— The people who wrote the Bible were inspired by God to write it. For the people who believe in homosexual marriage, read from the Old and the New Testament what God says about it. Leviticus 18:22, Leviticus 20:13, and finally Romans 1:24-32. Don’t try to force this behavior on Christians. It’s the sin that is hated, not the person.
— I read this week the county budget is going to increase by over 6 percent. The post office is going to lose over $17 billion this year. The City Park Golf Club is losing almost $80,000 this year. We have or we are going to vote on new SPLOST programs this year. When are the federal, state and local governments going to stop?
— Back in the 60s and 70s parents went to jail if they did not send their children to school. So today kids are running all over the trailer park and I ask them why they were not in school. I was told by them that they were “home schooled.” When I asked what they were learning, I was told, “We just play all day.”
— Lately, my wife has been nagging me and demanding that I do a lot of chores around the house. I told her that if she did not shape up, I would do one of those gay marriages.
— I get tired of seeing all these baggy britches around town. Pull your pants up, you fools.
— Today, I saw a golf cart sign in Griffin. What is becoming of our town? Are we going to become the next Peachtree City?
— The same politicians who rammed the new airport down our throats now want us to vote for the T-SPLOST. I will be voting no.
— I would like one of the county commissioners to tell us where the money to pay for a new airport is coming from when the T-SPLOST is voted down. Why are they already electing advisory boards and planning contracts for a new airport when we haven’t voted? The people of Spalding County have voted repeatedly in the past not to pay for a new airport.
— Oh no. Obama has endorsed gay marriages. The next thing you know, the federal government will require everyone to get one.
— If you want more adoptions, try lowering the adoption fees. That just might do the trick.
— Who needs the comics page? Whenever I need a laugh, I read the My Two Cents. What a bunch of morons.
I think the question I asked about bath houses is relevent. And sorry if you don't see this, not wanting to "freak you out" as you say, but the difference between heterosexuals and homosexuals is the act of sex itself. If it weren't, we wouldn't be having this discussion.
Interesting though, from someone who does read the bible occasionally, I believe the greatest of all is "love". I have been told that I am a very direct person and will completely agree with that. Sometimes its a positive, sometimes a negative. Alas, its who I am. I do believe in telling the truth as I know it. I certainly apologize to anyone whom I may have offended, including yourself, on this site. One thing is for sure, I don't beat around the bush.
I can respect everyone, and at the same time not like everything about everyone. Unlike yourself, I have called no one names or as you asked of me "When will you get it through your thick, ignorant skull that marriage is not reserved for Christians?"
I have never stated that marriage is only reserved for Christians. I believe that a marriage should only be between a man and a woman. They can be anything they want religiously, spiritually.
Cheers to freedom of speech. Even if its not what you want to hear.
I can respect your opinions because your certainly have a right to your opinion and I appreciate your zeal the fact that you are straightforward and speak up for what you believe in.
However, I do believe you should reconsider your attitude and approach to what you say.
You say you are an "occasional" reader of the Bible. I suggest you study your Bible more and really delve into what it says.
If you do, you will find that King David was an adulterer, liar and murderer; Jacob (the patriarch of the nation of Israel) was a swindler; Solomon had 300 wives and 700 concubines; Peter denied Christ; Paul persecuted Christians; Abraham and Isaac were liars; Moses was a murderer; Jonah was rebellious. My point is that we are all sinners and that homosexuality is no worse than anything else. We all fall short. There is none who is truly righteous without Christ. And I bet if you look into the mirror and into your own soul, you will see where you have committed sins and are no better than gays and have no room to judge them.
Do I support gay marriage? No, but I really do love gay people and I CANNOT and WILL NOT mistreat them. I have known gay people and have had gay friends who act more Christian than so-called "Christians". Some of them who are my dear friends are truly good people and I cannot mistreat them. I try to understand people and see where they are coming from even if I don't agree with their lifestyles. Bashing people doesn't solve anything.
You are not helping the cause of Christ with your attitude. We do not bring people to Christ through argument but through personal relationship. We must be patient and loving. We must recognize that all sin and fall short and show people the same mercy, grace and love that was shown to us.
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I also must question another comment you made. You said that because you are a mother, the gays are not your equal. Do you have that same attitude toward women who cannot conceive? My wife has cannot have biological children because of a condition she was born with. Are you also saying that she is not your equal? Are you saying that because we do not have biological children that we are inferior and not your equal?
I know females that are the disciplinarians and males that are more coddling. Their kids are amazing and well-raised, but I guess you think they are not your equal since to you, male and females have very defined roles in a marriage, and anything not fitting into your specific mores are beneath you.
Leave religion aside. The Natural Law alone is sufficient to argue against homosexual "marriage."
This bit goes into that bit. It is both unitive in marriage, and leads to the continuation of the human race. It is not a complex idea.
Or do you think a feces encrusted member is consistent with what Nature intended? If so, please explain how. I am curious how you can make sense of that.
If farmers were forced to allow same sex unions among their beasts, they would soon be out of business.
"Biologically speaking, homosexuality violates secular natural law "derived from the physical, biological, and behavioral laws of nature as perceived by the human intellect and elaborated through reason" and observation which, simply says: Whether it be a homosexual male couple, or female, neither couple can procreate on their own. Some other process must be used be it artificial insemination, surrogates, or adoption"
I would also like to see the names of the authors where your quotes come from, otherwise they come across as empty statements made by delusional psychotics.
You are the most judgmental person I think I’ve ever encountered on my two cents, and that actually says a lot. I created an account just to tell you how judgmental you are. In addition to the constant hate you spew, you actually had the nerve to tell an individual they are not your equal because you are a married woman with children. PLEASE. Your self-righteousness is a joke. OSB has made some great points, yet you do not address his points in your responses. You just type more fodder.
I am not a liberal, but I would never tell two people they can’t love each other. When will you get it through your thick, ignorant skull that marriage is not reserved for Christians? Although I am not atheist, I know plenty of atheists that are married. You say marriage is sacred? I believe it is sacred, too. I’m a woman happily married to a man. You think homosexuality destroys marriage? You don’t think marriage has already been dragged through the mud by infidelity and divorce? Of course, you don’t care about mentioning adultery, even though it is strongly opposed in the bible. You have such a strong agenda against homosexuality that you seem to be blinded by anything else.
You are so focused on what homosexuals do in the bedroom that it freaks me out. You don’t need to concern yourself about what homosexual or heterosexual people do in their bedroom. I’m sure I do some things that you wouldn’t approve of, but it’s not your right to know it. I might even engage in *clutches pearls* some sexual perversions. Those things can be hetero or homo.
If you believe in Christian principles, then STOP JUDGING PEOPLE. Or, stop your crusade against the one thing in the bible that makes you most uncomfortable. Start attacking adulterers and heterosexual couples that copulate during menstruation.
How do you think that will go over? You may be living just a little bit too far south of the metro. Can't even imagine why you don't live there.
The Bible was written by men…yes, they may have been inspired by a higher power, but the reality is that the Bible was written by men with a political and social agenda. The Bible has been edited and re-edited countless times, and each time, things were changed to suit the political and social climate of the time. Yes, the Bible does speak out against homosexuality…but it also speaks out against divorce, eating shellfish, women speaking in church, calls menstruating women ‘unclean’ and not allowed to worship, and advocates the stoning of non-virgins, and stoning unruly children. Most Christian and Jewish scholars alike realize that these prohibitions are relates to the priestly class of Levites. This was a way for the Jewish priests and people to separate themselves from the ‘godless Gentiles”. Leviticus 20:13 was quoted as proof that homosexuality is wrong. What the person fails to see is that just three verses ahead of this one, we are commanded to put adulterers to death. When are Christians going to rise up and advocate for the death penalty for adulterers? And we also find in Leviticus…just three verses away from the anti-homosexuality one, that bestiality is a sin, yet bestiality is only illegal in 35 states. When will Christians rise up against this? And again in Leviticus, just five verses away from the homosexual one, states that if a couple has sex while the woman is menstruating, they should be ‘cut off from their people.’ When will Christians rise up against this? This same chapter also warns us not to eat unclean animals. When will Christians rise up against this? Seems to me there is a lot of picking and choosing what to ignore and what to take as the word of God. People tend to use the Bible as a mirror to hold up to themselves to reflect their own ignorance, bigotry, racism, and prejudices.
Let’s see how some well-known ‘Christians’ hate homosexuality, but love homosexuals: Jerry Falwell said that “[homosexuals are] brute beasts…part of a vile and Satanic system [that] will be utterly annihilated, and there will be a celebration in heaven.” Pat Robertson, who blamed the September 11th attack on gays, says that “the union of two men doesn’t bring forth anything except disease and suffering”……you can just feel the love, can’t you?
As I am reviewing my history I would suggest you look up and define "sexual perversion."
Before you think the Episcopal, Presbryterian, or United Methodist churches are your friends--you should trace their influence all the way to the government.
I don't have a preacher. Religion is man made.
re: baggy pants...I sure wish the leaders of Southern Crescent Technical College would enforce the "no baggy pants" policy. Gordon College has and it's about time SCTC did the same.
re: Ted Nugent...he is not the only one who was able to avoid the draft and Viet Nam. Check out your politicians.
"If you won't force your so-called religious beliefs down my throat..."
Does anyone else see the irony of the above statments given the subject of these threads?