Religious groups on common ground: Many faiths oppose same-sex marriages

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Sunday, March 14, 2004 | Don Lattin, Tyche Hendricks, Cicero Estrella, Vanessa Hua

[nickcarraway]

For Ofelia Arango, a bookkeeper at the Bay Area Pentecostal Church in Contra Costa County, one short sentence is all it takes to describe what has been going on at San Francisco City Hall for the past month.

"It's a sin,'' said Arango, one of 600 members in a spirited Pittsburg congregation. "We're not in favor of homosexual marriage. We condemn it. There hasn't been much discussion about this in church, because everyone already knows it's a sin."

[nickcarraway]

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[Travis McGee]

Just wait for a few years, for the ACLU and the NEA to come up with the new teacher's guide for sex ed.

"Little Johnny, how do you know you're not gay, if you haven't tried it? Don't you find Billy attractive? You know, it only hurts for a little while. When you grow up, are you going to marry a man or a lady?"

That's our children's brain-warping future.

20 years ago the homosexual chickenhawks lurked around playgrounds, hobby shops, and bus stations. Today, they run the ACLU and the NEA.

[Trillian]

My 2 and 6 year olds are smarter than these nitwits. They even know what marriage is.

[Uncle Hal]

Again today the SF Chronicle went orgasmic with their praise of the gay life style. They had several pages with pictures and stories about how happy the gays are now that they have been able to get married. It is sickening.

[Trillian]

Someone should tell them their licenses are invalid and they're not really married.

[longtermmemmory]

notice how they cherry pick the numbers.

all numbers are frome when homosexual sex was a private matter and was not a federal issue. Now it is public and it is federal.

They are on the radar bullseye.

[alloysteel]

Well. And I thought all this resistance to acceptance of the homosexual marriage thing was just some homophobic, fundamentalist, whites-only Christian thing. Seems quite a few hold a similar opinion about a kind of libertine abandon that has not flourished at this level since the Roman Empire was in decline. A similar, but lesser, acceptance of this debauchery was found among the courtiers to the Bourbons of the Court of Versailles, under Louis XVI, which excited its own reaction.

[breakem]

Proposed Marriage Initiative Biblical values included:

A. Marriage in the United States shall consist of a union between one man and one or more women. (Gen 29:17-28; II Sam 3:2-5.)

B. Marriage shall not impede a man's right to take concubines in addition to his wife or wives. (II Sam 5:13; I Kings 11:3; II Chron 11:21)

C. A marriage shall be considered valid only if the wife is a virgin. If the wife is not a virgin, she shall be executed. (Deut 22:13-21)

E. Since marriage is for life, neither this Constitution nor the constitution of any State, nor any state or federal law, shall be construed to permit divorce. (Mark 10:9)

F. If a married man dies without children, his brother shall marry the widow. If he refuses to marry his brother's widow or deliberately does not give her children, he shall pay a fine of one shoe and be otherwise punished in a manner to be determined by law. (Gen. 38:6-10; Deut25:5-10)--

keep marriage sacred, contact your representatives today!

[Drango]

For many Bay Area Christians, opposition to homosexual marriage flows from a mixture of faith, cultural and personal experience.

The Chron wants to paint this as only Christians oppose gay marriages. The FACT is that Jews and Muslims oppose 'em also. (I don't know about Buddhist but I suspect they would abhor it also)

[Unam Sanctam]

People have a right to hold traditional religious and moral beliefs and sexual license promoting liberals have no right to use the government to impose their moral and religious values on the rest of the country.

[Unam Sanctam]

Re Buddhists: I had read once that the Buddhist sutras frown on homosexuality, but King Sihanouk of Cambodia has certainly come out in favor of gay marriage.

[madprof98]

My 2 and 6 year olds are smarter than these nitwits. They even know what marriage is.

Ah, but after the Big Change--sure to be illustrated and celebrated in schools and media--they may acquire some new and different thoughts on the subject.

[longtermmemmory]

The orthodox church permist divorce. You are misquoting a few out of context.

[breakem]

I'm trying to get judeo-christian values back into the constitution and fight against those who don't believe in the teaching of the Bible.

[nickcarraway]

The Busshist in the article is against it. And they don't even mention Muslims.

[Unam Sanctam]

The Busshist in the article ...

Is that a Republican Buddhist? :-)

[longtermmemmory]

ahh, perhaps the fight is not so much as excluding the bible as to the courts imposing a secular conscience as the offician state religion.

IOW: anti-religion is the official state religion. There are courts that have ruled environmentalism is a religion and adhiring to their extreme tenants is just as much a religion.

Sometimes we have to bend like the willow in order to stand like an oak.

[EdReform]

Ping

What We Can Do To Help Defeat the "Gay" Agenda

Homosexual Agenda: Categorical Index of Links (Version 1.1)

The Stamp of Normality

[nickcarraway]

The Busshist in the article ...

Is that a Republican Buddhist? :-)

Yes, their koan is ``what is the sound of no taxes being taken...''