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Posted on 06/11/2012 5:35:30 PM PDT by CHRISTIAN DIARIST
I’ve always thought well of Carrie Underwood, the season four winner of “American Idol.” I even have her praise and worship song, “Jesus Take the Wheel,” on my Ipod.
Alas, “the country Christian gal from Oklahoma,” as E!Online described her, has gone Hollywood on us.
In an interview with The Independent, a British tabloid, Underwood declared her support for same-sex marriage.
“As I married person myself,” she said, “I don’t know what it’s like to be told I can’t marry somebody I love, and want to marry. I can’t imagine how that must feel. I definitely think we should all have the right to love, and love publicly, the people that we want to love.”
Well, Carrie, does that apply to Erin Sayer, the 35-year-old Brooklyn high school teacher who had a love jones for a 16-year-old student she tutored?
Or how about Valerie Darger, who fell in love with husband Joe, who already happened to be married to her twin sister Vicki and yet another wife, Alina?
And what of the 24-year-old daughter of former Columbia University professor David Epstein who loved to make love to daddy?
Do they have the right to love, and love publicly, the people they want to love?
I think not.
What I find most disturbing about Underwood’s comment is that, like President Obama last month, she attributes her twisted thinking on same-sex marriage to her professed Christian faith.
“Above all,” she said, “God wanted us to love others. It’s not about setting rules, or [saying] ‘everyone has to be like me’. No. We’re all different. That’s what makes us special. We have to love each other get on with each other. It’s not up to me to judge anybody.”
That doesn’t sound to me like the Gospel, but like some new age Hollywood mumbo-jumbo.
Sure, we’re to love others. But we’re also to hate sin. And the Bible clearly states that carnal love between persons of the same sex is a sin.
Carrie Underwood and her ungodly friends in Hollywood Babylon can muster whatever dubious arguments they want in support of same-sex marriage.
But that will never make it right in the eyes of God.
Carrie may have stepped in it but her fans will look past it. Hopefully. I like her.
I have a good friend that thinks like this too...makes her feel open minded...
Dissapointed, and you really wonder about these types which say “their Christian faith, makes them support fake-marriage”, b.c. does she even believe in the redemption of (anyone) by Jesus Christ? Homosexuals are sinners just like the rest of us, but God doesn’t sanction open out and out perversion.
So carrie underwood would rather trap these people in (a wrong life) and an everlasting death?
Being Saved doesn’t stop you from being dumb.
It will be abused and selfishly used, but I think I see it happening.
People are taking sides because they HAVE to.
Was she even a Christian to begin with? I think a lot of churches reduce salvation and conversion to saying a sinner’s prayer and/or being baptized and that’s it with no mention of repentance, discipleship and church discipline.
I agreee
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It’s a shame where some have to put aside their values just to be accepted. She could have not said anything. There was no need for her to come out with her stance. Crazy. I have my own thoughts but I don’t come out and say them in public.
yep ... don’t know what it is about fame and/or fortune.
Just stop buying her CDs. One must choose between God and Mammon.
“He who denies Me here on Earth, I will deny him before My Father in Heaven”
Probably doesn't even realise she told Him to sit in back and shut up.
The dumb b**ch wants to fit in with the Hollywood crowd,she is now dead to me.
Not me. Ive written her off. Part of what was appealing about her music was her “world view”, now that that has been corrupted...she has nothing left to offer.
...something about wheat and tares...
Gays got all the rights they wanted and legally needed with the Domestic Partnership act. That wasn’t enough, they want to drag marriage down to their level.
Carrie will pay the price of crossing the line.
For a lot of people, many of whom will not admit it, "Go along to get along" is the First Commandment and overrides all others.
After all, if she's wrong she's already forgiven and the only consequences are what Scripture teaches doesn't get in the way of her career and an immeasurable amount of additional Grace comes here way. Right? In addition, she may be like a lot of people who think that if Christ wants this society saved from the things like queers marrying one another Christ can just do it with a wink of His eye rather than making a big deal out of it.
It's also possible she's a member of a Church that teaches there's no problem with queers being married to one another, ordained, granted the right to adopt children, and anything else they want to do. The largest Baptist Church in Raleigh has a Lesbian pastor, so who knows, she may be repeating what she's been taught is the correct Christian view.
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