTED, …..
this is a PERFECT EXAMPLE of how twisted perverts take scripture and skew it and everything for their own selfish selfism!
I challenge anyone to test their sick beliefs in a serious way through asking
the GOD of THE BIBLE to bring judgement strongly and swiftly against the “wrong doer”
and lets RECORD THE HAPPENINGS OVER SOME WEEKS AND MONTHS,,,,,,,
the God i KNOW will bring it to the front…….LETS TRY THE TRUTH OF A TRUE GOD!
Bert, please, let me know if you enjoy shrimp once in awhile, or a good tasty cheese hamburger. The truth of G-d is that we can choose to treat each other with kindness and respect, but we are imperfect humans who often chose prejudice and bigotry. Let me know when the next child stoning is scheduled. I have a 12-year-old who sometimes doesn’t always listen to me.
I is a sin to treat homosexuals with anything short of compassion and love. In Paul’s writings to the Church in Rome he confirms God’s disdain for observed homosexual actions-in those days frequently in public, but read on as he doesn’t let anyone else off the hook for their actions and behavior, either. It is rude however, for homosexuals once invited into a house or community to react by taking the place over. I don’t have a problem with homosexuals. God doesn’t make mistakes. We do.
Do not be alarmed, Bert has issues. God loves us all and does not care about our sexuality.
And God will forgive Bert as he/she forgives us all.
Bert, you might want to specify which True God you’re referring to. Depending on which leather-bound book you subscribe to, there are a lot of omnipotent beings you could be ascribing your particular societal discomforts to.
@David: Well, not to mention all the translations, versions, etc. Personally I’m a fan of both King James’ and the *The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version*, now in paperback. Can’t guess which Bert refers to.
don’t even go there….you are messing with the KING OF KINGS LORD OF LORDS
Amen @Bert! Yahweh The God of the Bible (The God Bert is referring to) says that Homosexuals are an ABOMINATION!!!
Leviticus 20:13
If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
Folks, the Leviticus argument is old and boring and meaningless. Move along.
anyway, that Leviticus thing is more about promiscuity than sexuality.
If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
45-7:17. Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
45-7:18. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
45-7:19. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
45-7:20. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
45-7:21. I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
45-7:22. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
45-7:23. But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
45-7:24. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
45-7:25. I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
So where is their room for gay pride ? There is no pride in sin to them that believe, just shame.
Endurance: You mean Triple H? Because he’s been such a dick lately.
For all the Bible-believers who keep standing on Leviticus to make their argument, I heard a wise man explain it this way: Jesus came to remake as well as renew God’s covenant with man, hence the New vs. Old Testaments. In other words, one replaced the other, and nowhere in the words of Jesus is homosexuality threatened with death or even mentioned.
This will, no doubt, be condemned as heretical or blasphemous by those who read without understanding, but perhaps time will teach them the meaning of their professed Savior’s words.
Religion is the opiate of the masses. – Karl Marx
God is a concept by which we measure our pain. – John Lennon
If there ever was a Person named Jesus, and if he were an all loving being as you Christians are so fond of saying, and if he came to Arizona today,
He would, no doubt be re-crucified for being too damned LIBERAL.
Can’t have any of that “Feeding the hungry” or “Healing the sick” SOCIALISM.
Let the hungry starve and let the sick die-That’s the Arizona way.
Robert Reach said “Let the hungry starve and let the sick die-That’s the Arizona way.”
Arizona way? That’s the AMERICAN way, at least according to the tea party lemmings and their supporters.
We should all follow every law in Leviticus:
Don’t let cattle graze with other kinds of Cattle (Leviticus 19:19)
Don’t have a variety of crops on the same field. (Leviticus 19:19)
Don’t wear clothes made of more than one fabric (Leviticus 19:19)
Don’t cut your hair nor shave. (Leviticus 19:27)
If a man has sex with a woman on her period, they are both to be “cut off from their people” (Leviticus 20:18)
People who have flat noses, or is blind or lame, cannot go to an altar of God (Leviticus 21:17-18)
I mean cause no Christian would ever dare to shave or go to church with a flat nose, since they follow the bible so closely.