Greensboro Pride will mark its 20th anniversary this month by bringing a Pride parade back to downtown Greensboro for the first time in nearly three decades.
The Greensboro Pride Parade and Festival will be held Saturday, Sept. 12, with the parade beginning at 10 a.m. along Elm Street and the festival running from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. around LeBauer Park and City Center Park.
It will be the first parade organized by Greensboro Pride and the first Pride parade held in Greensboro since 1996.
That year, Greensboro hosted NC Pride, a statewide event that rotated among North Carolina cities. Greensboro Pride itself began in 2006.
That distinction explains why some promotional material calls this year’s event Greensboro’s “first-ever” Pride Parade, while other material describes it as the first in nearly 30 years. It’s the first parade organized as part of Greensboro Pride, but not the first Pride parade ever held in the city.
The parade is scheduled to begin near East McGee Street and South Elm Street and travel through downtown before ending near City Center Park. Organizers say a final route map and staging information will be released closer to the event.
The parade is expected to include community groups, nonprofits, businesses, marching bands, performers, floats and vehicles. Organizers say tens of thousands of spectators and participants are expected.
The parade will be followed by the annual Greensboro Pride Festival in and around LeBauer Park and City Center Park.
The festival footprint will extend along North Church Street, North Davie Street, East Lindsay Street and East Friendly Avenue. Organizers say that the event will include live entertainment, more than 300 exhibitors, food and beverage vendors and nonprofit organizations.
Downtown Greensboro Inc. describes the event as one of the city’s largest single-day events and says tens of thousands of people are expected.
The City of Greensboro is also promoting the festival on its official calendar, where it describes Greensboro Pride as one of the largest LGBTQIA2+ events in the region.
There’s a discrepancy in the listed ending time: The city calendar lists the festival as running from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., while Greensboro Pride organizers and Downtown Greensboro list a 7 p.m. ending time.
The Sept. 12 parade and festival are the main events in a week of Pride activities.
Pride Week began with the Greensboro Pride Pageant on Saturday, Sept. 5. Other events include an LGBTQ+ art show and Pride-themed trivia on Thursday, Sept. 10, a kickoff dance party at Chemistry Nightclub on Friday, Sept. 11 and an official Pride afterparty Saturday night.
There will also be religious events connected with Pride weekend.
Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in downtown Greensboro will hold a Holy Eucharist celebrating Pride on Friday, Sept. 11 at 7 p.m. on the church’s outdoor labyrinth facing North Greene Street.
The Rev. Marion Sprott, Canon for Transition with the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, is scheduled to deliver a short message, and the service will conclude with a prayer walk on the labyrinth.
College Place United Methodist Church will hold a Pride Weekend worship service Sunday, Sept. 13 at 11 a.m., followed by lunch.
Greensboro Pride began 20 years ago as a local festival. This year’s addition of a downtown parade makes the 2026 event its largest expansion yet.
The parade and festival are free and open to the public.
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So you served in the military, laid your life on the line for America, and were honourably discharged.
You have reason to be proud.
Maybe you’re a policeman, risking confrontation with the worst elements in our society, on a daily basis.
You deserve to feel proud.
Or you might be a social worker who has really helped a young fatherless black boy to find his feet, and prevented him from joining a gang.
You deserve to be proud of your efforts.
But if all you did was [deleted], buddy, that’s nothing to be proud of.
What if you’re a gay policeman?
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Then you have every right to be proud of your policing work, but no more right to take pride in your sexual activity than anyone else (straight or gay).
Weird that conservatives think being gay is just about sex. That is as stupid as saying marriage is just about sex.
But you be you.
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Homosexuality IS about sex.
And I didn’t say it was JUST about sex.
Well, that is a weird kink you have there….I personally don’t think about people’s sex life when I meet them and their spouse. But you be you. Weird, but what ever floats your boat.
Cheers
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You’re the only weirdo here, buddy.
Some things ought never to be celebrated in public.
Imagine living a life where others told you to keep your spouse a hidden secret. No pictures at work, no holding hands in public, ko talking about your weekend openly, etc….
Kinda an awful thought honestly. But you be you.
divorce?
It’s if you stood up to bigotry and hate you have a reason to be proud.
Hope that helps
Cheers
put the smaky on this krapy, austin !
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Thanks, Markl.
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I respect Scott’s decision to delete the rather crude expression that I used, but just to be clear, it involved the creation of a low pressure region in the back of one man’s throat, in order to provide physical pleasure to another man.
Hey, I don’t care what consenting adults do, and none of it should be illegal, but it’s nothing to be proud of.
“Pride”… ? In what ?
Pride in overcoming bigotry and hate and being able to finally express open love for your partner in public in the same manner as hetero couples.
Hope that helps.
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You need help.
Reducing men in the LGBTQ community to only being men who [deleted] illustrates your bigotry and hate against a group of people who just wish to have the same right to love, honor, and cherish their significant other the same as any other man in our society.
But you be you.
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I have no hatred toward gay men or gay women.
Frankly, I resent your continual character assassination of me, and others who dare to disagree with you.
Your smears are as predictable as they are baseless and despicable.
When it comes to “hate”, maybe you ought to look in the mirror.
You showed your true colors by reducing men in the LGBTQ community to only being men who [deleted]. You can deny all you want but your words are very clear. Your fascination with how some gay men have sex is frankly weird.
Cheers Chippy
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You’re really grasping at straws, mate, in a pathetic attempt to make me look like a bigot.
YOU are the only one in these columns who’s full of “hate”, anger, bitterness, and venom.
You must be a very unhappy little man.
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I do hate bigotry.
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Aww… aren’t you an effing saint ?
Well by golly Austin Morris, you took the words right out of my mouth. Well said and right on target. We all have a right to our opinions.
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Thanks, Mr O. !
He does tend to come down on you extremely hard on everything you comment on. Most of us have noticed that. I’m guessing he does it as a way to justify the feelings of self-hatred he is dealing with in his life. He takes the hate for himself out on everyone else. That’s just my psychology 101 talking here.
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Yes Pat, “Professor”/Chris feels the need to attack almost every comment I make, and every single Letter I write. He’s fixated with me, and full of enmity.
But don’t worry, it isn’t going to stop me. I enjoy exposing his fallacies, fabrications, and falsehoods. And I’m a door-to-door salesman.
I have the skin of a Rhino….
Cheers!
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The addition of the Pride Parade is a good sign the Festival is being capably retooled after a number of corporate sponsors bailed out in 2024 and 2025 in fear of the Trump DEI initiatives. Mind you we are talking private money, not city or county funding here. The Pyrle and other Downtown businesses support the Festival, which draws a large number locally and from beyond the area. The numbers would make Scott Bessent pridefully proud. One thing you can count on with the LGBTQ2+ community is that they will get very creative.
Maybe corporate sponsors ” bailed” because they knew it would negatively affect their bottom financial line. Their job is to be accountable to share holders, not flags promoting a particular life style.
You can always boycott corporate sponsors that are supporting the Festival this year, so if they pick you up in the ambulance tell them you refuse to be taken to Cone or Novant Health! Also, never use Crest toothpaste. Gay people have a lot of money to spend. Just look at billionaire Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who is married to his male partner and has two children, First openly gay Cabinet member in history. Even the Trumpster himself can’t resist a a big gay hedge fund!
Cone Health is owned by Kaiser, a California HMO. They are buying up individual practices prices with lots of money, then charging Hospital prices for simple procedures. Medicare slices the allowed amount way down, so Cone Health writes it off as a business expense. But they sock it to those at mercy of their health insurance company, or hounded or denied for their limited ability to pay.
I have two doctors with their own practice. The rest are owned by nuestros amigos at Cone Health.
examining the lives of brilliant, successful people over time, i find that their ‘sexuality’ is all over the place & a reflection of their uniqueness but their ‘partners’ often suffered ‘shaming & shunning’
Great news. Will Josh Stein, Roy Cooper and Skippy Alston lead the parade?
I truly don’t understand why the rainbow brigade has to shove their way of life down our throat by doing this. Children should not be subjected to the stuff that goes on during these so-called parades. Some of these get way out of hand. The way they dress, the way they act, it’s ridiculous. Greensboro has reached a whole new low. I will make sure I’m out of town that weekend. I don’t want to see it. I don’t want to hear it. I don’t want no part of it. It’s disgusting and it goes against everything that God commands. I want to know why they are not doing Straight pride parades. Why does the rainbow brigade get special treatment. They claim they want equal treatment but yet they get special treatment. I don’t see parades being put on for normal families. I don’t see parades being put on for straight people. This is ridiculous in Greensboro should not be allowing it.
Uh, you dont have to go to the parade. No one is shoving anything down your throat.
Professor please reference Austin’s first post concerning that.
Read my response to that.
Cheers
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You wouldn’t have to go to a NAZI Parade in Greensboro, if they organised one.
Would you approve of that parade?
No you wouldn’t……I can understand not ‘liking’ Nazis parading around but why do you not approve of a parade of people celebrating their having overcome bigotry, hate and ignorance? Especially since you claim to not be bigoted against the LGBTQ community. Seems clearly contradictory to me.
Cheers Chappy
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Because sexuality is an intensely personal and private matter, whether straight or gay.
More to the point, you assailed Pat’s distaste for a public celebration of abnormal sexuality by saying he didn’t have to attend the parade.
By the same logic, you would defend a Nazi parade by saying we didn’t have to attend it.
Right?
But you won’t admit to this, because logic is irrelevant to you. The only thing you care about is convincing your inner child that you have scored a point, and “won” a debate. That’s because you are a weak desperately insecure little wanker of a man.
Hope this helps.
Still pushing the false equivalency of comparing LGBTQ to Nazism?
A Pride parade is a public celebration of the LGBTQ community and all that they have had to overcome in the terms of bigotry, hate and ignorance. Nazism is a political ideology based on racial supremacy, antisemitism, dictatorship, and other beliefs that led to horrific crimes.
My point is that if you dislike a Pride parade, you don’t have to attend it…or even acknowledge that it is happening. That is an argument for individual choice and freedom of expression, not an assertion that everything anyone might parade in support of is morally equivalent.
By your logic, if I defend someone’s right to publicly express an idea I dislike, I must therefore endorse every idea anyone could every publicly express. That is obviously nonsense.
And calling homosexuality ‘abnormal’ doesn’t prove your argument; it simply assumes the very conclusion you’re trying to establish. FYI, claiming that LGBTQ is just about sex is as stupid as saying marriage is only about sex.
The personal insults at the end of comment don’t strengthen your analogy. They just make it considerably easier to see that you don’t actually have a logical response to the distinction.
Cheers Chippy Dippy Do
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The analogy is perfectly valid.
I make clear explanation of why it isnt and Austin’s on response…..”Na Uh. Is to!”
Classic
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You’re either being disingenuous or you’re too thick to understand it.
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There’s a controversial parade in Greensboro, and “Professor” is defending it by saying
“You don’t have to go to the parade. No one is shoving anything down your throat”.
So he’s fine with any and all parades for the reason that you don’t have to go to them.
Therefore, by the same reasoning, he is fine with a Nazi parade in Greensboro, because you don’t have to go to that parade either.
This is how absurd his reasoning is.
Comparing LGBTQ community to Nazi is one of the most disgusting things you have posted here. And that is saying something.
But you be you.
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I did NOT equate homosexuals to Nazis, as everyone can see.
Your smear is just another example of your twisting and lying about what others say.
You really are a despicable disingenuous little creep.
You clearly compared a Pride parade to a Nazi parade and support for one being the same as support for the other. Disgusting. But not shocked given your history of bigotry against LGBTQ.
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Oh, why don’t you just[deleted] off?
It’s probably safe to assume there were gay Nazis.
Is that a pun?
They have the constitutional right. We have to suffer lots of crap from many people, so all have equal rights. Just as free speech. If what anyone says goes, then everyone goes.
So if you don’t like it, don’t go.
On the other hand, there is not lack of bad taste.
pun intended.
I personally like the pun Miller
Chris, you really are special aren’t you? Do you even read or have reading comprehension? If they are doing it outside in public, they are shoving it down people’s throats. And again you went and didn’t even pay attention to the part where we don’t have a straight people parade! We don’t celebrate that so we should not celebrate gay people! And especially on a weekend where terrorists attacked our country! This is the wrong time to be holding a so-called parade downtown. They should have rescheduled it for a different weekend if they are so determined to have this crap. Why do gay people feel like they are more special than anyone else? Why do they have to have a parade where they dress so provocatively in front of tiny children and do the things they do. Why do they think that they are better than anyone else that they deserve their own month and parades and crap. They are not better than me or you or anyone else. We need to stop giving these people attention like this. Yes chris, they are shoving it down people’s throats whether you like that or not. And no, I’m not going downtown. I don’t want to be anywhere near that travesty.
Do what in public? Walking? How is that offensive? Maybe some people are holding hands? Ooooooo how risqué.
They are not celebrating having sex. That is only in the mind of creepy conservatives. They are celebrating overcoming ignorance, bigotry and hate. You know, the ignorance, bigotry and hate that thinks people walking in public is offensive.
Have you seen the news of a recent Tucson shooting outside the Venture-N gay bar, there is now fairly strong evidence that authorities consider it an anti-LGBTQ hate crime. I say, it makes them special to stand up to such hate and march against the kind of bigotry you seem to have against the LGBTQ community.
But you be you.
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Violence against homosexuals is deplorable, or violence against anyone with deviant sexual tendencies. This is a free country. Let them do whatever they like, so long as they’re consenting adults.
But… we don’t want to have to endure a public and ostentatious display of their sexual proclivities any more than we’d want to endure a public display of straight sex.
Yuck. Either way. Sex is a personal, private matter.
There is nothing deviant about homosexuals. They perform the same sex acts as many hetro couples do.
FYI, no one will be having sex at the Pride parade. That is weird fantasy that only conservatives have…..LGBTQ are allowed to display their love and affection for their spouse/partner just the same as hetro couples.
But it is weird how you can only think of sex when commenting about the LGBTQ community. It really is kinda weird.
But you be you.
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Homosexuality is, by definition, a deviation from normal sexuality. If homosexuality were normal, humanity would not exist.
By definition, homosexuals are sexually deviant – whether you can accept it or not.
And I never said that homosexuals would be having sex at their parade – obviously. You love misrepresenting what others say, don’t you? That is so you can paint them as bigots or racists, or “weird”. But we are not weird.
It is YOUR claims that are weird, buddy.
The problem with your argument is the word “deviant.” You are treating it as though it is the objective definition of homosexuality, when it is actually just a bigoted value judgment.
Something can be statistically less common without being abnormal in the sense of being disordered, defective, or morally deviant. Left-handedness is less common than right-handedness; infertility is less common than fertility; neither makes someone “deviant.” I have asked before and will ask again….’are redhead deviants?’. They make up less of the population than the LGBTQ community? Do you call redheads deviant? I am sure you don’t. So why treat LGBTQ differently unless you are making some type of moral judgement?
And the fact that heterosexual reproduction is necessary for the continuation of the human species doesn’t establish that every individual sexual orientation must be reproductive. All people don’t have to reproduce for humanity to continue. Many hetero couples are unable to reproduce? Are they deviants?
So if by “deviant” you simply mean “different from the majority,” then say that. But if you mean that homosexual people are inherently defective, disordered, or morally aberrant, that conclusion does not follow from your definition of homosexuality. You haven’t demonstrated it…you’ve simply assumed it.
Calling something “deviant” doesn’t make it a fact. It just tells us what you think about it.
And yes, it is weird to think people walking in a parade is about sex.
Cheers Chappy Do Dah
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Deviant is the correct word for anything that deviates from the norm.
And homosexuality definitely and definitively deviates from the norm.
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But why don’t you vomit another volume of verbose vacuity?
You’ll feel better. So throw up.
The event is free. It doesn’t cost anything. I wish I knew how to plan a free event.
Do it for nothing.
It’s not TAX free. Taxpayers are paying for the police and EMS support. Taxpayers are paying for the cleanup. Taxpayers are paying for the support. The event is free to the PARTICIPANTS, not the taxpayers.
Well said. Greensboro is filling God’s cup of wrath.
Is the whole month of JUNE not enough????? Yes! Yes it most certainly is. And WHO ever decided that they should get an entire MONTH of “recognition”? It’s pathetically indicative of the way this country fell so far during the Biden Harris Obama administration and will fall further and faster if democrats get the chance to be in full power again. PAY ATTENTION GREENSBORO REPUBLICANS (and independents). Get out and vote to stop them in November and beyond. Our way of life depends on it.
Oh no, you have to tolerate an entire Month to LGBTQ? What a burden it must be for you. All those mandatory activities you have to attend and all those presents you have to buy, and OMG, what do you wear that months?!?!?! /s
You can treat Pride month the same as National Catfish Month if you choose. Big whoop. The month clearly isn’t for you….it’s for those that have had to overcome bigotry, hate and ignorance. Let em have THEIR month and you go about your day to day. Big deal.
But you be you.
Cheers
One day to honor those that made the ultimate sacrifice for all of us, one day to honor and celebrate those that left their families and their homes to give the rest the rights and freedoms everybody take advantage of. But you would give a whole MONTH to ‘celebrate’ their (IMO) perverse ‘lifestyle’.
Little wonder this country is slowly starting to circle the drain.
Oh, by the way Chris/Professor, my baby brother was gay yet I still loved him and he I. Hate the sin, love the sinner.
Well said Alan!!
Men and women fought and died to protect and defend our Republic. They get two days.
And a full month. May is national military appreciation month. Weird you don’t know that….
Hey Prof! I merely expressed a different opinion, I did not attack you personally.
No, you didn’t. Still weird you didn’t know that Military is honored far more than just two days a year.
“Hate the sin, love the sinner” is a nice slogan, but it doesn’t magically turn rejection into acceptance. If the ‘sin’ you’re talking about is an intrinsic part of someone’s identity and relationships, you’re essentially saying “I love you, but I disapprove of a fundamental part of who you are.” You’re free to believe what you want, but you’re not entitled to redefine rejection as love simply because you put the word ‘love’ in front of it.
Imagine being your brother and not be ‘allowed’ to share the love of his life openly with his brother? Not being ‘allowed’ to share stories of a great a vacation with someone he loved. Not being allowed to bring his loved one to family functions like everyone else was without judgement from ignorant people such as yourself. I promise your brother resented you for rejecting who he was at heart but knew your ignorance was deep and strong on this topic so died without believing that you truly loved him.
I am sure you will say “you didn’t know my brother….” You are right, but I know many in the LGBTQ community who have heard the same bulls**t from their families and how it broke their hearts as I am sure it did your brothers.
Oh, and the National Military Appreciation Month is a month-long observance recognizing and honoring members of the US Armed Force, past and present. This is, of course, in addition to National Veterans and Military Families Month, Month off the Military Child, Memorial Day, and Veterans Day. What do you want…..an entire year?
Hats off to all the folks in the LGBTQ community who have stood up to the bigotry and hate as promoted by conservatives in spite of Gods command to love thy neighbor.
Cheers
a committee was formed vote taken & one of the 10 commandments has been removed. guess which one? i think the world is overcrowded & homosex is one of the solutions & an effect of our evolution
I stand up for most of them, and I ignore the rest.
Being in your garage does not make you a car, any more than being in Church makes you a Christian.
does a ‘housewife’ require a ‘house’ & be in it? this is too much ontology for me !
I truly wish I was as wise and all knowing as you with your ” You are right, but I know many in the LGBTQ community who have heard the same BS from their families and how it broke their hearts as I am sure it did your brothers.” I never knew you knew and watched me and my brother so much. I never knew you knew about the “Imagine being your brother and not be ‘allowed’ to share the love of his life openly with his brother? Not being ‘allowed’ to share stories of a great a vacation with someone he loved. Not being allowed to bring his loved one to family functions like everyone else was without judgement from ignorant people such as yourself.”…oh wait…there you go again claiming to know EVERYTHING about ANYBODY when you when don’t know squat and work on self generated ignorant assumptions. When he was alive he AND HIS PARTNER was always welcome at family functions and treated appropriately. And just because I did not agree with his lifestyle, and he knew my position, I vigorously defended him, as did the rest of the family. But considering you were obviously (based on your comments) hovering over watching like a hawk and able to read peoples minds why am I wasting my time on you.
As I said…hate the sin, love the sinner…but you make it soooooooooooo hard
I understand the truth hurts and has clouded your ability to read my statement fully. I will spell is out more clearly (not that i think it will help….but who knows)
You say you hate the sin. The sin in this case was the love of your brother’s life and you don’t see that hurtful nature of such a statement. As I say, you be you.
Saying you didn’t approve of his ‘lifestyle’ is the same as saying you didn’t approve of the love of his life and you claim that wouldn’t hurt your brother? Sure….if it helps you sleep at night, but I promise it did hurt him (assuming you had the nerve to tell him….maybe you didn’t….)
I am not saying you didn’t love your brother…just that your bigotry hurt your brother in ways you clearly seem to not care about….but you be you.
Cheers
“…Gods command to love thy neighbor.”
I believe the term that applies to someone who has said what was said here is HYPOCRITE.
But you be you
Love often involves correcting the misinformation, lies, and hate projected by my neighbor. The same as you do with children that you love.
Hope that helps.
Chris, are you trying to act like we are supposed to go against what God tells us and accept this perverted way of life? As a christian, we are not to accept these people and the way they live. We can love them, but we don’t have to accept what they do. They are going against everything that God commands. How you are okay with that way of life and the way they publicly behave themselves and demand rights above what other people get just blows my mind. Are you a christian? I’m guessing you are not. I have a granddaughter who told me she was gay. I didn’t believe her then and I don’t believe her now. I think she is doing it to be accepted by the social media crowd that she talks too. I love her but I do not accept that way of life if that is indeed how she ends up swinging. And I made it clear to her that I do not want to see that type of behavior. She can love who she wants to love and she can tell me all about her vacations and anything else but I don’t want to see pda. I don’t display my pda in public and I sure don’t want to see theirs. It is unnatural. Also, these churches that are giving communion to these people are not Godly churches in any way shape or form!! You are not supposed to give communion to people who are not baptized and who do not walk daily and have faith in God! That also goes against God’s commands! But I guess you’re okay with that too? All of this is unholy and unnatural. And one thing about it, I will not accept it and I will never be okay with it because I love God and I follow in his Word. I will never give up God for anyone else that goes against what he says.
First, whether I am a Christian isn’t determined by whether I agree with your interpretation of a handful of biblical passages. And I certainly don’t believe following Christ requires me to reject, exclude, or demean LGBTQ people. Show me where Jesus spoke of turning people away, of not accepting them….
ou keep saying “love them, but I don’t have to accept them.” But what exactly does that mean? Your own example makes the problem pretty clear. Your granddaughter told you she is gay, and you told her you don’t believe her, that you think she’s doing it for social-media acceptance, and that you don’t want to see that part of her life. You say you love her, but you’re also telling her that an important part of who she is is something you refuse to accept. I would ask you to consider how that feels from her side.
And “PDA” isn’t a gay issue. If a straight couple holding hands, kissing, or showing ordinary affection is acceptable to you, then objecting to the same behavior from a gay couple isn’t really about public displays of affection. It’s about the fact that the couple is gay.
As for Scripture, you’re presenting your interpretation as though there is no legitimate Christian disagreement about it. There absolutely is. The Bible contains several passages concerning same-sex sexual behavior, but translating those ancient Hebrew and Greek texts into a blanket condemnation of modern, loving, consensual same-sex relationships is an interpretation…not a universally settled fact among Christians or biblical scholars.
More importantly, Jesus didn’t tell his followers to spend their time identifying which people they shouldn’t accept. He commanded us to love God and our neighbors, showed extraordinary compassion toward people whom religious authorities considered sinful, warned against judging others, and repeatedly emphasized mercy.
But you be you
‘ . . . returning for the FIRST time . . . ‘ Ugh! like cancer ?
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Hey, God Bless the [delected]! Really.
I used to work for a company called Rainbow Productions that organised fundraisers for rural fire departments and rescue squads. I was so young & naive that I didn’t know rainbow meant gay, and sure enough, a lot of the other salesmen were gay. So what? It’s not my cup of tea, but sexuality is intensely personal, and so long as they’re not messing with kiddies or forcing themselves on others, they are free to do whatever floats their boat.
It’s called freedom – and I’m a libertarian.
Yes “Professor”, the term [delected] might be construed as pejorative but it’s really not. It’s just a British vernacular term for male homosexuals. But I’m sure you’ll cite it in an attempt to smear me as a bigot or a hater. You’re so predictable. And so prejudiced against me, and all us conservatives.
May be YOU are the nasty little creep.
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In America, in my opinion, that is a derogatory word, perhaps only mildly, but still I don’t think it is appropriate for the Rhino Times forums.
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The word is an everyday term for homosexual men not only in the UK, but all over the Anglosphere and particularly in Australia.
Much like the phrase “Bugger Me!” or the word buggeration (meaning ineffective efforts, and used by Winston Churchill), continuous usage has softened the original meaning, and the pointedness of the term.
But it’s your newspaper Scott, and if you think it’s offensive you can always delete it.
Hint. This is the United States of America and slang terms have different meanings.
add ‘normative’
You also refer to them as ‘deviants’ and pretend that isn’t an insult. If you truly are not prejudiced against the LGBTQ, why begrudge their having a parade to celebrate their having come so far to overcome bigotry, hate, and ignorance.
Are you claiming they don’t still experience hate? Did you see the recent shooting in the news targeting gay men?
Deny all you like but to speak about the LGBTQ community the way you do is classic bigotry even if you don’t want to admit it. You clearly understand that referring to some as a deviant or [deleted] has a long history of being used to demoralize people, yet you still choose to use those words. THAT is the choice that speaks the truth about who you really are regardless of what you claim. But you be you.
Cheers Chippy Dippy
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This guy who goes by “Professor” – he’s not a professor, and is the same person who wrote the Letter – is utterly determined to smear me. He has developed an unhealthy weird fixation with me, probably because I make his views look foolish and silly. That’s rather pitiful and puerile, but his character assassination of me is continual, and always ends with him shrieking “Bigot!”, “Racist!”, “Hater!”, or some such vitriolic hatred.
I’m actually going to say a prayer for him tonight. He has serious emotional/psychological problems and has previously admitted to suffering from mental health issues that have been professionally diagnosed.
Clearly he is an odious and unpleasant person, but he has a soul and a mind, and perhaps one day he will find equanimity and serenity. I hope so, and I ask any other Christians reading this to say a prayer for this fellow.
Yeah, I don’t like him, but I hope he gets better. Really.
I think by your rants of childish name calling, personal insults and attacks, it is you that needs help.
I hope you find it. I just call out bigotry when I see it.
Cheers Chappy Happy Boy
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Actually, I am a happy well adjusted sexagenarian (which isn’t as sexy as it sounds), with two wonderful well adjusted sons, a happy wife – as far as I know! – and a successful small business of my own. But – Heaven Forfend! – it is based on door-to-door sales. You despise people like me, don’t you?
And I am happy to say that after four decades living in this beautiful state, I have become a US Citizen. I’m a lucky lad.
I am even blessed enough to be perfectly healthy… but my liver probably has a few too many miles on it. I’m really enjoying a cold Radeberger North German Pilsner right now.
Why don’t you have a beer, “Professor” ? It might help you.
Cheers!
And try to get over your hate for me.
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I prefer Scotch or Bourbon
This article reports two facts that should not be blurred together. One is a civic parade on Elm Street on Saturday. The other is that Holy Trinity Episcopal and College Place United Methodist are holding worship services that celebrate Pride.
The second fact is the one a church has to answer.
Jesus did not use our modern word “homosexuality.” He did take marriage back to creation: God made them male and female; a man holds fast to his wife; the two become one flesh; what God has joined, man must not separate (Matthew 19:4–6). He also taught that sexual immorality comes from the heart and defiles a person (Mark 7:20–23).
The apostles who had been with Him, and who received the Holy Spirit, did not treat same-sex practice as an open question. Paul names it among sins that keep the unrepentant from inheriting the kingdom (Romans 1:26–27; 1 Corinthians 6:9–10). He also wrote that sexual immorality is a sin against one’s own body (1 Corinthians 6:18). Jesus said the Spirit “will not speak on his own authority,” but will take what is the Son’s — and all that the Father has is the Son’s — and declare it (John 16:13–15). That is why the apostolic warning is not a later correction of Jesus.
A Eucharist or Sunday service that blesses what those texts call sin is not more loving than Christ. It is calling evil good. The church is not free to baptize Pride and still claim the same gospel.
The same chapter that names the sin also names the way out: “And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God” (1 Corinthians 6:11). Christ does not bless the practice. He washes people who repent and believe Him. That is the way to life. Greensboro does not need churches that celebrate what Scripture forbids. It needs churches that still tell the truth and still hold out the washing.
There is a legitimate biblical basis for churches welcoming and blessing LGBTQ people: Jesus repeatedly emphasized love of neighbor, mercy, inclusion, and refusing to condemn others. The Bible says ‘God is love’ and that we are to love one another. Christians can interpret the disputed passages about homosexuality differently while still concluding that their calling is to extend Christ’s love and blessing rather than rejection. A church that welcomes LGBTQ people isn’t abandoning Christianity—it is following a different biblical understanding of what Christian love requires.
Another way to think of it…..The Bible doesn’t say Christians are called to exclude gay people; it repeatedly commands love, mercy, compassion and humility. Jesus’ central command was to love God and love your neighbor. Churches that bless LGBTQ people are exercising a sincerely Christian interpretation that those commands should include LGBTQ people too.
Hope that helps
You cannot use religion as proof. Religion is faith-based, not fact based.
like ‘fiat’ currency.
comics i enjoy, written & colorfully illustrated ‘scripture’, avoid sexuality. many scholars who have studied ‘scripture’ debunk it. there are many ‘bible’ translations wildly contradictory
So often the bible is used to condemn others. This is always based on man’s interpretation and their attempt to ‘reflect’ god’s word. With regard to homosexuality, English translations are interpretations of ancient Hebrew and Greek, and there is legitimate scholarly disagreement over what the relevant terms and passages actually condemn. In particular:
Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13 use the Hebrew phrase commonly translated as a man “lying with a male as with a woman.” The dispute isn’t whether the Hebrew text exists; it’s what sexual practice the passage is addressing and whether that prohibition should be understood as a universal condemnation of modern, consensual same-sex relationships.
1 Corinthians 6:9 is particularly important because the Greek terms malakoi and arsenokoitai have disputed meanings. Translating them straightforwardly as “homosexuals” is relatively modern. Earlier English Bibles did not consistently use that term.
1 Timothy 1:10 similarly uses arsenokoitai, whose precise meaning and scope remain debated.
Romans 1:26–27 is the passage that most explicitly describes same-sex sexual behavior, but it occurs within Paul’s discussion of idolatry, excess and dishonorable passions. Scholars disagree over whether Paul is condemning all same-sex relationships or particular practices understood in his cultural context.
I choose to leave the complexity of translations to scholars and instead focus on the clearest of Christ’s Message which is Love, Inclusion, Mercy and Acceptance. I wish more Christian Conservatives would do the same.
Cheers
Professor, what I stated scripturally shows that churches should accept all sinners in and welcome them to hear the good news about Jesus’ death and resurrection. It also is very clear that condoning sinful behavior is wrong. So, we need to share the gospel and love everyone. But, don’t be fooled into thinking Jesus, the Ancient of Days, condones sin and will allow a church to promote sin as “okay.” If it is stealing a pencil from work, it is still disobedience to God. A church isn’t allowed to preach “Come be washed in the Word, but keep taking those pencils since we will celebrate stealing them with you!”
See my other comment that we are not to judge sin given that the translation of the bible has long been in debate on many points (not just homosexuality). God will judge sin, we will love and embrace all and forgive their sins. Are you not forgiven for YOUR sins? Have you removed the log from your eye?
It is my job to welcome people into the church. My welcoming into the church doesn’t mean I condone their sins or even need to know their sins. That is between them and God and to the ones they confess their sins. What is a sin? If you rely on man to identify and judge sin, you are in for a lot of arguments. Me? I leave that to God and your own conscious.
With regard to pencil stealing….you choose to steal a pencil. You don’t choose to be attracted to and fall in love with someone of the same sex, that is a God made you. If you want to council someone, focus on the choices the make, not changing how God made them…that seems awfully presumptuous.
Hope that helps.
Cheers
I know of no other parade that centers on sex; man on man sex, woman on woman sex, persons who want to switch sex and persons who cannot decide which sexual behavior they prefer. Regardless, it is perverted behavior since the behavior is outside the norm.
It is estimated by someone who keeps track of these sorts of things, there are 1.0%-1.6% lesbians in the US; 2.5% gay men; 2% bisexual men; and a total of 9.0%-9.3% who fall into the entire alphabet population. That leaves over 90% of the US population as non-alphabet.
These parades remind me of the female “hear me roar” parades in the 1970s. And they roared all the way to jobs outside the home leaving children behind. So, what about the alphabet group? Who knows? That chapter has not been written. I do think so many young adults are rudderless. And for this I blame parents and schools.
As far as the parade is concerned, the parade organizers should be responsible for all expenses, including police and cleanup. No public money (taxes) should be used for any part of the parade. Why? Because the event is not a celebration of the community but a tiny part of “hear me roar” community.
As far as churches, look yourself in the mirror priest, pastor, or whatever and ask yourself, does the alphabet construct based solely on sexual behavior represent Christian teachings? If your answer is “yes,” that may help explain loss of congregants.
Thinking Pride or the LGBTQ community is about sex is as stupid as thinking all marriage is about sex. The heavy focus on the sex lives of the LGBTQ community is a weird fetish of conservatives and no one else.
But you be you.
Think about it, professor. What defines a homosexual? It is “homos,” which comes from Greek, meaning same. And “sexualis,” which is Latin for biological sex. Strip away all cultural construct and what do you have left? A Greek definition that is sex-based. The Greeks were not trying to sooth someone’s feeling, they were not trying to be inclusive (or exclusive,) they were not trying to harm anyone. No, they were trying to give a name for a man who is sexually attracted to another man. I guess one could call this “ground zero” for homosexuals. The Greeks saw a phenomenon that was not natural to the natural world, as they knew it, and gave it a name based on sex, sexual preference. So, you see, professor, it has always been about sex; society created the rest.
I argue that what you have left is Love based. People’s relationships in marriage is far more than just sex. It is about trust, companionship, fellowship, sharing, helping, comforting, etc…. Sure, pleasuring is also on that long list but in no way is the sole focus of anyone’s relationship with their partner, gay or straight. Nor is it the most important thing on that list of what makes a loving relationship special above all other relationships.
Hope that helps.
Cheers.
Also note the word homosexual is NOT Greek. It is English.
It has roots in Greek but the word homosexual was coined in the 19th century and was never used in any sense in ancient Greece. The words used in Greek society for we call homosexual has long been in debate by scholars for decades. So, your argument is false on its face but I get the point you are trying to make although I strongly disagree.
Cheers
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TermLimits is clearly correct. Homosexuality is obviously about sex. If it’s not about sex, what does it mean?
And his historical references are 100 per cent correct too.
Incidentally, it was the case that the women in a particular small Greek island seemed to have a clear preference for each other, rather than for men. The island was called Lesbos, and that’s where the teem Lesbian comes from – a small Greek island in the Northern Aegean.
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The Reality: Homosexuality, like heterosexuality, is a sexual orientation, which includes romantic attraction, deep emotional attachment, companionship, cohabitation, and building a life together.
The Parallel: If heterosexuality was “just about sex,” straight relationships wouldn’t involve marriage, shared finances, caring for each other during illness, raising families, or growing old together. The exact same non-sexual, emotional bonds exist in same-sex relationships.
No difference between homosexuality and heterosexuality other than one involves same sex and the other doesn’t.
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Heterosexuality has never been just about sex. Heterosexuals can reproduce; two homosexuals cannot. A marriage between one man and one woman was by design so that humans could reproduce. Two homosexuals will NEVER be able to reproduce. Therefore, their relationship will never be more than sex. That is not to say that homosexuals cannot feel and share love and build a life together. But the first spark between homosexuals is a sexual desire. That was true with the Greeks (homos) and with the Latin Romans (sexualis.)
Not all heterosexual couples can reproduce. Do you judge them as negatively as you do gay couples? Marriage is far more about sex or reproduction whether you are married to same sex or not. It is about companionship, fellowship, support, care, comfort, sharing, etc…. Claiming that only same sex couples have a right to the fellowship of marriage is absurd.
The spark between all couples is attraction. Are you claiming hetero couples where sexually attracted to each other? Do you hear yourself?
Gay couples are no different that Straight couples. Even the sex acts they enjoy together are also enjoyed by straight couples. The only difference is that one is judged by ignorant hateful people and the others aren’t.
But you be you.
What is the first thought that comes to mind when you hear gay male and be honest. Do you think of fellowship, support, comfort, sharing? Probably not.
What is the first thought that comes to mind when you hear heterosexual? Marriage, children, family? Most likely.
Therein lies the difference. It is about sex.
But you be you.
i have read/heard some ‘bible’, some child/juvenile ‘comics’ but did not linger concentrating time/attention on ALL the humanities, science & its foreign language MATH. i call religion mythology but am confident a mortal name Jesus Christ made a very good impression on the people around him: i don’t need ‘miracles’ or ‘faith’ or ‘give thanks’ to supernatural entities zeus, juno, god, wooten, odin etc. an atheist Christian ! it’s the Unitarians fault !