National Christian Group Pulls Support For Anti-Gay Event, Calls For 'Tolerance'

CNN:

A national Christian organization will stop sponsoring an annual event that encourages school students to "counter the promotion of homosexual behavior" because the event has become too divisive and confrontational, the group's president told CNN on Wednesday.

"All the recent attention to bullying helped us realize that we need to equip kids to live out biblical tolerance and grace while treating their neighbors as they'd like to be treated, whether they agree with them or not," said Alan Chambers, President of Exodus International, the group that sponsored the event this year.

Called the Day of Truth, the annual April event has been pushed by influential conservative Christian groups as a way to counter to the annual Day of Silence, an event promoted by gay rights advocates to highlight threats against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students.

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Comments

[Forester]

11:52 AM on 10/09/2010

Too bad they had to wait for kids to actually die to discover the "christian" principle of tolerance.

Maybe they were just worried about lawsuits.

[FizzOut]

11:07 AM on 10/09/2010

How ironic that they call their event "Day of Truth" when clearly their message is farthest from truth.

[JShankel]

01:27 PM on 10/08/2010

Hey, Christians, that's great! In return, we will tolerate you too.

[Lauren Kottwitz]

12:04 AM on 10/08/2010

Any help is good help.

[Grada3784]

11:37 PM on 10/07/2010

Maybe they're afraid of a replay of the first Purim with the Hamen and his pals roles marked out for them.

[bluguy8]

10:28 PM on 10/07/2010

OMG- watch out for Christian's bearing gifts

[Contact1972]

01:54 AM on 10/08/2010

You mean ignorance, arrogance and a lack of tollerance?

[New Yorker]

09:23 PM on 10/07/2010

God is powerful, he is to be feared. But God is goodness and most especilly Merciful. God is merciful to a degree we will marvel at through eternity, long after the Divine Mercy has saved us from damnation. Seek God for his Mercy, for his goodness, and forget the useless debris of this world of sadness and sin.

[eric14]

05:26 AM on 10/08/2010

Try a few days away from the city.

[okami]

06:44 AM on 10/08/2010

classical psychological double-bind: "I love you; don't touch me."

[takeabigdeepbreath]

09:15 PM on 10/07/2010

What's this? A Christian group acting like Christ?

[HRH]

11:13 PM on 10/07/2010

They'll probably be drummed out of the cult.

[okami]

06:44 AM on 10/08/2010

the last time it happened, all of them were wiped out by "The One True Church".

[MrDOB]

09:02 PM on 10/07/2010

Why do they have to tolerate anyone shouldn't they be accepting people? Who just wants to be tolerated? Okay how is this? I accept Gays and Lesbians, but I only tolerate Christians

[Buffyboy]

10:29 PM on 10/07/2010

Barely tolerate, these days.

[eric14]

05:28 AM on 10/08/2010

There is the dreadful celebrate to bring in:

I celebrate Gays and Lesbians.
I accept Christians.
I tolerate tree-huggers.

[lmthp]

08:49 PM on 10/07/2010

Will wonders never cease. A christian org that actually preaches tolerance... meh, it's a step up from GOD HATES GAYS! nut jobs.

And here I always thought the god of hate was Satan...

[Vernie31]

08:12 PM on 10/07/2010

These are not TRULY Christian people as they claim. They are Christians in NAME ONLY and not in in its TRUE beliefs ! They should be FILLED with SHAME & EMBARRASSMENT for all the PAIN & HURT they have caused to thousands of children. These HURT people are also children of the same GOD in which they so self righteously proclaim to love and follow so much.

[Contact1972]

01:56 AM on 10/08/2010

These HURT people are also children of the same GOD in which they so self righteously proclaim to love and follow so much
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Unfortunately they don't see it that way

[alsm9]

07:51 PM on 10/07/2010

"Tolerance", I really dislike this word. It's so condescending...we will "tolerate" you. How about the word "acceptance"..."we will accept you". Sounds WAY better.

[scottyknows]

08:11 PM on 10/07/2010

I appreciate that you will accept me for speaking out against government-enforced normalcy of homosexuality.

[DannyJ]

08:46 PM on 10/07/2010

Government-enforced normalcy of homosexuality? Do you visit this planet often?

[alsm9]

11:07 PM on 10/07/2010

No, I don't.

[Contact1972]

02:00 AM on 10/08/2010

I agree totally. Faved.

[Big0725]

07:41 PM on 10/07/2010

I really wish that these protesters would realize that if you leave them alone, they'll leave you alone.

[tangelan]

07:14 PM on 10/07/2010

Day of Truth? So no republicans will be there?

[DannyJ]

08:51 PM on 10/07/2010

Tee hee, of course not. they'll burst into flames if they get close

[yellowdog71]

05:40 PM on 10/07/2010

I don't know how someone can call themselves a Christian and a Republican in the same breath. The worldviews are completely incompatible.

Christians are taught whatever they do to the least of their brethren, they do to Christ (Matthew: 25:40). Yet, as Republicans, they continually rail against any social justice, welfare or social safety net as communism or socialism.

Christ aligned himself with the poor, not the rich as Republicans do. The GOP are against minimum wage laws, regulation of industry which works to protect workers, public education among many others.

Christ spent his life giving a voice to women and minorities or the oppressed of his time, in direct opposition to Republican mantras;

Yes, the GOP aligns itself with the strictest areas of Christianity (pro-life, anti-g@y, etc.) but the basic tenets of what it means to be Christian has little or nothing to do with the Repulbican party.

Note: While I was raised Baptist and converted to Catholicism upon marriage, I am recovering. I have long, long ago given up on organized religion. I do not think of myself as a non-believer, but I believe I (or anyone) can get closer to God at home on Sunday than in a church, where it's more a fashion competition or political rally than anything else. God is in the details, and some of the worst people I have ever met wore their religion on their sleeves, not in their hearts.

[lmthp]

08:55 PM on 10/07/2010

Very well stated. Thank you!

I can commiserate as I left the insanity of the catholic church (and organized religion in general) at 16 - best decision I ever made.

[okami]

06:47 AM on 10/08/2010

Religion isn't the problem, and never was.

It's ORGANIZED religion that causes all the hell.

[Lily99]

03:16 PM on 10/08/2010

That's exactly how I feel.
F&F'd