{"id":791,"date":"2004-04-13T21:53:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-14T05:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/04\/13\/they-are-forcing-their-way-into-our-towns-breaking-our-doors-down-saying-we-are-sodomites-and-there-is-nothing-you-can-do-about-it\/"},"modified":"2004-04-13T21:53:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-14T05:53:00","slug":"they-are-forcing-their-way-into-our-towns-breaking-our-doors-down-saying-we-are-sodomites-and-there-is-nothing-you-can-do-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=791","title":{"rendered":""They are forcing their way into our towns, breaking our doors down, saying, `We are sodomites and there is nothing you can do about it.'""},"content":{"rendered":"

The title of this post comes from this article from the Chicago Tribune<\/i><\/a>, about homophobia in the South. And yes, the woman who said it was being serious.<\/p>\n

From later on in the article:<\/p>\n

Josh Runyon, 27, who grew up in Dayton, used to believe he would go to hell because he is gay. Everywhere he went, people reminded him of it–on the street, in the fast-food restaurant where he worked and in the church where he worshiped.<\/p>\n

Since he came out at age 14, Runyon, the son of a preacher, has grown used to Christians telling him that his sexual orientation is an abomination and quoting the Bible to make their point. Some offered to pray for him; others threatened to burn a cross on his front lawn if he didn’t renounce his sexuality.<\/p>\n

“Christianity stopped making sense to me, so when I turned 18, I left the church. I just didn’t feel welcome,” said Runyon, who later moved to Chattanooga. “People are locked in ideas from 20 years ago. I was taught that homosexuality is a sin and that gay people were going to hell. So I decided to stop going to church and just be gay.”<\/p>\n

Rev. Matthew Nevels, a former Southern Baptist minister, said he left the convention after church members shunned his son when he was dying of AIDS. Nevels, of Chattanooga, is president of Parents, Family and Friends of Lesbians and Gays.<\/p><\/div>\n

Of course, the kind of “Christians” who shunned Nevels’ son don’t represent all Christians; not all Christians are assholes. But those who are <\/i>assholes sure manage to make all the other Christians look bad, don’t they? It’s really unfair to the decent Christians out there.<\/p>\n

Via Mouse Words<\/a>..<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The title of this post comes from this article from the Chicago Tribune, about homophobia in the South. And yes, the woman who said it was being serious. From later on in the article: Josh Runyon, 27, who grew up … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-same-sex-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}