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CBS 11 Senior Enterprise Reporter Bill McAllister is conducting interviews with Anchorage clergy about their theological perspectives on homosexuality, in the context of the pending municipal ballot initiative that would add homosexuals to protected groups under the equal rights ordinance. Here is the complete interview conducted Wednesday, Jan. 4, with Pastor Dan Jarrell of ChangePoint. Clergy who would like to participate in this discussion can contact McAllister at bmcalllister@ktva.com or 720-5550. Our intention is to edit and produce a story for broadcast this month. In the meantime, complete interviews will be posted here. |
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christina said on Monday, Apr 2 at 11:27 AM
Whether you like it or not Christians are registered voters and tax payers too. We have every responsibility to vote according to our moral beliefs even if it is against homosexuality. Most Christians would NOT discriminate against gay people in work,housing etc.. however they see this measure as one step against the value of marriage..one man one woman. We do have the right to vote our conscience. Why do people have an issue with that? Are we not Americans too
86248756anonymous said on Friday, Feb 10 at 7:29 PM
is all this complicated confusing questionable beat around bush talk necesary? straight up! leviticus 18:22 thou shalt not lie w/mankind as w/womankind. it is ABOMINATION. revelation 21:8 but...the ABOMINABLE...shall have their part in the lake ..fire and brimstone: which is the second death. whatever ur sin, God wants u to repent. u know the gospel. God is love
81204886AmandaB said on Thursday, Feb 9 at 11:42 PM
The question is: Should Alaska protect a minority against hate crimes? This question should not have ANYTHING to do with religion. This country is NOT a CHRISTIAN country. Nor is this state a Christian state. This country was based on freedom of religion! Why are we looking to religious leaders to give us their opinion on a matter of someone's safety? They are not the ones experiencing hate crimes. This enrages me so much. Speculating about what the Bible says is irrelevant in this case. Anyone that would decide not to protect the LBGT community against hate crimes, despite their religious beliefs, are just heartless and brainless. I am not anti-Christian, I just think Christianity should NOT dictate who should and who should not be protected against hate crimes. In fact, it is anti-Christian to not protect and love a human.
81155806AmandaB said on Thursday, Feb 9 at 11:40 PM
The question is: Should Alaska protect a minority against hate crimes? This question should not have ANYTHING to do with religion. This country is NOT a CHRISTIAN country. Nor is this state a Christian state. This country was based on freedom of religion! Why are we looking to religious leaders to give us their opinion on a matter of someone's safety? They are not the ones experiencing hate crimes. This enrages me so much. Speculating about what the Bible says is irrelevant in this case. Anyone that would decide not to protect the LBGT community against hate crimes, despite their religious beliefs, are just heartless and brainless. I am not anti-Christian, I just think Christianity should NOT dictate who should and who should not be protected against hate crimes. In fact, it is anti-Christian to not protect and love a human.
81155788Keith said on Tuesday, Jan 31 at 3:50 PM
WHAT A CROCK OF BULL!!!!!!!!!!
80697788gary said on Monday, Jan 30 at 12:59 AM
Amazing to me that the ONLY thing these religious idiots latch onto is homosexuality. Do they think that people also choose to like particular attributes (for example women who are large vs petite, or the color green, or the taste of chocolate)? Why are some women attracted to bald men and others repulsed by it? Do they CHOOSE to feel that way? Of course not! DNA gives us all sorts of predispositions. Organized religion has trapped itself by being so rigid and dogmatic that it now cannot find a way around common sense and logic. Why would a god create DNA, which in turn causes people to be born either straight or gay, and then condemn the ones born gay? It's all such total nonsense!
80607473mindy said on Sunday, Jan 15 at 8:29 PM
Homosexuality is as normal as the day is long. It is found in over 1500 species, has been part of humanity since the dawn of us, and no more like alcoholism than you are like a tree frog. The verses in the New Testament commonly used to bash gays are not about homosexuality but about the predatory practice of NONCONSENSUAL sex, common between Roman soldiers and slaves or young boys during the time the Bible was written. Of course THAT is an abomination! But no one was talking about respectful, monogamous LGBT relationships. No one. He is wrong, his theology is wrong, and we MUST come out of the Dark Ages and give our LGBT brothers and sisters the rights and freedoms they deserve as much as the rest of us.
79931676anon said on Friday, Jan 13 at 7:26 PM
Poor followers of faith... sooo far from God and so close to their fears...perhaps God sent a delusion upon you to make you believe a lie [even the elect]?
79855901cooljulie said on Wednesday, Jan 11 at 8:11 PM
Could this guy sound any more stupid??? Comparing alcoholism with homosexuality? Seriously? If someone has a genetic predisposition to alcoholism, it's because their PARENT(S) were alcoholics. NO BABY is ever born with a genetic predisposition to alcoholism randomly. Gay people are born gay at random (yes, Pastor Dan, science proved it years ago), not because their parents were gay. Gay parents have straight children and straight parents have gay children. And children adopted by parents who live a gay lifestyle do NOT become gay (nor vice versa), so it's neither inherited nor environment. It IS in one's DNA, just as heterosexual orientation is. The ignorance spouted by religious leaders is truly scary.
79747466Kevin S said on Wednesday, Jan 11 at 5:17 PM
Very well done.
79740911Alaskana said on Wednesday, Jan 11 at 12:17 PM
Way to Go Dan, speaking the truth!
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