Let me ask you to make a leap – to stretch yourself – for the sake of an argument. Please, just go along with this premise just for a minute and hear what I have to say.<\/p>\n
What if Fred Phelps, the pastor of hatred, was right? Pretend just for a moment that he was right and that God really did hate fags.<\/p>\n
If God hates fags, then how should we respond? What should we do?<\/p>\n
I’ll tell you right now what you should do: you should love the homosexuals<\/strong><\/em>. If God truly hates gays and wants to destroy them, then we should intercede for them.<\/p>\n Our rightful response would be to stand in between homosexuals and an angry God and plead for mercy for them. We should stand in the gap like a prophet of old – like a Moses, Jeremiah, Elijah or even Jonah.<\/p>\n “Lord have mercy.<\/strong> In Jeremiah 29:7, the prophet Jeremiah said: “And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the Lord for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.”<\/em> (KJV)<\/p>\n For the record, I believe God loves fags, because they are people. But anyway, pretending that this foolish, deceived, misguided man was right, we would to well to respond like a merciful man or woman towards the object of God’s judgment. If you take this approach, you’ll be in very, very good company.<\/p>\n
\n Please, Lord, do not destroy them. Have mercy.”<\/strong><\/p>\n