Gallup Values and Beliefs survey 2014 and Trends: Percent approve as morally acceptable

Twelve sure fire principles of parenting guaranteed to produce delinquent children.

— Original source unknown. Houston Police Dept. could not verify the authorship

A. Ten easy steps for developing your normal, healthy baby into a drug addict or alcoholic.

These steps are the same for both drug addiction and alcoholism, since a majority of cases of both drug addiction and alcoholism stem from the same type of personality disorder.

2. When he does wrong, you may nag him, but never spank him (unless he is showing signs of independence).

3. Foster his dependence on you, so drugs or alcohol can replace you when he is older.

4. Protect him from your husband and from all those mean teachers who threaten to spank him from time to time. Sue them if you wish.

5. Make all of his decisions for him, since you are a lot older and wiser than he is. He might make mistakes and learn from them if you don't.

6. Criticize his father openly, so your son can lose his own self-respect and confidence.

7. Always bail him out of trouble so he will like you. Besides, he might harm your reputation if he gets a police record. Never let him suffer the consequences of his own behavior.

8. Always step in and solve his problems for him, so he can depend on you and run to you when the going gets tough. Then when he is older and still hasn't learned how to solve his own problems, he can continue to run from them through heroin or alcohol.

9. Just to play it safe, be sure to dominate your husband and drive him to drink too, if you can.

10. Take lots of prescription drugs yourself, so that taking non- prescription drugs won't be a major step for him. — Paul Meier,M.D. book "Christian Child-Rearing

And I also forgot to link to HOMOSEXUAL RELATIONS and the BIBLE (extensive) which ought to cover it well, thanks be to God.

Let me help a wee bit...

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.

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.

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.

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Gallup Values and Beliefs survey 2014 and Trends: Percent approve as morally acceptable
Behavior	2001 [otherwise in brackets]	2014	Republicans	Democrats	Independents	God (via precept or principal)
Buying and wearing animal fur	60	58	71	49	59	"Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them." (Genesis 3:21; cf. Ex. 36:19)
Medical testing on animals	65	57	69	50	59	"And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son." (Genesis 22:13)
Abortion	42	42	28	59	41	"Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man." (Genesis 9:6; cf. Exodus 21:22-23)
Birth Control	89 [2012]	90	88	93	90	See above and, “...male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it..” (Gn. 1:17,28) "But the fruit of the Spirit is..temperance..." (Galatians 5:22-23)
Medical research using stem cells from human embryos	52 [2002]	65	50	74	67	See abortion.
Cloning humans	7	13	8	14	14	"But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him...those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary...the members should have the same care one for another " (1 Corinthians 12:18,22,25) "one star differeth from another star in glory." (1 Corinthians 15:41) (The operative principle is that God makes individuals different, with needs, so that they are interdependent upon each other.)
Cloning animals	31	34	28	36	38	Same principle applies as above.
Capital punishment	63	61	73	52	62	"Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die." (Numbers 35:30) More.
Suicide	13	19	11	27	18	Above applies in principle.
Homosexual relations	40	58
Sex between an unmarried man and woman (fornication)	53	66	54	77	67	"And they said, Should he [Shechem who seduced Dinah] deal with our sister as with an harlot?" (Genesis 34:31) "But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death." (Revelation 21:8)
Teenage fornication	32	30	23	33	32	See above.
Sex between two married (male and female) persons (adultery)	7	7	1	13	7	"If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel." (Deuteronomy 22:22) "For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders...and defile the man." (Mark 7:21) "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God." (Ephesians 5:5)
Having a baby outside of marriage	45 [2002]	60	40	72	69	"But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore...are ye not children of transgression..." (Isaiah 57:3-4)
Being married to more than one spouse (polygamy)	7 [2003]	14	6	19	15	"And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder." (Matthew 19:4-6)
Homosexual relations	40	58	39	71	60	See above. God only joined male and female in marriage, leaving all other unions to be fornication, and only condemns homosexual relations wherever they are dealt with, regardless of motive. "Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination." (Leviticus 18:22) "For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet." (Romans 1:26-27)
Pornography	30 [2011]	33				"I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?" (Job 31:1) "Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids." (Proverbs 6:25)
Divorce	59	69	60	78	69	See under polygamy. "But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery." (Matthew 5:32) "But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace." (1 Corinthians 7:15)