Hypocrites #475,874,999

http://gawker.com/antigay-pastor-seems-pretty-into-gay-sex-judging-by-hi-1705625323

Antigay Pastor Seems Pretty Into Gay Sex, Judging By His Grindr Profile





When a Michigan reverend wasn’t espousing virulently antigay rhetoric, he was cruising for guys to top and make out with—according, at least, to his Grindr profile, which was recently uncovered by Queerty.

Pastor Matt Makela, a married father of five, reportedly routinely argued gay people should sublimate their same-sex desires—while he was simultaneously chatting up guys on the app.

In the screenshotted messages, published by Queerty, the good rev tells a potential date, “I love making out naked. Oral and massage. And i top. Also love to cuddle.” Meanwhile, publicly, on his now-deleted Facebook page, he compared homosexuality to alcoholism and posited less-than-charitable views about transgender people.




According to Queerty, Makela did confirm the Grindr profile is real but declined to comment beyond that. He’s reportedly resigned from his associate pastor job at St. John’s church.

In the meantime, the church is urging its congregation not to read or turn on the television so that they might avoid inadvertently discovering what happened to that nice pastor man.


Dear members of St. John’s,

It is my grief to inform you that Pastor Makela announced his resignation as a pastor of St. John’s through a letter that was read in worship on Sunday, May 17. Pastor has acknowledged that there was sin and repentance, and I have testified that there is indeed forgiveness through the same Lord who forgives all our sins. Nevertheless, it is an end of our time together in ministry, and we ask for your continued prayers and support for the Makela family.

To make matters worse, though, the details of sin that have been kept confidential are being posted online by those who seek to do harm to the Makela family and to St. John’s. This is taking an already difficult situation and making it even more painful.

I write this to you to warn you that you may be confronted with the details of the sin, and to remind you that sin is never pretty. The facebook pages associated with St. John’s have been taken down in an attempt to remove the opportunity for malicious posters to have access to St. John’s members, but the internet and age of communication being what it is, I have no way of guaranteeing that you will not come across this information in some way.

A few thoughts on how to proceed:

-Don’t panic. This changes nothing. Matt is still forgiven and he is still loved, and we will do what we can to stand by him and the family as they face this spiteful attack of shame. God is bigger than this and will see us through.

-Don’t respond. Those who are trying to shake up the congregation are doing so, at least in part, to generate traffic to their website. If you click on a website to see, or respond to what is being said—even in a positive way—you are only rewarding those who are trying to shame the Makelas.

-Please know that the leadership of St. John’s will be forthright with any information the members need to have. However, we do not intend to use the internet as the primary means of communication at this point.

-Be patient and trust God. This too shall pass. In the meantime consider the advice of scripture: “Be very careful, then, how you live, not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity because the days are evil.”

See you in Church,
Pastor Kempin


Jesus.

Bible Based Discrimination

Could someone tell me which religious freedoms have been trampled so that we need Religious Freedom Restoration Acts? The claim that there is a religious privilege to discriminate is really pissing me off. So here goes.

If you are a Bible-believing Christian, you believe in the whole Bible, the Old Testament and the New, as the inerrant word of God. If your faith is based on such a belief, you do not pick and choose which passages of the Bible you are going to believe and follow. Or do you? There are people on the extremes of the political spectrum who have lost political battles over whether all citizens of the United States have the same rights under the Constitution and civil law. Because they have lost in the political arena, they are now attempting, in states controlled by Republicans, to trump the law with claims to religious beliefs that would permit them to discriminate against whomever they choose.

Of course, the only religious belief in question derives from Chapter 18 of Leviticus, and specifically verse 18:22: “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination” (KJV). As any Bible scholar knows, the original Hebrew text was translated into Greek and then into English with changes in meaning at each stage. And as any Bible scholar should know, the original name of the Book of Leviticus in Hebrew was “ ספר תורת הכהנים : SEFER TORAT HAKOHANIM : The Instructions of the Priestly Officiants.” The prohibitions in Leviticus were originally meant to keep the Hakohanim (priestly caste) from imitating foreign, non-Israelite, cultic fertility rituals in the Promised Land.

Over a number of years, religious conservatives have produced what they call "new translations" of the Bible that, coincidentally, support their opinions. They are, of course, not translations but editorial revisions to support philosophical points of view unrelated to textual scholarship.

Okay, with that out of the way, back to Christians believing and acting on what the Bible says. As many have explained before, if you are a Bible-believing Christian who believes in the whole Bible, in its entirety, as the inerrant word of God — and who does not pick and choose which verses to follow in your private and public life — you must not do any of these things that carry as much significance as Leviticus 18:22...

• burn yeast or honey in offerings to God
• fail to include salt in offerings to God
• consume fat (like French fries cooked in grease)
• consume blood (like bloody rare steaks)
• touch an unclean animal or its carcass (like pork and footballs)
• let your hair become unkempt (like Duck Dynasty)
• tear your clothes (like Grunge rockers)
• consume alcohol in holy places (like taking communion)
• eat an animal that doesn’t both chew cud and has a divided hoof, such as camels, rabbits, pigs (no more rabbit stew or pork chops)
• eat or touch the carcass of any seafood without fins or scales (no more calamari and, worse, no more shrimp!)
• attend religious services within 33 days after giving birth to a boy
• attend religious services within 66 days after giving birth to a girl
• marry your wife’s sister while your wife still lives
• have sex with a woman during her period
• have sex with your neighbor’s wife
• give your children to be sacrificed to Moloch
• make idols or "metal gods" (no more rock stars)
• reap to the  edges of a field
• pick up grapes that have fallen in your vineyard
• hold back the wages of an employee overnight
• curse the deaf or abuse the blind
• pervert justice by showing partiality to either rich or poor
• spread slander (no more gossip)
• seek revenge or bear a grudge
• wear clothing made of more than one fabric (no more poly blends)
• cross-breed animals (no more high end dogs, cats, etc., etc., etc.)
• plant different seeds in the same field
• eat fruit from a tree within four years of planting it
• trim your beard (no manscaping)
• cut your hair at the sides (no Mohawks)
• get tattooed
• consult mediums, spiritualists, or astrologers
• remain seated in the presence of the elderly
• mistreat foreigners – "the foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born" (no anti-immigrant fanatics)
• use dishonest weights and scales
• curse your father or mother
• slaughter a cow or sheep and its young on the same day
• work on the Sabbath
• take the Lord's name in vain (punishable by death)
• sell land permanently
• sell an Israelite as a slave

Or, if you're a rational human being, you could conclude that while some of these things might (or might not) have made sense in ancient times and places in the Middle East, maybe they don't any more.

Religious Hypocrite of the Day

The louder they scream, the more they have to hide. . .

http://www.religionnews.com/2014/07/01/report-minnesota-archbishop-nienstedt-scrutiny-sex-relationships/

Roman Catholic archbishop in Minnesota who had been one of the hierarchy’s most vocal opponents of gay rights is the target of an investigation into allegations that he had a series of sexual relationships with priests, seminarians and other men.

What's under that dress?