Posted on 10/18/2002 5:43:17 PM PDT by M 91 u2 K
Are you saying that the Puritans, John Calvin, and the Founders were wrong?
We condemn murder's, thieves, Robbers, and rapists every day. Homosexuals, Fornicators and Adulterers fall in the same category.
Look at the 1815, The Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision again: It reflects the case law of the day, and the attitude on which our nation was founded.)
This court is...invested with power to punish not only open violations of decency and morality, but also whatever secretly tends to undermine the principles of society... Whatever tends to the destruction of morality, in general, may be punishable criminally. Crimes are public offenses, not because they are perpetrated publically, but because their effect is to injure the public. Buglary, though done in secret, is a public offense; and secretly destroying fences is indictable.
Hence it follows, that an offense may be punishable, if in it's nature and by it's example, it tends to the corruption or morals; although it not be committed in public.
Although every immoral act, such as lying, ect... is not indictable, yet where the offense charged is destructive of morality in general...it is punishable at common law. The destruction of morality renders the power of government invalid...
No man is permitted to corrupt the morals of the people, secret poision cannot be thus desseminated.
nah, I am busy documenting the 10 commandments you have broken. I have observed the speck in my eye, and I am glaring at a mountain full of logs in yours little buddy.
Ever heard of hating the sin but loving the sinner?
Your brand of "Christianity" killed a lot of God's children during the Crusades. Thankfully your viewpoint is not only a minority viewpoint, but also incorrect.
You'll be on my prayer list.
Sure you were..here is your own quote that I was responding to;
FF578"Jesus has the power to forgive, Jesus had the right to tell the adulteress she was forgiven because Jesus is Almighty God. He also said "Go and Sin no more."
So you were talking about God's forgiveness..... unless you don't consider Jesus to be God incarnate.
LOL! As long as they vote Republican and ram it to Demoncrats.
You are totally missing my point.
Jesus was able to forgive because he is God. Man cannot forgive sin. Man's law is different than God's law, (although man's law must attempt to reflect God's law.)
As for God's law on Homosexuality it is clear.
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders 10nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 1 Cor 1:9-10 (NKJV)
God will punish homosexuality, fornication and adultery in his way, but that does not relieve man of his responsibility to prohibit behavior under our law that destroys public morality.
This is what I am talking about. This is what our founders believed, this is what the Puritans believed, this is what John Calvin believed.
That's funny.
You'd be better off spending your energies to convince people of the errors of their ways than you would playing super spy of the bedroom.
Shakespeare said, “Brevity is the soul of wit.”
You are not seriously comparing homosexuals or adulterers to murderers, are you?
"Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not only of all free government, but of social felicity under all governments and in all the combinations of human society." John Adams
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