Posted on 05/18/2004 3:29:23 PM PDT by TonyRo76
Massachusetts Homosexual Marriage [is...]
FREEP away...
I'll counter your "judgement" with an "about time."
Really?
I have countered your queer vote
with "end to marriage as we know it."
Another "end to marriage as we know it" here.
Deep in our hearts, we know that. We already know what sodomy is, and that it's sinful and disgusting. The Bible and human science concur on this, and have for a long time.
But we know just as well that out there in policy-land, many popularity seeking politicians actually pay attention to polls.
Ok, well I reset my browser and voted fifteen times for "about time."
The main point is that on-line polls are utter worthlessness, by the way.
Poll *ping*!
I choose the end of marriage as we know it. God has been longsuffering with America, but His judgement has been on us for a while now. America turned her back on God a number of years ago. Gay marriage is just more of the inevitable result of that turning.
This is dumb! Since God is omniscient, He knew the outcome all along!
LIVE AND LET LIVE
with the addendum:
Unless the people of Massachusetts see fit to amend their State constitution to prohibit gay marriages.
In that instance, I'd say that homosexuals wishing to marry would have to move elsewhere, the issue would become moot, the poll would become irrelevant, and "Judgement" would be postponed.
Cheers!
Everett Volk
You can wait around to see the answer!
death of marriage!
They'gotten you too, huh? It's ok...we can help you John. Hang on Buddy!
Just turn off the Broadway showtunes, take off the Banana Republic silk chemise, throw away your copy of GQ, put down the glass of white zinfandel...and slowly back away ! ! !
Your reply is obtuse.
Heh heh...whatever!
Just remember, we can't "postpone" anything God has planned in advance.
What's missing here is that some people don't know where turds come from.
Ok, well I reset my browser and voted fifteen times for "about time."
The main point is that on-line polls are utter worthlessness, by the way.
LOL!
You had me worried for a while.
Oregon, you know?
LOL! Ok, that's completely revolting, but also totally true. Sperms can't impregnate feces.
Heh. I'm fine with gay marriage--my attitude is, who cares. My brother is gay, and I love him dearly, and he and his partner have been together for 15 years and are as happy and dull as any other old married couple. If they want to get married, I'll be first in line to say congrats.
As some comedian (I forget who) said, if gays want to get married and stop having sex with eachother, who are we to say no?
And, the day I drink white zin is the day somebody had me lobotomized.
Unfortunately, hare-brained political ploys have a way of staying around indefinitely once they become law.
We already know what sodomy is, and that it's sinful and disgusting. The Bible and human science concur on this, and have for a long time.
I'm being nitpicky, but I would disagree with your assertion that science ever produces normative results such as:
Sodomy is disgusting.
Sodomy is sinful.
Perhaps scientific studies might show that engaging in the activities that fall under the heading "sodomy" can increase one's risk of disease, but that's a far cry from determining that those activities are sinful. On the other hand, a social scientists can pretty well establish the statistical likelihood that any one person would consider "sodomy" disgusting or sinful. In that instance, presenting normative conclusions in terms of their empirical likelihood might be analogous to a "scientific" determination of sinfulness or disgustingness.
In any case, it's pretty clear that the Bible classifies sodomy as a sin.
Cheers!
Everett Volk
I have to agree with you. The severest damage to the body politic was the womens' movement and the mass abortion psychology. Now, our culture has no birthrate and we are being shooved out by a more fertile culture from the south much like Europe is being replaced by a much more dangerous fertility (Islam).
Just remember, we can't "postpone" anything God has planned in advance.
I’ve got a theological question about the causal logic contained in this poll. The poll provides:
Massachusetts Homosexual Marriage [is...]...The Beginning Of God's Judgment On America.
Now we’ve just been told that we cannot postpone anything that has been planned by God. That makes sense. If God sets a schedule for the universe, then we can conclude that events are going to happen when he schedules them. The poll, however, suggests that this is not entirely true. If you think about the causal chain inherent in the italicized statement, it implies that we can accelerate God's universal schedule by, for example, allowing gay marriage.
So, here’s my question: Is this true? Has God created a scheduling system by which we can accelerate “Judgment,” but not postpone it? And if that’s the case, what motive (other than the obvious motive of achieving entrance into Heaven) do humans have to behave morally. Even more importantly, why should we care what policies our political entities adopt, as they can do nothing but accelerate something that’s going to occur anyway?
Cheers!
Everett Volk
There are examples where societies have repented. God usually offers repentence before they are swept away. We are being swept away. Some societies repent and are not destroyed.
Yeah, like Nineveh. They heeded the warning, and were not destroyed.
Homosexual Agenda Ping - for your polling pleasure.
Counteract the bad votes!
Let me know if anyone wants on/off this pinglist.
That's probably the most disturbing thing, to those of us who really do care about this blessed country we call home.
the day I drink white zin is the day somebody had me lobotomized.
:-) Then at least I can say, I commend your choice in adult beverages!
LOL! I'm with ya. Thankfully, some folks will never buy their perverse B.S. I just hope there are enough of us ;)
We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
Romans 8:28
Perhaps I wasn't clear on which realm is addressed by the Bible and by science, respectively.
sinful
This is a moral statement. And we are agreed on what Scripture teaches: that lying with a man as one lies with a woman is a detestable abomination that brings God's judgment.
disgusting
This is a scientific statement. Supporting evidence would be the fact we are built for natural, heterosexual contact (check the plumbing!) and the medical consequences of what homosexuals do.
obtuse: A term used to describe a rounded tip or blunt tipped artifact.
HuH?
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