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Nebraska assistant coach openly anti-gay, claims holy bible urges him to preach against homosexuality
Posted: 30 April 2012 08:42 PM   [ Ignore ]
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http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/7863307/nebraska-cornhuskers-assistant-ron-brown-confusing-faith-rights
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http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/7855135/nebraska-cornhuskers-aide-ron-brown-faith-demands-anti-gay-stance
and
https://www.facebook.com/FireNebraskaCoachRonBrown

Coach Ron Brown represents a public university where bigotry of this sort cannot be tolerated. He has created a conflict of interest between him and other students and faculty that don’t share the same faith. Ron Brown assumes first of all that the bible is the ruling authority over the world. The part that scares me the most about this is that Ron Brown says the bible is where he gets his opinion that homosexuality is a sin and causes him to speak out against it. The bible also tells you to stone to death homosexuals and non-believers alike. If he will literally take the bibles stance on homosexuality, why not literally take the stance on stoning? If he isn’t also going to preach that they should not only be denied rights, that they should also be stoned to death, then his claims about the bible as the moral authority are invalid as he is cherry picking his evidence for his opinion.

what do you people think about this?

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Posted: 30 April 2012 11:20 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]
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justryanism - 30 April 2012 08:42 PM

I read somewhere here in the rules that I should not post any links….

Are you sure? Post away I say…

Nebraska assistant coach openly anti-gay..

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All right, no one is to stone ANYONE until I blow this whistle! Even… and let me make this absolutely clear… even if they do say “Jehovah”!

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Posted: 01 May 2012 01:48 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]
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justryanism - 30 April 2012 08:42 PM

I read somewhere here in the rules that I should not post any links…

(Andrew):  You’re welcome to post source links.  What we don’t like are links to/advertisements for cialis or gucci or golf clubs…

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Posted: 01 May 2012 02:48 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]
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Andrew - 01 May 2012 01:48 AM
justryanism - 30 April 2012 08:42 PM

I read somewhere here in the rules that I should not post any links…

(Andrew):  You’re welcome to post source links.  What we don’t like are links to/advertisements for cialis or gucci or golf clubs...

Damn, just found a good sale on some Calloway’s too…

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Posted: 01 May 2012 06:17 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]
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Big deal.  He’s just another bigot cherry-picking the Bible to support his beliefs.  The coach may have his say as long as he doesn’t associate the university with his views or use it as a platform.

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Posted: 01 May 2012 06:53 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]
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Andrew - 01 May 2012 01:48 AM
justryanism - 30 April 2012 08:42 PM

I read somewhere here in the rules that I should not post any links…

(Andrew):  You’re welcome to post source links.  What we don’t like are links to/advertisements for cialis or gucci or golf clubs…

ok good, well I was just trying to observe the rules, I perhaps a little too thoroughly? haha.

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