Posted on 05/08/2003 4:55:35 PM PDT by dilpo
Local religious leaders appeared unlikely to immediately join the city Unitarian minister who will no longer sign marriage licenses in protest of the state's ban against same sex marriage.
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What future?
What society? A society that does not reproduce and pass on its culture will cease to exist.
As much as I share your concern, please note that North Hampton, MA is a homo haven. And, while the people of MA were denied a chance to vote on an ammendment that would have ratified the institution of marriage between a man and a woman, the G-d fearing residents of MA reject these deviants. Sadly, lesbians are, for the most part, ugly woman who can't find a suitable male partner.
Unitarianism: One-step Christianity---easy to use and no cleanup required!
Even in a strictly secular sense: Homosexuality is a perversion of human anatomy and the human biological process.
Idolatry of perversion...
Pornography, cunnilingus, fellatio, sodomy and other deviations, even between normal heterosexual relationships is also perverse.
Using human reproductive biology as a secular standard shows this.
So-called "ministers," like in the article, are adding an esoteric dimension to the topic. This shows their dedication to something other than their stated belief in God.
Idols, phantasms, conceits.
Thomas Hobbes had them pegged:
Part IV. Of the Kingdom of Darkness
Chap. xlvii. Of the Benefit that proceedeth from such Darkness[1] Besides these sovereign powers, divine and human, of which I have hitherto discoursed, there is mention in Scripture of another power, namely, that of "the rulers of the darkness of this world," [Ephesians, 6. 12] "the kingdom of Satan," [Matthew, 12. 26] and "the principality of Beelzebub over demons," [Ibid., 9. 34] that is to say, over phantasms that appear in the air: for which cause Satan is also called "the prince of the power of the air";[Ephesians, 2. 2] and, because he ruleth in the darkness of this world, "the prince of this world":[John, 16. 11] and in consequence hereunto, they who are under his dominion, in opposition to the faithful, who are the "children of the light," are called the "children of darkness." For seeing Beelzebub is prince of phantasms, inhabitants of his dominion of air and darkness, the children of darkness, and these demons, phantasms, or spirits of illusion, signify allegorically the same thing. This considered, the kingdom of darkness, as it is set forth in these and other places of the Scripture, is nothing else but a confederacy of deceivers that, to obtain dominion over men in this present world, endeavour, by dark and erroneous doctrines, to extinguish in them the light, both of nature and of the gospel; and so to disprepare them for the kingdom of God to come.
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