Where is the Love?

I saw on YouTube that there is a very poor debate on "The Gay Agenda" and Prop 8. Just figured I'd give my two cents in blog form, since I do not have a web cam:

Jesus came to this earth preaching love, tolerance and compassion.

"...love your neighbor as yourself" (Matt. 22:39)( http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2022:36-40;&version=31;)

Jesus ate with the tax collectors, healed lepers, performed miracles on the Sabbath, all in the name and glory of God the Father.

Where, if not the church, can broken people go to have the unconditional love of Jesus shown to them?

As a church are we supposed to say "Well, once we heal ya of that whole 'gay/alcoholic/wife-beating/child-beating thing' you'll be welcome within our sanctuary (regardless of the fact that it's called a SANCTUARY.)"

Jesus didn't care about any of that. He loved and died for EVERYONE. Even those who don't believe.

He sat at a well and spoke with a Samaritan woman, who any self-righteous Jew would not have associated with, he stayed and spoke with her telling her of the light to come.

I'm not saying I disagree with everything you say, but I don't see Jesus in anything that you are saying. I only hear the Christian agenda to keep marriage a "holy sacrament" which, to be honest, it isn't.

The Pagans get married, Mormons get married (some times more than once at the same time), savages in Africa and South America get married and they may have never heard of the word or of God.

Love is a choice.

I don't believe that being a homosexual is something that is a result of "bad wiring", it's a choice. Just like Christ CHOSE to give His life as a ransom for any and all who would accept His love and sacrifice.

It's the lack of love in the church that makes me dislike being jumbled in with "Christians" like Pat Robertson and many other agenda pushing "Christians" looking the sell another book or two.

I have been using the term Christ Follower to describe my faith. It usually gets strange looks from people, but they're not my judge, nor are they the kind of people who I take stock in their opinions anyway.

I don't know if I made any sense, or if anyone will agree with anything I have to say. But that's what I believe.