Kansas City newsman faith blogger contends: "But the decision to forbid same-sex couples from having shelter there is based on a reading of the Bible that no longer stands the test of careful exegetical investigation -- and, in fact, never did. Those who read the Bible to say that homosexuality and homosexual acts are always and everywhere sinful are misreading and misusing scripture." Check it: That no-gay couples decision: 11-21-14 (Bill's 'Faith Matters' Blog)
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In the old days when newspapers really mattered and people read them, if you had a journalist on your paper who had lost his edge and was close to retirement and everyone liked him, you did not fire him, you put him where he could not do any damage but keep busy. You made him the religion editor. This is why the Star put Bill Tammeus on the faith beat/
ReplyDeleteIn his blog, he has written condemning the City Union Mission for not allowing homeless gay couples to sleep together and has said that the Mission has no rights to their beliefs if it causes “bigotry towards the LGBT community.” I would remind Mr. Tammeus that the City Union Mission takes no government funds 9something he does backhandedly note) and that we still has a First Amendment (for a while at least) that allows the free practice of religion. Mr. Tammeus like most Liberals believes that the American people are too stupid to make their own decisions and we fortunately have him to think for us and lead us away from our primitive beliefs to the correct ones that enlighten people like him have.
Given the money and power that the LGBT community has, why do not they leave the City Union Mission alone and open their own homeless center for those less fortunate members of their community? There is religious bigotry here but it is on the part of people like Bill Tammeus who will not respect the religious beliefs of others if it does not conform to their political beliefs.
Fuck Bill, the asshole. He probably getting cornholed by the catholic priests in town now that little boys might be harder to get.
ReplyDelete1036 makes some excellent points, but the City Union Mission depends on contributions, and their donors have a right to know about policies such as this. Every year I donate to several charities, and this year City Union Mission was going to get added to the list. Now they're not. They have an absolute right to their beliefs and to control how they run their mission, but I have an absolute right not to agree with them and to donate elsewhere.
ReplyDeleteRE: "The more I've thought about it the sadder it makes me. Sadder and angrier."
ReplyDeleteLOOK OUT Reader! Bill Tammeus is sad and angry! He might just throw a hissy fit, begin lisping, and gesticulating with limp wrists.
Once again, Wild Bill informs the reader that if there's something in the Bible you don't like.....with the snap of the wrist....POOF!...you go girl! All better now. Henceforth, and forever more, the Bible is pro-homosexual!
You know.....a couple of those Ten Commandments have really been cramping my style over the years, so it's so nice to know the Bible operates on an a la carte plan.
Note: The Law Code of Hammurabi, a list of nearly 300 laws etched into a two and one-half meter high black diorite pillar, discovered in 1902 but dating back to the time of Hammurabi himself (1792-1750 B.C.E).
Some laws were quite brutal, others rather progressive. Members of the upper-class often received harsher punishments than commoners, and women had quite a few important rights.
According to the Tammeus School of Archaeology, at the bottom of the 300 laws inscribed on the pillar, was a phrase that would translate into today's language as ......"or do whatever you want."
Hey, Bill: Fuck you, and your anger. Why don't you open YOUR home to anyone you feel is being denied the right to a corn-hole crib on someone else's dime?
ReplyDeleteYou know, do to the least of your brethren, right?