NC: Radical right pastor rears his ugly, hateful head on marriage

The values our nation was founded on...

That all persons are EQUAL under the law.

That should settle it.

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by: Storm @ Tue Jun 17, 2008 at 13:24:40 PM CDT

If I may add some other important words...

Life

Liberty

The pursuit of happiness

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by: bkmn @ Tue Jun 17, 2008 at 15:12:16 PM CDT

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Who cares what god says?

I am an American and I deserve equality.  

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by: juicyjuice @ Tue Jun 17, 2008 at 18:59:49 PM CDT

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Did Jeebus

ever say that? I thought he only mentioned the "sin" of divorce.

Do these crazies think the bible was dictated by God , to some ancient novelist, in english?

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by: hank @ Tue Jun 17, 2008 at 13:46:44 PM CDT

No, yes among other things, yes, sort of, a few.

Did Jeebus ever say that?

Of course not.

I thought he only mentioned the "sin" of divorce.

And a lot about loving people you don't know, loving people you don't lie, and especially loving people lots of people don't like.

Do these crazies think the bible was dictated by God ,

yes.

to some ancient novelist,

Well, to several ancient transcribers.

in english?

A few of them believe it was originally in 17th century English.

Alas.

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by: cindik @ Tue Jun 17, 2008 at 14:04:29 PM CDT

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Perhaps

"A few of them believe it was originally in 17th century English."

I thought it was in relatively modern English...

...and in an accent that sounds curiously like Alan Rickman.

Dogmatically,
Kat

>^..^<

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by: KatRose @ Tue Jun 17, 2008 at 15:33:48 PM CDT

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Oh that's good...

...I see what you did there. ;-)

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting." -E.E. Cummings

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by: popsiclestand @ Tue Jun 17, 2008 at 19:45:15 PM CDT

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Oh, they don't like Dogma

it makes fun of God, who is clearly male. How could God not have a penis?

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by: cindik @ Thu Jun 19, 2008 at 06:06:33 AM CDT

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Jesus never

mentioned who could get married but I do believe who he said could get divorced: NOBODY!

And he also mentioned a couple of times that we should all love one another.

Just another example of throwing your own extra verses into the Bible when it doesn't say what you want it to.

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by: Jami @ Tue Jun 17, 2008 at 15:52:47 PM CDT

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Extra verses

And there's a rather strong warning on the last page regarding that:

Revelations 22:18-19

18) I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book. 19) And if anyone takes words away from this book of prophecy, God will take away from him his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.

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by: Emproph @ Tue Jun 17, 2008 at 20:27:19 PM CDT

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Divorce AND remarriage

Luke 16:18 "Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and the man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

It's a sad day when we godless heathens know the Bible better than they do.  

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by: Emproph @ Tue Jun 17, 2008 at 20:34:33 PM CDT

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What they don't understand:

We are talking about two different things here - religious marriage and civil marriage.  Nothing forces churches (or other religions) to recognize a civil marriage.  NOTHING!

And if these freaking idiots are so concerned about the "sanctity of marriage", why do we never see them protesting in front of divorce court?

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by: bkmn @ Tue Jun 17, 2008 at 14:35:42 PM CDT

Heretics, blasphemers and apostates

That's all Baity and his compatriots are - at least that's what the priests and nuns taught me. So since the real Bible (that would be the Roman Catholic version only) defines their heresy, blaphemy and apostacy as sins, shouldn't we crack down on them?  

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by: CPT_Doom @ Tue Jun 17, 2008 at 16:08:28 PM CDT

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What a day

What a day for an auto de fe.

watashi no yomeiri wa doko desu ka

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by: belfrieboi @ Wed Jun 18, 2008 at 09:46:26 AM CDT

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What part of ...

"Secular Republic" do these people NOT understand?
The United States is a product of Enlightenment thinking and values. You do not get much more godless than that.

I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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by: MauraHennessey @ Tue Jun 17, 2008 at 14:47:04 PM CDT

Well, well...

"The truth of the matter is God says it's sin, and that should settle it, that should solve the issue once and for all"

So I can assume that Baity is hatin' on pork, shellfish, anti-slavery thought and all of that other stuff that is explicitly and/or implicitly "sin" per his book of mythology?

Did the astute MSM-oid doing the story ask him about any of that?

Just curious,
Kat

>^..^<

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by: KatRose @ Tue Jun 17, 2008 at 15:31:44 PM CDT

Not to mention

poly-cotton blends, using a mixture of Kentucky Blue and perennial rye on your lawn, not killing everyone who ever answered a psychic hotline call... The list goes on.

If any of them ever did what they say they do - take the whole bible and follow it literally, without picking and choosing - they'd be living a destitute and empty life in prison.

Cause any fool knows, a dog needs a home; a shelter from pigs on the wing

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by: QueerInSoCal @ Tue Jun 17, 2008 at 16:45:05 PM CDT

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RADICAL PASTOR

ahh,gee,the ONE THING those (I'll be nice here,and call em ''people''),,all share is  INCREDIBLE IGNORANCE...AND ..SADLY, IT RUNS SO DEEP,...YOU COULD NEVER GET ANY OTHER POINT ACROSS. THOSE ''PEOPLE" HAVE EARS, BUT CANNOT HEAR,AND EYES ,BUT CANNOT SEE...well ok, the alligator shoes,and patent leather hair..well it goes with the territory,lol,lol,lol.  dum-thump-dum-thump-dum-thump.

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by: codyj999 @ Tue Jun 17, 2008 at 18:14:07 PM CDT

Exactly why we need CIVIL Marriages.

This from someone with a spectacular webname:  justanothermom !

 

Just the fact that people use religious reasons to oppose same-sex marriage is exactly why it should be legalized. Our country was founded on the basis of religious freedom - people came here to escape persecution from religious groups to which they did not belong. No American should be subjected to the religious views of others.

and I definitely will say AMEN! to that.
Straight for Equality MD Cali

It's the Hammer of JUSTICE,
It's the Bell of FREEDOM,
It's the Song about LOVE between,
my Brothers and my Sisters
...All over this Land.

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by: Orion45 @ Tue Jun 17, 2008 at 22:10:58 PM CDT