The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances. It was adopted on December 15, 1791, as one of the ten amendments that constitute the Bill of Rights.
The Constitution. You still reading that ol’ thing?
Nothing in there about a right to be a volunteer youth pastor for the state.
May we call the practice of homosexual behavior “distasteful” and “poor impulse control”? Most of what people do not like about homosexuals is the sometimes blatant “public displays of affection” and often arrogant efforts to shove our faces in the spectacle. Not “sinful”, but definitely very bad manners.
Do it, keeping it behind closed doors and blinds, and shut up about it. Don’t do it, keeping it behind closed doors and blinds, and shut up about it.
Just shut up about it.
Yeah, but this is about the state hiring pastors in a counseling role.
Something completely different.
May God punish America good and hard for this. If Sodom deserved it, America REALLY deserves it.
1) Sin is any want of conformity or transgression of the law of God.
2)The law of God forbids any human sexual activity that is not between a man and woman who are married to each other.
Conclusion: Fornication, adultery, homosexuality, bestiality, and incest are all sins.
Actually, the 1A specifies Congress shall make no law.
Thus, apparently does that apply strictly only to the feds.
Witness the numerous laws on local level barring obscenity, porn, etc. over the centuries, not just recently, not much has ever been made over thise laws.
The following is NOT endorsing the State’s position at all, but trying to help all understand their LEGAL position.
“Illegal” and terms such as that operate within the framework of Law
“Insane’ (for example) is medical framework term.
“Speed’ exists within a mathematical framework.
“Sin/Sinful’ exist within a religious framework.
1; To use the term “sinful” in describing GLQTDDMMEUAW!@#! behavior is trying to “impress’ the speaker’s religious beliefs upon the listener, who may, under the 1st Amendment, wish to be free of religion, as well as to have freedom of religion, both of which are rights guaranteed to everyone under the USC.
2: The State’s second argument would be, “our house, our rules.”
The above, not to agree, but to help all understand the LEGAL issues.
And SCOTUS established a new religion where marriage means, well, whatever we say it means, today.