Saturday, April 11, 2009

Freedom of Speech Doesn't Mean Freedom of "Hate" Speech

As many of you know, Westboro Baptist Church is famous for blaming America for accepting homosexuals, and thanks their "God" for every single death of an American citizen. They go around the country with their picket signs to show and convince the citizen of America that homosexuals are an abomination to the world, and that they disobey to "God's" desire.
Although the Bible does state that homosexuality is a sin it does not say that people should hate them. This is one of the verses from the Bible:
Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.

As you can see, homosexuality (phrased as sexual immorality since the word homosexuality was not found yet until in the late 1800s) is in a list of other sins, telling us that homosexuality is one of many other sins that are equal to it. Homosexuality is a very small problem in the bible if you compare it to every other sin that can happen. It is also said that God does not give judgement to homosexuals that were born genetically, since they can not change their sexual behavior. Only people who knew that homosexuality was a sin and went against it will get punished.

There is also something that the Westboro Baptist Church is ignoring: to love everyone equally.

John 3:16
For God's soul loved the world that he gave his only son that whoever believes in Him should not perish and have everlasting life.

This verse tells us that God loves everyone, which contradicts to everything that the WBC says. There is also a very famous saying; "Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin".

So instead of carrying picket signs saying "God Hates Fags", they should go home and reread the Bible again. Although there are many religions that read the bible in many different ways, they should read the bible the true Christian way, since they do claim themselves as Christians.

This is a famous quote by Billy Graham,
“I’m going to quote the Bible now, not myself, that it (homosexuality) is a sin. But there are other sins. Why do we jump on that sin although it is the greatest sin? "

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