Pastor Joel Osteen: Being gay is a sin

[bigdarryl]

I knew there was something I didn't like about this bible thumper something told me he was a right wing nut http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/29/pastor-joel-osteen-being-gay-is-a-sin/

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Do you want to be gay or do you want to be rich?

The latter is what drives people to his TV show and into his pews.

[sofa king]

27. I know a helluva lot of people who are both!

Gay couples are usually DINKs, too (double-income no kids), since it's been made so damned difficult for them to adopt kids. Partly for that reason, among many others, most of the gay couples I knew were doing considerably better than their heterosexual friends.

What inspires me to write this is a particular couple I know. They lived together and looked into adopting, but it wasn't going to work. So, they cornered the market on an orthodontic procedure instead, and retired to a tropical island less than ten years later.

[CurtEastPoint]

2. So is his hairdo.

[asjr]

3. I suppose Osteen has now become

rich enough he can say anything he wants to say. I am so tired of people like him. All of them have forgotten what Christianity actually is.

[get the red out]

4. Rich actor

That's what he is, that's what all like him are. They are a stage presence pandering to people who want to believe that if they hate the right people, vote the RIGHT way, send the actors like him money; then GAWD will bless them with entry into the world of the haves. It's a religion, just not the one they say it is.

[Gman]

5. I heard a Catholic priest tell a group of teens that

Being gay is not a sin. Acting on being gay is the sin. No where In the Bible does it say it is a sin to be gay. The act is what is described as a sin. Just sayin' these RW preachers overlook that.

[GodlessBiker]

6. Just being gay is a sin? A status sin, so to speak. It used to be illegal just to be an alcoholic.

Another example of religious absurdity.

[chervilant]

7. Sadly,

this latter day 'Elmer Gantry' packs his arena every Sunday, sheer testimony to the number of people who believe as does he.

[JNelson6563]

8. Fleecing the flock is a sin.

Love is never a sin, only the lack of it.

Julie

[Taylor Smite]

9. He has every right to believe that.

First Amendment says: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof

The Establishment Clause says the government cant establish a national religion, or force religious beliefs on people.

The Free Exercise Clause says the you can believe whatever you want, as long as you dont take away the civil rights/liberties of others.


Cool dude, believe that it is a sin. But just like we dont want Sharia law in the US, we dont want any other religious law mandated on the US. Thats why we have the Constitution.....the document that conservatives say they love so much, but somehow they miss the very first line of the very first rule.

[grantcart]

25. welcome to DU

[Lint Head]

10. Osteen is associated with the Trinity Broadcast Bigot Network. They are criminals using fear to

extort money from people who are at a weak moment in their lives. There is not one television evangelical who is sincere when it comes to Christian beliefs. Not one. It is a business that sucks big money out of the economy tax free.

[polichick]

14. It really is a disgusting business - these guys are predators...

And it's no accident that they build their mega-churches in places where the people have been left behind by changing times and a bad economy. Even the placement of their churches is predatory.

[Lint Head]

17. It's amazing they get away with the things they do. They operate in the open.

With all of the problems in the Catholic church at least they generally operate some real charities. These televangelists are totally crooked and would lie to their own next of kin for a dollar.

[polichick]

19. It's stunning that people are so easily fooled...

Even when these organizations are outed - as the Catholic church has been outed for aiding and abetting pedophiles for generations - people continue to support and enable. Televangelists might as well be wearing t-shirts printed with the words "CON MAN" - and still people follow.

[tech3149]

11. The first thing you have to accept is that ANY "so called" religious representative on commercial TV

is a huckster whose only goal is making money. How much do you think it costs to put together that production and get it distributed to hundreds of outlets around the country? It ain't cheap and they wouldn't do it if there weren't a payback.
My ex's father was a minister and were it not for the tax breaks that let them build a rectory, they couldn't have gotten by.
There was no thing as an eight hour day. It wasn't just him that was expected to do whatever/whenever. His wife and children were always working to support themselves and the church and all the congregation.

Osteen and his ilk are probably hard pressed to work a few hours a day.

[polichick]

12. Actually, being hateful is the sin - but somehow right-wingers don't get that.

[Rex]

13. This from a guy that begs elderly people to send him

their SS checks.

I hope there is a special place in Hell for the Osteens of the world.

[MADem]

15. I'd say Being Pastor Joel Osteen is a sin! Hateful little shithead!

If he's really a Christian he should understand that this Christ guy he praises so much did not write those lousy "Scriptures" he makes such a big deal over.

They were written by women-hating, Filistine-despising, homophobes who wanted to keep certain elements of society down so they could keep all the power and influence to themselves!

This guy is a putz! A dumb putz, to boot!

[Dawson Leery]

16. The young people are rejecting your "prosperity gospel".

It is a gospel of hate which the Evangelicals have been pushing since their unfortunate existence began.
Joel Olsteen and his ilk could have been and should have been dealt with 150 years back.

[grantcart]

18. Actually I hear its fabulous.

[Rex]

20. +1

Ignorant people running around all their lives telling others how to live.

M E H.

[sakabatou]

21. The first time I saw him on TV, just a few seconds

I felt there was something creepy about him.

[Arkana]

22. If being gay is a sin, being a megachurch revival-tent clown huckster doofus

who screws gullible old people out of their social security checks is a much bigger fucking sin.

[markpkessinger]

23. Osteen sets off my gaydar...

... and my gaydar is not very often wrong. Just sayin'.

[grantcart]

24. nah he's too smarmy, that can happen sometimes the smardar is too sensitive and interacts with the

gaydar.

[JaneQPublic]

26. Matthew 19:24

"Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."

It appears Flock-Fleecer Osteen has no better chance of getting into heaven than do we gay sinners.

[LaurenG]

28. See this "mean god" syndrome is why we can't all have a good life

People who use scripture to pick and choose which verses they'll conform to make me want to scream FUCKING HYPOCRITE on international tv!