JJM wants a lively board so here it goes...

[jedburks]

No worries BRS, my marital issue will never be what I wish it to be but it takes 2 in a marriage. Really the only part of my religious upbringing that I use as a dad is the "golden rule". Do unto others, or as I say to my kids, "give respect, get respect, give disrespect, get disrespect". I just want them to treat ALL people the way they want to be treated. Like on here. I may treat some people like shit but that is because I don't mind getting it back. I would never want myself or my kids to be discriminated against. That is why everyone should be treated equal.

Other than that, my religious upbringing is just a huge question mark. I do believe in a higher power but I question a lot of stuff!!!! Some of that is for better understanding. I talk to one of my uncles a lot who is a priest and he questions things as well and is very frustrated with many things the religious freaks do and say. It makes people like him look bad and get lumped into a bad spotlight. Plus he hates Tebow and his religious crap so he is really smart.

I broke one of my cardinal rules of not talking religion. Religion is a personal thing in my opinion (that was not for you Brasky) and their is no true right or wrong and that is why it should not be legislated or pushed down people's throats.

Thanks Papa, it is very seldom that a religious discussion can be civil.

 

[Jack_John_Mark]

If you don't believe in the Holy Trinity you'll perish and rot in hell

 

[Jack_John_Mark]

YOU BETTAR BELIEVE IT DADBURNIT!

 

[jedburks]

If you don't believe in the Holy Trinity you'll perish and rot in hell

Well...since I don't know what that is....see you in hell.

I heard the devil's mom is really hot so I will be happy.

 

[HuskerInSecLand]

No worries BRS, my marital issue will never be what I wish it to be but it takes 2 in a marriage. Really the only part of my religious upbringing that I use as a dad is the "golden rule". Do unto others, or as I say to my kids, "give respect, get respect, give disrespect, get disrespect". I just want them to treat ALL people the way they want to be treated. Like on here. I may treat some people like shit but that is because I don't mind getting it back. I would never want myself or my kids to be discriminated against. That is why everyone should be treated equal.

Other than that, my religious upbringing is just a huge question mark. I do believe in a higher power but I question a lot of stuff!!!! Some of that is for better understanding. I talk to one of my uncles a lot who is a priest and he questions things as well and is very frustrated with many things the religious freaks do and say. It makes people like him look bad and get lumped into a bad spotlight. Plus he hates Tebow and his religious crap so he is really smart.

I broke one of my cardinal rules of not talking religion. Religion is a personal thing in my opinion (that was not for you Brasky) and their is no true right or wrong and that is why it should not be legislated or pushed down people's throats.

Thanks Papa, it is very seldom that a religious discussion can be civil.

I used to have religious training at home.

Like in the first house we bought I re-wired it and I was in the attic running wire. You had to enter the attic through a hole in the bathroom ceiling so I heard when my daughter, about 4 or 5 then, went into the bathroom and did her thing. I let her finish but while she was washing her hands I said "MEGAN!" in a real deep voice. It got real quiet in there so I said it again ""Megan!".

In a little scared voice she said "Who is that?"

I said "GAWD!"

In an even quieter voice she said "What do you want?"
and I said " OBEY YOUR PARENTS"

she real quick said "Yes sir" and ran out of the bathroom.

If I could of only got my sons in there, they were both a handful.

 

[Red_Alert]

I used to have religious training at home.

Like in the first house we bought I re-wired it and I was in the attic running wire. You had to enter the attic through a hole in the bathroom ceiling so I heard when my daughter, about 4 or 5 then, went into the bathroom and did her thing. I let her finish but while she was washing her hands I said "MEGAN!" in a real deep voice. It got real quiet in there so I said it again ""Megan!".

In a little scared voice she said "Who is that?"

I said "GAWD!"

In an even quieter voice she said "What do you want?"
and I said " OBEY YOUR PARENTS"

she real quick said "Yes sir" and ran out of the bathroom.

If I could of only got my sons in there, they were both a handful.

LOL'd

 

[HuskerInSecLand]

 

[HuskerCradle2Grave]

If you don't believe in the Holy Trinity you'll perish and rot in hell

Link?

 

[huskers1217]

Omaha.com : Bruning takes on Omaha's gay rights ordinance

 

[corn train]

You fellers are indeed a lively bunch I say.

 

[Brasky]

Huskers assistant football coach Ron Brown publicly condemns gays - ESPN

Rick Reilly -

Homosexuals are an abomination in God's eyes, believes Nebraska assistant football coach Ron Brown. Recently, he threatened the Omaha city council with eternal damnation if it passed a bill that would keep businesses from firing workers because they're gay.

"You will be held to great accountability for the decision you make," Brown scolded. "The question I have for you all is, like Pontius Pilate, what are you going to do with Jesus?"

Like to meet one of the doomed sinners who has Ron Brown so inflamed?

His name is Brett Major. His family has been Nebraska season-ticket holders forever. He was a high school basketball player in Omaha, a 4.0-plus student, Man of the Year there and, at Texas Christian University, student body vice president and Phi Beta Kappa and a hanger of a big red Nebraska flag in his room. And he's gay.

Oh, and he's a devout Christian, thanks to Ron Brown himself.

“
Ron Brown can think whatever he wants. I just don't want him to put up barriers in my life. Just allow me to get a job I deserve. Just don't get me fired. I don't have to report to Ron Brown at the pearly gates.
”
-- Omaha native Brett Major
"He came and spoke to a youth group I was in," says Major, now 24. "I think I was 11. He was such a dynamic speaker. And he was a Nebraska football coach. We idolized anybody that had anything to do with Nebraska football. I just sat there and went, 'Wow. He's cool and he's Nebraska football and he believes in God.' And that's all it took for me."

At the frenzied peak of his speech, peppered with Huskers football stories, Brown called any listeners who were ready to devote their lives to Christ to come stand with him and join his "team." Brett Major came forward. Ron Brown took him by the hand.

"That was a milestone for me," Major says. "I decided I wanted to live a Christian life from that moment on."

And now Coach Brown says he's going to hell.

"I couldn't care less," says Major, who is getting his master's in psychology at Wake Forest. "I know God doesn't make a mistake. He didn't put me on this earth to be banished to hell."

Since that day with Brown, Brett has been the most devout in his family. He's the one reminding his family members to say their prayers at night. He was a leader in his high school church group. In college, he rode his bike across America as a fundraiser to build free housing.

What company would want a man like that working for it?

"Ron Brown can think whatever he wants," Major says. "I just don't want him to put up barriers in my life. Just allow me to get a job I deserve. Just don't get me fired. I don't have to report to Ron Brown at the pearly gates."

Brown, 55, speaks out often about Christ and against homosexuality, which is his First Amendment right. But Ron Brown wouldn't get one-tenth of these offers to speak if he weren't a Huskers coach. He's an in-state celebrity. He admits he uses Huskers football as a platform to get his message out. His personal opinions can't be separated from his job. There are three paragraphs in the Nebraska media guide about his Christian work. At the Omaha public hearing, he gave his address as Nebraska's Memorial Stadium.

But should a man who campaigns for the right to discriminate against anybody -- gays, Asians or pregnant women -- be employed at a state-funded university that has a specific policy against such discrimination?

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Courtesy of the Major family
"I know God doesn't make a mistake," Brett Major says. "He didn't put me on this earth to be banished to hell."
The people who run the University of Nebraska think so. Brown is still coaching there. He was not fired or suspended. Brown didn't return my calls or emails for comment, nor did Nebraska athletic director Tom Osborne.

Some people wonder why the university is letting Brown skate -- people like Major's parents, Barry and Mindy.

"As much as Ron may think otherwise, gays do not choose to be gay," they wrote in a letter to Osborne and chancellor Harvey Perlman. "Gays can be raised in the 'perfect' family environment with parents active and nurturing, raised in the church to become lovers of the scripture. They are Christians -- Brett is such an example."

There are millions of Christians who think Brown is wrong on homosexuals. "The Bible gives no account of Jesus encountering homosexuals," says Pastor Craig Finnestad of the Water's Edge Methodist Church in Omaha. "Jesus loved everybody and his love for others didn't depend on their behavior or beliefs."

The Omaha anti-discrimination law passed, despite Brown's fiery warnings, and now Lincoln is considering a similar law. Public debate begins Monday. Brown has not said if he will be there to campaign against it, but he has the right. Apparently, he can spew whatever bigoted, hateful, un-Christian message he wants, without risk of losing his job.

"It reflects so poorly on the state and the team I love," Major says. "Nebraska is known for respect for everybody. Even if we get beat in Lincoln, we stand up and clap for the other team. I'm proud of that. Ron Brown is not only going against what his own university wants, he's going against our unwritten law of respect for all."

No, Ron Brown shouldn't be fired. He should quit. He works for a school that welcomes homosexuals as equals. Which means he's being paid by people who don't share his moral values. He's living a lie. He should retire from football and campaign full-time for our right to fire each other purely for being gay.

But the question I have for him is: What is he going to do with Jesus?

 

[Jack_John_Mark]

No, God doesn't make mistakes, Brett Major..................but you did buddy..........you're gay

 

[Brasky]

You're missing my point. A prominent ESPN writer just called Ron Brown an un-christian, hateful bigot. He also called him a liar, a hypocrite, and suggested he step down.


But this is all no big deal... Right?

 

[Brasky]

He needs to slow his roll.

 

[jedburks]

Although I may agree with Rick Reilly's point, Reilly is an idiot. He is the Skip Bayless of columnists. He only says things in ways to incite a big reaction. Now I know the media is in the business of reaction but at least give some content and actually believe what you are saying. Reilly is the same asshole that brought up Tiger Wood's half siblings and all their issues as if it were a story.

 

[Brasky]

In your opinion.

 

[popeyecv64]

LOL !!!

Ron Brown is the real deal


EOT /

 

[jedburks]

Ron Brown better show up on Monday or else he is a hypocrite.

 

[Big Red Said]

Huskers assistant football coach Ron Brown publicly condemns gays - ESPN

Rick Reilly -

[/B]

F-ing SAP... Wow... bandwagon bitches... nothing original... hell with em... and I agree with a point Jed made Brasky.... not hard to find spread shit when thats all you wallow in every day and this guy appears to be at the top of the heap...



Screw this whole deal... Lets see them terminate Ron so you all will be happy!.... No worries... bigger game than football going on!

 

[Big Red Said]

Ron Brown better show up on Monday or else he is a hypocrite.

If he has the time open... and if he is not persuaded by others not too... you can bet he will be... but he has been in some deep conversations...

meh... people will find fault no matter what happens... it's the way of today’s society...

Help me, Help me, I need, I want... I should be...That guy is ??? or he is ??? But I know...

Sure wish I seen all this attention from these so called (righteous people) after the PSU game ...
Oh wait... that was OK... those words he spoke that day did not offend… but the actions that caused them did… and so are the actions RB is speaking about here and now… but they obviously are taken out of a different book….