NO! Not So! It Is Not Right!
Posted by: From Arkansas in Are You Kidding Me?, Give Me A Break on Aug 30 2007
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Now, I know this is going to get me into hot water with somebody out there. All that need for “tolerance” and so forth but I cannot stomach this. I’m sorry. If this bothers you then it does. I am a Christian with very definite ideas of what God’s laws are and it does not include this. In fact, this so goes against God.
Today, in the state I was born and raised in, Iowa, a county judge struck down a 10 year old ban on same sex couples getting married. If that was not enough, he ordered the marriage license for 6 couples that were same sex. Of course, the county attorney will appeal to the state Supreme Court but that won’t be in time to stop the couples who are even now awaiting the three days it takes to approve a license in the state of Iowa.
This goes against everything I believe in concerning marriage. It makes a mockery of a man and woman joined together, bonded as only a couple can be in God. I cannot condone such actions. I truly believe that the state of Iowa and the county judge who did this..are taking a giant step backwards. This just is too much. TOO MUCH!!!!
Go ahead. Tell me how intolerant I am. How I’m a hater. Tell me how I am not seeing the bigger picture here, how those people have a right to be happy and married too. NO!! The bigger picture is…..at this point I would be able to quote you some scripture that tells us how wrong all of this is. I won’t. I am simply going to believe that somewhere over there, someone has the courage to stop this madness. They do not know what they have unleashed. I do realize that other states have done this. SHAME ON THEM!
This country was founded on the principles that God laid down. The constitution was written with the ten commandments in mind. So many of the founding fathers were born again Christians who were fleeing tyranny and government interference of churches. But the main thing is that this country was begun with Christian values. Those values were spit on today and every day that some state declared that this was good.
Now, before anyone gets on their high horse to tell me all about how horrible I am, don’t bother. I believe in loving my neighbor no matter what they choose to be. I simply cannot condone this violation of what I believe.
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I belive you are right.
I’m not a christian myself but I belive that true christians can “bend” only so much without leaving their religious basis behind.
Those people that wrote the bible were (among many other phobias)homophobic. Allowing gay marriages goes against the old testament!
But I belive you are wrong on another account. Your logic is that the founding fathers were born again christians and their creed should persevere because they were there first … this line of logic leaves you wide open to the intuitive counter argument: the first people in North America were animistic indians!
Not what I meant about the native Americans. Actually, what I was referring to was that those who came from England were primarily Christian meaning they brought their Christian values with them.
Are Christians homophobic? No. If that were true, I would never have been friends with anyone gay. Ever. I certainly have had friends who were gay. Dunno where they are now or that would still be the case. I am not about to throw away friendships and family who happen to believe that about themselves.
The Christian community is not homophobic, a term that “tolerant” people LOVE to throw around when they like to needle someone, but believe that the person is a creation of God and needs to be loved. We simply do not love the sin and, like it or not, homosexuality is a sin in God’s eyes.
Frankly, I would feel the same about someone in adultery or a thief. The type of sin does not matter. We are all sinners until we come to a saving knowledge of Jesus. What does matter is that the person be loved by us.
Whatever you have decided about me (and I don’t see how since you don’t know me at all), it does not change the fact that I believe in Jesus as my Savior and I believe that that scriptures are right about homosexuality as being a sin. That does not make me a homophobic anymore than it makes me phobic about adulterers or thieves.
It would be so very nice if the non-Christians would simply get a clue that we believe in what the Lord says about loving others.
Thank you for your comments and point of view.
Please consider that biological gender distinctions exist across a continuum. What at first appears a very clear-cut separation of the population into ‘male’ and ‘female’ is, on closer examination, seen to be somewhat indistinct. For example, 1 in 20000 people are born with AIS, (Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome). These people posses a Y chromosome and without AIS would develop male secondary sex characteristics. However, because of AIS, these characteristics fail to fully form, instead spanning the gamut from “completely female” (Jamie Lee Curtis) to slightly effeminate males. Now, in your view, who should these gender in-betweens marry?
Once you have answered that question, consider that the development of secondary sex characteristics (genitalia, body shape, facial hair, etc) is only part of what makes someone “male” or “female”, and that there are some great differences in the brain architectures between the genders. (link deleted)
Is it possible, do you suppose, that someone might be equipped with a female body yet have the brain of a male? And if so, who should someone like that marry?
Sigh. I knew this would come up. You are talking about a different situation than what I was posting about.
First and foremost, I did not make the rules. God did. Take the argument up with Him.
Second, you are speaking of something that has little to do with what I mentioned and am against.
I find it interesting that you would put a link to intelligence in this comment when it is not part of the subject at hand either. Since it is not, I am removing the link.
Thanks for commenting.