Is homosexuality still a sin? OMFG—the suspense is killing me. Sunday can't come fast enough.

And since nobody struggles with this issue more than the Prayer Warrior, I'll pray for him.

Well this just calls out for a strong 'guest' presence.

Any well hung good looking tops want to come to the service with me on Sunday and we can demostrate just how sinful it can get?

Paul's letters to the Romans would be a bit like Slogging back in the day, no?

and the week after that i hear he'll be speaking on the evils of shellfish!

Hutch, maybe you should read from Judges 3:21-25 (hey, I'm not a Bible scholar, I only remember the funny ones) since surly you are as gluttonous as King Eglon, and the Good Book teaches us what your fate must be (stabbed - by a lefty to boot! - shat pants + no one cared because he always made so much noise) for his deeds.

I'm not FOR driving a sword into a person, or AGAINST being fat - just be careful with those literal interpretations of the Bible. There's much, much nastier passages devoted to people like yourself, Hutch.

I'm sorry, is there a new book of Romans that came out recently? Do we need to look over it again to see if it still says the same thing as it did the last time someone looked at it?

Maybe we can get Iron Man to engage in a battle with the Prayer Warriors! Do they shoot repulsive rays or something like that?

SPOILER ALERT!

He'll say yes.

28Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. 29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

Sounds like this was describing Hutch himself. I wouldn't be surprised if he's arrested for indecent behavior at truck stop or some park bathroom in another state.

Well, I just came, and so did my new boyfriend, and it was life-changing.

What a shame I don't live in Seattle - I haven't had a good excuse to dress up in drag in a long time. But hey, I'm straight, so he shouldn't have a problem with that, right?

21For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

oh yeah this definitely describes Hutch's hatefulness at this moment. Maybe he'll have a epiphany when he reads this outloud and realize he's so full of shit. I can't see how such a man, a black man at that, can be so full of hate and live his life vilifying gays and lesbians, like some racist white preacher who tries to vilify minorities.

How about this line from Matthew 15:11 -

"It is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles."

So as long as you swallow, everything is good.

I say ignore the DMF. Who cares what B.S.
he digs up from a bunch of deluded and superstitious tribalists who ate polluted foods and halucinated. You give him too much of your power.

And if you don't accept his interpretation of the Bible, he can just threaten to tear off your arm and beat you with the wet end.

Oh, wait. He already did that.

Perhaps his life will be changed as well. I'm thinking a debilitating stroke would be nice. but yeah, getting busted with a dick in his mouth would be perfect.

Um... does he actually preach about anything *else*?...

He just sounds so fixated... obsessed...

Or... closeted...

I know that the whole homosexual thing is Hutch's BRAND, or whatever, but damn as a congregation I would be getting tired of that by now.

Wake me when the Rev. Huffiness preaches a sermon on the sin of self-inflicted idiocy and ignorant intolerance.

More people struggle with those issues than any of us who no longer struggle with our homosexuality but lie (or lay) back and accept our "sin" as Dog intended.

And yes, I have also ceased struggling with the heridtary horror of left-handedness, hazel eyes and type A blood.

@21 - Goddammit! - hereditary...bad jeans

And the week after, Hutch will be preaching from St. Paul's first letter to the Corinthians (chapter 7, verse 1):

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

"...many who are struggling with this issue will come...."

yes, indeed

Traumatic brain injuries are commonplace in retired NFL players:

http://www.law.uh.edu/healthlaw/perspectives/2007/(DG)NFL%20TBI.pdf

Here's hoping his slide into dementia ends in abject poverty, too!

Here's another good passage for Pastor Hutch to meditate on:

If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

Kay... Slog blockquoting is borked.

@11:
The verse he preaches just until the cusp of says you're right:

Therefore you have no excuse, everyone of you who passes judgment, for in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things.
Romans 2:1 NASB

In other words, anyone who wants to single out homosexuality has gone beyond the humility of the admission of their sin and thus heaps condemnation on themself. The point of the passage is not that homosexuality is a sin, but that we are equally guilty of that for we all sin in the same way.

@29, i bet ya he'll construe that message into the opposite of what you said. you should go to his church on sunday and argue with him while he's on the pulpit. i bet ya he can't challenge your argument.