Posted on 03/27/2016 7:17:55 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Yeah, like all those florists and bakers discovered.
I’ve noticed oddly that in a lot, if not all, of the florist/baker cases, the person(s) accused didn’t show any kind of consistency in wanting to serve pure marriages. Compromise can bring trouble. If adultery A might be OK but adultery B isn’t, then we have gotten off on the wrong foot.
Oh, so it’s their fault now! Unreal.
It is very real to the way God chastens.
If they get their attitudes right, that all adultery is wrong and they should only be lending their assistance to situations that they can reasonably determine are right, then the protection of God will very likely kick in. I haven’t seen a single one saying they have learned such a lesson and that they confess that God is in control and He is the One to please in everything.
The big secret of the day is that if love and marriage is done in the manner God prescribed (which to be sure does not imply any of the ascetic things that puritanical souls superimposed upon the bible directions) then the result is, as a popular song put it some decades ago, skyrockets in flight. If even the compromises charmed, the real McCoy will blow that all galley-west.
I hate to see it happen, in a way, because these seem like perfectly nice ladies and gentlemen. But God wants us to go beyond nice, to good.
C. S. Lewis attempted to address this in his book “The Problem Of Pain.”
Destroy those who criticize Islam—that is the new American way.
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