Gay Parents Line Up For White House Easter Egg Roll Tickets

WASHINGTON -- Hundreds of gay and lesbian parents hoping to take their families to the annual White House Easter Egg Roll plan to start lining up Friday evening to make sure they get tickets for the Monday event.

Thousands of tickets — an estimated 16,000 last year — are given away on a first-come-first-come basis beginning at 7:30 a.m. Saturday.

National Park Service officials said Wednesday that children of all ages may attend as long as there is at least one child 7 years old or younger, and no more than two adults per group.

First lady Laura Bush's office issued a statement saying all families are welcome to attend.

Read my post #595. I explained what transpired there. What are you ranting about anyway? You keep accusing me of lying and yet that is what you are doing to me in every post. Ok, let's look at one example. You declared that Pres Bush had stated that homosexuality is a sin. I disagreed and asked for the proof. You responded in 1-2 posts later that someone asked Pres Bush if homosexuality was a sin, and he declared that we are all sinners.... which is true by the way. But that is a far cry from him making a public statement that homosexuality is a sin. So how do you excuse your obfuscation or stretching of the truth in that case. Others might call it lying.

And I simply pointed out what Rom 1:26-27 had to say about homosexuality being vile & unnatural, and against nature itself in an earlier response to a different poster, and you have been mad ever since.

You are hopeless and self-righteous. Much like the Democrats who accuse everyone else of lying when they themselves are the ones who are lying.

Bye

rcrn..........I am being led by the Lord to apologize to you. If you are a brother (or sister) in Christ, we should not be fighting like this, no matter who did what to whom.

So I ask your forgiveness for whatever I have done to offend or hurt you.

And I would like to ask you to join us in prayer for President Bush.......also a dear brother in Christ whom God has entrusted with an enormous and difficult task. He is being obedient to his Savior, but he needs our prayer support and the wisdom of Solomon to deal with what has been put on his plate.

Thanks.

Thank you for your gracious spirit and your apology. Likewise I was convicted by the acrimonious exchange and I am sorry and apologize & ask your forgiveness for my harsh words. I am a born again Christian, attend a conservative fundamental Baptist church, and I suspect that you & I have much more in common both politically & religiously than different.

I pray for our leaders, but I have to confess I have been sorely disappointed in President Bush. If he is a Christian (that is not mine to judge) I do feel that he has not grown or matured in the faith, nor is he knowledgeable about the Bible or Christianity or the basic foundational tenets of Christianity. I have seen the transcripts where he was talking to Charles Smith (ABC) and he repeatedly expressed his belief that all roads lead to heaven, including the Muslim religion. Or his oft proclaimed statements that "Islam is a religion of peace", which has never been remotely true in the 1400 violent, blood-stained years of Islam. I do not know how he can make such presposterous claims that are completely contrary to the clear teaching of scripture, where it states in Acts that "there is no other name (Jesus) under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved". Also Jesus himself proclaimed that "I am the way, the truth and the life, no man comes to the Father but by me". President Bush has carried political correctness & pandering to an extreme.

I need to pray that I do not grow bitter towards President Bush or the Republican Party for its cowardice & betrayal of conservative principles & values in general.

Apology accepted. Thank you.

You need to look past the public pronouncements of the President, who is in the awkward position of having firmly held beliefs, yet being President of all the people.

While I do not like that he called Islam 'a religion of peace,' and do not agree with that at all, it would be irresponsible for him to say, 'Islam is a false religion that leads to violence'.....even if that is what he really believes.

Watch the way he handles himself. Watch the way he exhibits the Fruits of the Spirit daily. And pray for him as a brother. You will see it.

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