Why is that?
Posted on 05/07/2015 3:30:23 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Until recently, if you sat in church on Sunday mornings, pollsters could predict where you stood on same-sex marriage.
What a difference a decade makes.
...In 2003....less than 30% of religiously affiliated Americans supported gays' and lesbians' right to wed.
By 2014, that number had climbed to 47%, according to a survey conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute....
....Despite vocal opposition from the U.S. Catholic Bishops, for example, 60% of Catholics now favor same-sex marriage. That's a huge increase from 2003, when just 35% backed gay rights, according to survey conducted at the time by the Pew Research Center.
Mainline Protestants -- so-called for their prominence in 20th century American life -- also saw a huge shift in the last decade. While 36% supported same-sex marriage in 2003, now 62% do.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
I do believe most churches are AFRAID to take a stand.
I also believe most people in their HEARTS know marriage is for a man and a woman.
Figures can lie and liars can figure. CNN?? Retch!
Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going into a stable makes you a horse.
It doesn’t matter what “most” people, Christians or otherwise, believe. Nothing in the US Constitution gives the federal government the legal or moral right to define marriage for the states. The propagandists, aka media, are just trying to smooth over the upcoming illegal and immoral ruling by the SCOTUS. They are using polls like this to push an agenda.
If homosexual “marriage” is as popular as CNN and others claim, then why did the homosexuals resort to the courts? If they have the votes, why don’t they vote? No. They ran to the courts to overturn the popular will of the people. That’s the only explanation that makes sense.
How sad.
That’s nothing. I used to golf with a guy from my Catholic Church who turned out to be a supporter of late term abortion. I told him he would have to find somebody else to golf with since the hypocrisy made me throw up a little in my mouth every Sunday watching him receive communion.
I should add that Christ’s church will never compromise on homosexuality or any other sin. It is not sin to be tempted to sin, but it is sin to act on those temptations. Anyone who claims to be a Christian and says it’s OK to sin, is worse than a nonbeliever.
Go forth and sin no more is the goal.
They were going to poll Sodom and Ghommorah to see how they felt about it...but they were unavailable.
I would suggest buying salt futures if that be your Lot!
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“I would suggest buying salt futures if that be your Lot!”
Excellent!
Neither the SCOTUS nor God makes decisions based on polling data.
Well of course people claim to support gay marriage in an opinion poll. Nowadays it’s almost considered hate speech to voice any opposition.
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
The left liberal system, whether political, economic, biblical, whatever, is all based on lies which create serious cognitive dissonance issues with them. They are basically insane.
Here is what they do to God’s Word!
This is even on Wiki. They are reinterpreting and pushing their distorted view of God’s Word. Who are these people that they are now quoting and using as scholarly? So I am showing what is on Wiki, but a search easily shows how they are perverting God’s Word.
Watch for this to change on Wiki over time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bible_and_homosexuality
“some interpreters uphold that understanding of these passages, while other interpreters maintain that they do not condemn homosexuality, saying that historical context suggests other interpretations or that rare or unusual words in the passages may not be referring to homosexuality.”
On Leviticus 18, 20... “The two verses have historically been interpreted by Jews and Christians as clear blanket prohibitions against homosexual acts. More recent interpretations focus on its context as part of the Holiness Code, a code of purity meant to distinguish the behavior of Israelites from the Canaanites.[3]”
On Romans 1:... “some 20th and 21st-century authors contend the passage is not a blanket condemnation of homosexual acts, suggesting, among other interpretations, that the passage condemned heterosexuals who experimented with homosexual activity[5][21] or that Paul’s condemnation was relative to his own culture, in which homosexuality was not understood as an orientation and in which being penetrated was seen as shameful.[21] These interpretations are in a minority.[5][21]”
On Other Epistles... “John Boswell states that it “did not connote homosexuality to Paul or his early readers”, and that in later Christian literature the word is used, for instance, by Aristides of Athens (c. 138) clearly not for homosexuality and possibly for prostitution” .. “Some scholars consider that the term was not used to refer to a homosexual orientation, but see it as referred instead to activities.[36][37]
Other scholars have interpreted arsenokoitai and malakoi (another word that appears in 1 Corinthians 6:9) as referring to weakness and effeminacy or to the practice of exploitative pederasty.[38][39]”... “Theodore W. Jennings Jr. and Tat-Siong Benny Liew write that Roman historical data about patron-client relationships and about same-sex relations among soldiers support the view that the pais in Matthew’s account is the centurion’s “boy-love” and that the centurion did not want Jesus to enter his house for fear the boy would be enamoured of Jesus instead.”
Late term abortion is infanticide. It’s really no different than chopping up a newborn. The only distinction is the relative position of the two children to the mother’s birth canal. And really—using the sick logic of abortion—is a one year old child really a person? They can’t take care of themselves. They’re entirely dependent on others.
There are mistaken Christians who need support and correction from other Christians. Then there are so-called Christians who claim the name but literally embrace sins, like abortion and homosexuality. The latter are also known as heretics, and it’s better not to associate with them AT ALL.
No. The SCOTUS makes its decisions based on which political faction stacks the courts best.
No. The SCOTUS makes its decisions based on which political faction stacks the courts best.
Sure it does, just like all the polls showing increasing support for Obozo’s policies. Suuuuure.....
“Mainline” Protestants don’t go to church except for Christmas and funerals. That’s what makes them “mainline.”
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