Posted on 04/04/2015 6:53:25 AM PDT by lqcincinnatus
At the simplest level, there are seven questions central to the debate over same-sex marriage that rarely if ever gain public review. I have written on them below, and what you read here has been refashioned for proper presentation before the United States Supreme Court when it reviews four cases on the matter April 28, 2015. 1. What is the Source for Unalienable Rights? 2. Is Marriage a Right or a Liberty? 3. How Does the Creator Define Human Sexuality? 4. God-given Rights or Human-defined Rights? 5. Is the Declaration of Independence Honored Anymore? 6. Can a Healthy Social Order be Rooted in Pansexuality? 7. Is Homosexuality a Fixed Trait?
(Excerpt) Read more at virtueonline.org ...
Rooted in the self-evident, the marriage of one man and one woman in mutual fidelity is the sine qua non of a healthy human civilization. Here, the equality[4] and complementarity of male and female equals diversity in service to unity,[5] and uniquely provides the necessary social adhesive of trust which is then modeled for our children.[6]
Thus, here are seven questions[7] that same-sex marriage advocates need to address, which first need to be addressed before any further legal action can be contemplated.
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Could there be anything more inherently wrong than something, if universally practiced, would end mankind?
Talk about your counter-productive talking points!
Haven’t conservatives and Christians figured out yet that dragging God or the Bible into the discussion promptly ends it, and not in our favor?
I don’t believe that’s the way it should be, but surely one of the leading principles of conservatism is to recognize reality when it hits you in the eye.
IOW, when you’re in a really, really deep hole, stop digging.
Over decades it would be, in theory, possible to bring back a society in which it’s possible to use such arguments effectively. But today they are utterly counter-productive.
The questions above mean nothing to the lefties, but yours could be thought provoking even to them.
You’re right. The left doesn’t care about any of this. My only answer is to find alternatives to companies that promote the homosexual lifestyle to the best of my ability.
Same Sex advocates deny the existence of a Creator or a God in Heaven. I have this argument with “Liberal Christian” friends who say Jesus would love homosexuals and that Jesus wants them to be happy in their lifestyle and that I’m a bigot for wanting them to repent. That Jesus doesn’t want them to repent either. And that Jesus made them that way because He loves them.
This is the “replacement” theology of the liberals who have disregarded the message of the Gospel and have created their own liberal gospel to promote their own lifestyle
Re-reading the seven churches in Revelation reminds me if the perilous times we are in
Same-sex marriage agenda is about destroying the Judeo / Christian values of western civilization and it's culture...
Change the value and meaning of "marriage", then any perverse and unnatural values and cultures will fill the void...
You appear to me uninformed as to the foundations of our Republic.
Do you disagree that appeals to the Bible are counterproductive?
Or do you just think that they should not be counterproductive? I actually agree with you on that, but my opinion, or your's, does not change the world.
is a hetero sexual impulse rational ...yes it is necessarily built in to drive reproduction of the species....it has a critical function
So next question, is a homosexual impulse rational? ...
Wow. I agree. I read that post and thought ...WT..??
Politics always rests upon a moral foundation.
In our case, what ails us is beyond politics, quite simply because the foundation has crumbled. We keep hoping for the next election to turn things around, hanging on for the next candidate to move the center back to the right, but it never happens, or if it happens its only for a moment before the shift left resumes.
Until we address the deeper moral foundation we’ll never fix what ails us.
Fix the moral and spiritual sickness and the politics will take care of itself. Fail to fix the deeper sickness and the politics will continue to be just shuffleboard on the Titanic.
We do not live in the world of James Madison because we have lost the will to speak the truth. Appeals to the Bible and that book’s influence on the founding of this Republic are appropriate. If we hide from this fact, we dig a deeper hole. Directly, appeals to the Bible are not counterproductive. They are an essential defense.
If you don’t stand with God, who do you stand with?
Are we like Peter and deny Him three times?
Do You believe? (A new movie just out - very worthwhile).
Then we must act on that belief and do the right things while on earth and not the politically correct way of the world.
Look at what Jesus endured for us, can’t we endure for Him and show Him our love?
It would even be more welfare-burdensome if much more than 2 or 3 percent of the population fell into that category.
Any sexual desire, without rational constraint, is dangerous. The media spins and often avoids mentioning the consequences of unrestrained homosexual impulse, because it wouldn’t make the cause look good.
The event we will celebrate tomorrow is the taproot of the tree of our liberty.
It is wrong for gov’t to decide what is marriage.
Gov’t is responsible for law. If the gov’t wants to create a shortcut document to share property between two or more people, then it should do so in a totally blind way.
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