So much unbridled hate from conservatives. And they wonder why younger voters want nothing to do with the Republican Party. You just know that when people like Congressman Rick Allen act out in such a fashion they are soon to be discovered smoking pole in an airport restroom or tagging an intern. Beware of those religious self-righteous ones.
House Republicans at a conference meeting heard a Bible verse that calls for death for homosexuals shortly before the chamber voted Thursday morning to reject a spending bill that included an amendment barring discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Georgia Rep. Rick W. Allen led the opening prayer by reading from Romans 1:18-32, and Revelations 22:18-19. Gay rights advocates called on top Republicans to condemn the “vile and dangerous remarks” and censure Allen.
“At a time when LGBT people face staggering rates of discrimination, harassment and violence, Representative Allen’s comments spread hate that does real harm,” Human Rights Campaign Senior Vice President said in a statement.
Passages in the verses refer to homosexuality and the penalty for homosexual behavior. “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,” reads Romans 1:27, which Allen read, according to his office.
“And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them,” read lines 28-32, which Allen also recited, according to his office.
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Read the passages correctly. “Worthy of” is not calling for. Put it together with “Vengence is mine sayeth the lord. Romans `12: 19. Punishment of sins will be from God, not man.
No matter how you try to spin it the fact is in a society such as that in the United States in 2016 the purpose of the reading was hateful, spiteful, aimed to harm gay people, and totally unacceptable.