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Democrats introduce bill to ban pastors from ministering to homosexuals
Canada Free Press ^ | 04/27/17 | Dan Calabrese

Posted on 04/27/2017 1:39:01 PM PDT by Sean_Anthony

Despite the way it's being reported . . .

This story is a good example of how politicians use phrasing to disguise what they’re really doing, and the media play along because they support the obfuscation agenda. In some cases it’s because the media really are that dumb and gullible, but the gullibility usually stems from their natural trust of Democrats - so it all comes back to the fact that they share the same agenda.

You’ve heard about something called “gay conversion therapy,” which sounds like some nonsense procedure in which a “therapist” of questionable credibility tries to work the gay out of someone. This is being offered up by Democrats as an example of medical fraud, and they have mounted an extraordinary effort to actually ban it on a nationwide basis. But quack therapists are not their real target, in spite of the way they and their media mouthpieces portray this:


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To: Sean_Anthony

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...


21 posted on 04/27/2017 4:23:09 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: Sean_Anthony
How is this a federal issue?
22 posted on 04/27/2017 4:40:30 PM PDT by x
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To: x
This is a clear violation of the 1st Amendment. They are clearly stepping all over the free exercise of religion.

The First Amendment provides that Congress make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting its free exercise. It protects freedom of speech, the press, assembly, and the right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Any lawmaker that supports this should be impeached for violating their oath of office.

23 posted on 04/27/2017 5:11:26 PM PDT by Dutch Boy
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To: metmom
Sodom and Gomorrah weren’t this bad.

You are right. Sodom and Gomorrah were just two cities. This seems like almost the entire world has given its approval of evil.
I agree, that the Democratic Party IS the party of evil, the enemy of God. I think it's a sign of the times.

24 posted on 04/27/2017 5:34:25 PM PDT by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is history)
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To: Sean_Anthony
You’ve heard about something called “gay conversion therapy,” which sounds like some nonsense procedure in which a “therapist” of questionable credibility tries to work the gay out of someone.

I don't see this as nonsense at all-they're trying to help people. I'm sure the failure rate is high, but so is the failure rate of trying to rehabilitate those addicted to drugs.

25 posted on 04/27/2017 5:40:44 PM PDT by libertylover (In 2016 small-town America got tired of being governed by people who don't know a boy from a girl.)
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To: MNDude

Excellent!


26 posted on 04/27/2017 6:33:07 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: libertylover

Here in deep blue Delaware a state senator [Democrat, of course] has a bill which would ban conversion therapy , calling it child abuse or some such BS.


27 posted on 04/27/2017 7:00:05 PM PDT by Hartlyboy
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To: Sean_Anthony

You Gotta Stay Gay bump


28 posted on 04/27/2017 7:02:29 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("It's better to be slapped with the Truth than kissed with a Lie." - Russian Proverb)
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To: Sean_Anthony

This from the Onion?


29 posted on 04/27/2017 7:31:23 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Sean_Anthony

I’m sure you’ll jump right in with your opinion anytime, Sean.


30 posted on 04/27/2017 7:34:39 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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To: Elsie
Democrats introduce bill to ban pastors from ministering to homosexuals

Well; since I am NOT a 'pastor'...



 

A BIBLICAL Message to LGBT folks EVERYWHERE!



 
Genesis 13:13
Now the men of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the LORD.

Genesis 18:20-21
20. Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and
their sin so grievous
21. that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know."

Genesis 19:4-7
4. Before they had gone to bed, all the men
from every part of the city of Sodom--both young and old--surrounded the house.
5. They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them
."
6. Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him
7. and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing.


Leviticus niv

18:22 Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.

20:13 If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.

 
 


Psalms 12:8 The wicked freely strut about when what is vile is honored among men.

Doonesbury Cartoon for Feb/08/2013

Isaiah 3:9 The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves.

2 Peter 2:13b Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.


Ezekiel 16:49-50
49. "`Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
50. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.


Romans 1     New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)
 
 18 The wrath of God is indeed being revealed from heaven against every impiety and wickedness of those who suppress the truth by their wickedness. 19 For what can be known about God is evident to them, because God made it evident to them. 20 Ever since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes of eternal power and divinity have been able to be understood and perceived in what he has made. As a result, they have no excuse; 21 for although they knew God they did not accord him glory as God or give him thanks. Instead, they became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless minds were darkened. 22 While claiming to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for the likeness of an image of mortal man or of birds or of four-legged animals or of snakes.
 

24 Therefore, God handed them over to impurity through the lusts of their hearts for the mutual degradation of their bodies. 25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and revered and worshiped the creature rather than the creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. 26 Therefore, God handed them over to degrading passions. Their females exchanged natural relations for unnatural, 27 and the males likewise gave up natural relations with females and burned with lust for one another. Males did shameful things with males and thus received in their own persons the due penalty for their perversity. 28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God handed them over to their undiscerning mind to do what is improper. 29 They are filled with every form of wickedness, evil, greed, and malice; full of envy, murder, rivalry, treachery, and spite. 


2 Peter 2

1. But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them--bringing swift destruction on themselves.
2. Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.
3. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
4. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment;
5. if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;
6. if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
7. and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men
8. (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)--
9. if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.
10. This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature and despise authority. Bold and arrogant, these men are not afraid to slander celestial beings;
11. yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous accusations against such beings in the presence of the Lord.
12. But these men blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like brute beasts, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like beasts they too will perish.
13. They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done.
Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.



But there IS hope!!!

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

9. Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived:
Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders
10. nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.


If you could NOT change, you would be in most pitiful shape...

 
 
 
 
 
 
 


The Health Risks of gay sex.

31 posted on 04/28/2017 4:50:22 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Sean_Anthony

0bama thought about being a fag. Evidently he pondered the thought too long


32 posted on 04/28/2017 5:27:43 AM PDT by okie 54
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To: Sean_Anthony

“...quack therapists are not their real target...”

This points to the crux of the truth of the matter. Attacks on “gay conversion therapy” is just a ruse, they are really attacking any mere DISAPPROVAL of homosexuality, whether public or private. They want to criminalize that disapproval.


33 posted on 04/28/2017 6:35:39 AM PDT by fwdude (Democrats have not been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.)
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To: Slyfox
I thought the demoncraps were all “separation of church and state” types?

It's a one way valve for them. The separation is for church from state, not state from church. This is very apparent in their language.

Do you realize that politicians have managed to inject workplace "discrimination" requirements into churches - CHURCHES - by taking it upon themselves to dictate who performs "ministerial duties?" Yes, the State is elbow-deep into the Church, unconstitutionally.

34 posted on 04/28/2017 6:41:03 AM PDT by fwdude (Democrats have not been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.)
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To: Steve_Seattle
Patty Murray is a repulsive animal.

She looks like a cross dressing man, from the pics I've seen. There is nothing uglier on the outside.

35 posted on 04/28/2017 6:42:53 AM PDT by fwdude (Democrats have not been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.)
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To: metmom; All
Thanks for the heads up

In Canada, pastors are prohibited from preaching about parts of the Bible that describe God's take on homosexuality.

Some politicians in the USA obviously are pushing towards the same goal.

Reminds me of Ann Coulter's book Godless: The Church of Liberalism

36 posted on 04/28/2017 8:46:44 AM PDT by Syncro (Facts is facts)
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To: Syncro

Well, they’re going to hear it later and the fire and brimstone is likely not going to be much to their liking.


37 posted on 04/28/2017 1:59:10 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Syncro
In Canada, pastors are prohibited from preaching about parts of the Bible that describe God's take on homosexuality.

I doubt it.

They may be told it is illegal; but I otherwise don't see how it is possible for them to be restrained if they wish to preach about it!

38 posted on 04/28/2017 5:13:29 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

Yes I know

At least not yet


39 posted on 04/28/2017 7:48:56 PM PDT by Syncro (Facts is facts)
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To: Sean_Anthony
Meanwhile it will be compulsory for parents to allow their children to be indoctrinated into gender neutral psychosis.

Wonder how long before its a crime to teach... biology.


40 posted on 04/29/2017 11:55:41 PM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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