Nope. So, I'll do the sermon here, it's only four sentences long: There is no "Us" and "Them." There is only "We." Using the terms, "Us" and "Them" only divide people—friends, family and even nations. We are all interconnected, we all share the same humanity. (These four sentences are taken directly from the web site: Walk for Togetherness)
When will Christian ministers (as a whole) bring this message of our shared humanity to their flocks? Never. I think Christian American enjoys using their god and their Bible as their mechanism to promoting their own personal prejudices.
If the Christian church as a whole stopped hating gays, the only other people they'll be able to hate are people with other faiths, atheists (Of course, Christ wouldn't hate people of other faiths or atheists, his message is one of love.) and people who live outside of the United States of America. It's kind of boring to hate people outside of the country, especially when you can hate people inside the U.S.A. in the privacy of your own home, church, community and country.
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Mike, beg to differ, but I think 80% of congregations preach this message. You just hung out in the wrong ones growing up that were far right, and the news only tells us about the extreme on the left and right, not the majority that preach this message.
While I understand the difficulty you had with your church experience and I am sympathetic about that, I do think it is wrong to paint with such a broad brush. This fosters a rigid institutionalization of our bigotries, and makes dialogue impossible.
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