I am sick and tired of hearing that Christians who oppose homosexual activity HATE homosexuals. From a Christian prospective hating a person is not now and has never been with-in the fundamental tenets of Christianity. We are taught to hate SIN not a person. "We all are sinners and fall short of the glory of God" Let he who is without SIN cast the first stone" said Jesus. Those who accuse us of HATING homosexuals have clearly never met a true born again Christian. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

Spare me the rhetoric about the Crusades, the "lynchings" in the South, and the abortion clinic  bombers. These people and those acts were never committed by born again Christians who loved God and followed Jesus.  They were and are Christians in name only, period.  The fact that they claimed to be Christians does not make them Christians. There are delusional people in every facet of life - but they are not typical of the group with whom they associate. And these people and their acts bare no resemblance to the life of a true Christian.

Secondly STOP saying that Christians want to IMPOSE their beliefs on others.  This is an absolute and total FABRICATION! A true born again Christian knows that God Himself does not IMPOSE His way on mankind! God gave us "free will" the absolute right to chose how we want to live and what we want to believe. The only thing is that we must accept the consequences of our choice - good or bad.  This is fundamental to all of life whether or not you believe in the God of the Cristian Bible! We all have to live with the consequences of our decisions and we can not escape them. Everyone has the right to chose how to live their own life. To impose our beliefs on others is antithetical to biblical Christian  teachings. A true Christian will share his/her understanding of God's truths with others who are willing to listen. A true Christian observes God's provision of Free Will and knows that you can not impose God's way on another person - in fact a True Christian knows that you can not even persuade a person to chose God. All a Christian can do and remain faithful to God is to share his understanding of God's truth. Anything else is contrary to God's own behavior.

It is true that God as revealed in the Old Testament did seem  indeed to impose many things upon His people and sometimes upon other people. The New Testament reveals the rest of God's truth and plan, to us and therefore one must judge Christians in the light of what Jesus taught and how He acted, not be the partial view of God in either of the testaments.

As to how we "know" that God's word is TRUTH - that indeed is a matter of faith. Just as even those who do not accept God's word as truth exercise faith in their daily lives - even when they deny they ever use faith as a basis for their actions.  For example when we get on board a plane to fly somewhere. Who among us investigates the pilots to be certain they are qualified? and how do we KNOW they are qualified even if they have a license?  Do we check the engines, kick the tires and investigate the airworthiness of the craft?    Do we check all the luggage to be sure there is no bomb on board? NO we get on and fly by faith!  We believe it the systems that are doing these things for us.  By the way the next time you walk into a room you have never been in before and set down in a chair -- you have just exercised your faith!  You BELIEVED that chair would hold your weight with out first investigating it to make certain. Faith is an everyday part of everyones life.

So we Christians believe that truth is not relative but absolute because truth is rooted in an infallible God. We are NOT DEMANDING you believe this as well. We will how ever share with anyone who is willing to listen how our lives have benefited by our adherence to these beliefs. Like Fox News, "We Report, You Decide" That is the true Christian way.