Posted on 04/21/2016 3:30:32 PM PDT by fwdude
1913? I Wonder who was behind it and why?
The government and big business are always firing Muslims because of their religious views.
The state legislatures were fairly corrupt in many cases. State legislators would sell their votes for who they would appoint as US Senator.
A grass-roots effort took hold to reform the appointment process. The effort actually developed into the first Article V process initiative by states.
At first, the states that were pushing for constitutional reforms over the appointment of US Senators were small in number, and so Congress ignored them. Then as they grew in number, Congress mocked them. Sound familiar?
Then when states were going to cross the 2/3’s threshold for proposing a Constitutional Amendment, Congress went into a panic and wrested control of the Article V effort away from the states. What Congress did after was to take the power out of the control of state legislatures and send the ratification to the state legislatures who were at that time willing to give up the power because the voters were going to scalp them.
The 17th Amendment was written in a way that launched the US onto a trajectory as the UNITED STATE rather than the UNITED STATES. Now it is the federal government that will soon be dictating everything including how our bathrooms are arranged.
I know at least where I live I can’t recall a time homosexuality was ever a part of a sermon. We decided long ago to never talk about this subject, which leaves only you and I to educate our children.
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Because it’s such a hot political topic, I hear it in sermons, homosexual marriage etc. It is a sin to practice homosexuality among many others and should be soundly denounced.
I’m in central Illinois and Southern Baptist.
Aside: Is Gamgee your real last name? My last name (Agee) is contained within yours.
Nathan Deal, Governor, worthless, spineless dishrag for the lunatic left. Already said he hoped Religious liberty would not come up in the next legislative session because there are “more important” issues to work on. Yeah, like impeaching him.
My dream is we could get rid of Raw Deal early. The guy is a Democrat who runs as a Republican because its easier to get elected in GA. He’s not even a RINO.
Sam Gamgee is a character in a Tolkien novel.
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——I know at least where I live I can’t recall a time homosexuality was ever a part of a sermon——
It’s part of scripture so at some point your pastor should have addressed it...
Any pastor worth his salt can preach on the subject in a compassionate and grace filled sermon...
Charlie Daniels was right: The Devil went down to Georgia.
You have a solid point about that. States only get to choose their state flowers and flags (as long as it doesn't contain any imagery referencing the Confederacy), and maybe their song, once "approved" by Big Brother.
We're up to our necks in "compassion" nowadays. Fire and brimstone preaching has its place, and it has been appallingly absent over the past several decades, leading to what we are witnessing now.
There is nothing uncompassionate about being unflinchingly blunt about our condition, even if it "hurts" people and even seems to repel them. Jesus and the Apostles should be our example. Reference Romans 1.
We might as well accept the once-understood truth that we cannot convict people of their sinful and eternal condition, only the Holy Spirit can do that. So, we should stop trying to coddle people into the Kingdom. That just creates false converts.
One can be compassionate and present biblical truth...
Sin is sin...
Unfortunately, many Christian leaders have bought into this new, skewed definition.
No, LOL, not really my last name.
DAHELL????!?
In JOEJAW????!?
And my last name is contained in yours. "E".
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