>>Obama was able to secure a open environment for
Read Romans 1
The order of precedence is very interesting:
Rom 1:25-27
25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator who is forever praised. Amen.26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
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In the Old Testament, Baal was a name repeatedly associated with the worship of the theocratic state.
Are we there yet?
"They have disseminated disparaging 'facts' about gays that are simply untrue assertions that are remarkably reminiscent of the way white intellectuals and scientists once wrote about the 'bestial' black man and his supposedly threatening sexuality."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-l-weinstein/fundamentalist-christian-_b_3072651.html