(Photo of James Dobson of Focus on the Family)For the Christian Right, homophobia or hatred of homosexuals is called "neutrality."
Someone named Ed Thomas, writing for OneNewsNow.com, a Christian right Website, says that "Pro-family leaders are commending ExxonMobil for remaining neutral in the cultural battle over homosexual rights. Company shareholders decided again this year to retain a company policy that neither grants special rights based on sexual orientation nor includes benefits for same-sex partners."
Isn't that wonderful? First of all, we must no longer allow these Christian right phonies to co-opt the word, "pro-family." Anyone who loves families, including homosexual families, is "pro-family." And as those of us who live in the real world know, just because a "family" is comprised of Daddy, Mommy, and kids, does not make it a "good" family; and that homosexual families can provide as much or more love and care and moral values as any heterosexual family.
Remember the forgotten Ted Haggard?
Secondly, why would so-called Christians want to deny other human beings health and pension benefits because they are attracted to persons of the same sex? Exactly where in the scale of "Love your neighbor as yourself" and "Do unto others" does this denial fall?
Focus on the Family thought ExxonMobil's decision was a "commonsense" decision while noting that ExxonMobil was the "only Fortune 500 company and major oil company that has not adopted such a policy."
Randy Sharp from the American Family Association said he thinks "it says a lot for the leadership of [ExxonMobil]. They know right from wrong, [and] they have some type of a moral compass that tells them that special-interest groups are just that: they're special interests, and (instead) they're going to remain neutral."
ExxonMobil leaders know "right" from "wrong"? Right!
Focus on the Family folks and the AFA people give Christianity a bad name!
Don't buy your gas from ExxonMobil.
1 comment:
How can we trust someone named Randy? Randy men often do things not considered proper in church, unless one is a priest, of course. It seems to me that Jim Baker, Haggard and a few others that were caught with their pants down had preached about sex outside of marriage and gender while doing stuff considered wrong. Is it possible that the Devil has a lot of helpers and they are very good at what they do to sway us off the path we are told to follow? What would Jesus say if he were to visit some of the TV evangelists and check out their lifestyles? I suspect He would be pretty angry at how his words and thoughts have been used to control people in ways not conceived centuries ago. There has been no real new Bible for the millions of Christians stuck with a Bible that starts out with the Jewish belief system followed by the New Testaments based on written recollections of people that were not there at the time. Strange that God never wrote anything after the Ten Commandments and never had another child that we know of. One would think a new set of Commandments would have been written that takes into consideration all that has happened to the world and mankind since the original works. I would also imagine that God would have either sent His son back to talk to the billions that have not accepted Him or he would have had another child, perhaps even a daughter this time.
I am not questioning God. I am only wondering.
Bob Poris
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