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14 years ago @ Cranach: The Blog of V... - Ministering to gays · 0 replies · +1 points

Frank, you and I have had this conversation before. I agree that it is the act of homosexuality, and not the status of being a homosexual, which is the sin. I think I parsed that correctly in my comment, and I stand by it, with the exception that I would change "a homosexual" in line 1 to "an active homosexual".

14 years ago @ Cranach: The Blog of V... - Environmentalists'... · 4 replies · +1 points

I believe I said I respect him. I didn't say I listened to him. At least he appears to actually believe the environmental tripe he espouses.

14 years ago @ Cranach: The Blog of V... - Environmentalists'... · 3 replies · +1 points

tODD, the point of the post was messaging and image of the environmental movement, not the science. Whether you like it or not, the environmental movement trades on celebrity publicity as a way of reaching the public. You may not care, but the enviros do. They threw the science out the window a long time ago, anyway. I completely agree with you. I don't care about celebrities, and I oppose the current environemental movement because the science is unproven, and it is really a political power play. So, all I am saying is that if you are going to use celebrities to promote your causes, including Al Gore, you had better keep them on message, and impress upon them the importance of consistency

As for Bush, last I checked he isn't president, so how is he relevant? No one seriously took him for an environmentalist, and his "addiction to oil" statement was clearly a political sop, and more of a statement about addiction to foreign oil than anything else.

14 years ago @ Cranach: The Blog of V... - Environmentalists'... · 2 replies · +1 points

Nope, can't see it ... Guess I'm just thick-headed, but it seems to me that an administration has the right to identify its policies using language. And "War on Terror" is a lot more descriptive than "Overseas Contingency Operations".

14 years ago @ Cranach: The Blog of V... - Environmentalists'... · 6 replies · +1 points

The lone exception to the above point, of course, is Ed Begley, Jr. He actually practices what he preaches, and I greatly respect him for it.

14 years ago @ Cranach: The Blog of V... - Environmentalists'... · 0 replies · +1 points

And, by the way, I noticed you didn't have anything to say about the 1988 senate hearing. The environmental movement has a long history of attempting to manipulate the public. Which explains why it is given so little credibility today.

14 years ago @ Cranach: The Blog of V... - Environmentalists'... · 5 replies · +1 points

So, tODD, do you disagree with the point? Do you think it is cool to fly a 747 4000 miles to plant a tree? Do you think that signals an impending crisis to the population? Do you think it is cool for celebrities to jet off to an environmental conference at luxury digs in the south pacific? Why should people be willing to make personal sacrifices to respond to an alleged crisis when the elites pushing the "crisis" meme are not making any apparent sacrifice whatsoever? Do you think that makes sense? Gore or no Gore, the environmental movement suffers from an elitist mentality. The message is that the peasants need to sacrifice, reducing their gasoline consumption, paying more for electricity, etc., while the elites continue their energy hog ways, purchasing the occasional indulgence (I think they call them "carbon credits") as justification. Turning it into a "but Bush was also a hypocrite" argument doesn't change anything. It just indicates that you have nothing substantive to say on the issue.

14 years ago @ Cranach: The Blog of V... - Environmentalists'... · 4 replies · +1 points

These are "word games"? You are really reaching today, tODD. So, the Bush administration wasn't allowed to use language to describe their policies? What I thought you meant by "word games" was the cynical "marketing" approach being used by the environmental movement, changing language mid-argument in an attempt to appeal to emotional response and to change the dialogue.

14 years ago @ Cranach: The Blog of V... - Environmentalists'... · 1 reply · +1 points

tODD, read your own post: "This can be seen when, any time Al Gore speaks somewhere and it snows, several thousand yahoos post something on their blog about how a snowy March day clearly fly in the face of global warming". YOU MENTIONED HIM. Sheesh.

14 years ago @ Cranach: The Blog of V... - Ministering to gays · 5 replies · +1 points

"If someone was to admit to being a homosexual or if someone who struggles with homosexuality were to begin attending the church they would ostracize this person" -- this statement, from the original post, is wrong. We all struggle with sin, and the church needs to be opened to all of us. It is our accountability to the Body of Christ which enables us, in His grace, to overcome the flesh. Ryan, in an above post, is right that sexual sins are different than other sins, because, as Paul says, they are sins against our own body. Giving ourselves over to sexual lusts and thoughts entangles us ever deeper, the more we do so. But how many Christians sit in our pews each Sunday who are living with their girlfriend/boyfriend, enslaved by pornography, or otherwise sexually addicted, either as a hetero or homosexual? These are all sins equal in God's eyes. We don't much practice Biblical church discipline anymore, to our detriment, but the key is the struggle. Those believers who desire to overcome their sin, regardless of its nature, should be welcome in the body, and those who love their sin, after going through a process of church discipline, should not be welcome. No matter the sin.