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‘A Bonhoeffer moment’: Evangelical leaders vow civil disobedience if SCOTUS redefines marriage
LifeSiteNews ^ | 4/7/15 | Ben Johnson

Posted on 04/08/2015 11:52:51 AM PDT by wagglebee

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“Christians are being declared the lawbreakers when we are simply living by what we have always believed and by a set of laws that the culture historically has agreed to.”

Exactly! Preserving what we have believed for thousands of years isn't at all unreasonable.

1 posted on 04/08/2015 11:52:51 AM PDT by wagglebee
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2 posted on 04/08/2015 11:54:10 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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3 posted on 04/08/2015 11:54:36 AM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: wagglebee

What civil disobedience are the proposing, exactly?


4 posted on 04/08/2015 11:55:05 AM PDT by ConjunctionJunction
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“Tell them now that if they cross that line they will become an illegitimate institution, that the Supreme Court will lose the respect of the American people and therefore lose its authority,”


5 posted on 04/08/2015 11:55:48 AM PDT by dware (The GOP is dead. Long live Conservatism.)
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To: wagglebee
I see this as more of a Concord Bridge moment ...

If they would have a war, let it begin here.

6 posted on 04/08/2015 11:56:33 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: wagglebee

Exactly! Preserving what we have believed for thousands of years isn’t at all unreasonable.


Exactly! No civilization in the world has ever viewed marriage to be but between a man and a woman. There is no such thing a same sex marriage.

For 1000s and 1000s of years marriage has never been anything but between a man and a woman.


7 posted on 04/08/2015 12:00:34 PM PDT by boycott
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A brief article on Mr. Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Faith and Redemption in the Garden of Evil
8 posted on 04/08/2015 12:01:27 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (It takes a gun to feed a village (and an AK 47 to defend it).)
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In an unrelated story, Pat Buchanan has also called for resistance to any court decision that imposes a new definition of marriage upon the states.

Resistance? I was thinking nullification by way of 10A. The Constitution says nothing about marriage.

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

9 posted on 04/08/2015 12:02:07 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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You won’t get any civil disobedience from the ELCA, which is ironic since Bonhoffer is the closest thing to a saint that the Lutheran Church has.


10 posted on 04/08/2015 12:02:46 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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I agree with reacting against a terrible SCOTUS decision on this, but wouldn’t it make at least as much sense to march now and show them how serious we’re taking this.

1. Forced compliance with Sin!

2. Declaring Parents to be Irrelevant. (Meaning: the state OWNS the children)

3. Government Siding AGAINST Religion.


11 posted on 04/08/2015 12:07:19 PM PDT by xzins (Donate to the Freep-a-Thon or lose your ONLY voice. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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I have read a lot of what Bonhoeffer wrote and I've reread some of it so that it sinks in better. He is easily one of the half dozen most important theologians of the past century.
12 posted on 04/08/2015 12:07:28 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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Dobson and Falwell both said that they would be arrested during Operation Rescue - Summer of 1988 - Atlanta.

So, we shall see.

Here’s what faithfulness and courage looks like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiz4tfjSuPc


13 posted on 04/08/2015 12:07:42 PM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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Alan Keyes and several others were arrested back in 2009 protesting Obama's speech at Notre Dame.
14 posted on 04/08/2015 12:09:37 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee

Some good news for a change. It’s time for us Christians to stop turning the other cheek and loving our enemies.


15 posted on 04/08/2015 12:11:14 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: wagglebee

" "What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?" Romans 8:31
16 posted on 04/08/2015 12:17:23 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: ConjunctionJunction

Civil disobedience will come as a result of refusing to participate in supporting homosexual unions. This will include ministers, counselors, licensing officials, bakers, butchers and candle stick makers. IOW anyone who is obliged to speak or act in support of queerdom.
Homosexuality is an abomination. It is not a civil right.


17 posted on 04/08/2015 12:18:05 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: ConjunctionJunction

When the IRS comes around to visit, maybe very little. I would like to be wrong.


18 posted on 04/08/2015 12:18:20 PM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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Alan Keyes and several others were arrested back in 2009 protesting Obama's speech at Notre Dame.

Yes, including an aged, frail priest who was harshly manhandled by cops at the direct instruction of the college president.

19 posted on 04/08/2015 12:20:59 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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If they truly mean what they say then the jails and prisons will need to emptied of thieves, muggers, rapist and murders to accommodate the crowd as I suspect a good number of the congregations will accompany the pastors in resistance (MAYBE).

Then again I have heard conspiracy theorist claim there are already built interment camps for just such a purpose, I do not reject the claim but if in this instance the SCOTUS goes against the constitution we will see, such facilities will be necessary if Evangelical leaders mean what they say.


20 posted on 04/08/2015 12:25:50 PM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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