The “Free Press” Oregonian won’t post my responses on their website. Just like the Willamette Week, it was on and now it is gone. Apparently the truth about LGBT activist pastor (Chuck Currie) aiding LGBT activist politician (Brad Avakian) aiding abortion clinic owner (Allene Klass) is too ugly for them to print. Apparently "Free Press" means they are free to use their massive megaphone to say whatever they want about a church, a ministry, and a pastor; they are free to invite the world to comment (good, bad, ugly, truth, error, outright lie, whatever); but the church, ministry, or pastor will not get the opportunity to fairly respond. The "pro-choice" Oregonian and Willamette Week won't allow people to read and make their own choice as to what the truth is.
The following comment was left by Rev. Chuck Currie, of Sunnyside Church and University Park Church, a local LGBT activist “pastor” from Portland, OR, at:
Not all Christians support efforts to deny women the right to make their own health care decisions.
The General Synod of the United Church of Christ:
1. affirms the sacredness of all life, and the need to protect and defend human life in particular;
2. encourages persons facing unplanned pregnancies to consider giving birth and parenting the child, or releasing the child for adoption, before abortion;
3. upholds the right of men and women to have access to adequately funded family planning services, and to safe, legal abortions as one option among others;
4. urges the United Church of Christ, at all levels, to provide educational resources and programs to persons, especially young persons, to help reduce the incidence of unplanned and unwanted pregnancies, and to encourage responsible approaches to sexual behavior.
Many denominations are, in fact, pro-choice. This includes the United Methodist Church. The church protesting this clinic does not speak for all Christians.
You are an LGBT, Gay Pride Parade promoting rebel against Christ, the Bible, the souls of LGBT men and women, and the lives of the unborn. You aren't a Christian. You don't believe God's Word. You don't believe the Gospel. You have no love of Christ. You have no love of those bound in LGBT sin. You have no love of unborn children. You aren't qualified to speak on behalf of the church.
You wrote the following in the Huffington Post: "You see, homosexuality is still not a sin. It is a sin to discriminate -- against gays, people of color, women, children, immigrants... It is a sin to exclude whereas Jesus welcomed. The Greatest Commandment is to love. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rev-chuck-currie/there-are-no-strangers-in_b_3480523.html) In the same article you exhort a woman to “think for yourself -- no matter what the Bible might say.” It is a sin to willfully contradict, defy, and disregard God’s Holy Word. But you don’t care about that, because you don’t know God; “He who says, ‘I know Him,’ and does not keep His commandments, is a liar” (1 John 2:4). You willfully contradict, defy, and disregard His commandments and teach others to do so also. You are a liar, Mr. Currie, and unless you repent you will perish.
Instead of calling LGBT men and women to repent of their sin and be saved through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, you organize Gay Pride Parades and help further harden their hearts by telling them God is pleased with their sinful lifestyle. You claim to love LGBT, but you hate them with your actions and your lying words. You don’t even bother to make a claim of loving unborn children, never-the-less you hate them with your actions and your lying words as you aid and abet those who make a living murdering unborn children.
The fact that you are lending your voice and support to the Lovejoy Surgicenter abortion clinic cause is not a surprise. You have rushed to the aid of Brad Avakian, one of Oregon’s premier LGBT agenda, homosexual marriage promoting, political activists. You have rushed to the aid of Allene Klass, the CEO and owner of Portland’s premier baby murdering institution. You have helped clarify the dividing line between genuine, living, Biblical Christianity, and liberal, dead, fraud “Christianity.” True Christianity supports LIFE… stands for the Gospel and the Word of God, stands for Biblical heterosexual life (child) producing marriage, and stands for the precious lives of unborn children. You support DEATH… you trample the soul saving Gospel and the Word of God beneath your feet, you stand up in Gay Pride Parades for perverse homosexual nonlife producing marriage leading to eternal death, and you stand for the murder of unborn children. True Christianity loves God, believes the Bible, seeks the salvation of the LGBT, and seeks to save the lives of the millions of children being aborted. You hate God, hate the Bible, hate homosexuals, and hate the unborn.
You and your “ministry” are anything but Biblical, but you are found in the Bible:
“For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. 27 Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due. 28And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers, 30 backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful; 32 who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them.” (Romans 1:26-32)
“You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.” (John 8:44)
Repent Chuck Currie and follow Christ as Lord, or be honest and stop calling yourself a Christian.