Posted on 11/17/2018 6:00:55 PM PST by Ennis85
A bridal magazine has announced it will close just months after it sparked outrage for refusing to feature same-sex weddings.
Founders Luke and Carla Burrell, who are Christians, announced they would close White Magazine on Saturday after advertisers withdrew sponsorship.
A farewell note published on White Magazine's website on Saturday said the couple had recently experienced 'a flood of judgement' and lost a number of advertisers.
The Burrells became target of an intimidation campaign in which their staff were threatened and one individual warned their house would be burned down.
'We have had to recognise the reality that White Magazine is no longer economically viable,' their online post said.
The couple said they started the magazine twelve years ago to tell a different kind of story about marriage and deter from commercialised weddings.
They said after the Australian law was changed to allow same-sex couples to marry they were repeatedly asked why the magazine didn't feature 'all couples'.
'White Magazine has always been a secular publication, but as its publishers, we are Christian. We have no agenda but to love,' the farewell note stated.
'We have no desire to create a social, political or legal war, which only divides people further and does more damage than good.'
The couple said, as a result of a 'flood of judgement', a number of advertisers withdrew sponsorship, which had a negative financial impact on the business.
'A campaign was launched targeting the magazine, our team and our advertisers.
'Couples who have featured in our magazine have also been the subject of online abuse despite their individual beliefs. Were really saddened by this.
'The result has been that a number of advertisers withdrew their sponsorship out of fear of being judged, or in protest,' the message said.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
>> White Magazine <<
Well that was their first mistake.
It already is in liberal settings. But as the perversion of the most fundamental human institution represents a triumph of the devil and his alternative kingdom in which he is worshiped, even if thru proxy servants, so the refusal to basically salute the flag of Sodom, of the United States of Sodom, represents blasphemy in this NWO.
And thus it is the single most intolerable position, which is to be dealt with thru disfellowship/ shunning, abuse, and economic sanctions, with violence and even death to come.
Conversely, to affirm homosexual relations is to signal worship of the devil who always seeks this, and to boast before God of obtaining it, and charge that God is not worthy of worship, and thus souls would not worship God when it really cost them something.
Which attempt and test is nothing new:
Therefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of musick, all the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. (Daniel 3:7)
Therefore those of us who are truly born again thru wholehearted repentance faith in the risen Lord Jesus to save them by His sinless shed blood, not their merits of that their church, but on His account, need to pray to able to be able to Dare to be a Daniel:
It will not be.
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)
For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie. (Revelation 22:15)
But there is still room at the cross for all who will come to God in repentance and faith, and trust in the Divine Son of God sent by the Father, the risen Lord Jesus, to save them on His account, by His sinless shed blood, and thus be baptized and live for Him. Acts 10:36-47
Freedom of the what?
Which presumes they will be forced to allow unmarried homosexual priests in the first place. But when you essentially presume to know better than God, who nowhere in Scripture mandated clerical celibacy (with rare exceptions), and instead reveals married pastors and deacons to be the norm, (1 Tim. 1:11) including among the apostles, (1 Co. 9:5) and with celibacy being a gift not all have, (1 Co. 7:7) - and which Rome presumes all her priests have (save for a few converts but who cannot marry after being widowed), then do not be surprised if the RC priesthood becomes attractive to religious homosexuals.
Of course, the RC priesthood is just one of many distinctive Catholic teachings that are not manifest in the only wholly inspired substantive authoritative record of what the NT church believed (including how they understood the OT and gospels), which is Scripture, especially Acts thru Revelation.
I think you may need to articulate on what you mean.
It is the very best example of give an inch take a mile.
Some people just want to see the world burn.
[[all the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. (Daniel 3:7) ]]
an interestign fact- Saddam Huessein tried rebuilding Babylon- He fancied himself a direct descendant of King Nebuchadnezzar, and even had money coined with both king Nebb’s picture, and his on the coins- He also made bricks with His name on them for the foundations of his restored Babylon- and even tried buying the door to some pagan temple that the germans now have in their custody to have at the entrance to his new babyon, but the germans refused to sell it to him apparently-
Saddam wanted to be worshiped apparently, just as king Nebb had been- If you’re itnerested- here’s a link outlining his efforts to revive babylon:
https://www.worthychristianforums.com/topic/1702-saddam-hoessein-and-the-rebuilt-babylon/
it’s amazing to me that Christian bakeries, florists, photographers are ruled against by the courts for refusing to allow gay people to dictate their policies for them but places like disney world can ban a person for life because they hold up a donald trump sign on a ride, and secular businesses can kick out trump supporters, and even Christians, with impunity
Sad-dam must have missed the end and confession of Nebuchadnezzar,
Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase. (Daniel 4:37)
I dont think there are many people who wish a copy of White Magazine on their coffee table.
In 2018 with gay marriage being legal, and you want to run any service for weddings, youd better not ostracise any segment of customer.
But I wish this were fair across the board. I cant help but feel there are definitely services available specifically for quincineras, brises, and Muslim ceremonies, so it doesnt seem like the whole system is fair. What is going to happen when the mohel refuses to circumcise a nonJew or a baby born with a vagina?
Fill in the blank “Freedom of the [_____]”
They were NOT 'forced' to close anything!!
They CHOSE to do so instead of trying to get NEW 'advertisers'!!
Pretty good description of SPINELESSNESS.
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.
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.
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...
I agree,
Oh; wait...
AMEN!
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