I'm not going to be that Pharisee.

Now, you can personally and religiously believe what you like, but you don't have the right to kill, harm and deprive someone of freedom for living a life different than yours, as long as they are not out hurting someone else. No one is telling you what to believe or not to believe (although I don't think you understand the Gospel in the way I understand the Gospel at all), but to kill someone because they live a different lifestyle than you? Imprison them? Deny them basic, human rights that everyone should be entitled to?

Are you so insecure in yourself and your beliefs? Do you hate so much? Are you so afraid? Are you so small souled and hard of heart?

My faith in God does not make me fear, hate or discriminate against people who believe differently than I do, who have a different sexual orientation, different political views, or world views. My faith in God is strong enough, secure enough and large enough that I can do what Jesus told me to do: seek out the lonely, hurting, broken, outcast and vulnerable (no matter what caste, fringe group, minority, gender, etc they belong to) and love them. I don't agree with every aspect of any one friend; because we're all different and hold different views on a vast amount of things.

But being different than they doesn't mean I have to fear, hate or discriminate against them. I'm not going to be that Pharisee.

Beth