Hopefully, this will lead to a ‘separatist’ movement in the US that is endorsed by the churches. It doesn’t have to be political (at first), but churches are going to have to get behind a movement that encourages separate education, commerce, etc. We need our own distinct culture.
Newsmax
Huckabee:Evangelicals Will Walk if GOP Backs Gay Marriage
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 05:49 PM
By: Jim Meyers and Kathleen Walter
Mike Huckabee warns that Republicans risk losing the vote from evangelical Christians if they back away from their opposition to gay marriage.
Last week, Ohio Sen. Bob Portman announced he has reversed his position and now supports gay marriage.
In an exclusive interview with Newsmax TV, former Arkansas Gov. Huckabee — and ordained Southern Baptist minister — was asked if he sees the GOP ever pivoting and backing gay marriage.
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“They might. And if they do, they’re going to lose a large part of their base because evangelicals will take a walk,” he responds.
I think one homofem was actually honest on this fact, she said
“Gays win, Christians lose. That’s how it is.”
Tools. Satan loves to use them. The agenda behind “gay rights” is not giving more freedom to the mentally ill, it is criminalizing Christianity.
And Christians will do nothing.
This is exactly why I am opposed to gay marriage. I am libertarian on many issues and I recognize there is a political agenda here that is really bigger than so called “gay rights.” In most caese, I couldn’t care less about gay, straight, black, white, man, woman, etc. We all have the same set of rights that merit protection. But I cannot see how gay marriage can exist along side First Amendment religious rights. Something has to give as the left will never be satisfied with gay marriage recognized by the state only. It won’t stop at bakeries being sued for refusing to make cakes for these weddings. The church is a direct target here.
Polygomy for Mormans didn’t work out so well . To quote our former SoS what difference does it make?
The left will continue to do this until “separation of church and state” is proven to be a lie produced to hinder Christian influence in America.
Good points in the writing
I think libertarians just approve of same sex marriage, but they know they wont get far in the GOP if they admit it. So like Democrats they just wait and assume that time is on their side.
God defines marriage as being between men and women. While many men whom God called righteous in the Bible practiced polygamy, Jesus is quoted in Matthew chapter 19 that from the beginning of humanity, it was God’s intent that marriage would only be one man and one woman.
God defines sexual relations between people of the same sex as sin, that is immoral. In Revelation 22:15, a book dictated to John by Jesus, God tells us that anyone who practices sexual immorality will not be granted eternal life.
But these are ecclesiastical considerations that are outside of secular government, that is unless we want government to police sexual behavior between consenting adults based on the standards of the Bible, that is if we can agree what those are. Do we want Congress to have that debate?
Maybe it is time to get government out of the marriage business and to return it to the private sphere. The problem for me today is that people who want to call themselves “married” against God’s law (as I read it) are willing to use the State to force me to recognize that marriage, which I cannot do. The want to have the State’s public education system indoctrinate my children that homosexual marriage is “normal”. They want to force me to subsidize the homosexual marriage in the tax code just like the godly marriage is subsidized.
If the State must force me to acknowledge its power to declare two men to be “married”, then I must support efforts to remove that power from the State. If people who don’t want God defining their personal morality demand a separation of church and State then let us also have separation of marriage and State as well. If those people don’t want any displays of the Ten Commandments in government buildings, they cannot hide behind the Commandments that protect marriage when it comes to homosexual “marriage”.