Yes it is! Homosexual activity is and will always be intrinsically disordered.
- Resistance Is Futile!
Posted on 02/26/2005 11:09:23 AM PST by James Franklin Reed
How does same sex marriage hurt my marriage? The question presupposes that marriage belongs to me in the first place. Marriage is an institution founded by God and exists by common grace for the benefit of all. It belongs to no one but God. It is not my marriage.
The second presupposition is that answering the question of same sex marriage forces us to jump past the most basic argument relating to the legitimacy of homosexual behavior itself.
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I have invited him privately to post a response. We'll see. But I say it's just as reasonable to conclude that we scared him off if he doesn't respond.
Yep. I remember it, too.
Hmmmm....
Somehow "Mike in Ohio" doesn't haave the same ring to it!
:-)
If you DO hear from him, let us know!
I'm all curious now.
Nonsense. Our marriage belongs to us, and was founded by our love for one another relative to an objective reality. I respect Christians' contribution to western civ enough to join you in opposing gay marriage, but don’t respect this claim that someone’s concept of God founded my marriage. We own that, and don’t ask for anyone’s blessing.
Gay marriage is no worse than network Reality Shows that pair people up to be married or the soaring divorce rates that infect the American culture.
You are correct. That's why I posted link on #8.
Marriage is a ceremonious sanctification.
Homosexual marriage advocates are seeking esoteric absolution for their guilt-ridden egos. They seek ceremonious sanctification for preternatural prurient preferences.
An atheist would advocate a strictly secular standard based on human reproductive biology.
If homosexuality is NOT a choice, then it must be a birth defect...
What?! Agreed with me!!?
To HELL with it, then!
However, the issue is not about marriage but normalcy and acceptance.
It is certainly about time that homosexual and lesbian individuals began taking responsibility for their own feelings.
It is evident that "they" are searching to find someone else to blame for the lack of perfection in their own narrow lives. Maybe it’s time for homosexuals and lesbians who "feel” so isolated to act grown up and do what other adults do when they "feel” bad. Look at yourself first.
If homosexuals and lesbians are so miserable as some seem to describe in these MSM articles, one would think that it might occur to them to ask if maybe they need to make some changes in their own lives.
However,who can believe that if the laws on marriage change, homosexuals and lesbians will suddenly "feel” better? I doubt that. You cannot be at peace with others until you are at peace with yourself.
Perhaps some homosexuals and lesbians are not so happy with their lifestyles as they have been told that they should be. And, for those homosexuals and lesbians who are not at ease with their own choice, no act of marriage or civil union will ever make them "feel” better.
Those who have move to "Greener pastures" in search of happiness often discover that despite new surroundings they are just as miserable as they were in the old place.
Well, he did respond. He's definitely not a troll. But I don't know if he will return to this thread, either... I encouraged him to.
Good on you to encourage him!
"Gay Marriage" is a "trojan horse" method of attack by radical homosexual activists attempting to legitimize homosexuality in the courts and by legislation. Should homosexual marriage be legalized the end resuilt by judicial fiat would be ligitimized homosexuality across the board. This means that school children by law would be taught that homosexuality and homosexual behavior is "safe" and "normal" and by law parents will have no grounds to object.
Excerpts from Gay marriage 'rights' December 31, 2004 | Thomas Sowell
The issue is not individual rights. What the activists are seeking is official social approval of their lifestyle. But this is the antithesis of equal rights.
If you have a right to someone else's approval, then they do not have a right to their own opinions and values. You cannot say that what "consenting adults" do in private is nobody else's business and then turn around and say that others are bound to put their seal of approval on it.
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The rhetoric of "equal rights" has become the road to special privilege for all sorts of groups, so perhaps it was inevitable that gay activists would take that road as well. It has worked. They have already succeeded in getting far more government money for AIDS than for other diseases that kill far more people.
The time is long overdue to stop word games about equal rights from leading to special privileges -- for anybody -- and gay marriage is as good an issue on which to do so as anything else.
What the activists really want is the stamp of acceptance on homosexuality, as a means of spreading that lifestyle, which has become a death style in the era of AIDS.
They have already succeeded to a remarkable degree in our public schools, where so-called "AIDS education" or other pious titles are put on programs that promote homosexuality. In some cases, gay activists actually come to the schools, not only to promote homosexuality as an idea but even to pass out the addresses of local gay hangouts to the kids.
There is no limit to what people will do if you let them get away with it. That our schools, which are painfully failing to educate our children to the standards in other countries, have time for promoting homosexuality is truly staggering.
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How could a whole nation be so easily swayed into gross error? The answer is simple: Once the "terror of the transcendent" (as Hitler labeled the Judeo-Christian moral ethic) is removed, the rest is history.
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Remove the standards, and all things become permissible, and correction becomes nearly impossible.
-note subtle message that follows: ANY MARRIAGE!
Yes it is! Homosexual activity is and will always be intrinsically disordered.
Indeed. They are all tragic. But I hope you're not suggesting we should permit one just because we already permit the other. If anything we ought to be rolling back no-fault divorce laws.
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