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If baking a cake for a gay wedding is endorsing homosexuality, then voting for a pedophile is endorsing pedophilia. You don’t get to have it both ways.
 

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If baking a cake for a gay wedding is endorsing homosexuality, then voting for a pedophile is endorsing pedophilia. You don’t get to have it both ways.
I don't vote for known pedophiles or other known letchers. The government has yet to try to force me to do so.
 
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They see some kind of magic in a wedding ceremony (and in the case of a "gay wedding" , it's bad joojoo). Which is very un-Protestant honestly, it's downright superstitious. Lutherans, at least in my church, teach nothing of that . All the magic happens in the bedroom (ka-ching).
 
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They see some kind of magic in a wedding ceremony
A sacrament maybe?
(and in the case of a "gay wedding" , it's bad joojoo).
A simulated sacrament maybe?
Which is very un-Protestant honestly, it's downright superstitious. Lutherans, at least in my church, teach nothing of that .
Sure. Because Protestants don't do the sacrament of matrimony. Downright sacramental, er, um, superstitious. And would consequently not need to adhere to any belief about marriage being between a man and a woman following Mt 12: 4-6.
 
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