50% of the fundamentalist/Religious Right folks are divorced, and more than 85% of those are remarried.   So ... according to the Bible, about 43% of the same people who condemn the gay man for his homosexuality are living in a lifestyle of adultery, a sin that is equal to homosexuality in God's eyes.

The Religious Right is nearly half full (42.5%!) of people living in a Christ-condemned adulterous lifestyle.   The other 57.5% fully accept their remarried brothers and sisters!   They even perform their adulterous marriage ceremonies in their churches.   Yet they preach from their pulpits (and shout through the airwaves) that God wants us to stop the world from accepting homosexuals the same way that they (i.e., the 42.5%) have supposedly been accepted by God.

[By the way, Amy Grant herself falls into the category of "married, and then divorced, and then remarried to somebody else."   I sure hope her plane doesn't crash tomorrow.]

And this is how Fundamentalists make a mockery of their own savior.   They pick and choose which "lifestyle sins" will be covered by God's grace and which ones won't.   They claim that God's grace covers their own lifestyle sins but not those of the homosexual.   They believe that God's grace is big enough to cover THEIR sins, but that it won't extend far enough to cover the people they want to condemn.

Jesus said, "Judge not, that you be not judged.   For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get." (Matthew 7:1-4)

Jesus warned us not to be like the servant whose own debt was forgiven, but then used the legal system to throw a fellow servant in jail (Matthew 18:23-35).   The Religious Right claim God's grace for their own adulterous lifestyle but then give tremendous amounts of time and money to "fight homosexuality."

Christ did not use his power to legislate against the sinful people of his day.   Instead he went drinking with them (Luke 7:34).   Christ did not condemn the person caught with her pants down (literally); instead he embarrassed her detractors by saying that anyone who had not sinned could throw the first stone at her *   —   and not one stone was thrown (John 8:2-11).   Christ did not raise money for his causes by claiming that those involved in the sinful lifestyles of his day were ganging up to "destroy the family."   Instead he invited them to be his friends and followers (Luke 5:32).

Playing on people's fears is a great way to make money.   "If you don't want homosexuals taking over our schools, support our cause by sending us money."   Fear sells.   Tolerance is seen as "compromise" and weakness.   The Religious Right rake in a great deal of money every time they claim homosexuals are threatening our nation's families, or worse, our children.   The former vice president of Focus on the Family stated in his book James Dobson's War on America (p. 42) that when their donations went down, they could simply broadcast a scary story about the gay agenda (or the evil "women's movement," or abortion rights groups), and their revenues would increase substantially.

When Fundamentalists condemn homosexuals, they are actually condemning themselves (well ... they're condemning 42.5% of themselves).   The grace that they are willing to accept for themselves is apparently not to be extended to those whom they find offensive.

A partial list of people who are headed for hell (or are already there):

      Ronald Reagan

      John McCain

      Newt Gingrich

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