Posted on 04/01/2015 9:52:02 AM PDT by Kaslin
I don’t have all the answers. But the issues that we’re quarreling over now should arguably have been discussed and resolved centuries ago.
And to make matters worse, patriots no longer know the Constitution but argue “flag, motherhood and apple pie” to defend their constitutional rights which activist judges laugh at.
Yeah there goes an o in ridiculus, like this: ridiculous
Once they get a foothold in private business, the next step will be churches (required to marry them, allow them to teach, allow them to have orgies on church property, etc.) - it's a steep, slippery slope.
Bingo
I don’t know there is going to much of a fight from churches. For one thing, there will not be a united front. The Presbyterian Church - USA has already approved homosexual marriage and recently ordained a lesbian couple as ministers. They’ve lost congregations and will lose more. This will also split other mainline Protestant denominations that have factions that are gung-ho for homosexual marriage and factions that are dead-set against it. I have a friend who is a United Methodist minister and he says he has no idea how the Methodists are going to resolve the issue in a way that satisfies everyone. One thing they cannot do is kick the issue down the road again.
Traditional Protestants/evangelicals, the historic black denominations, the Orthodox and the Catholics, and maybe even traditional Jews should come together on this. I would include Muslims, but I really don’t trust them.
I am Orthodox. From what I understand of Orthodox sacramental theology (and marriage is a sacrament for us) there is no way for a priest to unite a same-sex couple in marriage. For us to be required to change that through state coercive power would definitely be a “we should obey God rather than men” moment.
It will be more likely the conservative faiths that are going to have to stand up to the radical left. I will leave it at that.
In response, great algae plumes of righteous outrage erupted across the Internet.
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Righteous? No. Self-righteous at best.
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