Comments on: Support For Same-Sex Marriage Is Like Catching Cooties

By: Alison

Alison — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:17:48 +0000

I’m so tired of bigots hiding behind Christianity. Teaching hatred is corrupt and completely contrary to the teachings of Jesus. Mr. Cass, I pray for your lost eternal soul, God is surely disappointed in your actions. Straight and against hate!

By: Marlene

Marlene — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 01:47:28 +0000

OMFG! This guy is a complete loon! Keep away from all GLBTs? You think we all have a big ol’ neon pink ‘Q’ on our foreheads, dearie?

We’re *everywhere*, my dear bigot! We’re your lawyer, your secretary, your janitor, your retail clerk; etcetera, etcetera, etcetera!

By: David C.

David C. — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 07:00:07 +0000

Gary Cass is just diseased. He has, by advancing this position, proven that the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission stands for just the exact opposite of what its name is supposed to suggest.

By: Learned Hand

Learned Hand — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:44:43 +0000

Cass’s comment is absurdly un-Christian. Christ hung out almost exclusively with the outcasts of society. Up until they snagged themselves an Emperor, the Christian church was made up almost exclusively of the poor and marginalized.

If Christ was alive today, the people he would hang out with would be illegal immigrants, teenage runaways, gang members, drug addicts, gays and prostitutes (can’t skip the classics).

I sometimes wonder whether people like Cass realize that they are the Pharisees.

By: Jason D

Jason D — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:53:50 +0000

I seriously think that’s why some Christians want to retain/create the right to fire gays, not hire gays, refuse to rent to gays, refuse to help gays, refuse to let gays teach their children math, refuse to let gays move into their neighborhood/town/building, refuse to artificial inseminate gays, refuse to do their job and file the legal marriage paperwork for gays.

It’s 2% “this is against my beliefs” and 98% “I don’t want to have any sympathy for gays, so I refuse to get to know any of them under any circumstances.”
I think they instinctively know that familiarity can breed acceptance — and that just cannot be allowed to happen.

By: GreenEyedLilo

GreenEyedLilo — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:25:59 +0000

So…a “good Christian” must shun every LGBT person they know, even blood relatives? Their own children?

So *that*’s what “family” means!

Cass needs to worry about his own defamation of Christians before he addresses anyone else’s.

By: Ben in Oakland

Ben in Oakland — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:18:05 +0000

There was very little that Jesus said that Paul did not contradict.

Jesus: no divorce. Paul– OK if your wife is a gentile.

Jesus: judge not. Paul: here’s a list of sinners.

Jesus: pray in private. Paul: make a church.

Jesus: give away what you have. Paul: make a church.

I’m sure there are many others.

By: ----

---- — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:28:44 +0000

Evangelical Christians seem to care more about Paul than Jesus. They should call themselves Paulians instead.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:50:24 +0000

Great quote, Matt. I think coming out is the most effective form of activism.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:46:11 +0000

“I cannot prevent anyone from getting angry, or mad, or frustrated. I can only hope that they’ll turn that anger and frustration and madness into something positive, so that two, three, four, five hundred will step forward, so the gay doctors will come out, the gay lawyers, the gay judges, gay bankers, gay architects … I hope that every professional gay will say ‘enough’, come forward and tell everybody, wear a sign, let the world know. Maybe that will help.” Harvey Milk, 1978