Comments on: Op-ed in Uganda’s Independent: Put down the stones

By: Lynn David

Lynn David — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:33:43 +0000

Kigingi Busagwa ~ This is not a time to negotiate truth.Laws are made for law breakers in order to protect other people in society according to the word of God. God knows that laws cant change hearts of people to do right but these laws will finally lead these law breakers towards His mercy otherwise how will God give mercy and these civil laws protect society.

Uganda is a theocracy with your brand of Christianity in charge? Funny, I thought people were free to determine religious 'truth' in your country according to their own faith. Who knows, there may be some who see homosexuality in a whole different theological light than you, as well as interpret their god or gods in different ways.

These people who say that it is a private affair and that everyone has their own privacy to do what they want in their bedrooms,are mistaken because if the love making your parents did in private brought forth you in the world and you have become part of our public-it is wrong for you to think That the gays have a right to do their thing in private and it will not affect the public.

It's wrong because it is wrong?

By: Kigingi Busagwa

Kigingi Busagwa — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:49:38 +0000

Jesus told the woman caught in adultery to “go and sin no more”.He did not say go back to your old life. God is a God of mercy and rejoices with the truth not a lie. Its in the new testament 1Corinthians 6 that the bible warns us that homosexuals will not enter heaven.This is not a time to negotiate truth.Laws are made for law breakers in order to protect other people in society according to the word of God.God knows that laws cant change hearts of people to do right but these laws will finally lead these law breakers towards His mercy otherwise how will God give mercy and these civil laws protect society.I wonder if Warren will turn away from civil laws in the name of laws dont change hearts? Civil laws that are made to protect the family and marriage cannot be graded as satanic and anti-God.These people who say that it is a private affair and that everyone has their own privacy to do what they want in their bedrooms,are mistaken because if the love making your parents did in private brought forth you in the world and you have become part of our public-it is wrong for you to think That the gays have a right to do their thing in private and it will not affect the public.

By: Eddy

Eddy — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:31:07 +0000

Yes, those two laws could be an adequate foundation. But a foundation without building blocks serves no purpose, provides no protection, no stronghold, no shelter, no stability. If those two laws were all we needed, Christ would have simply repeated that same message everywhere He went…and the Epistles would have just regurgitated them over and over again as a mantra of sorts.

By: Ann

Ann — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:30:57 +0000

We all want the Jesus that stops and judges the mob…

Less so the Jesus that tells us to “Sin no more.”

No additional comment; I just thought it was worthy of being repeated.

David, Eddy,

So, so, true!

By: Michael Bussee

Michael Bussee — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:39:00 +0000

The mob caught her in adultery. (They were right. There was sin.)

The mob felt justified in stoning her. After all, that was God’s law, wasn’t it? And they were righteous, law-abiding people, weren’t they? (Narcissism and sadism.)

Jesus invited the sinless to throw first.

No one did. (Individual conscience enlightened by God.)

It occurred to me just now that Narcissim violates the first of the Great Commandments and self-righteous Sadism violates the second.

I know you balk somewhat, David, at the idea that these two commandments could be an adequate foundation for moral conduct, but I still think these two laws (if obeyed) would be all we really need for true “morality” and true justice.

http://philosophy.csusb.edu/~tmoody/Past%20classes/F05%20191%20Compassion.htm