Posted on 12/19/2004 6:20:25 PM PST by Ellesu
I moved to OKC from San Diego, which does have a lot of homosexuals. I couldn't get over how much more noticible they are here. It might be just because I didn't expect to see so many of them in the middle of a red state.
Either way, I don't care if they're queer or not, just don't try forcing me to think like they do.
"some are contemplating moving to Chicago or the east coast"
Please not Chicago!! I was in Chicago last weekend and my "gaydar" was constantly beeping!!
enough already!!
So far we are holding our own, which is more than I can say for the people in Massachusetts. I guess we aren't as refined as some of these people.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1303444/posts
>>Anyone else thinking "drama queens"?
Actually, "Oklahoma" is a musical :)
"I'm Just A Gay Who Just Cain't Say No"
"It's a Scandal! It's an Outrage!"
"People Will Say We're In Love" (and should marry, though we're both men)
I would wager it's hard to be optimistic with a d*ck up your @ss...
Wouldn't it just be easier for them to move to San Francisco or Vermont?
"We'll never go there," Williamson said. "If a Christian couple here in Oklahoma doesn't want to rent property to openly in-your-face homosexuals, they should have a right to do that."
And, in all fairness, a gay property owner should have the right to refuse to rent to an openly-Christian couple.
Of course that is not what they envision.
Intellectual Honesty, where is thy sting!
The funny part is that denying the Christian couple would be a violation of their civil rights. You can't deny them because of religion.
Having a lust for manlove isn't a protected status on the other hand.
duck? That doesn't fit.
OH OH I GET IT. HEH HEH
That would qualify as discrimination based on religion, unlawful, I think.
Now if they were FLAMING HETROSEXUALS, well that might be different:)
I always hear this arguement and I just dont get it. Someone please explain to me how gays are treated unequally.
Do gays get fired or refused from jobs because they are gay? Are they denied service?
How would I be able to tell if a person is gay to refuse them service anyway? I just don't understand.
"CRAM THIER LIFESTYLE DOWN"?
Ewwwew, That can mean many things.
I guess this was a quote from Mark Bonney the gay activist.
Now, someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I haven't been hit by Alzheimers yet (some may disagree LOL) and it seems to me that in my formative years, Dad and Mom impressed on me the fact that respect is earned and not something to be demanded.
I mean, it seems like a fantasy world scenario to me: the guy moves next door to someone, goes and knocks on their door and says, "Hi, I'm your new neighbor. I'm gay and I'm really comfortable with that; I have a high degree of self-acceptance with my lifestyle. Now, I DEMAND YOUR RESPECT!" Someone did that to me and I'd keep a very close eye on 'em ...
You don't suppose Ralph Lauren is all out of lime green pullovers, do you?
Demanding respect is one strategy, and the other dim strategy of using the courts to achieve what they can't achieve through vote is another futile attempt.
They can write all the tolerance laws they want to, but thats not going to make me more accepting of their disgusting lifestyle.
That is just it, the Majority have spoken in more than on are and on more than one occasion, we do not want this and we will not accept this. So now they are trying to come in by the back door, which is the schools.
They are going to convience our children that Homosexuality is a normal thing and is not a sickness, is not wrong, is acceptable, God does not exist or is just irrelevent. We cannot allow this to continue. We must stop this and turn it around.
The Democratic Party , by affiliation with this group has numbered there own days. The may change their Label to Progressive or what ever they like, it's the same agenda.
We must place a tremendous pressure on the Congress and the President, to roll back these Freedom of Speech supressing so called HATE Crime Laws and other Socialist legislation that allows this alternative lifesyle to flourish. We ahve to much to lose, OUR CHILDREN, OUR RELIGIOPNS and OUR COUNTRY.
Some Articles you should find Interesting:
http://waysandmeans.house.gov/hearings.asp?formmode=view&id=954
This is a good one also:
Why Christians and the Church are unable to fight the culture war
Restore America - http://www.noDNC.com ^ | October 23, 2004
Posted on 10/23/2004 1:15:13 AM EDT by woodb01
Why Christians and the Church are unable to fight the culture war
although it's still not too late
October 23, 2004
http://www.nodnc.com
Often, in and out of church walls today, we hear about the apathy of the religious community. Hardly a month goes by that the church is not embroiled in some major controversy to the glee of the anti-christian left. The Church in America has lost its soul. The American church no longer fears God, and no longer loves God.
If this sounds like harsh criticism, I intend to fully support it in just a moment.
First, a little background. Since as far back as I can remember, I was raised in a Baptist Church, in my late teen years, after considerable rebellion, I had an "awakening" to what is meant by being "born again" after getting involved in the Pentecostal / Charismatic movement. Not the typical emotional "born again" experience that many people go through, but a true, life-changing, life-altering event that only an encounter with a living God could have initiated. This event led me to pour over the pages of the Bible for over 20 years, reading it cover to cover many times.
In a direct parallel to the church and our out of control culture today, I was on a roller coaster ride. On the wagon, off the wagon, running after God, running away from God, believing in a Heavenly Father and then having my doubts. Compromise, tolerance, foolishness, and sin were regular occurrences in my life, just like the American Church and American Culture today.
Then one day reading my Bible I stumbled on this:
Proverbs 8:13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil...
That unnerved me because I didn't HATE evil. I was "tolerant," I was accepting just like all good little secular humanist citizens should be. I knew there was something wrong because if I didn't fear God, then how could I profess to truly be a Christian? Then other verses struck me:
Psalms 97:10 You that love the LORD, hate evil...
Romans 12:9 ...Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
Confronted with this harsh reality that I did not HATE evil and therefore did not love or fear God, I was forced to change. My realization forced me to concede that I was headed straight for hell--, just like today's American Culture, and frighteningly enough, the American Church.
HATE, is a passionate thing. HATE is an active thing. You can't be apathetic if you have that passion. Activism and involvement against the causes of evil are the obvious results. Am I advocating violence? NO! Absolutely not! What I am advocating is serious, sincere, and committed activism to confronting and changing the sick and twisted evil in this culture today.
For example, as prayer was taken out of the schools, and abortion became the judge made "law of the land," every pastor and Christian in this country should have been running for Congress for the sole purpose of impeaching the Supreme Court Justices. It should have been the American Church's passion to stop the evils of the anti-christian assaults of American religious tradition and to stop the butcher of innocent human life. But there was nothing.
Today, with the controversy surrounding gay marriage, it hasn't been the Protestant faiths leading the fight, but the Catholic church, family groups, father's groups, and the Republican Party. The American Church's protestants are eerily silent.
Recently the democrats in Congress attempted to pass new "hate crimes" legislation identical to Canada's. In Canada, it is a hate crime to preach against homosexuality, even if you take it directly from the Bible. Yet still the church and christians do nothing.
The church, the family, values, morals, ethics, our children and our country are under attack. A relentless assault is being waged on patriotism and America from treasonous traitors within and still the American Church stands idly by as a spectator. It's time for American Christians to find their passion and their souls. DEMAND that your pastor abide by the Bible and teach what the Bible says about hating evil and if that pastor refuses, that pastor does NOT fear the Lord, and does NOT love God! That pastor must be removed from that position. It's time for the American Church to clean house and once cleaned to stand face to face with the vile anti-christian beast that has arisen in American government and lop the 7 headed hydra's heads off!
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