Posted on 05/29/2009 3:55:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
They seek ceremonious sanctification and esoteric absolution in some type of marriage rite, but that still fails to give them a connection to the eternal in both a religious and temporal, procreant sense - - the union does not produce offspring.
Dissatisfaction with inevitable mortality only feeds the impoverishment of the ego further. Homosexuals really hate human life; their whole desire is rooted in the destruction of it...
I wonder if they would prefer a swim with a millstone around their necks to what He has in store for them at Judgement?!
Art and Anne (if I may refer to them in the familiar (I don't respect them enough not too)) are not pastors. They are activists who have found themselves occupying positions they never should have been allowed near. Yhey are technicians who know the appropriate religious jargon.
Isn’t the Congregational “Church” of today just a club for atheists who want somewhere to go on the occasional Sunday morning?
Either choice is fine with me, and the sooner the better.
Isn’t the Congregational “Church” of today just a club for atheists who want somewhere to go on the occasional Sunday morning?
What is the downside? If heterosexual couples want to get married they can go outside the land of Pagans.
Yeah, if only he knew, William Bradford would rise from his grave and smite them hip and thigh.
"We are currently searching for new ministerial leadership. If you are interested in submitting your profile and hold ordinained ministerial standing, please contact the Southern California Nevada Conference of the United Church of Christ for more information. Thank you!"
It seems to me that this church is badly in need of radically new "ministerial leadership".
Even better question: why do so many aging hippies/liberals support this 'right'? Weren't these the ones that spent their college years smoking dope and saying that a man and a woman didn't need a government paper (marriage license) to confirm their 'union'?
well if certain folks in that church have been looking for a reason to leave, or one final straw, this could certainly be it.
as does your wife
Yep, she does.
I don’t.
Between the two of us, we’ve got a full collection.
California dreaming theology: forgive certain ones their debts and trespasses, don’t get funky about the monkey, don’t think, feel, imagine, and don’t step on my blue suede shoes.
So the churches won’t get the money they usually charge for renting the church out and the ministers won’t get their extra money either, who is really hurt by that?
Pastor who advocate violation of the clear teaching of Scripture should step away from the pulpit!
There’s no tantrum like that thrown by the left when they lose. Go ahead, sit down and pout and hold your breath until you’re blue.
That's fine. All the real pastors will continue to perform all the real marriages in all these areas. No one will notice your little tirade.
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