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Date Posted: 13:02:20 11/12/11 Sat
Author: Lois
Subject: Why is Andrew Shields quoting Apostle Paul?

(all bolds added by Lois)

Here is an interesting article from 2007 in the New York Times. It was about a Snickers candy bar commercial in which two guys accidently seemed to kiss because they were both trying to eat the same candy bar. The candy company withdrew the commercial quickly.

There are two interesting items in this article.

1. A lesbian "surprised herself" by falling in love with a man. Hmmm. I was under the impression that the GLBT bunch would not think that possible. After all, supposedly they are born that way and have no choice. Funny, it seems that woman was capable of making a choice. In my book (the Bible) we have the choice of whether we will commit a particular sin.

2. The Community of Christ (c-not-of-c) either was invited into the news article or interjected themselves into the news article. Strange, don�t you think, considering that the c-not-of-c claims that they have not decided the issue of whether homosexual people will be ordained and married in the c-not-of-c. It rather seems to me that Andrew Shields, World Church Secretary (of the First Presidency) is letting people know in the New York Times that the homosexual thing is "all cool".
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http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C03E7D6143EF93BA25751C0A9619C8B63&pagewanted=1

A Kiss Too Far?
By GUY TREBAY
Published: February 18, 2007 (bold by Lois)

After considering herself exclusively lesbian for decades, Sarah Van Arsdale, a novelist, not long ago found, to her surprise, that she had fallen in love with a man. At first, as she wrote last week in an e-mail message from a writer's colony in Oaxaca, Mexico, '' Whenever we would hold hands in public, I felt a frisson of fear, waiting for the customary dirty looks or at least for the customary looking-away.''

In place of revulsion, Ms. Van Arsdale was startled to discover that, having adjusted her sexual identity, she was now greeted by strangers with approving smiles. ''I felt suddenly acceptable and accepted and cute, as opposed to queer,'' she said.
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(second page)
''We don't administrate public displays of affection,'' said Andrew Shields, World Church Secretary of the Community of Christ, a Christian evangelical church with headquarters in Independence. ''Homosexuality is still in discussion in our church. But our denominational point of view is that we uphold the worth of all persons, and there is no controversy on whether people have a right to express themselves.''
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Oops! I can't hear you, Andrew Shields. Credibility problem!
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http://www.cofchrist.org/slice.asp

Encourage One Another
by Andrew Shields, World Church secretary

�It is hard to be a Christian. Paul wrote this letter to Christians who were forced to choose between being Christians and participating in the Imperial cult.�
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Andrew, were you forced to choose? If so, what did you choose?
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This?

http://www.galaweb.org/who.html

GALA (Gay and Lesbian Acceptance) envisions communities which witness that persons of all sexual orientations and gender identities have sacred worth; are fully included, celebrated, and affirmed with their chosen faith traditions.

Or this?

Romans Chapter 1 (What a crazy coincidence!!! This was written by Paul too. :-) )

22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, through the lusts of their own hearts; to dishonor their own bodies between themselves;
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections; for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature;
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.
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Submitted by Lois

http://www.cofchrist.org/usaconf/journey.asp

At a USA gathering during the 2010 World Conference, 1,100 individuals and 400 groups responded to a survey, �Help Shape USA National Conference.� Only 5 percent listed pressing topics as something other than same-gender issues.

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Re: Why is Andrew Shields quoting Apostle Paul? -- john, 14:14:58 11/12/11 Sat
- Re: Why is Andrew Shields quoting Apostle Paul? -- George, 15:29:24 11/12/11 Sat
  - Re: Why is Andrew Shields quoting Apostle Paul? -- john, 13:53:41 11/13/11 Sun
Re: Why is Andrew Shields quoting Apostle Paul? -- john, 13:54:15 11/13/11 Sun