The truth from the Christian perspective is that Christ never said a single thing about homosexuality, but he said a shitload about the poverty, injustice, intolerance and Phariseeism that modern fundamentalists worship.

Make no mistake, the so-called "Christians" in charge of the Day of Truth are not furthering any Biblical, Christian, or godly perspective but merely their own acquired social revulsion to the people Christ commanded them to love.

As a Christian, I am enraged that I must share the name of my faith with such people. I have every intention of participating in my own school's Day of Silence, as I have for the past three years.

To those of you who think that Christians are incapable of criticizing each other or too weak to stand up in the face of oppression, I just sent this, along with all my contact information, to the people who run the Day of Truth website:

I heard of your site from Salon.com. As a Christian, I am truly offended that you people think you ought to be spending your time supporting intolerant views that Christ never once spoke of, while you could be truly serving your Lord by helping the poor and the oppressed of this world. The fact that you peddle your own social revulsion to people who don't conform to your (thoroughly Western) ideas of gender norm as supporting a "Christian" truth is an insult to all Christians who have dedicated and given their lives to the cause of spreading Christ's love and message to all people. We are none of us exempt from sin and we are all in need of the salvation that comes only from Christ's love, not from the dogma of the Pharisees. If you want to spread your hate and intolerance, do it in your own names, for Christ truly never passed any opinion on the matter. Stop turning the rest of the world against Christianity, and start opening your hearts.

Thanks to you, I am more resolved than ever to take part in my own school's Day of Silence for the fourth year in a row. While you concern yourselves with the letter of a law that you don't understand, the real Christians of the world will be engaging in a loving relationship with their fellow sinners.

"[They] abjure the substance of religion and its demands for social moral performance, evading their obligations as Christians for the infinitely subtle refinements of formalistic posturing. [...] The hypocrisy of conventional religion, Coppe's well-favoured harlot, was its fertility and subtlety in finding restraints on, and diversions from, the substantive moral obligations of Christianity. Compared to this, cursing and swearing, "base impudent kisses" and lust were innocuous offenses, symptoms rather than cause. Coppe refers to them not to endorse them, but to contrast that the formally religious judge each other for these things -- and count this righteousness -- while they ignore hardness of heart and lack of charity."

-J. C. Davis, historian, on Abiezer Coppe's "A Fiery Flying Roll"

in Christ's peace

(please do not send me any of your literature)

*Rosenkavalier*, Theta Alpha Kappa

Spoken like a true reactionary. Please. Preventing law-abiding citizens from access to firearms isn't going to stop non-law-abiding citizens from committing crimes like murder. In this case, "illegal gun possession" will simply be added to the charges.

This is a fundamental flaw that no anti-gun liberal really understands, for reasons I don't understand. It is entirely logical, after all. And it's ironic that the same people who think that the War on Drugs is a fool's errand and should be abandoned in order to allow responsible people to safely use drugs rather than force the practice underground, it is almost ridiculously hypocritical. Banning guns will remove weapons from the responsible gun-owners who use them to hunt and protect their families. But it won't take them out of the hands of criminals who ignore the law anyway. Why is that so hard to understand?

Besides, the NRA is the second most powerful lobby group in the country. Good luck trying to deal with those buggers. They are idiots and jerks, but powerful idiots and jerks.

And, of course, an anti-gun position would go a long way to losing the precarious edge that Democrats are beginning to earn in states like my own homestate of Montana. What city-bound anti-gun liberals don't understand is that there are lots of people who vote Democrat and tote guns too, and we're in the parts of the country in which you can't afford to lose votes.

And in the spirit of this article, here's another absurd reactionary proposal: Why don't we ban immigrants from moving to this country, since the VTech shooting is clearly an example of where the law does us a disservice? Sounds absurd, right? Well it's all the same....

Christians who have a different view from Christ should express that view in their names, not His. That is my objection to the so-called Day of Truth.

90% or more of crimes are committed by men. Look at statistics of spreading disease, and I'm sure you'll find that men are responsible the majority of the time, regardless of their sexuality.

Does this mean that men are evil, or that to be a man is to be a murderous, criminal disease-ridden threat to society? No. So get off your high horse, dipshit.

By the way, I'm sure most of us here would feel more compelled to give a crap about what you're saying if you weren't too cowardly to even post your screenname, for goodness' sake. But I guess knowing that you'll never have to be responsible for your words and actions, even on the Internet, makes it a lot easier for you to spew your verbal diarrhea.