Jesus Loves Porn Stars
Yes, its true. Jesus hung out with prostitutes and tax collectors more than the "holy" people of the day—the Pharisees. Do you think that was an accident? The Pharisees, who looked down on those they saw as less "holy" than they were, were the very people Jesus despised. The Pharisees were caught up in their contrived laws and boundaries that they weren't able to love other people. They worried more about whether others washed their hands before eating or whether someone walked a certain distances on the sabbath than with the things that mattered. They were hypocrites.
Today, many Christians are just as hypocritical as the Pharisees in the Bible. They look down on those people less "holy" than themselves. They condemn the gays and lesbians when they themselves are in fact much worse off. If homosexuality is to be considered a sin, then the only part that is sinful is the physical act of sex. Love cannot be a sin. However, those people who think themselves so high and mighty, they are the true sinners. Theirs is a sin of hate.
An internet ministry called xxxchurch.com (funny name, eh?) distributes bibles at pornography events, and they were trying to get a bible made with a cover similar to the picture at the top of the post. They ordered 10,000 copies of the custom bible from the American Bible Society, but recieved a reply that "the wording is misleading and inappropriate for a New Testament."
Are they serious? Would they stand by the statement "Jesus doesn't love porn stars." I hope not! If so, they are guilty of hypocrisy just as great as the Pharisees. Jesus loves Porn Stars JUST as much as he loves those nice holy Christians who go to church on Sunday and never considered looking at pornography. In fact, Jesus would have spent MORE time around the former sort of people: "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."
That was an ironic statement, because the Pharisees needed to be saved even more than the prostitutes, but they were unwilling to listen. How many Christians today would be just as unwilling to listen to Christ's message if he came down from heaven and started preaching again? How many would condemn him as crazy, or claim that he is lowering God's standards? I suspect it would be a good deal of those that consider themselves good, upstanding Christians.