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July 10th, 2012
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Episcopal Church approves same-sex blessing serviceBy Michael Pearson, CNN (CNN) - Episcopal priests will be allowed to conduct services blessing same-sex relationships under a policy approved Tuesday at the church's national convention in Indianapolis. The convention's House of Bishops approved the provisional policy 111-41 with three abstentions Monday, clearing it for consideration by the House of Deputies, which approved it Tuesday evening. The policy was approved in the House of Deputies, following more than an hour of debate, by 78% of the voting lay members and by 76% of clergy. With the vote, the Episcopal Church will become the largest U.S. denomination to officially sanction same-sex relationships. The Episcopal Church has about 1.95 million members in the United States, down 16% over the last decade, according to the church. The service is not considered a marriage ceremony, media affairs representative Nancy Davidge said. FULL STORY
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As Christian clergy we proclaim the Good News concerning Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) persons and publicly apologize where we have been silent. As disciples of Jesus, who assures us that the truth sets us free, we recognize that the debate is over. The verdict is in. Homosexuality is not a sickness, not a choice, and not a sin. We find no rational biblical or theological basis to condemn or deny the rights of any person based on sexual orientation. Silence by many has allowed political and religious rhetoric to monopolize public perception, creating the impression that there is only one Christian perspective on this issue. Yet we recognize and celebrate that we are far from alone, as Christians, in affirming that LGBT persons are distinctive, holy, and precious gifts to all who struggle to become the family of God.
In repentance and obedience to the Holy Spirit, we stand in solidarity as those who are committed to work and pray for full acceptance and inclusion of LGBT persons in our churches and in our world. We lament that LGBT persons are condemned and excluded by individuals and institutions, political and religious, who claim to be speaking the truth of Christian teaching. This leads directly and indirectly to intolerance, discrimination, suffering, and even death. The Holy Spirit compels us:
-to affirm that the essence of Christian life is not focused on sexual orientation, but how one lives by grace in relationship with God, with compassion toward humanity;
–to embrace the full inclusion of our LGBT brothers and sisters in all areas of church life, including leadership;
–to declare that the violence must stop. Christ’s love moves us to work for the healing of wounded souls who are victims of abuse often propagated in the name of Christ;
–to celebrate the prophetic witness of all people who have refused to let the voice of intolerance and violence speak for Christianity, especially LGBT persons, who have met hatred with love;
Therefore we call for an end to all religious and civil discrimination against any person based on sexual orientation and gender identity and expression. All laws must include and protect the freedoms, rights, and equal legal standing of all persons, in and outside the church.
Rainer, I'm a Christian that hasn't attended church since my teens. I promised my dad that if I didn't attend church service that I would read the Bible on my own. For which I did and still do.
Jesus warned us about the wolves in sheep's clothing. All this phonies will be up front and center on judgment day for leading God's sheep astray. As for an atheist posting this nonsense ... LOL. You're all a bunch of liars.
You do realize that not going to church is a sin, on the exact same level as ho mos xua lity.
Prove I'm a liar HeavenSent. You want to make that claim, you'd better be able to back that up.
– to welcome LGBTs to the flock, because attendance is waning and we need 'mo money...
@HeavenSent
Which denomination do you belong to?
Sorry that I called you a Catholic. I hope you are no anabaptist.
Yeah, hope not, 'cause that right there would be a deal-breaker!
HeavenSent might as well be a robot, as all he/she does is copy and paste
I'm an Analbaptist
Amen
Catholics are filthy and do the work of the Devil. You offended me Rainer.
Still obsessed with me Tommie Tom? All the rest are Tommies dummy handles (LOL).
As for Rainer, I'm a Christian. I haven't attended a formal church service since my teens. I promised my dad that if I got to drop out attending church I would read the Bible. I do so to this day.
No. I posted the first message in response to Rainer. I don't know who the fake HS is, but he/she has you pegged.
"I haven't attended a formal church service since my teens" – that's because she's too big to get out of her trailer. *snicker*
sorry ... I couldn't help myself...
If heaven is full of stupid, thoughtless, cruel people like Sue, I don't see why I'd even want to go there
Atheist call truth cruel. But the trash they spew is KIND???
I'm not an atheist so I really couldn't say
@Sue
You have to show that your bile is true first. Even if it were (for the sake of argument), the god you profess is still a cruel, vain, egotistical asshat anyway.
Sue.....and you have the temerity to claim that you know the Truth
Sue will not be in heaven. Unless she is a hot stri pper who will shut the -- up when she gets there.
Everyone knows heaven is full of hot mute stri ppers and single malt scotch.
Yay jesus!
I am glad you Atheists are going to hell to suffer. You deserve it.
Good Sue...threaten atheists with a place that doesn't exist. OOOOOH I'm Shaking now.....
I call a fake Sue on that one. To specific on the point, even though that's probably what she thinks.
I know you're glad. You're a bible-banger. Fundies like you relish the idea that someone is going to suffer. It must be because you resent what you think God wants you to do and you want to make sure no one else gets away with anything you don't approve of. If you couldn't count on seeing people suffer in the afterlife it would mean all your sanctimony on earth was a waste.
I think most bibletards hate atheists because we generally have a better lot in life than they do. Statistically, we are better educated, have higher income, enjoy higher standard of living, have lower divorce rates, lower incarceration rates, our children have lower teen pregnancy rates, we have lower obesity rates, and are far less likely to be a victim of a crime.
I guess when your real life sucks, it makes a lot of sense to live for the promise of a good one after this one is over.
Sue: Spend a lot of time on your knees, do you? Got to make you really popular at the trailer park. Jeebus told me that you got a real purty mouth
Sue, you can't take any of these atheists seriously. Remember, don't throw God's pearls to swines ... and now you see what they do with it..
Good posts Sue.
Amen.
Dan, there is no atheists in Heaven. Haven't you heard?
Sue, most of these posts are the same person, pretending to be multiple atheists. It's that Cybil complex (LOL).
HeavenSent...
"don't throw God's pearls to swines"
Keep your man-made, cultured pearls. Real ones are much more valuable.
Jesus fisted cows.
you comment shows your level of maturity. SAD!
SAue: And yours show your level of arrogance
Dearly beloved, touch not yourselves, but [rather] give your body to another: for it is written, oragasim is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
Romans 12:19
Tommie's not over her wrath yet. Maybe she should just get out her broom ... and fly.
Diaper/Jesus time. Talk to me God...give my my dialy dose as I sit up here on my cross judging others in your name.
Amen
Sue, atheists call Christians who have knowledge in Jesus' truth arrogant. They will beat you down anyway they can ... especially hijacking your handle to cause confusion. They are all fools who refuse to learn wisdom.
God is in me which makes me stonger and wiser than Atheists. My words or truth and fact. I judge others through the power of God.
Amen
Hey Tommie Tom. Why not pretend to cut yourself down as you did yesterday using multiple handles. Too funny. Too simple.
Phony heavensent. Christians discern who abides and doesn't abide in Jesus' truth. Jesus does the judging ... just wait and see.
Fake HS, are you trolling me, too?
"Abomination 2000 years ago, abomination today!"
Some argue that since homosexual behavior is "unnatural" it is contrary to the order of creation. Behind this pronouncement are stereotypical definitions of masculinity and femininity that reflect rigid gender categories of patriarchal society. There is nothing unnatural about any shared love, even between two of the same gender, if that experience calls both partners to a fuller state of being. Contemporary research is uncovering new facts that are producing a rising conviction that homosexuality, far from being a sickness, sin, perversion or unnatural act, is a healthy, natural and affirming form of human sexuality for some people. Findings indicate that homosexuality is a given fact in the nature of a significant portion of people, and that it is unchangeable.
Our prejudice rejects people or things outside our understanding. But the God of creation speaks and declares, "I have looked out on everything I have made and `behold it (is) very good'." . The word (Genesis 1:31) of God in Christ says that we are loved, valued, redeemed, and counted as precious no matter how we might be valued by a prejudiced world.
There are few biblical references to homosexuality. The first, the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, is often quoted to prove that the Bible condemns homosexuality. But the real sin of Sodom was the unwillingness of the city's men to observe the laws of hospitality. The intention was to insult the stranger by forcing him to take the female role in the sex act. The biblical narrative approves Lot's offer of his virgin daughters to satisfy the sexual demands of the mob. How many would say, "This is the word of the Lord"? When the Bible is quoted literally, it might be well for the one quoting to read the text in its entirety.
Leviticus, in the Hebrew Scriptures, condemns homosexual behaviour, at least for males. Yet, "abomination", the word Leviticus uses to describe homosexuality, is the same word used to describe a menstruating woman. Paul is the most quoted source in the battle to condemn homosexuality ( 1 Corinthians 6: 9-11 and Romans 1: 26-27). But homosexual activity was regarded by Paul as a punishment visited upon idolaters by God because of their unfaithfulness. Homosexuality was not the sin but the punishment.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11, Paul gave a list of those who would not inherit the Kingdom of God. That list included the immoral, idolaters, adulterers, sexual perverts, thieves, the greedy, drunkards, revilers, and robbers. Sexual perverts is a translation of two words; it is possible that the juxtaposition of malakos, the soft, effeminate word, with arsenokoitus, or male prostitute, was meant to refer to the passive and active males in a homosexual liaison.
Thus, it appears that Paul would not approve of homosexual behavior. But was Paul's opinion about homosexuality accurate, or was it limited by the lack of scientific knowledge in his day and infected by prejudice born of ignorance? An examination of some of Paul's other assumptions and conclusions will help answer this question. Who today would share Paul's anti-Semitic attitude, his belief that the authority of the state was not to be challenged, or that all women ought to be veiled? In these attitudes Paul's thinking has been challenged and transcended even by the church! Is Paul's commentary on homosexuality more absolute than some of his other antiquated, culturally conditioned ideas?
Three other references in the New Testament (in Timothy, Jude and 2 Peter) appear to be limited to condemnation of male sex slaves in the first instance, and to showing examples (Sodom and Gomorrah) of God's destruction of unbelievers and heretics (in Jude and 2 Peter respectively).
That is all that Scripture has to say about homosexuality. Even if one is a biblical literalist, these references do not build an ironclad case for condemnation. If one is not a biblical literalist there is no case at all, nothing but prejudice born of ignorance, that attacks people whose only crime is to be born with an unchangeable sexual predisposition toward those of their own sex
You used logic and reason. Not gonna work with believers like @Sue. She knows the mind of god, after all. Who needs a bible when we've got @Sue.
I know the bible! 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.
REASON THAT AWAY!!!
Susie, did you read what John wrote?
"I know the bible! 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.
REASON THAT AWAY!!!"
LMAO – Christians don't follow Leviticus anymore, it's part of the Holiness Code, a ritual manual for Israel's priests. Duh!
Sue
I know the bible! If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have not committed an abomination; they shall surely not be put to death; their blood is not upon them.
REASON THAT AWAY!!!
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You don't make sense???????
You Atheists are sick. I used ot lay with animals while being filmed until I found the Lord and the errors of my ways. I pray you find the Lord so you don't lay with animals.
That awkward moment when you were tricked by a troll.
@HeavenSent
Why don't you open your own blog? It is extremly easy with "wordpress". When ever you are logged in on your admin-site of wordpress, you get automatically logged in CNN as soon as you open the CNN website, and your name would get displayed in "blue", and would be a link on your website. So nobody could stalk you.
And Jesus answering said unto him, Seest thou these great erections? there shall not be left one limp upon another, that shall not be gone down on.
Mark 13:2
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Amen.
Laugh while you can....your laughter will soon turn into remorse and repentance....maybe too late. Mock and mock some more. Live it up, with your slick childish blasphemy. You will be reminded of it soon.
"Just you wait till your father comes home, young man!"
Sue – do you enjoy telling people how they will suffer? You seem to get some sick feelings of schadenfreude out of other's eventual suffering.
Sue, Christians like you are some of the worst people in the world. You aren't loving or compassionate, you just want your ego inflated
Yes very soon...and the beat goes on. I suspect some fool will be shouting on the corner in 1000 years...SOON!!! Your God is a false and copied God from a religion thousands of years prior to the origin of yours.
Sue, when was the last time you got la*d?
I ask this because you really sound uptight
@Sue
But blasphemy is just so much fun! Especially when it's against something that doesn't exist.
Sue swallows goober juice
Sue: Your empty proxy threats are laughable. Now, get back on your knees and get ready for the coming of jesus
Fuck you Sue! You self-righteous cunt! god is gay
Amen
So Dan, Eric and Stephen don't even need to write articles any more to generate the usual, tedious post-apallooza.
They just link to an article posted somewhere else on CNN with its own comment thread and create a separate comment thread here?
Perhaps someone's on vacation.
God already wrote the book and said what he had to say on the matter and he does not change. Abomination 2000 years ago, abomination today!
R3t...ard.....god did not write anything in that book.... a bunch of men did, to control people. Then more men felt the need to edit the book to fit their changing agenda, power and money.
....and before you go there, no, the authors of the bible were not inspired by god, they only said they were.
you hope....you eternity rides on your lies
"you hope"
It's not hope dufus, it's fact.
Ever hear of King James?
Which version of the bible is the true word of god?
sue: it is only a lie if you know it to be wrong. so, accusing them of lying is sort of like bearing false witness, no?
the bible is the truth, anything contrary is a lie! FACT!
That is what you believe. Not a fact.
Sue
proclaiming the bible to be truth...fact.is arrogant and ignorant. You clearly cannot seperate belief from fact. Your own religion relies on faith, if you need faith, there must be doubt, if there is doubt it is not fact.
I've run rings around you logically
Tom and Who invited me?.....your logic is the making of fools.....A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion....main reason I have faith is so as not to be foolish like an atheist
sue: you sure have a funny way of confusing an opinion with fact
So you're a fool? You're expressing your opinion. It's not based on any facts, even though you say it is.
"the bible is the truth, anything contrary is a lie! FACT!"
Again, because obviously you are too dumb to understand complicated concepts, which bible is gods truth. There are several. You have not yet pointed out which one of the multiple versions of gods truth is actually the real gods truth.
Sue
You clearly have not understood the writing in that bible of yours. You do not understand what your Christ teaches within its pages, but you do sound like the typical, holier than thou, hypocritical christian I have come to see the bible produce.
Judge not lest you be judged.
If Christ were real, you would likely be making him cry....
"the bible is the truth"
The stories found in the Book of Genesis, Chapter 1-12, such as the flood story, the record is quite different: the time period under consideration is much more ancient. The factual bases of the stories are hidden from our view archaeologically. The stories remain a part of folk traditions and were included in the Bible to illustrate and explain theological ideas such as: Where did humans come from? If humans were created by God (who is perfect and good), how did evil among them come to be? If we are all related as children of God, why do we speak different languages? It must be remembered that the Bible is primarily a book of religion, a guide to faith. it was not a book of history, poetry, economics, or science. It contains all sorts of literary genre, which are used to teach about the relationship between God and mankind. Even biblical history is edited history: events were chosen to illustrate the central theme of the Bible. The Biblical writers did not pretend they were giving a complete history; instead they constantly refer us to other sources for full historical details, sources such as "The Annals of the Kings of Judah" (or Israel).
It is therefore not possible to try to "prove" the Bible by means of checking its historical or scientific accuracy. The only "proof" to which it can be subjected is this: Does it correctly portray the God-human relationship? In the best analysis, the Bible is a religious book, not an historical document.
"I've run rings around you logically"
But what if the rings aren't round? then they couldn't go around me. And what if logic was just a word that meant whatever I say the bible says is true makes it instantly true? I think words should just mean whatever I want them to mean...
So, Sue, which bible is "god's word"?
@Smithsonian
"The only "proof" to which it can be subjected is this: Does it correctly portray the God-human relationship?"
The only way you can actually tackle that question is by establishing that the god it portrays even exists. Without that, the entire argument is built on a flawed premise.
It is odd that, if an all-knowing, all-powerful god exists and is opposed to gay marriage, he can't even win an election in his own church.
I am not againt gay marriage ....but I condemn Churches who would bless it...It is the states power to enforce marriages but the Church can only bless it in the name of the Lord...andy christian or church who does should be condemned and ex communicated.....this is the only biblical position whic hall Christians should have already adopted... but the serpents in control of so much of so called Christian thinking today have already inflamed the issue beyond reasonable understanding...
This post right here is the only proper way to deal with the isssue that should make all parties happy ... 🙂
too bad so many Christians do not observe the second great commandment ... ie do unto other as you would have them do unto you.....the reason probably is because they "DO NOT "not Love The Lord their God above all things with ALL THEIR HEARTS .... 🙁 🙁 🙁
When I read crap like this, I can only hope it's written by a troll.
Disgusting and perverted people are going to burn, burn, burn, burn
I hope they smoking kush kush kush kush, and im straight as an arrow
disco inferno...
Not to mention Jesus sucking bigots
Dear HeavenSent, you should not wish that they burn, but that they realize God's Grace in Jesus Christ, and get released by the power of Jesus' death and resurrection.
How about becoming a Protestant?
Catholicism is more than backward.
Get lost Tommie Tom with your wrath of hijacking my handle.
Any belief system that is tied to tradition is backward.
Rainer Braendlein, I'm not a Catholic, I am a Christian ... and I didn't write that post. That's Tom, Tom with her wrath blinding her ... She constantly stalks me on this site.
Rainer also note that Catholics will burn, burn, burn, burn
Amen
@Heaven Sent,
so the church of St. Peter is no longer Christian?
"How about becoming a Protestant?
Catholicism is more than backward"
Laughing hysterically.
*laughing*
Gayness is a certain indicator for disbelief concerning the Christian faith.
Why?
Someone who trusts God will wait until the day, when God gives him a wife. There may be some struggle with the own body, which has inherited the greedy nature of the degenerated Adam, but if someone remembers the power of Christ's death and resurrection, he can overcome his sinful body.
Gayness is merely the madness of people, which have totally abandoned the trust in the loving God.
Dear gay, God delivered his precious Son for your sins. Ain't that a obvious sign of his love, and when he loves you, he will give you a wife in due course.
Why did men take away gods wife.....If you look at history, The jews worshipped not only god, but his wife....they don't anymore...why did men take away gods wife....is He gay?
Gayness?
Seriously?
In the immortal words of Mr. B. Bunny, "Whatta Maroon".
Ahahhhahhhahhaaaa! I'm sure "the gay" are all thrilled.
good idea, rainy....have them wait for the eventuality of someone they are not physically attracted to coming into their lives so that they can comply with the edited, translated hearsay from iron age sheep mounters
You need kush
Bama.....mmmmmm.....pur-ple kush......
Any color it's all good God made bible says so
So, am I the only one here who thinks Rainy is a Teutonic closet queen?
Sorry God made it bible says so
bama....it is either that or white widow
Haha. He'd have been great in "The Producers"!
"Gayness is merely the madness of people, which have totally abandoned the trust in the loving God."
Or, they have abandoned your petty, vituperative god
Rainer, Gay folks pay attention to the ways of the world, forgetting to learn Jesus' truth. The folks of this world encourage them to be gay, not caring what happens to their souls. Christians care about their souls, that's why we post the truth ... hence, why my handle gets hijacked all the time for atheists to post their nonsense using my handle ... to cause chaos. Works all the time, confuse folks and they don't know what is up and what is down.
"hence, why my handle gets hijacked all the time"
Your handle gets jacked all the time because you are a dipzhit.
And because it's fun.
Amen.
Rainer said, "Dear gay, God delivered his precious erection for your sins. Ain't that a obvious sign of his erection, and when he loves you, he will give you an erection in due course"
Interesting prayer Rainer
"Gayness is merely the madness of people,"
You are so full of crap. Heterosexual behavior and homosexual behavior are normal aspects of human sexuality. Despite the persistence of stereotypes that portray lesbian, gay, and bisexual people as disturbed, several decades of research and clinical experience have led all mainstream medical and mental health organizations in this country to conclude that these orientations represent normal forms of human experience. The American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Counseling Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, the American School Counselor Association, the National Association of School Psychologists, and the National Association of SocialWorkers, together representing more than 480,000 mental health professionals, have all taken the position that homosexuality is not a mental disorder and thus is not something that needs to or can be “cured."
Phony heavensent, laugh now because like fat on the spit, you'll be blotted out if you don't repent, ask Jesus for forgiveness, then sin no more. As for believing it fun to be a liar and a thief, you really need to get a life.
YeahRight, those organizations are lying to you for a reason. When you figure out the reason, then, you'll know why they are pretending there is a "gay" gene.
And of course, HS, you're just here as a public service, to provide accurate information so gays won't go to hell, right?
If that's the case, you should tell everyone just what organization is promulgating this "falsehood" and why.
Don't forget to tell us when and where any of those groups claimed there was a 'gay gene', HS. Thanks in advance.
Tom, Tom...
there are gay jeans...They're the ones with the rear pockets cut out so you can see tushy....
Well, yeah, but I'm pretty sure no one is born with those.
@HeavenSent
So do you think that left handed people choose to be left handed? There is no known "left hand gene", so it must be a choice right?
"As for believing it fun to be a liar and a thief, you really need to get a life"
I have not stolen anything and I have not lied. Using the name on this message board HeavenSent isn't theft you dolt. You don't own it.
Also, I have not lied. You actually are a self righteous arrogant bible quote spewing jack wipe.
Remember, your book says that judgmental people who claim to speak for god are going to hell too.
I hope you like warm beer.
Oh, and it actually is fun getting you all riled up by jacking your silly moniker.
HS, you claimed the organizations Yeah Right listed are lying. Why would they?
Reality
• The moderators of this blog have set up a secret forbidden word filter which unfortunately not only will delete or put your comment in the dreaded "waiting for moderation" category but also will do the same to words having fragments of these words. For example, "t-it" is in the set but the filter will also pick up words like Hitt-ite, t-itle, beati-tude, practi-tioner and const-tution. Then there are words like "an-al" thereby flagging words like an-alysis and "c-um" flagging acc-umulate or doc-ument. And there is also "r-a-pe", “a-pe” and “gra-pe”, "s-ex", and "hom-ose-xual". You would think that the moderators would have corrected this by now considering the number of times this has been commented on but they have not. To be safe, I typically add hyphens in any word that said filter might judge "of-fensive".
• Make sure the web address does not have any forbidden word or fragment.
Sum Dude routinely updates the list of forbidden words/fragments.
Two of the most filtered words are those containing the fragments "t-it" and "c-um". To quickly check your comments for these fragments, click on "Edit" on the Tool Bar and then "Find" on the menu. Add a fragment (without hyphens) one at a time in the "Find" slot and the offending fragment will be highlighted in your comments before you hit the Post button. Hyphenate the fragment(s) and then hit Post. And remember more than one full web address will also gain a "Waiting for Moderation".
And said moderators still have not solved the chronological placement of comments once the number of comments gets above about 100. They recently have taken to dividing the comments in batches of 50 or so, for some strange reason. Maybe they did this to solve the chronology problem only to make comment reviews beyond the tedious.
Zeb’s alphabetical listing
o “bad letter combinations / words to avoid if you want to get past the CNN "awaiting moderation" filter:
Many, if not most, are buried within other words, so use your imagination.
You can use dashes, spaces, or other characters to modify the "offending" letter combinations.
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ar-se.....as in Car-se, etc.
ba-stard
co-ck.....as in co-ckatiel, co-ckatrice, co-ckleshell, co-ckles, lubco-ck, etc.
co-on.....as in rac-oon, coc-oon, etc.
cu-m......as in doc-ument, accu-mulate, circu-mnavigate, circu-mstances, cu-mbersome, cuc-umber, etc.
cu-nt.....as in Scu-ntthorpe, a city in the UK famous for having problems with filters...!
do-uche
ef-fing...as in ef-fing filter
ft-w......as in soft-ware, delft-ware, swift-water, etc.
fu-ck......!
ho-mo.....as in ho-mo sapiens or ho-mose-xual, ho-mogenous, etc.
ho-rny....as in tho-rny, etc.
jacka-ss...yet "ass" is allowed by itself.....
ja-p......as in j-apanese, ja-pan, j-ape, etc.
ji-sm
koo-ch....as in koo-chie koo..!
nip-ple
pi-s......as in pi-stol, lapi-s, pi-ssed, therapi-st, etc.
pr-ick....as in pri-ckling, pri-ckles, etc.
ra-pe.....as in scra-pe, tra-peze, gr-ape, thera-peutic, sara-pe, etc.
se-x......as in Ess-ex, s-exual, etc.
sh-@t.....but shat is okay – don't use the @ symbol there.
sh-it
sl-ut
sn-atch
sp-ic.....as in disp-icable, hosp-ice, consp-icuous, susp-icious, sp-icule, sp-ice, etc.
ti-t......as in const-itution, att-itude, ent-ities, alt-itude, beat-itude, etc.
tw-at.....as in wristw-atch, nightw-atchman, etc.
va-g......as in extrava-gant, va-gina, va-grant, va-gue, sava-ge, etc.
who-re....as in who're you kidding / don't forget to put in that apostrophe!
wt-f....also!!!!!!!
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There are more, some of them considered "racist", so do not assume that this list is complete.
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Allowed words / not blocked at all:
anal
anus
ass
boob
crap
damn
execute
hell
kill
masturbation
murder
penis
pubic
raping (ra-pe is not ok)
shat (sh-@t is not ok)
sphincter
testes
testicles
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The CNN / WordPress filter also filters your EMAIL address and NAME as well – so you might want to check those
Except, of course, that those of us who are Satan's minions can circumvent CNN's puny WordPress filter and post whatever the fuck we want.
Come to the dark side.
(We have cookies!)
yeah, satans got the fire, you bring the marshmallows and chocolate. We're so cool!!!! GROW UP DUDE!
I got kush that'll put satan to sleep
@Primewonk
How do you manage that? What is your method?
Sorry Rainer. The knowledge and abilty comes automatically to those who understand gay folks are born gay, and that it is no more "wrong" than being born left-handed.
Wonkers, gay folks were born infants. They knew nothing about s3x. Then, like most folks, paid attention to the world and something sparked the game flame ... not having anyone around to put out the fuel. Then they get the atheists of today, that keep stroking those flames.
"Wonkers, gay folks were born infants"
What, are straight people born toddlers?
Sorry HeavenSent but you are just another scientifically ignorant religious nutter. Unless, of course, you have peer-reviewed scientific research to support your lies?
Tommie, Tom, what? Are you working from 2 computers?
Wonkers, I suppose you sit there all day reading the medical journals. If so, you'd realize that most research is rejected months down the road.
Dingbat, you're seriously nuts. I have one and only one computer.
HeavenSent wrote, " Wonkers, I suppose you sit there all day reading the medical journals. If so, you'd realize that most research is rejected months down the road."
Jesus Christ – how fucking stupid are you? Please post the citations to the actual research that shows this. I'll know instantly if you are lying because I've spent the majority of my adult life doing research.
We urgently need a free international council of the Christian Churches about the issue of blessing same-se-x relationships.
If that council would be staged in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, I could predict the decision of the council:
All evil heretics, which support and promote the blessing of same-se-x couples, have to be excluded from the Christian Church: Anathema.
The Episcopal Church immediately needs a new leadership. The current bishops of the Episcopal Church should be given the boots, and be replaced by pious bishops, which really live as Christians in daily life by the power of Jesus' call, which is the sacramental baptism.
I am a Lutheran.
But you think you "know" what the Episcopal Church needs?
Doesn't sound much like Christ, but this ranting surely sounds christian.
Your churches are as free as they can be to discriminate in any legal manner they feel would please their god. Government cannot do that.
Oooh, "pious bishops".....meaning, I assume, that they agree with Rainy
You can predict anything you want, Rainy. It doesn't mean that you will be right. How long have your people been predicting the second coming? How has that worked out?
Bigotry sure dies hard. Particularly when you wrap it in a bible
Woe to those scribes and pharisees that are the wolves in sheep's clothing today.
Matthew 23:1-39
Amen.
whoa to 2000 year old blog posts that only prove the concrete of your mind
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who subst-itute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who subst-itute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! Isaiah 5:20
Whoa to those who post ancient posts from their 2000 year old blog and think it is helpful to anyone
Roddenberry 68:12 We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.
Wonker, how convenient and typical to blame God for your bad behavior. Pick up the Bible and read what He's all about (OT), how He sent himself down to earth as Jesus Christ (NT) to walk in the flesh, to die for our sins to defeat death.
What he's about? I guess from the OT he's about smelling burning animal flesh, calling a large number of his creations abominations, and killing infants as an extortion tactic.
Thanks, but I'll pass.
facepalm. What an original post. How in the world did you come up with that concept? The only thing you proved is that you're too lazy to read the Bible on your own.
When you pu the bible keep in mind the Jews stole the Sumerian God that was worshipped thousands and thousands and thousands of years prior to Adam and Eve.
Sam, you have no authority to tell sue that she can or can't speak for god...especially god, who you obviously know not.
He has as much authority as you do.
What god ?
Anyway it's s sad start – the church really should just do gay marriages no differently than they do non-gay marriage.
brother:
"Sam, you have no authority to tell sue that she can or can't speak for god"
And you have no authority to tell sam that he can or can't tell sue that she can or can't speak for god.
It's turtles all the way down...
bother: you have no idea of what i know
Doesn't your storybook tell you that you cannot know gods intentions. That god is beyond you?
If so, isn't it just a little sacrilegious to speak for him?
Membership is down by 16% for a reason. Those that are trying to stay true to the teachings have left and many have joined the Catholic Church where they remain obedient to the definition of marriage between a man and a woman. Although probably well intentioned, Espiscopalians have lost their way on this issue and it will lead to continued erosion of their faith as they continue to embrace the culture of the day.
Beyond the current topic:
There is only one thing worse than having Henry VIII or Joseph Smith as the founder of your religion and that is having Mohammed that illiterate, warmongering, greed/lust driven, hallucinating Arab as your founder.
.....or the illegitimate son of a virgin boinker
Your god may not bless it, but my god will.
Your god sucks.
Their church may bless it but God won't.
God? Is that you?
Sue: You have no authority to speak for god
abomination was his exact words thank you.
And you know that he meant h0mos3xuality? How?
Sue
god won't bless it?
Well...the only time they might see god is after death, and marriage is until death...so they're good.
man lie with man as with a women....doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that one out!
"abomination was his exact words thank you."
no, those are the translated words of iron age sheep boinkers
That's not what it said. If it took a rocket scientist, I wouldn't ask you.
If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
You're welcome!
Maybe "god" should stop making gay people then. Or maybe Christians can stop worrying about how other people live when it doesn't affect anyone else in the slightest way.
he makes gay people no more than he makes pedophiles and murders or people who ra pe animals. They want to do it. God didn't make them do it. They choose.
"abomination was his exact words thank you."
Anyone else find this funny? It's God's "exact" words that were said by some guy no one can prove existed let alone prove divine, that were then paraphrased thirty to forty years after his death by people who weren't even there when he may or may not have said them, which were then voted on 350 years later by a pagan Roman council that were deciding on how to best control the people and the religious narative of their time...which was then translated and deciphered by thousands of different persons who all came to widely differing conclusions about the meaning or the words or the content as a whole, and that is how you arrive at God's "exact words"...
Oh, and you know this how, Sue?
Sue
what you are quoting is liviticus, is it not?
because you quote it so badly is why I am wondering
If it is, read all of it....pretty much anyone who has any kind of s e x, that is not one man and his wife, is to be put to death.
That entire book is clearly written by an insane person.
Or maybe I should ask a rocket scientist, since you're not too good with facts.
The passage you're citing is not about h0mos3xuality.
"abomination was his exact words thank you."
wow, in a language that hadn't been invented yet....
sue: did god make you a bigot, or do you choose to be one?
Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son......millions of bible scholars disagree with you....so what makes you an authority on the Word of God????
Same thing that makes you one. Susie.
There are millions of scholars who interpret that passage differently. Why should your opinion hold sway?
Who died and made Sue god?
Apparently the sin of pride doesn't apply to Sue, who knows, unequivocally, the mind of god.
Sue, do you enjoy being such a righteous bigot?
Sue – why do you have so much hate in your heart? Why do you feel the need to judge and condemn others – is your god not capable of doing so?
And when did you choose to be straight?
"man lie with man as with a women"
So if the fvck standing p they are ok?
Trust me Sue, only a spiteful God would create you with such limited comprehension and understanding and yet expect you to be compassionate for others. I'm sure he will overlook your sin of hubris and just being a dick in general...
Sue, don't let the atheists floor you. They care less who fries. They believe this life is all there is.
derp
"man lie with man as with a women"
So if the fvck standing p they are ok?
YES
Laying down is lazy in God's eyes
"Laying down is lazy in God's eyes"
Then blacks and Mexicans are screwed.
Cybil, I see you post to yourself using my handle and your multiple double handles. I'm shaking my head now with a big whistle of whewwwwwwwwwwww.
I also like to shake Jesus on the cross to see if his b@lls jiggle.
Amen.