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Posted on 08/30/2013 7:57:59 PM PDT by annalex
For your pinging pleasure.
Yes, if your ignore God's will as revealed in the Holy Bible, then same-sex "marriage" is controversial.
This is considered hateful and prejudiced. Count me in.
Surprising full of clarity. I’ll give the Pope props for this interview. He makes the case very effectively. I do think the media is distorting him sometimes or not providing context, in order to further their agenda.
His answers.
The homo propagandists paint the Pope as not having a problem with their deviant relationships being recognized as marriage.
This proves them wrong, he also calls the likes of Pelosi immoral
Good stuff
"Leviticus 18:22
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
The Church abolished some precepts of the Old Testaments, so each time you make a reference to the Old Testament alone, someone would challenge it on the grounds like "but we don't stone for adultery anymore, do we?"
The condemnation of the same sex "marriage", and even same sex sexual practices has to come from the specifically Christian view on human sexuality. It can't come from the Old Testament alone.
This is NOT an actual interview with Pope Benedict, let alone with the present Pope, Francis. It is an assemblage of some of Pope Benedict's statements on the subject of homosexuality. The content is the selection of Mr. Akin, not everything Pope Benedict has said or written on the topic.
It is very likely that, at some point during his long career as a theological writer, Pope Benedict mentioned the Old Testament prohibitions on homosexual behavior, as well as the many relevant New Testament passages.
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What purpose would quoting the Bible to people who don’t accept it serve?
Precisely. I believe in God’s Word but to those who won’t accept it you can say that homosexual acts are a violation of the natural law, of reason. Don’t get your hopes up, of course, for then the typical modern brainwashed by relativism will say:” Natural law accord to whom?” The patron of relativists is Pontius Pilate: “What is truth?”-John 18:38
Personally, I’m tired of this fight. To those who don’t accept that. God said it, that settles it. Proceed at your own peril.
I think, the quotes around "interview" and my assigning authorship to Akin make that clear. Is there a problem with the post?
Not at all. It seemed there was some confusion among the readers, so I pointed it out, and just included you because you were the original poster.
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Even those who revere Leviticus as Scripture are often hard-put to explain why they consider 9/10 of it irrelevant to their own personal behavior, let alone public policy. Unless you offer animal sacrifices, segregate menstruating women, and keep kosher, I'm talking about you, too.
That's why it's actually indispensable to explain moral abhorrence of perverse sex acts, in terms of Natural Law.
It's not slighting God. He is the Author of both the Book of Scripture and the Book of Nature.
I agree. People should be scripturally and philosophically literate for such situations when objections are raised
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