I am ashamed to be associated with people like this who call themselves Christians. I am also glad I wasn’t in Des Moines today. The folks from godhatesfags.com made their rounds, laid out on the schedule of their pickets in Des Moines, IA for a hateful Cinco de Mayo.
These people are ridiculous, and make me feel nothing but total shame and embarrassment to be associated with them on any level. I know this is a very strong statement, but I feel as if these “representatives of Christ” are far from the Kingdom of God. They are a church, which means they are to represent the way of Jesus, and this is far from it. I don’t care on which side of the aisle you stand politically, if you are carrying the name of Jesus, this is absolutely unacceptable.
I have one message for any homosexual in Iowa or anywhere else for that matter; “God loves you!” That is the Good News that we call the Gospel of Jesus Christ. No matter what, He loves you so much that he came as a man in the form of his son Jesus and moved into the neighborhood to show us a complete, perfect love. I would like to apologize on behalf of the Christian Church who acts in such a way that retracts a loving hand in order to pick up a sign that only causes strife and stifles conversation.
Picket signs and hate speech is far from the complete love found in a relationship with Christ.
So, if you claim to represent Christ, act like it. If you won’t act like it, shut up so the rest of us can do our best. Grace and Peace to you all.
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