Evangelicals with gay children challenging church

[IdaBriggs]

7. I hate responses like this. "If there is a hell, you will be in it."

Seriously?

You think you have the right to judge another DU'er and the pain they have gone through, and tell them if they don't send forth loving positive energy as opposed to "hate-filled narrow mindedness" then they should become Republicans?

Here is how it goes down in my eyes: people who screw other people over (like the parents in the story) get a pat on the back for "getting better" but still have to do the whole "regret, repent and repair" for the damage they've done to everyone else while they were getting to their "come to Jesus" moment. You spend YEARS torturing someone / destroying their self-esteem, you don't get to play "Paul" and everything is better now, because the ONLY PEOPLE who can offer forgiveness are the ones who have been WRONGED.

For anyone else to suggest "well, they said they were sorry, so quit being mean" when lives have been destroyed is gall beyond the pale.

I think you need to take a look at that log in your eye, because I found your reply to be (to quote you): "an extraordinarily harsh, judgmental and hate filled attitude..."



ON EDIT: If this gets alerted, and the original poster has made a change, please be aware that where ever you see a "quote" it comes from the poster to whom I am responding.