BryanW92
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But, at the end of the day, the church isn't subject to public opinion polls or popular vote. Or, at least, it shouldn't be. I've heard it said that America has a "choice fetish", meaning we're so obsessed with choosing that we absolutely do not recognize authority. If we don't like a Doctor's diagnosis, we find another Doctor. If we don't like what a church has to say, we find another church. Some ways this is good, some ways, it makes US the Doctor/Church/etc., and suddenly we stop recognizing that someone else might have something to teach us.
The "choice fetish" is another word for freedom and I do not trust people who want to limit the choices of others. The proponents of "inclusion" are choice fetishists: they didn't like the answer from the authority of 11 consecutive GCs, so they keep demanding another hearing. In another post in this thread, circuitrider suggests coming to a "compromise" at GC2016 and then locking it in with no more debate for 8 years. At this point anything called a "compromise" on the issue would be a win for the gay side (because they would refuse to accept anything less--except for status quo, which they couldn't refuse), so the 8 year moratorium would guarantee them some time to dig in and fortify that beachhead. It is like Ike asking for a one-week ceasefire in the Normandy area beginning on June 7, 1944.
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