“Parliament forces”
This issue has always been about coercion, not “rights”.
I asked some homosexuals or collectivists that were for homosexual marriage, “Why do homosexuals have more rights than the rest of us?”
They responded in the usual manner.
So I clarified the question.
I asked,
“Why do two percent of the population have the right to shove acceptance of their behaviour down the other 98%’s throat?”
Not one would respond.
Is it time for the true church to move toward house churches like communist China?
It is no longer a Church.
Liberals reminds me of namby pamby parents.
Little Johnny wants to play with big brother Jamey’s toys but Jamey says no because Johnny breaks very toy he plays with.
Well mommy forces Jamey to let Johnny play with his toys because she doesn’t want to hear Johnny whine all day about how mean Jamey is and she deludes herself in to believing she is right because Jamey needs to learn to share and be nice.
The fact that Jamey is perfectly within his rights and Johnny does not have a right to Jamey’s toys simply does not enter in to her mind.
The Church has a right to set its rules and enforce them amongst its congregation. No one is forced to be a member of the Church and they can quit any time. If the Church’s rule do not suit you leave.
King Henry VIII started the Church of England to force his liberal views on sex and marriage in the 1500’s and he created enough conflict in England to drive dissenters into the Western Hemisphere where some of them came up with a Constitution that prohibits such an “establishment of religion”
That’s the real story of your First Amendment, not to be confused with the rewrite started by Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black in the 1940’s “Everson” decision about a “separation of church and state.”
There will be “A Time for Choosing”, to echo Ronald Reagan’s splendid speech about freedom, which should be read every Fourth of July.
As Christians, our choice will be the same as it was for the Israelites in Joshua’s day: “Choose you this day whom you will serve.….But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” (Joshua 24:15)
Ping for later
Genesis 1
English Standard Version (ESV)
26 Then God said, “Let us make man[h] in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” 29 And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. 30 And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. 31 And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.