Confessions of a Recovering Pharisee

[CNS]

President Barack Obama has named to the federal government’s faith-based initiative a gay-rights activist who, last month, described Pope Benedict XVI and certain Catholic bishops as “discredited leaders” because of their opposition to same-sex marriage.
 
Harry Knox, who is a newly appointed member of Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, is the director of the religion and faith program at the Human Rights Campaign, a homosexual activist group. 
 
In addition to his remarks about the Pope, Knox also criticized the Catholic Knights of Columbus as being “foot soldiers of a discredited army of oppression” because of the Knights’ support of Proposition 8. The latter was a ballot initiative that amended California’s state constitution to define marriage as being between a man and a woman, and passed in November 2008. 
 
Knox told CNSNews.com that he “absolutely” stands by his criticism of the pope.

“The Pope needs to start telling the truth about condom use,” Knox said on Monday, Apr. 6. “We are eager to help him do that. Until he is willing to do that and able, he’s doing a great deal more harm than good — not just in Africa but around the world. It is endangering people’s lives.”

On Mar. 19, Knox told the San Francisco-based gay newspaper The Bay Area Reporter, “The Knights of Columbus do a great deal of good in the name of Jesus Christ, but in this particular case [Proposition 8], they were foot soldiers of a discredited army of oppression.” 
 
The newspaper further reported: “Knox noted that the Knights of Columbus ‘followed discredited leaders,’ including bishops and Pope Benedict XVI. ‘A pope who literally today said condoms don’t help in control of AIDS.’”
 
According to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Web site, the religion and faith program run by Knox has created “a weekly preaching resource that provides scriptural commentary to ministers and lay people interested in an ecumenical gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender perspective on the Bible.”

Read more here.

[From me]

Maybe Mr. Knox should read the Bible. If you read here you will see that condoms are optional for many in the homosexual community. Condoms aren’t the answer–monogamous heterosexual relationships are. God gives us rules for a reason. Why would President Obama add someone like this to a “Faith-Based Initiative Board?”

What do you think?

[NJ.com]

The homosexual community now has its gay dating web site, paid for by a Christian businessman.

And an honorable man of biblical beliefs has been bludgeoned into submissionby the scam of “tolerance” and “non-discrimination” and the judicial tyranny of a New Jersey state agency.

In November, eHarmony.com, a Christian-based matchmaking service, was strong-armed by the state Civil Rights Division and agreed to set up (or see here) a parallel web site for gays.

The agreement was made after the state agency acted following a lawsuit filed by a gay man, who said he felt discriminated against.

Complying with that settlement, eHarmony earlier this week establishedCompatible Partners. And today, four months after this misuse of state power began, this whole sorry mess is still outrageous.

To further sharpen the sting, the state agency ruled that Eric McKinley, who filed the suit, will receive $5,000 and free membership in the gay dating service for a year. eHarmony must also pay the state Attorney General’s Office $50,000 for its troubles.

And, the first 10,000 people who register for the gay dating service will receive the first six months membership for free.

What does this sorry episode tell us?

In my view, this gay demand for “tolerance” and “non-discrimination” is being employed dishonestly in an attempt to destroy all principled opposition to the homosexual lifestyle.

As McKinley, 46, a New Jersey resident, prevailed in his legal action, he stated that he had been unhappy because the site had no option for men seeking men.

“It’s very frustrating and it’s very humiliating to think that other people can do it and I can’t,” McKinley said. “And the only reason I can’t is because I’m a gay man. That’s very hurtful.”

Reporters dutifully wrote down his comment, but the statement is laughable. Are there really no gay dating web sites that he can participate in?

Suppose, for example, that I wanted to go to a local mosque, only that I insisted that they sing evangelical Christian songs during the service?

Or that I go to Burger King, and I insist that they serve Big Macs?

Read more here.

[From me]

Should a private company who takes the financial risk be required to accommodate everyone? Should a Muslim dating service have to allow Christians? When does this end?

What do you think?