{"id":9584,"date":"2019-01-19T12:51:18","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T17:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9584"},"modified":"2019-01-19T12:53:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T17:53:10","slug":"family-values-take-a-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9584","title":{"rendered":"‘Family values’ take a hit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Hamar<\/a> points toward the story of a mother who left her church rather than abandon her lesbian daughter.<\/p>\n

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After 20 years in an evangelical church, the mother of five “believed that being gay was somehow wrong.” . . . . But she knew their family would never be the same in the church again. The advice from her Bible study peers was clear: “Homosexuality is a sin and we can’t accept it.”<\/p>\n

So she had a choice to make. And in a tearful moment onstage she said, ” I realized I was being asked to choose between the two most important parts of my life: my child and my church. I chose my child.” And the audience stood and applauded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Good for mom! The takeaways:<\/p>\n

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    ‘Family values’ is a marketing lie. The 1st<\/sup>-Century Christian church was a cult, and the New Testament is the literature of a cult. Christianity is, necessarily, anti-family — because healthy marriages and families undermine the authority of the cult.<\/p>\n

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    Most people, like this mother, have too much sense and decency to be good Christians. Those people who don’t tend toward the conservative denominations, such as the Southern Baptists.<\/p>\n

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    Stay the hell away from people who don’t, because they will betray you for the glory of Jesus without a second thought; put them as far out of your life as you can.<\/ol>\n

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