’)Dobson writes, he learned at an early age to stay out of striking distance when he back-talked to his mother. One day he made the mistake of mouthing off when she was only four feet away and heard a 16-pound girdle whistling through the air. The intended blow caught me across the chest, followed by a multitude of straps and buckles wrapping themselves around my midsection. The girdle incident did not dampen his defiance, however. One evening, after Dobson s mother forbid him from going to a dance, the recalcitrant teenager told her that he was going anyway; she picked up the telephone and called her husband. I need you, she said.What happened in the next few days shocked me down to my toes, writes Dobson. His father canceled the next four years worth of speaking engagements, put the Oklahoma house up for sale, and took a pastor s job in San Benito, Texas, a small town near the Mexican border. Dobson had two years of high school left, and when he started classes he found himself the target of a couple of bullies. Rather than turn the other cheek, Dobson wheeled around and threw his schoolbooks in the face of one annoying youth. By the time he could see me again I was on top of him, Dobson writes. Dobson also tried a little bullying himself, targeting a boy whom he sized up as a sissy. But the boy gave him such a thrashing that Dobson concluded bullying wasn t for him.
Fast forward a few years and Dobson hates the gays. Coincidence?
Wow… you know I always thought “hompohobia” was a bit of a misnomer, I mean rednecks with guns dont really have much to fear from gay people considering that they’ll never see one “in the wild” or anything, but Dobson here, getting beaten up by the sissy after throwing his books at him… I think he’s actually afraid that gay people are just going to beat him up.
…god how damn cool would that be if it actually happened?
Wow. His father was a freak and his mother was violent. Who woulda thunk it?
Never mind that; a 16 pound girdle? Daaammn.
What’s more amazing is that he actually had parents who cared about the direction in life he was taking (something you don’t see too often). Had they not been there for him he may have gotten off the right path and may have ended up somewhere else, possibly ‘testing the waters’ himself. Do you actually think he fears gay people or do you think he fears the consequences of their actions? I think it’s safe to say that EVERYTHING, be it good or bad carries a consequence. I’m willing to go out on a limb and say that he actually loves gay people, because he’s actually commanded to do so, but hates the unparented, unguided choices that they make. Oh but wait, not everyone comes off the same boat so I can’t make assumption. Hmm…
1 Corinthians 6:9
9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders
Romans 1:24-25
24Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator who is forever praised. Amen.
I guess we could conveniently ignore that statement and go on with our lives, but what if you’re wrong? If you don’t inherit the kingdom of God, then what shall one inherit? Here’s your shot at getting it right, choose wisely.
Romans 10:9-13
9That if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. 11As the Scripture says, “Anyone who trusts in him will never be put to shame.”[e] 12For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, 13for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”