Indiana Senate poised to take up LGBT rights bills

The split over LGBT rights between social conservatives and the business wing of the Republican Party will likely be on full display Wednesday, when a GOP-controlled committee in the Indiana Senate takes up measures that could establish statewide protections based on sexual orientation and possibly gender identity.

The measures come in response to the bitter debate last March over a religious objections law that drew swift and largely negative attention to the state after critics contended that it would sanction discrimination against gay people on religious grounds. GOP lawmakers and Republican Gov. Mike Pence, who supported the law, hastily made changes to tamp down the uproar.

Since then, however, the state's business establishment has pushed lawmakers to adopt civil rights for all lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. That would include protections for anyone fired from a job, denied service or evicted because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. ...

This has never been about left or right, Rep or Dem, worker or business. As from the beginning, it has been between good and evil, God and Satan, blessing and cursing. Putting a good label on evil doesn't change that it is evil. Having knowledge and wisdom is the key and that only comes from God. The way Satan arranges things, he will win no matter who is elected. In the past, when elections had someone against abortion, it always ended up with both candidates buckling to abortion and the Godly candidate closed out as an extremist. God allows that when His people turn on Him. We are now vulnerable to attack, famine, economic ruin, or even revolution. Lev 18:22-30 speak of defiling the land and the land will vomit us out. Defiling the land is universal and the verses aren't limited to Israel or the Old Testament.

Christians find it hard to believe that Obama was God's man for America. If we won't repent, expect more of the same and even worse. Look at Trump, a NYC liberal, pretending to be conservative, pretending to be Christian, and even the elect are fooled. A 4 year term of a new York liberal would sink America for the next 50 years with the SCOTUS picks. Yet God is arranging it that whether Hillary or Trump wins, the slide to Gomorrah continues. If America were to pick even a marginal Christian, maybe the 1 Chron 7:14 requirement may come about. IMO, if we had a Christian in the WH, God would bless him/her and America with success. Christians in America have forgotten that God fights our battles before us. Wisdom is freely given to those that will ask, but pride says our flesh is wiser than God.

How else can you explain conservatives supporting Trump? Gun people supporting an assault weapons ban voter. Christians voting for someone calling second Corinthians "Two" Corinthians. A person that gave money to Planned Parenthood just a couple of years ago. Said with his mouth he supported them. Conservatives that support him support eminent domain, and support of Hillary Clinton and Obama. Would a conservative ever support single payer? We have been spiritually blinded and will soon be in a ditch.

Christians find it hard to believe that Obama was God’s man for America …

I point that out all the time. Isaiah 3:4 warns of such leaders, as does Daniel 4:17.

I will say that the left wing has embraced Satan’s way in particular. That is evident in what the most prominent left-wing leaders have said in the past.

“We must hate. Hatred is the basis of communism. Children must be taught to hate their parents if they are not communists.”
— Lenin

“It is impossible to conquer an enemy without having learned to hate him with all the might of one’s soul.”
— Stalin

“We hate Christianity and Christians. Even the best of them must be regarded as our worst enemies. They teach love of one’s neighbor and mercy, which is contrary to our principles. Christian love is an impediment to the development of the revolution. Down with love of our neighbor; what we want is hatred. We must know how to hate; only then shall we conquer the universe.”
— Anatoly Lunacharsky

This is what the left-wing politicians have been bringing here since Woodrow Wilson’s reign onwards, albeit far more strongly and openly in the more recent years.

The court(s) didnâ€™t legalize same-sex â€œmarriageâ€ to advance freedom, but to use it as a battering ram against freedom.

For the moment, the ideological heirs of those that believe the flames of liberty must be extinguished and the aspirations of the individual curtailed for the alleged good of humanity have grown more sophisticated in their methods of getting the people to comply with their agenda. However, as Americans draw ever closer to the breaking point of just how much they are willing to put up with as frankly we are fast approaching the threshold where there is precious little left for the state to steal, we must ask with concern: will the aspiring despots among us resort to the violent tendencies of their philosophical progenitors in the attempt to bring about socialismâ€™s (islam’s?) ultimate triumph?

One of the main themes in the Bible is changing a worldly man into a spiritual man. Normal people look at the world with fleshly eyes so they do, say, and think, like the world. If a spiritual person says an evil man is God's man, the world thinks you are crazy, but Scripture says many times Israel was punished by men put there by God.

The question is always, "Is this person God's man or not?" The answer is always yes. If we elevate Trump to the top spot, he either need to have a come to Jesus moment and repent, or we will have a fleshly leader making wrong decisions. A real Christian, like Cruz, Huckabee, Carson( yes I know he's Adventist), probably Fiorina,( look at their fruit) and others, would ask God to help him/her with their decisions. If you listen to Trump, it's pretty obvious HE will be in charge. Fascism here we come. If you just made up your mind about abortion 3 years ago, I'm not sure you have the right motivation to fight for righteousness. Same with sodomy and other issues. I've seen this many times before. A pastor will boast that he was delivered from drugs and alcohol 3 years ago and they may fall back after a year or two. If you were delivered 20 years ago and have not fallen, I may trust you as my Shepard.

All of this is a spiritual battle and Gideon was chosen to deliver Israel in battle. He didn't even believe it. Their relationship with God is the most important qualifier for POTUS, IMHO. God could use a child to deliver America from its enemies, if need be. Wrong decisions come from a weak relationship with the Decider. Salvation only comes from one place.

...as Americans draw ever closer to the breaking point of just how much they are willing to put up with as frankly we are fast approaching the threshold where there is precious little left for the state to steal...

I don't believe it is any longer a matter of a tolerable level of despotism being reached; Americans have been completely anesthetized, through media entertainment and other hypnotizing toys. I don't know if there is a "wake up" solution strong enough to rouse them after so many decade marinating in such a toxic mental environment. Who, in a saner age, would EVER tolerate a state fine of $135,000 for simply refusing to bake a fake wedding cake? That this, or the wholesale redefinition of marriage, didn't start a civil war reveals how far gone we are, even "conservatives."

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