resolution filed in Tennessee to avoid Gods Judgement on gay marriage

[GoldenBoy89]

My point is that the bible also along with homosexuality, condemns worship of other gods and blasphemy but both of those are enshrined in US Constitutional law. So where is the outcry from Christians who should be opposed to those ideas? Why so much focus on gays when we were founded as a nation of heretics? The laws we first wrote for our country fly directly in the face of some of the biggest and least objectionable commandments in the bible. Why the hypocrisy?

I'd really like an answer to these couple questions from some of the people who believe we should all follow Christian traditional marriage laws.

 

[dysert]

My point is that the bible also along with homosexuality, condemns worship of other gods and blasphemy but both of those are enshrined in US Constitutional law.

Maybe I slept through that civics class. Where in Constitutional Law does it enshrine the worship of other gods and blasphemy?

 

[YESLORDIWILL]

Hank77 states it is "unnatural" and Marius points out it happens in nature all the time so it falls under the definition of natural. Seems to be exactly what I said.

Kinda like, 1Co 11:14 Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?

 

[GoldenBoy89]

Maybe I slept through that civics class. Where in Constitutional Law does it enshrine the worship of other gods and blasphemy?

Freedom of religion and from of speech. No Christian I know would stand idly by and allow blasphemy against their God or the denial of the divinity of Christ or of the miracle of the resurrection. Yet our laws say you are more than welcome to do all of those things. You are not legally bound to follow any particular religious beliefs.

Why should that not be the same case for SSM?

 

[jenny1972]

Kinda like, 1Co 11:14 Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him? ...that paul

hippies wouldnt be ashamed and they are uber natural also many men proudly sport long dreadlocks . oh and ...

 

[dysert]

when God does not address an issue we should not assume what God would think about such issue

You then do all manner of immoral and unlawful and bad things because God doesn't specifically tell you not to. OK.

I know this won't sit well with some here, but we must remember that of the myriad of things not mentioned in the Bible, Christians have the ability to discern God's will:

1Co 2:10-14
10--> Now God has revealed these things to us by the Spirit, for the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
11--> For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man that is in him? In the same way, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
12--> Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who comes from God, so that we may understand what has been freely given to us by God.
13--> We also speak these things, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things to spiritual people.
14--> But the unbeliever does not welcome what comes from God's Spirit, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to understand it since it is evaluated spiritually.
​

For all the intelligence many non-believers have and all their command of the various logical fallacies, they don't have the Spirit within them. They cannot understand the things of God.

 

[Hank77]

I don't even believe in God but I don't think He would be bound by US Law, even if He did exist.

I don't believe God's actions are bound by any of man's laws and I don't understand Christians that confuse the two. But I do believe that God has and will, when He determines to, pass judgment on people and nations who ignore His moral precepts.

If I could use an analogy, I see the US much more like the Roman Empire and the church like Israel, that exists within it. I'm much more concerned about corruption in the church. We are suppose to live Godly lives and to reach out in love to the world. If we are corrupt ourselves how can we do this and succeed?

 

[dysert]

Freedom of religion and from of speech. No Christian I know would stand idly by and allow blasphemy against their God or the denial of the divinity of Christ or of the miracle of the resurrection. Yet our laws say you are more than welcome to do all of those things. You are not legally bound to follow any particular religious beliefs.

Why should that not be the same case for SSM?

Freedom of religion and freedom of speech hardly "enshrine" idolatry and blasphemy.

 

[GoldenBoy89]

Freedom of religion and freedom of speech hardly "enshrine" idolatry and blasphemy.

It doesn't say you should but it doesn't make it illegal either and that's my point. Why should SSM be illegal when blasphemy and worshiping other gods is not?

 

[dysert]

It doesn't say you should but it doesn't make it illegal either and that's my point. Why should SSM be illegal when blasphemy and worshiping other gods is not?

One man / one woman marriage *is* enshrined in the states' laws.

 

[GoldenBoy89]

One man / one woman marriage *is* enshrined in the states' laws.

And has now been ruled as discriminatory and thus, unconstitutional.

But my point was that you never hear of Christians fighting against the legalized and constitutionally protected blasphemy or people's right to worship whatever gods they feel like. I would think those were bigger transgressions against God but nope. Gay sex. That's what God cares about. Not people being allowed to turn away from Christ....

 

[Loudmouth]

Freedom of religion and freedom of speech hardly "enshrine" idolatry and blasphemy.

Then the freedom to marry someone of the same sex is not an enshrinement of homosexuality. Problem solved.

 

[GoldenBoy89]

I just thought of something....

If it is God's law that says gay marriage shouldn't be allowed, then why is homosexuality even legal at all? Why aren't people fighting to ban gay relationships of any kind, whether married or not?

 

[Marius27]

Well, only if you ignore the part where he says marriage is between a man and woman.

That's not mutually exclusive, merely the primary audience in a discussion of divorce. It says nothing about intersex people either. Are they forbidden from getting married?

 

[lasthero]

Is it just me, or do a lot of people seem to not realize that the USA is not the first country to legalize gay marriage, and that other countries have done it for years? Why is America the 'new Sodom'? There are many, MANY countries that are far more secular.

 

[Belk]

I just thought of something....

If it is God's law that says gay marriage shouldn't be allowed, then why is homosexuality even legal at all? Why aren't people fighting to ban gay relationships of any kind, whether married or not?

Did you miss the long legal battle to get anti-homosexuality sodomy laws off the books?

 

[Loudmouth]

I just thought of something....

If it is God's law that says gay marriage shouldn't be allowed, then why is homosexuality even legal at all? Why aren't people fighting to ban gay relationships of any kind, whether married or not?

They did at one time. There are still laws in some states that make pre-marital heterosexual sex a punishable crime.

 

[Belk]

Is it just me, or do a lot of people seem to not realize that the USA is not the first country to legalize gay marriage, and that other countries have done it for years? Why is America the 'new Sodom'? There are many, MANY countries that are far more secular.

Because there are Christians who believe the US was ordained and anointed by God.

 

[Marius27]

I just thought of something....

If it is God's law that says gay marriage shouldn't be allowed, then why is homosexuality even legal at all? Why aren't people fighting to ban gay relationships of any kind, whether married or not?

Some continue to try, they just have a better chance of getting hit by a meteor than overturning Lawrence v. Texas. But there are Christians in this country who want all same-sex relationships to be illegal.

 

[Loudmouth]

Is it just me, or do a lot of people seem to not realize that the USA is not the first country to legalize gay marriage, and that other countries have done it for years? Why is America the 'new Sodom'? There are many, MANY countries that are far more secular.

Gay marriage has been legal in some US states for more than a decade, and hellfire has not rained down on any of these states. In fact, the Boston Red Sox won their first World Series in almost a century just a few months after gay marriage became legal in Massachusetts.