Church cites Scripture in barring gay musician from performing

[proud2BlibKansan]

HUTCHINSON, KAN. -- Chad Graber loved everything connected to church.

Especially the Tuesday night classes at CrossPoint Church called Celebrate Recovery. The prayer groups and Bible studies were his anchor after his substance abuse treatment ended.

“My goal was to put more good things in my life, and church was it,” he remembers.

Sometime around 2007 he joined the six-piece worship team for Celebrate Recovery, playing keyboards, learning Christian songs and practicing chord changes.

He belonged.

His playing caught the ear of other worship leaders at CrossPoint, the largest church in Hutchinson, boasting some 1,400 members.

It wasn’t long before Graber joined the Saturday worship band. For nearly four years he played in both worship groups.

But last November, before a rehearsal, two church leaders pulled him aside. With a serious look and hushed tone, senior pastor Andy Addis had one question: Are you gay?

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[Raster]

1. For Jesus said: "thou cannot worship me if thou art Gay."

Oh wait, no he didn't. In fact, nothing like it. In fact, Jesus NEVER said a word about homosexuality, or even sexuality at all, for that matter.

He did have QUITE a bit to say about rich people... and it wasn't generally very positive.

He also had quite a bit to say about forgiveness... and that was very positive.

[MineralMan]

2. Morons abound.

That is all.

[Angry Dragon]

5. I first read that as Mormons

[MineralMan]

6. And it came to pass that in America, morons would would outnumber Mormons,

many times over. Thus is it written.

[Raster]

9. those too.

[Bluenorthwest]

3. Citing Scripture to excuse hate and bigotry is what Church is all about...

That's the only part they hold to. They now support a candidate who denies the immaculate conception, they say he's a Christian anyway, a man who is a polytheist, they say he's Christian anyway. Lots of Gods, that's fine, Mary was an unmarried teen and Joseph was her baby daddy, also fine. It is just amazing to watch these people utterly shit on all of the basic foundations of their 'faith' for Mitt the polytheist while they freak out at gay people who are Christians.
They have NO faith, no principles, no belief and they place their new God Mitt before that other one who whines about feeding the poor all the time.
The entire 'faith' is opposing gay people. They will vote for a polytheist, no less, who thinks he is on a path to become an equal to God. Apostate is the word I recall from my church, about such hypocrites. Why do they even pretend to believe any of it, they most clearly don't. They just need an excuse to hate gay people. That is their God's face, the face of hate. Well, and hundreds of other faces as they are now polytheism freindly down at the old Bible Hut....

[kooljerk666]

4. These guys are gonna burn...............

Old Testament is over.


1 John 4:20
If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

[superpatriotman]

7. Religious texts!

Is there any wrong they cannot justify?

[white_wolf]

8. Depends entirely on the religious text in question.

The Quran and Bible are great for this sort of thing. The Vedas aren't bad for it as well. Buddhist and Daoist scriptures aren't as easy. My personal theory is that the emphasis placed on "God" makes it easier to justify wrong. Though, in all fairness they can be used to justify doing right as well as wrong, but we seem to hear so much more about the wrong.

[spanone]

10. the concept of God and the words of Jesus are lost on 'churches'

both would be ashamed at what 'houses of worship' have become

[no_hypocrisy]

11. Excellent:

He has found another place to worship, the Unitarian Universalist Church, he says, “where people of all faiths come together to celebrate and respect each other’s spiritual journeys.”