Gay marriage ban overturned in California

[Walter]

Someone should thump some tolerance into those bible thumpers. Jesus was all about tolerance. Fundamentalists a whack jobs.

Jesus did not promote homosexuality.
Matthew 19:4-6

New King James Version (NKJV)

4 And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made[a] them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’[b] 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?[c] 6 So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”

 

[lone wolf]

Where's all the cool stuff with swords and lakes of fire?

 

[Walter]

Where's all the cool stuff with swords and lakes of fire?

Look it up.

 

[lone wolf]

Look it up.

Don't have to.... You already posted it. The way one of the other interpretations in here goes, He's a mean bugger who'd just smote 'em all dead and chuck 'em into the depths of a warm lake....

 

[Walter]

Don't have to.... You already posted it. The way one of the other interpretations in here goes, He's a mean bugger who'd just smote 'em all dead and chuck 'em into the depths of a warm lake....

So why'd you ask?

 

[lone wolf]

So why'd you ask?

...to see if you read the same book....

 

[Cliffy]

Jesus did not promote homosexuality.
Matthew 19:4-6

New King James Version (NKJV)

4 And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made[a] them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’[b] 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?[c] 6 So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”

I didn't say he promoted it. I said he promoted tolerance. I doubt homosexuality was an issue back then, it was a common practice just as it is today. Or did you think it was a phenomenon of the 21st century?

 

[Walter]

I didn't say he promoted it. I said he promoted tolerance. I doubt homosexuality was an issue back then, it was a common practice just as it is today. Or did you think it was a phenomenon of the 21st century?

Homosexuality is mentioned in the pentateuch and those practising it are destroyed.

 

[Cliffy]

Homosexuality is mentioned in the pentateuch and those practising it are destroyed.

Well, I'm not going to get into an argument about what the bible says or doesn't say about it. One thing it does say is "judge not lest ye shall be judged.' If god has concerns about it it is god's problem, not yours.

Oh, and thanks for the neg rep on this:
I didn't say he promoted it. I said he promoted tolerance. I doubt homosexuality was an issue back then, it was a common practice just as it is today. Or did you think it was a phenomenon of the 21st century?

Just proves what an intolerant fundamentalist you are.

 

[Walter]

Oh, and thanks for the neg rep on this:
I didn't say he promoted it. I said he promoted tolerance. I doubt homosexuality was an issue back then, it was a common practice just as it is today. Or did you think it was a phenomenon of the 21st century?

Just proves what an intolerant fundamentalist you are.

You got it. See the thread on thumbs.

 

[Goober]

Jesus did not promote homosexuality.
Matthew 19:4-6

New King James Version (NKJV)

4 And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made[a] them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’[b] 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?[c] 6 So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”

Walter - God made us all. Do you believe it was God's plan to place people on this earth to suffer?

 

[JLM]

Oh, and thanks for the neg rep on this:
I didn't say he promoted it. I said he promoted tolerance. I doubt homosexuality was an issue back then, it was a common practice just as it is today. Or did you think it was a phenomenon of the 21st century?

You ain't seen nuthin' yet, I got nine in one day from one genius on here!

 

[gerryh]

You ain't seen nuthin' yet, I got nine in one day from one genius on here!

How about lately?

 

[JLM]

How about lately?

That would have been two or three weeks ago, nothing I can recall since then, except his normal rantings. :lol:

 

[gerryh]

shyte..... hit the wrong button.

 

[Spade]

shyte..... hit the wrong button.

AC or DC?

 

[L Gilbert]

Prop 8 was legally on the ballot in 2010. A majority of voters in California voted for the proposition but the courts, so far, have overturned what the people voted for.

Uhuh. Things like that are why they have their Constitution.

"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government." - Patrick Henry .... and the courts are the tool the people uses to keep a handle on the gov't.

"It is sufficiently obvious, that persons and property are the two great subjects on which Governments are to act; and that the rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. These rights cannot well be separated." - James Madison
Implication; person A should have the same rights under the Constitution as person B and the gov't should uphold that.

and the other thing "people" like you need to do...is take a fu cking step back and don't over step your bounds. In Canada, for example, Gays can legally be married. They have the option of being married by a JP or being married in a Church that allows Gay marriages. Churches and Religions that do NOT believe in Gay marriages should NOT be forced to preform them. There are plenty of other options without stepping on the RIGHTS of those that do NOT agree with SSM.

Yup. That's under the religious freedom part. It means freedom from religion as well as freedom for religion.

 

[gerryh]

Yup. That's under the religious freedom part. It means freedom from religion as well as freedom for religion.

Freedom "from" religion? Nobody, at least in Canada, is subjected to any religion unless they choose to be.

 

[L Gilbert]

Yes, that's what constitutions are there for... to ensure that a majority can't strip rights from a minority.
We, aren't. Some are.

Yep.

 

[JLM]

Uhuh. Things like that are why they have their Constitution.

"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government." - Patrick Henry .... and the courts are the tool the people uses to keep a handle on the gov't.

"It is sufficiently obvious, that persons and property are the two great subjects on which Governments are to act; and that the rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. These rights cannot well be separated." - James Madison
Implication; person A should have the same rights under the Constitution as person B and the gov't should uphold that.

Yup. That's under the religious freedom part. It means freedom from religion as well as freedom for religion.

I have a slight problem with people or minorities (or even majorities) who are presumtuous to take it upon themselves to change word meanings. :smile: