Please give Biblical references where Jesus... or any NT writer claimed that anybody should defy the law of land to promote specific principals. %26lt;Please keep in mind that the law in America BEGINS with equality... the founding ideal of law of this land%26gt;
Why should Christians continue to fight against marriage equality for homosexuals?
In this politically correct climate that relinquishes morality to the relativistic whims of society, stating that homosexuals should not marry is becoming unpopular. Should a woman be allowed to marry another woman? Should a man be allowed to marry another man? Should they be given legal protection and special rights to practice their homosexuality? No, they should not.
Why should Christians continue to fight against marriage equality for homosexuals?
It's the last vestige of bigotry, conveniently posing as religion. The christains who are also homophobes hide behind two bible verses, the same way that christians who were also racial bigots his behind the biblical verses declaring sons of Ham to be worthy of disrespect, or religious bigots hid behind the NT saying that god had turned his back on the jews as an excuse to be anti-semites. It's all the same issue-- resistance to change, fueled by taking the bible out of context and using it to selfish purpose. The ';sons of Ham'; are no longer considered lesser, women can vote, and anti-semitism is now a crime. This is a final step, and of course it's meeting so much resistance, you know? Nobody likes being wrong, and nobody likes being confronted with their own bigotry, so hiding behind a bible is their only course of action.
Someday, gay marriage will be as commonplace and socially acceptable as interracial marriage, and the naysayers and bigots will have moved on to something else. What I have no idea, but it will be something.
With the bible there are many plain guidelines written but the use of common sense must also accompany doctrine. In Genesis when the Lord proclaimed to be fruitful and multiply he set a guideline. Common sense dictates that in order to be fruitful and multiply a male and a female are required.
When the Lord said that it wasn't good for man to be alone, Genesis 2:18, he created a woman. Common sense asks that if God wanted men to be with men or women to be with women, wouldn't he have created that type of couple at that time?
Leviticus 18:22 says that if a man lies with another man as a woman it is an abomination. The dictionary defines abomination as a vile, shameful, or detestable action, condition, habit, etc.
Please keep in mind that the bible was written far before the laws in America.
The homosexual agenda is raging in the California legislature, but there is hope if concerned citizens do their part and get involved. Anti-family legislators have introduced bills to push homosexuality on all parts of society and penalize citizens who are morally opposed to homosexual behavior. Committee votes will begin in late March or early April on the following bills: AB=Assembly Bill SB=Senate Bill (Sponsor name in parenthesis)
AB 222 (Kuehl) and SB 1260 (Hayden): Promoting Homosexuality and Bisexuality to Schoolchildren.
AB 222 would result in homosexual curriculum and promotion of homosexual ';marriage'; to students in K-12 public schools, public colleges and universities. Quotas for homosexual instructors would be indirectly pursued, and federal ';hate crime'; funds would be used to punish schools that resist the gay agenda. If AB 222 passes, religious schools who do not comply could be banned from interscholastic sports leagues, and students at religious colleges could be prohibited from receiving state financial aid. A second bill, SB1260, would require homosexual curriculum to be taught to schoolchildren as young as kindergarten, including mandated sessions on ';homophobia.';
AB 1001 (Villaraigosa): Tax-funded Investigations and Fines Against Citizens Who Oppose Homosexuality
AB 1001 awards official minority status for homosexuality and bisexuality, putting ';sexual orientation'; on the same level as race and ethnicity in the powerful Faith Employment and Housing Act (FEHA). This could result in tax-funded investigations and $25,000 fines against property owners, business owners, Bible bookstores, religious radio stations, and even some churches that oppose homosexuality. Also, because this bill declares homosexuality or bisexuality to be an official ';civil right,'; if passed, children in public schools will be taught all about the homosexual political movement.
Homosexual Marriage ';Partnership'; Bills
Four bills would create homosexual-marriage ';partnerships'; to award official government status and marriage benefits to homosexuals; AB 26 (Migden), AB 107 (Knox), SB 75 (Murry), and SB 118 (Hayden). These ';domestic partners'; bills would undermine the sacred institution of marriage and promote same-sex ';marriage'; (95% of ';domestic partners'; are homosexuals). If these bills pass, it will be more difficult to legally protect California from homosexual ';marriage'; and its accompanying negative consequences.
Action Steps
Step 1
Contact your own assembly member and state senator to urge them to ';Oppose AB 1001, AB 222, and the rest of the gay agenda bills.';
Phone, fax, e-mail, make personal visits, or write your assembly member, being sure to use his or her full name at: State Capitol, Sacramento, CA 95814
Go to the front of your phone book, look under the ';Government'; pages under Assembly and State Senate, or go to the Internet at www.capitolresource.org where you can find your state legislators by entering your zip code.
Step 2
The legislators who are critically important to the outcome on these issues are listed below. Please contact these key legislators, in addition to your own assembly member, and urge them to ';Protect schoolchildren and citizens from government-sponsored homosexuality. Oppose AB 1001, AB 222, and the rest of the gay legislative agenda.';
homosexuality is a sin because it does not lead to pro creation.Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve.Anyhow if the church disagree with Gay marriage they have a right to appeal against it (free speech and all).If the church married gays even though they disagree with it this would be very hypocritical of them.However I do believe Homosexuals should not be shunned in any way or judged.#
Particularly, here we need to know that Romans does not require absolute obedience to any authority except to that of the Lord Jesus directly -- the Word of God. The Bible is replete with examples of Christians who disobey the state faithfully, as with the case of Daniel, who refused to stop praying to God, and with his three friends who would not bow to the state idols. Christians to whom the apostles wrote in fact died by the thousands for their unwillingness to burn a pinch of incense to Caesar and swear, ';Caesar is Lord.'; Instead, they made their public baptism formula a direct insult to this requirement, commanding all novices to violate this precept, uttering instead, ';Jesus is Lord.'; If the law of the land go's contrary to Scripture then Christians need no obey it.
First, Christians must disobey the state when it commands them to do what God forbids (e.g. bow to our idols or else, condone sin of any kind, etc). Second, Christians must not do what the Bible forbids but the state allows (e.g. abortion, homosexuality, murder, etc).
Third, Christians must disobey the state when it forbids them to do what God commands them (e.g. Do not pray to God; do not preach the gospel. Hate crime legislation in effect forbids the preaching of the Gospel, and thus violates the right to freedom of religion in the first amendment. Ministers should preach the law of God and Gospel -- and Christians must always speak the relevant truth in society from the Word -- without fear of any man and this I will always do whether or not the state, homosexuals, abortionists, or anyone else likes it or not. Sin is sin and I will expose it for what it is. Just as I will expose false teachers, preachers, evangelists, and prophets for what they are.
christians don't want equality-
they want to force everyone who is not christian to act and believe like a christian- ie: convert.
in absense of having them actually convert- they want to force them to accept and live thier lives as if they were christian.
this is why they underhandedly try to have countries change the laws to codify christian tenets as laws.
Because they think it's a sin... and also that it'll lead to a whole bunch of other things (slippery slope). They also say they're persecuted, even though they are the majority.
There really is no sound or logical argument against gay marriage. The only thing they could point is their fairy tale book
@ Full Armor of God and blessedman: Thank you for proving my point.
Wow, where did Full Armor of God copy and paste all that from? Look, man wrote the Bible, therefore it is man's intolerant interpretations that have led us down the path to gay bashing. It isn't necessarily one thing that is written in this fiction that promotes intolerance, it's the whole thing. There is always going to be some holier than thou Christian supposedly trying to save somebody from themselves. Can't we all get along?
We shouldn't. In my opinion, people have to take responsibility for their own actions in life. Only God can judge these people and determine their punishment. I don't agree with homosexuality nor should they be allowed to marry but in the end, I really don't care what goes on. I won't be out there protesting and signing petitions. My life will go on and I will leave the rest in God's hand.
Because they have no understanding of the Constitution, or disregard it, and they mistake a will to theocracy for piety. There are no supportable arguments against same-sex marriage, only religious ones, fallacious ones, and disingenuous ones.
I could care less. What matters to me is my family, my health, my faith and enough money to live decently.
If they want to get 'married' more power to them.
I'll keep my personal opinions, but stand up for their rights of democratic process.
People can argue all day about whether or not homosexuality is a sin... I will continue to argue that it is NOT.
However, I wish more Christians understood that they can no more push their religious or moral views into our laws than Muslims or Hindus can.
The law of the land is justice for all not equality. You will never have equality with the richest among us. Jesus said he didn't come to replace the law but to fulfill the law. The law calls it sin.
Well, since you did say any NT writer, the Apostle Paul spoke out against homosexuality alot, he said that it is a sin worthy of eternal fire. So we fight against it because it's unbiblical. :)
1 priest like children. (and are gay but don't want to admit it)
2: that the american law starts with equality that is before the present government destroyed the constitution.
Most of us have not participated in that debate. Honestly, I do not have a stake in it. If it were up to me though, I would not deny anyone the right to marry.
Because hypocrisy isn't against the ten commandments, follow my lead?
I’m a Christian, and I say let them get married... we are all equal in God’s eyes.
OH MY GOSH
the church says its OK to BE gay. that's not your fault if you are, it's fine
BUT
the purpose of sex is to produce children. two ppl of the same sex cannot produce children. and when two ppl are married, most likely they are going to have sex. if MAYBE gays didn't have gay sex the church would leave them alone and let them get married. but, we can't expect that, can we?
the church asks gays not to do it, tho. like, out priest says he doesn't really like the idea of the gay parade because it encourages promiscuity in a way. which it sorta does. and promiscuity in any form is just-wrong in more ways than one. but I'm a christian catholic, and I think gays are fine but yeah, i agree that sex is to produce children.
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