Personally, I have witnessed how people who are hardened towards Jesus, never really change throughout there lives. The only lives that really show significant personality change, are lives that are surrounded by love and acceptance, love like that worked for me. It is that love that reaches out with the right words at the right time, and they heal and touch in ways that I am unable to describe, though I most certainly will try. Thanks for the "Beautiful" word. Your mind is a beautiful one.

But Aeryck, if these people are 'hardened towards Jesus', why do they announce themselves under the banner of 'Christian'? Why don't they just call themselves Anti-gay groups? Like it or not, a major proportion of the anti-gay lobby are Christians, who actively use their religion as ammunition in their campaigns (such as the example above) against homosexuality.

It is that love that reaches out with the right words at the right time, and they heal and touch in ways that I am unable to describe,

These words had nothing to do with healing.  The words these groups spoke were words of condemnation, of division. 

As for people being hardened towards jesus - these are people who claim to be doing his work, to be spreading his word.

How much lower can they go?  To me, picking on a cartoon sponge when there's a war going on is pathetic.  Truly pathetic.

“Mom is Sponge Bob gay?”

The question SHOULD BE...
"Mom, are Christian Conservatives Christian?"

The American media is much like the media here in the UK. They are all poofters making these programmes and enforcing the dangerous idea that the natural family unit can be replaced by two bleached haired poofters teaching an adopted child that following Christ is 'evil'. God does not accept poofters and therefore aggression towards poofters is a very Protestant thing to do indeed. That is what we all should be concentrating on, doing the glorious work of God's chosen English Protestant people.

Once again, the floodgate of SPM's mouth opens and raw sewage flows...

It's sad that they choose to go after spongebob and barney when they could be focusing their efforts on actually doing some good in the world.

Once again, the floodgate of SPM's mouth opens and raw sewage flows...

Raw sewage has some practical uses... don't insult it...

It is to be expected that an American would collaborate with an Israeli Jew. The micro politics match the macro. I expect you think that Henry Kissenger was a saint.

I am not sure who this Barney chap is, but if he is promoting a homosexual lifestyle for children with his friend Bob then they should both be hanged. Political agitators like 'Barney' should not be tolerated.

Actually, it would only require one of us to take out an emasculated hack such as yourself old chap!

Great article! A lot of people are posting about this, including myself and I think it's a great topic of discussion!

I have so much fun coming to sites like this and reading all the Hypocrisy from the commentors. You claim that "Christians" are "using their religion as ammuntion in their campaigns". Talk about discrimination against an entire group. It is so easy to make a label for an entire group. I am a Christian, I don't have anything against all the homosexuals in the world, true I do believe the decision to be gay is a sin, but I also believe lust is a sin and I have certainly struggled with that along with every male in the world. If you're going to be prejudiced against a group, at least be honest about it. It is true that there are some zelots in the Christian faith, but thats true in ever large group without exception. There are just as many homosexual zelots as Christian, one of them just got banned from my campus as a result of sexual harrassment towards another student. I think that before any of you trash talk an entire group again, you should meet every single person who places themselves under that banner.

I know that what I say will get a lot of right-wingers flaming me, but what I have to say relates to my family, and it's hard for me to be objective because it's my late brother I'm talking about.

Before you talk about trashing anyone, realize that there's a lot of trash in general. My brother only wanted to spend the last weeks of his life with his father. He thought that his father and stepmother were okay with that; that's what he understood from them. Then when he was about to come home from New York to be with them, he learned that they planned to put him in a hospice rather than to live with them. This, of course, was because his "good Christian" stepmother wasn't about to let her husband let his gay son who was dying from AIDS come home when that would just "upset him." As she didn't hesitate to say, "Your father means more to me than anything else on this earth and I will not have you upsetting him." My brother chose instead to die in New York in the hands of state-supported health care workers. Had it stopped there, it would have been enough, but it wasn't. After he died, my dear stepmother was the first to occupy his New York apartment to take over the evacuation of everything. She interfered so much, even violating the instructions in his will, that the others involved had to summon the attorney who drew up the will to have her removed.

It doesn't stop there, I fear. She was the one to arrange his memorial service. The clergyman had never met him, so he had to take all the cues from whoever prepared it. In the end, the clergyman recited a script that omitted me completely, mentioned my mother once, mentioned my father in passing, and spent the rest of the time talking about what a loving relationship he had with his stepmother -- a total lie.

Fortunately, we have a cousin with whom we were very close, and he wrote a novel, Goneaway Road. If you read it, you'll read the story of Buck and Maxine. That's the story of my brother and my stepmother; the names were changed, of course. The difference is that in the book, my cousin told her off in the character of Evangeline, whereas in real life, he didn't get to do that. Maxine in the novel is a hateful bitch, but in real life, my stepmother is far more evil than the character in the book. In fact, I have a case against her in federal court now for defamation of character, invasion of privacy, and quite a few other charges when I caught her snooping in my bank accounts and medical records without permission. Somehow she believes that the law exempts her because of age, gender, and facial wrinkles. A federal judge and jury will prove to her just how wrong she is. If justice is done, she will spend her twilight years in the trailer camp with her crazy eldest daughter. Yes, the "good Christian" woman has no problem letting her eldest daughter, who suffers from severe bipolar disorder, live in a trailer camp while she lives in luxurious conditions, but that will be a short-lived situation.

MasterWriter: That woman's quite cruel, but that's just one woman. Surely, there's at least one bad person in every group of the world, right?

Response to Tim Lyons:

'You claim that "Christians" are "using their religion as ammuntion in their campaigns".
I said this. It is incontrovertibly true.

'Talk about discrimination against an entire group.'
No one argued this. The target of this blog - as spelled out in the headline(!) - is 'Christian Conservative groups'. No one said 'ALL Christians'.

Perhaps you might learn to tell the difference before you start hurling accusations of hypocrisy.

And finally:
'I also believe lust is a sin and I have certainly struggled with that along with every male in the world.'
Before you come to this kind of conclusion, shouldn't you - in your very own words - 'meet every single person who places themselves under that banner'?