Brian Alexander I have actually considered the fact you raised about LBGT kids from atheist families that have been kicked out however, the numbers of those from "Christian" families that have been kicked out is consideribly higher ... and it is NOT so much I am blaming religious groups at all but rather highlight the fact that these religious groups simply are NOT following the teachings of God & His son Jesus Christ as scripted in the Holy Bible yet cite the Holy Bible as being the reason as to why they object to this, that and everything else in the manner that they do as by doing so with a number of them they have actually taken those words contained within the passages & twisted them into their own version & interpretations!
THAT is what I have an issue with more so than anything. Having attended so many different Churches in nearly 50 years from Anglican, Methodist, United, Pentecostal, Baptist, Southern Baptist, Alliance, to name a few the one thing that ALWAYS struck me as rather odd was that they would all take the exact same passage of the Bible & their interpretation of that passage was so widely varied of which a different meaning was presented to the congregation!
I experienced being basically cast aside by one that I had attended & waas baptised in because I chose to divorce my alcoholic, physically abusive husband and chose to do so rather than risk myself or my two babies being killed by him in one of his alcholic rages ... what did I end up having to deal with as soon as the Deacons & Pastor learned I was divorcing my husband?
Sunday, after Sunday, after Sunday of the Pastor preaching & referring to passages of the Bible as to what a wife's duty is to her husband, to obey the husbands commands, to never stray from his side! YET, the Deacons & Pastor also knew that many a times I had been hospitalised due to the beatings I was dealt! I do not believe in being a hypocrit and never have ... so, when I entered into a common-law relationship I quit going to Church simply because I honestly felt it was wrong to be going to Church and then coming home & sleeping with my "husband" that I was not married to ... what did that same bunch of Deacons & Pastor do? Contacted my parents to tell them as my Christian parents it was their "duty" to deal with me and help me see that their nearly 30 year old daughter's choice of life style was wrong and that if they did not do so they would go to hell as would I! THAT kind of nonsense in my humble opinion simply is NOT Christian like at all especially given that I had already stopped going to Church!
That does not mean I do not believe in God because I do, I just have reached a point in which I do not feel I need to be attending any church as per say as a means of showing I am a Christian but rather I can show I am a Christian through how I go about living my daily life & working to help those who are suffering from homelessness, drug addictions, mental illness, what have you by offering a roof over their heads, healthy nutritional food in their stomachs, clothing to wear as well as to advocate on their behalf in dealing with the governmental bureaucrats & professionals to get them into the programs & services & support systems they need ... and I do so simply because I know if Jesus Christ were here on earth today that that is exactly what he would be doing!
Over the years I took in 18 teens off the streets, teens that were kicked out of their homes, teens that were classified as out of control, put a roof over their heads, clothed them, fed them, put them through school, paid for their sports activities,loved & cared for them along with my own 5 children because I felt that someone had to give them that second chance that no one else was willing to give them and I did so on my own with the little bit of money I earned working 3 jobs while putting myself through school so that we all could have a better life!
And if I could go back all those years I would do it all the same way all over again!
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