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I was reading the news today about Ted Haggard, and all thats gone on with him over these last couple years. 9news has this thing where people can comment and so on, and I read them sometimes, which is always a bad idea because I walk away really angry each time. Today was no different. What Ted did was WRONG, no question, and lying made it worse. But these people who comment just to bash Christians make me angry. First of all, they are so stinking ignorant about anything Christian its ridiculous to read what they say because they have no clue! "Christians hate gays, they have such old views of the world, they need to update themselves. If they just embraced gays they would be so much better." Oh shut up! First off, Jesus commanded us to love, not just love straight people, or "good" people. No, he commanded us to love everyone. Gay, straight, good, bad, ugly, pretty. I fail at this daily, and so does everyone else because we are imperfect humans. Us Christians have given ourselves a bad name. With our wrong ways of teaching what Jesus preached, taking what He said and twisting it to fit our lives and agendas. Its wrong, and dirty, and does not bring anyone to know the love of Christ. The Bible does say homosexuality is wrong, scholars and theologians can debate this all they want, but its right there in the Bible plainly that it is sin. So is lust, and anger, and hate, and robbery, and murder, and lying. Its ranked right up there with all those other sins, and no sin is worse than another, its all sin. And just because someone is gay does not mean we should hate them, so in one respect they are right, we do need to embrace gays, because that's what we were commanded to do. That doesn't mean support their lifestyle, just like you wouldn't support a friend who is an alcoholic, but you love them all the same because of who they are, not what they do. So instead of hating the person, why don't we become more like our God and only hate the sin. Because God does  not hate "gays" or "fags" as all those so called Christians like to picket that He does. God loves each one of us, no matter what sin we do, he loves us, we are his children. And its about time we Christians started walking in Jesus footsteps and do what he commanded us, to love everyone.