Christian beliefs about sin and especially homosexuality have been declared by a California court “public safety issues” that the government has a “duty to condemn.” As such the court ruled that condemning sin was “hateful rhetoric” and the government must “exercise its duty as a public body.”
What was this hateful and unacceptable rhetoric? It was an ad campaign that said, “former homosexuals can celebrate a new life because someone cared enough to share with them the truth of God’s healing love … the truth that God abhors any form of sexual sin.”
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Source: American Family Association Journal, Sept 2000. Submitted by Rev. Craig Watters, Senior Pastor, First Baptist Church of Louisville, Colorado