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Thiel urges Republicans to back off 'culture wars
politico.com ^ | July 21, 2016 | Tony Romm

Posted on 07/21/2016 8:25:51 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

Technology investor Peter Thiel implored Republicans from the convention stage on Thursday against waging "culture wars" on lesbian, gay and transgender communities, mere days after the GOP approved a national platform that defines marriage as between “one man and one woman.” Thiel, who himself is gay, stressed that "every American has a unique identity." He said attempts to require transgender Americans to use particular bathrooms is a "distraction from our real problem." And in a first for a GOP convention, the Facebook board member and PayPal co-founder drew attention to his own sexuality: "I am proud to be gay, I am proud to be a Republican, but most of all, I am proud to be an American," he said.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; Russia
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To: Bryanw92
>>Their sin does not rub off on you or me,

What impact does the perversion of nature have upon the fitness of species/cultures?

Romans Chapter 1 describes a cultural cycle.

"because of this, God gave them over"

Because of what?
Gave them over to what?

81 posted on 07/22/2016 4:25:47 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: Pinkbell

In 2008, 7 out of 9 USSC justices were Republican appointed. Roe wasn’t even remotely close to being overturned. It’s never going to happen. The fact is the establishment Rs don’t care about abortion and never have (2 out of 3 Reagan appointees supported Roe) - they’ve been using it to get the base out to vote and for donations for decades and mostly just for donations in recent years. I’m actually glad Trump didn’t provide fake lip service to it. Majority of Americans (wrongfully) support abortion and among younger voters its 3:1. The culture war was lost and is really just a distraction for the corporate elite that both parties support.


82 posted on 07/22/2016 4:26:09 AM PDT by rb22982
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To: rb22982

>>The culture war was lost and is really just a distraction for the corporate elite that both parties support.

The strategic demoralization resulting from the culture war allowed corporate oligarchic kleptocrats to game the systemic corruption.

Fraud? meh, everybody does it. Right?

Meanwhile in reality land:

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=quadrillion+derivatives+fraud

Hosea 12:7
The merchant uses dishonest scales and loves to defraud.

Yep. Nothing to see there. Move along and pass the KY Jell!


83 posted on 07/22/2016 4:36:45 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: HLPhat

Seriously dude... a whole 2 or 3 % of the population. I’m glad you only worry about the really important stuff.


84 posted on 07/22/2016 4:39:59 AM PDT by wyowolf (Be ware when the preachers take over the Republican party...)
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To: HLPhat

>>Gave them over to what?

He chooses those whom he chooses. The rest are left to be sinful man, without the capacity to seek God or to possess a saving faith.

No one is good enough to deserve salvation. If you don’t sin one way, you will sin another. But the good news is that there is grace and there is the cross.


85 posted on 07/22/2016 4:42:12 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.)
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To: Bryanw92

>>He chooses those whom he chooses

Oh. Well, who does the CDC say he chooses?

[Cases of drug-resistant gonorrhea skyrocket (4X)]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3449774/posts

And what sort of impact would that have upon the fitness of a culture being targeted for strategic demoralization by an adversary?


86 posted on 07/22/2016 4:48:49 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: HLPhat

So now you want to ban extra-marital sex?


87 posted on 07/22/2016 4:51:55 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.)
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To: Bryanw92
But the good news is that there is grace and there is the cross.

Forgiveness of sin is not the permission to sin coveted by those who covet the body/bride of Christ for their perverted self-fulfilmnent in the spirit of anti-Christ.

Luke 17 1-4
17 Jesus said to his disciples: "Things that cause people to sin are bound to come, but woe to that person through whom they come. 2 It would be better for him to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around his neck than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin. 3 So watch yourselves.
"If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him. 4 If he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times comes back to you and says, 'I repent,' forgive him.
"

 

What do Rebuke and Repent mean in this week's edition of the LGBTWhatever Newspeak dictionary?

88 posted on 07/22/2016 4:55:37 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Technology investor Peter Thiel implored Republicans from the convention stage on Thursday against waging "culture wars" on lesbian, gay and transgender communities,

Golly; I wonder WHY???


Thiel, who himself is gay,


Uh; nevermind...

89 posted on 07/22/2016 4:57:18 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Do you all realize you’re responding on a thread from POLITICO!!!

POLITICO!.....they distort the news as badly as the New York Times...
SHeesh


90 posted on 07/22/2016 4:57:33 AM PDT by Guenevere (If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do....)
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To: HLPhat

The problem for Republicans and the culture war is simply demographic. < 40s just don’t care. It’s fighting a battle that is going to just become more and more impossible to win. I think if you can get people to be financially independent you can re-engage the culture war.

And it is a huge distraction from more important issues. Eg: BLM is focusing on 150 blacks killed by police each year rather than the fact black unemployment rate is horrible and illegal immigrants are keeping a lot of the wages down for those blacks that do get jobs.


91 posted on 07/22/2016 4:57:36 AM PDT by rb22982
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To: Berlin_Freeper

A BIBLICAL Message to LGBT folks EVERYWHERE!



 
Genesis 13:13
Now the men of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the LORD.

Genesis 18:20-21
20. Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and
their sin so grievous
21. that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know."

Genesis 19:4-7
4. Before they had gone to bed, all the men
from every part of the city of Sodom--both young and old--surrounded the house.
5. They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them
."
6. Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him
7. and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing.


Leviticus niv

18:22 Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.

20:13 If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.

 
 


Psalms 12:8 The wicked freely strut about when what is vile is honored among men.

Doonesbury Cartoon for Feb/08/2013

Isaiah 3:9 The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves.

2 Peter 2:13b Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.


Ezekiel 16:49-50
49. "`Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
50. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.


Romans 1     New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)
 
 18 The wrath of God is indeed being revealed from heaven against every impiety and wickedness of those who suppress the truth by their wickedness. 19 For what can be known about God is evident to them, because God made it evident to them. 20 Ever since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes of eternal power and divinity have been able to be understood and perceived in what he has made. As a result, they have no excuse; 21 for although they knew God they did not accord him glory as God or give him thanks. Instead, they became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless minds were darkened. 22 While claiming to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for the likeness of an image of mortal man or of birds or of four-legged animals or of snakes.
 

24 Therefore, God handed them over to impurity through the lusts of their hearts for the mutual degradation of their bodies. 25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and revered and worshiped the creature rather than the creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. 26 Therefore, God handed them over to degrading passions. Their females exchanged natural relations for unnatural, 27 and the males likewise gave up natural relations with females and burned with lust for one another. Males did shameful things with males and thus received in their own persons the due penalty for their perversity. 28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God handed them over to their undiscerning mind to do what is improper. 29 They are filled with every form of wickedness, evil, greed, and malice; full of envy, murder, rivalry, treachery, and spite. 


2 Peter 2

1. But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them--bringing swift destruction on themselves.
2. Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.
3. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
4. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment;
5. if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;
6. if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
7. and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men
8. (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)--
9. if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.
10. This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature and despise authority. Bold and arrogant, these men are not afraid to slander celestial beings;
11. yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous accusations against such beings in the presence of the Lord.
12. But these men blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like brute beasts, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like beasts they too will perish.
13. They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done.
Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.



But there IS hope!!!

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

9. Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived:
Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders
10. nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.


If you could NOT change, you would be in most pitiful shape...

 
 
 
 
 
 
 


The Health Risks of gay sex.

92 posted on 07/22/2016 4:59:08 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Mercat
My issue is all the babies being killed.

I think that Someone else might have an 'issue' as well...



Are you still killing your unborn?

-- GOD


 

93 posted on 07/22/2016 5:00:59 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: rb22982

>>The problem for Republicans and the culture war is simply demographic. < 40s just don’t care

So in other words - the process of demoralization Bezmenov warned us about 30+ years ago is a STUNNING STRATEGIC SUCCESS.

But that’s not a big issue. For you - and the other geniuses who’d rather the herd focus its attention on the plethora of OTHER subversive activities delivered by the Recreate ‘68 Morons.... because, well, obviously 1968 obviously didn’t suck enough the first time.

Was the demoralization of the culture symptomatic in the festivities of 1968? Yep sure was.


94 posted on 07/22/2016 5:05:03 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: rb22982
>>And it is a huge distraction

Uhuh.  Lot$ of (very profitable) di$tracting going on.

How do the antics of the last 55+ years fit into the context of what General/President Dwight Eisenhower tried to warn us about in 1961?

[Eisenhower's "Military-Industrial Complex" Speech Origins and Significance]
US National Archives 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg-jvHynP9Y

 




"And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free"
 


95 posted on 07/22/2016 5:20:02 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

“He said attempts to require transgender Americans to use particular bathrooms is a “distraction from our real problem.”

Charlotte passed and ordinance that allowed men to use the women’s publicly owned facilities and forced private business to let men use their women’s facilities. The NC law was then passed to require people to use the right publically owned facilities and gave the choice back to businesses on who can use their own damn bathrooms. Trump and Target can still let who ever they want use their bathrooms in NC.

How is that bad or a distraction?

FReegards


96 posted on 07/22/2016 5:31:30 AM PDT by Ransomed
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To: wyowolf

>>Seriously dude... a whole 2 or 3 % of the population.

You mean like, dude, the 2 or 3 % of the population who’ve managed to advance a subversive agenda so successfully that allowing opposing (non LGBT compliant) opinions in a class room is now cause for sanction of university professors?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3443343/posts

You mean like, dude, the subversive percentage of the population that’s managed of infest Walt Disney’s once conservative company with a culture where, as Mikey Eisner bragged circa 1997, >40% of the employees are now homosexual.

How does that culture, dude, of subversive nepotism impact other, once conservative, corporate environments?

Got Recto-cranial inversion much, dude?


97 posted on 07/22/2016 5:39:14 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: HLPhat

Im still trying to figure out exactly how the gay people I have met in my life, several own large businesses here the gaylanta, have in any single way effected my life???

give me some time dud, im sure I will think of something...

but you keep up the fear and loathing... it seems to suit you...


98 posted on 07/22/2016 5:41:41 AM PDT by wyowolf (Be ware when the preachers take over the Republican party...)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I am pro-life, but the issue of homosexuality I differ from the divisive comments here. That’s my basic disagreement with the party here and being this dismissive of a Republican.


99 posted on 07/22/2016 5:42:46 AM PDT by VermithraxPejorative (HILLARY NEEDS TO ANSWER FOR DEMOCRAT JUDGES SOFT ON CRIME/REPEAT OFFENDERS)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

He supports, gives money , announces he’s a homosexual and ten tell us to back off social issues, . Well he can take a flying leap off the Golden Gate Bridge. I will never accept them , nor are they ever married, and yes they have a mental sickness.


100 posted on 07/22/2016 5:51:47 AM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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