Christian Group has bank account removed due to "unacceptable views"

Absolutely, I could not agree more. Like those annoying Christians who are always shoving their propaganda pamphlets ‘in my face’ outside the train station first thing in the morning. Or the groups of Christians I often see in the local main street, singing cheesy, preachy songs, in everyone’s faces. Then there are the Christians who come around to my house on weekend mornings, knocking on my door for the purpose of shoving their literature in my face. What about the local church I drive past each morning with a big sign out the front saying Know Christ, know life. No Christ, no life. Nor can I forget the Christians I’ve seen sometimes at the bottom of the escalator at the train station, yelling out sermons to the people as they descend (during the afternoon rush hour, when most of those people are going home tired after a long hard day at work). At least those gay pride parades are generally annual events, which you have the option of not attending or watching if you don’t care for it. The aforementioned Christians make a special effort to make themselves difficult to avoid, and they do it all year round. I don’t recall ever having a gay man hand me a pamphlet saying that buggery is fun and that I should try it. Nor do I ever recall seeing a bunch of muscled shirtless men in tight leather shorts dancing to techno music in my local main street. Or if I see a gay bar, on the outside it looks like any other bar and they don’t have big signs up proclaiming that homosexual behaviour is the only way you can live a rewarding, satisfying life.I wonder who is more in your face? So, imagine you were the manager of a bank and were able to use your discretion to decide who to accept as account holders, in order to uphold the bank’s reputation. If a rep of the local church of satan worshipers came in wanting to open up their church account, or if the hardcore European adult DVD store down the street came in wanting to do their business banking with you, would you be happy to take them on as customers?

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On the 7th day, God was arrested.

It’s only unnatural in the perverse recesses of your narrow mind. The fact is that it happens in nature quite a lot. And why wouldn’t they want their lifestyle made legitimate? After having been told by bible thumping bigots for generations that what they do is wrong and unnatural, I think it’s about time to be put to rest. In my experience, the majority of gay people are just your average everyday sort of people, who want the same things from life that the rest of us do, such as love and stability. When two adults of the same sex are genuinely in love, committed to spending their lives together and supporting each other, the only unnatural thing is when the Government steps in and says No, you are not permitted to have that legal recognition of your relationship. That is absolutely correct, so please stop using religious concepts to define what a marriage should be. True, and the current custom of denying the right of marriage to a defined segment of the population based on their lifestyle choice is definitely bad. Good. So if it does nothing, that means it doesn’t help it or harm it. So what’s the problem then? Yeah, evidence is an awful thing isn’t it. You would rather have it that we all put our blind belief in an invisible supernatural being, and conduct our lives directly based on the words in a book from ancient history, written and translated by people whom we really have no idea of their motives or credibility? This constitutes a commonsense approach?Honestly Faith, the bigotry you are displaying here is quite saddening and disturbing. I’m a longtime reader (and occasional poster) of EvC, and the attitude and ignorance that you display in various threads can be quite unpleasant to read and actually make me seriously consider giving up EvC. But then I realise, there are so many more intelligent people here, both Christian and Non-Christian, that vastly outbalance the narrow-minded drivel that you produce.

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On the 7th day, God was arrested.