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Bigots in Kern County
Topics: Gay Marriages, Homosexuality, Faith, Bible
Posted by userha Mon Jun 9, 2008 11:06:39 PDT
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Let’s call a bigot a bigot here.  To the James Dobson, Chad Vegas, Inga Barks and now, Ann Barnett-type people in Kern County – you know, the religious extremists – prove that gay marriages will destroy traditional ones. 

 

After all, we have a living laboratory in Massachusetts, the Netherlands and Spain.  As far as I can find, there is not one straight marriage on record there that was destroyed by a gay one.  All the documents I read show divorce is still the break up of traditional marriages with the top reasons being money and infidelity.  If the majority of cheating spouses were draining their joint bank accounts to finance a same-sex affair then we could all exhale to say gays are breaking up traditional marriages.  However, there’s nothing by way of research that says such. 

 

“Yeah, but for the sake of the children,” they rant.  Ah yes, the children card.  Well, has there been a sudden rise there in the number of children being recruited into gaydom?  I can’t find any journal articles, professional papers, or even newspaper editorials of anything closely related.  We all know what they really mean by recruited anyway.  So let’s go there to the leap these religious extremists like to take – that gays will molest children more if made equal in marriage.  Remember, to them pedophilia is synonymous with homosexuality.  Well, national Child Protective Services records show that sexual abuse cases still predominately involves adult males targeting female children – even in Massachusetts.  Sad, but not helpful to building the evidence against gay marriages.

 

So where’s the proof?

 

Enter the Bible – the extremist’s last stand.  If Christ is their foundation, find anywhere where he spoke directly against homosexuality especially like he did against divorce and religious extremism.  Find the word “homosexual” in the original biblical languages of the Bible (Aramaic, Hebrew and Greek).  Impossible.  Is the Bible really supposed to be a book about sexuality and marriage anyway?  After all, biblical marriages were arranged and included dowries and polygamy.  What about learning from history where past extremists used the Bible to avoid progress.  History shows scriptures were used to say the world was flat, blacks were 1/5^th of a human being, slavery was god-given, women should not vote, no to interracial marriages, and now, gays should not marry.  Insert cliché, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."  Notably, the Bible is supportive of same-sex love.  Jonathon had a love for David that David wrote was greater than the love of women (II Samuel 1:26).  You do the math.  Ruth gave Naomi a vow of devotion so deep that many, even religious extremists, use it in wedding ceremonies across the world (Ruth 1:14-17). 

 

All that’s left here then is pure, old-fashioned prejudice – people with money, a pulpit, position and a microphone who abuse the Bible and their power to perpetuate what they’re scared of and do NOT understand.  There’s no other remedy here then but to give them the label of bigot.

 

Harrison Trustt

 

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Comment From: bigjpop

If you don't like Conservatives and Christians...fine. But don't make false arguments and try to use the Bible to justify your lifestyle. The Bible speaks very clearly about homosexuality. You're attempt to twist scripture is a very weak one. The love David had for Jonathan is translated as Brotherly love. Others translate it as the bond soldiers form in battle. You can't just make David gay because it fits your lifestyle. I'll just let scripture speak. Hopefully you will listen to it with an open mind. "Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality." 1 Cor 6:9. "the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine," 1 Tim 1:10. . And probably the most damning evidence in scripture against homosexuality. "The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them." Romans 1: 18-32