I agree that something seems amiss here. Changing stories is always fishy. I agree that businesses have the right to operate as they see fit in accordance with the law. However, as a Catholic who fully understands and accepts the biblical and doctrinal stances on homosexuality, I could not stay in good conscience that the way the owners behaved was morally just. We are called to be a witness to others. We are called to love, love and love some more. This does not mean embracing one’s wrongdoing and giving it the stamp of approval, but we are not to judge lest we be judged. We are not to point out the splinter in someone’s eye until we bother pulling the log out of our own. And, more specifically, we are instructed not to ostracize someone simply because of their sinful affliction, because we are ALL sinfully afflicted with something. Leading one another to heaven is our first mission. How is throwing someone out simply because they are gay accomplishing that? What is being taught? What is being learned? What example is being set?
I am totally depending on Finnish law in this matter, and I am no lawyer, as you know I don’t understand any other books then The Bible and can’t learn anything from a book, I learn by looking and hearing, like I do with languages, so I try to look at this as I have seen on TV about matters like this. In Finland the owner have the right to chose customers AS LONG AS THE REASONS ARE NOT THE CUSTOMERS FAITH, GENDER, POLITICAL VIEW, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR NATIONALITY. I think these are pretty good things to work with, so, in Finland that could not have happen.
And, yes, as you said, and as I said, we shall not judge. If others sin we have a certain obligation to TRY to make them do what is right, that obligation however is, IMHO, meant only close family, that is as far as we have jurisdiction in matters that concern sin. So, what is really bad if two men dance together? If we really think about it, nothing, absolutely nothing. That does not mean that we approve it, but also that we don’t judge it. As you wrote, all judging is up to God. It is wrong to sin, but even more wrong is to condemn people who have a different view of life then we have. Catholics are not “super people”. It is not a exclusive club, it does not give us a right to think we are better and therefore also have the right to say how things should be done. Nope, we are not THE Church, we do as the Church teach us, we must set a example but only in behavior. We do not have a right to interfere in others life only because we are Catholics. Christ did teach us a very important thing, one we should never forget, love our neighbour as we love our self. The whole Christianity is leaning on that single sentence. That does not mean we should approve what is sin, but neither should we condemn others, that is not our right or obligation. Why some people have sexual feelings toward the same sex is something we may never know, but we must love them to, and pray for them. They need our prayers to stay in chastity.
