Posted on 08/27/2008 3:34:09 PM PDT by Raineygoodyear
LOS ANGELES, August 27, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - California churches are joining together in a determined effort in support of Proposition 8, the November ballot referendum that opposes the California Supreme Court's ruling in May allowing same-sex marriages to be performed in the state.
Organizers of the ambitious interfaith alliance plan to coordinate a synchronized expression of support of Proposition 8 by having 1 million people place signs on their yards, which say "Yes on Proposition 8", in unison late in September.
"This is a rising up over a 5,000-year-old institution that is being hammered right now," said Jim Garlow, pastor of Skyline Church, an evangelical congregation in La Mesa, California, in an LA Times report.
"What binds us together is one common obsession: . . . marriage," Garlow said, adding that people of faith, regardless of their religion, believe that "if Proposition 8 fails, there is an inevitable loss of religious freedom."
Garlow said pastors are planning a 40-day fast leading up to the election day. He is also planning several rallies, including one that he hopes will involve 300,000 youths.
Political analysts have observed that this groundbreaking interfaith effort could pave the way for new manifestations of political coalitions, especially those concerned with social issues.
"Pan-religious, faith-based political action strategies . . . I think we are going to see a lot more of [this] in the future," said Gaston Espinosa, a professor of religious studies at Claremont McKenna College.
Judge Nixes Suit over Wording of California Marriage Proposition: Critics Argue Wording Biases Voters aginst Proposition 8 http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/aug/08080810.html
California Attorney General Heavily Biases Ballot Initiative Wording in Favor of Same-Sex 'Marriage' http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jul/08073008.html
Marriage Amendments Getting Ready to Go on Ballot in Four States http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jan/08010808.html 1 million lawn signs campaign in the works
God bless them.
They will be ignored, just as in Massachusetts.
The judges in CA will legalize “gay marriage”, regardless of what the people want.
They will torture the Federal Constitution to do it, if they have to.
I’d leave the Muzzies out of the coalition. I don’t want to ever be their ally in any endeavor.
/sarcasm
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Coalitions come and go without compromising standards if one is careful. To the extent Muslims can see their common interest in respecting all religious points of view, I would call that progress.
They will be ignored, just as in Massachusetts.
The judges in CA will legalize “gay marriage”
Wait a minute I thought Mitt Romney single-handedly instituted gay marriage in Massachusetts. At least that is what everybody on Freeper tells me.
This is great news!!
If they really want to have some hope of success, they need to be able to come up with how failure of this propostion will stop heterosexuals from marrying. After all, if this is a “fight to preserve marriage”, then they’ll have to show how this will stop straight people from finding each other, marrying, and starting families together.
God put the muzzies here for a reason. Maybe it was San Francisco
YAY. YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyone know how the Proposition is doing in the polls?
If God can build the world in seven days. He can stop these yahoos if we work hard to ask him to and to do the foot work to stop them. God is awesome and so are we when we align our will with His.
What unites Christian and pagan (Hindu), Buddhist and Baptist, Jew and Muslim?
Answer: For gay marriage to NOT be a new right!
“...if this is a “fight to preserve marriage”, then they’ll have to show how this will stop straight people from finding each other, marrying, and starting families together”
They don’t have to do anmything of the sort. Marrige has one definition that serves our society. Any attempt to blur that definition is in fact an attack on the institution of marrige itself for the purpose of destroying it. (Which in fact is what they are trying actually to do)
I seem to remember a brief mention in a local paper regarding the wording of this proposition. Something about how votes can easily be misconstrued into the opposite of what you really meant to vote for. Anyone else heard that or have the prop available for scrutiny?
I was raised in a conservative evangelical church and always have held strong beliefs about my Christian faith, despite not having lived up to my ideals as much as I should have.
In my younger years I spent many hours arguing with those of other faiths about the exclusive truthfulness of Christianity. I still believe that Jesus Christ is “the Way, the Truth, and the Life,” and that no one comes to the Father but through Him.
I always believed that doctrinial purity was paramount: especially the doctrine of salvation by faith. Belief in salvation by works was, of course, a grave error.
However, I have also come to realize the meaning of Jesus’ words: “Why do you call me Lord and do not do as I say?”
Also, in Romans we read about those who, not having heard the truth, obey the Law of God that is written on their hearts. We very nearly suspended our proud belief in the full inspiration of Scripture when it came to the book of James with its teaching that “Faith without works is dead.”
Obedience is at the heart of the Gospel and what it means to be a Christian. The moral teachings of Christianity are not “optional.” Gay marriage is nothing less than the strategm of the evil one to destroy marriage.
When I hear of those of other faiths standing up for the Divine moral order as expressed in human sexuality and marriage, I am strangely warmed. Whether they fully realize it or not, they have decided to stand for God’s Truth on this vital issue in the face of powerful and evil forces opposed to His moral order.
While I have no intention of compromising my faith, I must acknowledge this fact, express my appreciation, and hope and believe that God also takes note of all those who stand for His Truth.
The definition of even heterosexual marriage has been changing over the last few centuries. Instead of being a contract for property between two families, it has evolved into a farce. And most people today can live with that, in some form or another.
Marriage has morphed into another voluntary relationship, that really resembles friendship in many ways. And straight society has countenanced that for quite some time now. They're not going to build the firewall here.
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