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To: yarddog

Most assuredly yes. I have a friend whom I have known since 1st grade. He and I have been best-best friends ever since (sixty years). Thick and thin. It’s an amazing friendship and I believe that it was the finest thing I’ve ever been blessed with.

We even plan to share a plot at the cemetary when the time comes. I’m going to have a little sign on my headstone that says “I’m with stupid”, with an arrow pointing to his side. If he were to marry a man, I would be there with bells on, front row center. Hell, I’d probably be the one to “give him away”. That’s what love is.

(ps: I’m a woman)


20 posted on 10/18/2011 11:59:36 AM PDT by EggsAckley ( There's an Ethiopian in the fuel supply ! !)
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To: EggsAckley

I would think a friend would not ask me to participate, even by attending something he knew I felt was an abomination, a great sin.


30 posted on 10/18/2011 12:25:48 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: EggsAckley

I would disagree with you and refer to the Bible on the definition of ‘love’. We are to love the Lord first before family and friends. When we love someone, we respect their wishes. God has made his position on homosexuality very clear.

Matthew 22:35-39

One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”

37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’


32 posted on 10/18/2011 12:34:50 PM PDT by Azeem (There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo.)
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To: EggsAckley
We even plan to share a plot at the cemetary when the time comes.

I think his time might be coming a LOT sooner than most people. But hey, that's what love is, right?

78 posted on 10/18/2011 4:58:48 PM PDT by fwdude ("When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve ...")
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To: EggsAckley; fwdude
If he were to marry a man, .... that's what love is

What if he wanted to marry a girl aged 11? Or a donkey? Or a plastic life-sized doll?

your friendship is admirable, but we do not go with bells when a friend sins. We point out that they are doing something wrong. If it means not going for the act, it is obeying the wishes of God rather than man.

you can be nice about it -- 'I'm sorry I can't attend this due to my religious convictions, but I respect you as a friend.'

109 posted on 10/19/2011 8:04:24 AM PDT by Cronos (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2787101/posts?page=58#58)
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To: EggsAckley
That’s what love is.


140 posted on 10/19/2011 5:49:41 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler
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