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Congressman Lamar Smith Calls For Resolution Condemning Reversal Of Proposition 8

August 13, 2010 by  

Congressman Lamar Smith calls for resolution condemning reversal of Proposition 8In response to last week’s district court decision to strike down California’s Proposition 8, United States Representative Lamar Smith (R-Texas) has vowed to introduce a resolution condemning the ruling when Congress comes back from recess.

The congressman, who serves on the House Judiciary Committee, will also urge an appeal of the decision, which reverses the ballot initiative banning same-sex marriage that was narrowly passed during the 2008 elections.

“This decision defies the voice of all citizens who have sought to define marriage in their states as the union between one man and one woman,” said Smith, adding that “Judge Walker’s actions should be opposed and the decision should be swiftly overturned.”

Smith’s initiative was praised by the conservative Family Research Council (FRC), which has also criticized what it calls “an activist decision” by Judge Walker that exemplifies “government by judiciary” that it says most Americans resent.

“This case is far from over, and we hope that common sense will reign when the case makes its way to the U.S. Supreme Court," warned FRC president Tony Perkins.ADNFCR-1961-ID-19923182-ADNFCR

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  • HarryNE

    I see by a lot of the comments here that not to many of you believe that everyone should be able to “live free”. It looks like a lot of people believe that they should be able to tell other people how they can and cannot live.
    I personally believe that people tend to pick an choose what they believe from the Bible. There are a lot of things listed as sinful that people to all the time: wear clothing of mixed fibers, get tatoos, etc. The point is Jesus said if you followed two commandments then that’s basically all you need to be concerned about.
    My church would happily marry two men or two women who love and respect eachother. I really don’t think another church or religion should have the ability to tell my church what they can and cannot do. I certainly the goverment shouldn’t take the position of one church or religion over another.
    Let’s hope people can be more accepting and exhibit unconditional love to one another.

    • OMG

      Excellent and loving point of view! Why is it that the people who quote the most cherry-picked Bible verses are the least loving, most judgmental, and are the most unamerican sounding?

    • http://PersonalLibertyDigest Jill

      Sorry that sometimes in life we have to be told NO. Some of us opt to hold onto a higher standard of living. God never told us to win friends he said He came to bring a sword. brother against brother, mother in law against daughter in law. The truth cuts to the very core. There is either left or right and no in between. The wishy washy he spews out of his mouth.

  • Karen

    I have been reading all of the comments written here and find the finger pointing and name calling a bit immature to say the least. The Bible does condemn homosexuals, along with all other sins. Sodon and Gommorra were distroyed because of homosexuality. The people of California voted to define marrage as between a man and a woman. It should be left as that.
    I am not against gays as I am close friends with many of them. One man is gay because of being raped as a child by his heterosexual uncles who were just plain nasty people. I knew them also and they treated their wives like dirt. This perticular man I speak of has been married three times to women, two of whom were critical, sharp-tongued, jealous individuals. He is a father and grandfather. He has been in two long-term relationships. The first ended with the death of his partner from brain cancer. The second is still ongoing. He acknowledges that he is living is sin but is afraid of being alone. He also can’t stand the gay activists. To him, his sexual preference is private and no one else’s business. He and his partner are like two guys rooming together. The only difference is they sleep in the same bedroom.
    I also know a very sweet gay man who is dying from AIDS. He was also married to a beautiful woman who died from cancer. They were married for twenty years and when she died he lost himself back in the gay lifestyle where he contracted AIDS.
    These may be acceptions to the “rule” but, nevertheless, marriage is still between a man and a woman as God intended. I agree with Power of Attorney, Living Wills, and Wills as being the best way for a gay couple to prepare for medical treatment and leaving one’s belongings to their partner but the other issue not covered by those documents is medical insurance from an employer. That could be taken care of with a Civil Union.
    As far a gays in the animal kingdom, I would have thought that those of you who claim to live on a farm would know that males and females both mount members of the same and opposite sex as a form of authority. I have dogs and see it all of the time. It’s not sex for them. It’s their way of saying who’s the boss in that situation. If you think about it, animals just might be more “civilized” than us humans. We like to hurt each other just for the kicks. That’s why there has to be moral laws. Let’s face it; if we followed the ten commandments, there wouldn’t be half of the problems we face now. After all, the first four deal with our relationship with God and the rest of them deal with our relationship with each other.

    • Denniso

      People are afraid that gay marriage will adversely affect straight marriage…how? And there are many straight marriages that are not exactly ‘divine’ in how badly some spouses and many kids are treated in them…abuse,incest,drug use,terrible parenting. 1/2 of all marriages end in divorce and many of the remaining ones are only for convenience or finances. Yay,let’s hear it for the glorious straight marriage!!

    • Karolyn

      I just read that Sodom and Gomorrah were not destroyed because of homosexuals. What was said was that all the sodomite males wanted to rape the two angels staying at Lot’s house. It’s kind of ridiculous to think that ALL the males in Sodom were gay. However “The cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were definitely not exclusive in terms of the sins in which they indulged.”
      Judges 19:22 =- Similar situation as in Genesis:

      “While they were enjoying themselves, some of the wicked men of the city surrounded the house. Pounding on the door, they shouted to the old man who owned the house, “Bring out the man who came to your house so we can have sex with him.”

      In the account in Judges the wicked men were appeased with the female concubine. This proves they were not homosexuals. They were after sex for power or rape. If you read further you’ll learn that the tribe of Benjamin was almost totally destroyed because of this incident. Neither the tribe of Benjamin nor the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were punished because of homosexuality. Both of these accounts clearly describe rape. What the men of Sodom were going to do to the angels in Genesis was what the men of Gibeah did to the traveler’s concubine in Judges.”
      Ezekiel 16:48-50

      “As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, your sister Sodom and her daughters never did what you and your daughters have done. “‘Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen. (NIV)

      Amos 4:11

      “I overthrew some of you as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a burning stick snatched from the fire, yet you have not returned to me,” declares the LORD. (NIV)

      If you read the book of Amos you find that God promises to overthrow Israel as He overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah for three things: turning away from God which is religious unfaithfulness, being evil to the poor and living selfishly. Homosexuality is not even addressed.”

      I can post more, but there’s just too much to refute your contention.

      Of course, this is all relevant if you believe every word in the Bible to be true.

      • viktor leben

        Karolyn,

        You’re using exclusion in your logic. My thoughts are “detestable things” includes the attempted homosexual rape of the 2 angels, who rescued Lot. Inclusion of many reasons, exclusion of none.

        Are you saying homosexuality was not the primary reason for their destruction ? Or is Homosexuality a ancillary reason for Sodom’s destruction, or other sins plus homosexuality, or just other sins – homosexuality had nothing to do with thier destruction ?

        This generation of Israel were “apostate” ? A sin similar to Sodom during Lot’s generation ? Do “apostates” degenerate to homosexual behaviour ?

        The “burning stick” (faggot) may have another ancient Hebraic meaning, but I’m not sure . Did NIV take their reading from KJV ? Is their a Hebrew word equivalent to slang “faggot” ? SPECULATION only because I don’t know the answer ?

        What are your thoughts, Karolyn ….what is your argument ?

        I’m being lazy ….

      • http://PersonalLibertyDigest Jill

        Ya also Lot offered his two virgin daughters, but the men who surrounded the house only wanted the angels. Also in Rev.21:8, it says, “But the cowardly, the unbelieving,the vile, the murderers,the SEXUALLY IMMORAL, those who practice magic arts,the idolaters and all liars – their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulphur. This is the second death. Sexually immoral? what could that mean? HOMOSEXUALS, child molestors, animal beastiality, and anything else sexual that is perverted.

      • Denniso

        But apparently,incest and offering your virgin daughters for sex to strangers is OK w/ the bible. The bible is so full of contradictions and absurdities as to render most of it more than silly. The only worthwhile parts are what Jesus supposedly said and that’s what Christians should follow,since they say they want to follow Jesus.

      • http://naver Samurai

        I agree with you Jill! Don’t pay attention to duhniso! He already knows he’s going to hades and is trying to get others to join him along the way!

      • http://naver Samurai

        Karolyn, where do you get these false ravings? They didn’t want to rape the angels. Where did you get that idea? Gays not mentioned dealing with Sodom and Gomorrah? They were both destroyed because of sexually perverse actions performed by the men, women, and with the animals of the 2 cities in question. Remember that gays, bi sexuals, orgies, beastial relationships, etc., are all punishable with fire and brimstone. What part of this do you not understand?

      • Denniso

        Don’t you understand that most of the old testament is nothing but fairy tales? Pun intended. Do you read Greek mythology and take it to be real? Get a grip Sam…

      • http://naver Samurai

        Don’t forget there dude, archeologists and historians found the ruins of Sodom and Gomorrah. It even has been recorded on official documents in Israel and in England! So much for your fairy tales, huh?

      • Karolyn

        Nobody said there was no Sodom and Gomorrah. If the story is true (who knows?) the men of the city did want to rape the strangers, but it was out of cruelty and for power. I did make another post from the Bible that was very similar to the story of S&G. Did you know that hundreds of years before Jesus was born, another messiah was born under similar circumstances at the same time of year. There are many similarities. I have a video about it. This tells me that maybe somebody was copying somebody else.

      • http://naver samurai

        Gee Karolyn, tisc, tisc, tisc. You would rather believe a video on the internet (Which is not governed by public domain laws.) instead of the Bible itself? For someone who claims to have been a christian at one time you sure don’t sound like it. I think that it is about time for you to come back into the light, instead of burning like these libs and gays on this site. If you really want to know what it means, go to a pastor or I can have you contact my brother (He’s a pastor!).

      • Karolyn

        Sam – The Bible says so. The angels turned themselves into men and Lot insisted that they stay at his house.

      • http://naver Samurai

        So what? If the angels took the form of women, how would it be different? Lot asking them to stay in his house? Big deal! Don’t forget, people asked Jesus to come to their house and you know nothing like that happened. Karolyn, you say your were a christian and not now? I suggest that you get back on the right track before you really start feeling some heat!

  • http://ri7044@gmail.com Robert Ingram

    If you fail to agree with a liberal you are narrow minded or racist. The problem with liberals is that they have no mind or fail to use it.

    • Denniso

      No,you’re not just narrow minded or a racist,you’re a bigot. The constitution doesn’t give a whit about what behaviour is ‘normal’ or not…it does protect a minority’s rights against a bigotted or unbalnaced majority.

    • Karolyn

      And vice-versa. The same can be said for conservatives. Can’t you see that?

      • Denniso

        What do you mean? That conservatives are a minority and need protection from the majority?

      • Karolyn

        No, I responded to the previous post about liberals only believing what other liberals say. It could be said for the conservatives too, but that somehiow have a block that doesn’t allow words other than their own to enter into the realm of their minds. I would say that, as a liberal, I listen to all sides, and when they present their argument without venom and hate, I do take it in and think about it. However, when you look at some of the people here, how can one possibly find anything to even think about in what they have to say?

      • Denniso

        You’re right…most,not all liberals try to listen to what others say and try to be civil…most,not all,conservatives won’t listen because they think they know everthing and god tells them so. Most,not all, of the conservatives here use hateful speech and vile words and it makes it hard to have any civil discussion.

      • http://?? Joe H.

        dennislobber,
        Why? Because they won’t listen to YOU?!?!?! That’s just good common sense!!!!

  • http://ri7044@gmail.com Robert Ingram

    Gay marriage has nothing to do with legal status of property transfer, and etc., but an attempt to sell the idea that being “queer” is normal. We as a nation are going down the same path as the fall and destruction of the Roman Empire.

  • Denniso

    Jennifer…you should know that this judge was appointed by either Reagan or Bush 1,both fine Republicans. And, a state voting on any issue does not trump the constitution…if it did,then we would still have slavery in the south and would still have states denying women as well blacks and indians and non land owners the vote.

    We have a supreme court to establish whether laws or votes are constitutional or not…simple. This judge has absolutely nothing to do w/ Obama…simple.

    • Coservative at Birth

      Where in the Constitution is abnormal behavior protected?

    • Coservative at Birth

      If, Reagan or Bush appointed this man the made a mistake. It proves that they are human.

    • http://naver Samurai

      Are you sure? He alreadt want to get rid of the “Don’t ask, don’t tell” with the military and wants to overturn the “Defense of Marriage Act” signed by Clinton. Are you sure about the fictional nonsense that you are posting? Hmmm…?

  • Jennifer

    This is another part of Obama’s regime, to have this judge do what he did. If these judges get away with overriding what we the American people have voted in then our voice is lost among the liberal activists decision. This is infuriating and unjust and I hope this judge gets disbarred! He’s a disgrace!

  • Mondovibe

    History has taught us, whenever we disenfranchise a group of people, by denying them humane rights, it’s narrow minded and cruel. Nobody is saying one can’t be narrow minded in your own life; just that narrow mindedness can not morally or legally deny humane rights.

    • Karolyn

      Right on!

    • Coservative at Birth

      We disenfranchise people who; Murder, Rape, Rob, Burglarize, Drive repeatedly under the influence, and many other forms of objectionable behavior all the time. What exactly is wrong with that?

    • Byron

      Mondovibe, do you really believe that? I take it that this includes axe murders, child molesters too? what about the majority? Do you not understand why that the US of A has the laws on the books that it does? Do you not really understand our constitution (do not mean, how to get around it as many constitutional attys. are taught) to where everyone is protected in reason of the laws that are on the books? People like you are totally clueless on what America is all about and that there is an agenda to tear this nation down of well written laws and to remake her in a nation that’s like what the Nazi’s were trying to do or how China is today. The agenda of these elites is to bring the World under submission (kingdom ship or the AC) Do you not know what Fabian socialism is, no, that’s what I thought, how could you know when most people do not. Read the manifesto (list of what’s now up to around 61 do’s) on communism, then you’ll understand everything that’s going on in America today! Of coarse one other book that many freaks call a book fables but is really a book that the Creator (owners manual) has gave us that’s 100 per cent right on!

      Good Day!

      • Denniso

        America is supposed to be about freedom and justice for all,isn’t it? You stick to your little book when in church and leave the lawmaking for the nation up to educated adults…

      • http://naver Samurai

        Yes, but the christian aspect of freedom. We also dispense justice on acts that are illegal, immoral, and unethical, so whats you point? I suggest that you get back down into your mother’s basement before its too late.

      • Denniso

        Oh…I see. We are only allowed ‘Christian’ freedoms. Wow! are you deluded or just woefully ignorant? The bible says that men can divorce and remarry,but women can’t…the bible says that women have to be shut away for something like 3 months(I forget the actual number)after giving birth because they are ‘unclean’. Is that the kind of ‘Christian’ freedom you mean? The old testament was written by ignorant MEN in a time of gross ignorance and brutality,and you think we should legally follow that? The only aspect of the new testament that’s worth anything at all is what your divine Jesus said…love,compassion,peace. That’s simple,isn’t it?

      • http://naver Samurai

        Duhniso, duhniso, are we greatly erring these days? It says that the only reason for a divorce in in the case of adultery. If you divorce someone for someone else, then you commit adultery. We don’t shut away women physically for 3 months, you ignorant fool! We both know that after a woman has a child, doctors ask them to wait 3 months before having sex with their husbands. That is what is meant by that passage! Why? Because it usually takes a woman 3 months to heal and start back her cycle again. For being an informed old man, you sure are kind of ignorant about things , aren’t you?

  • http://foxnews s c 2

    We need to put prayer back into our schools and teach our children right from wrong as they too have a lot to face in years to come . Lets help them to be strong and follow the law of the land , God’s Law . Lets honor him and praise him and welcome him and prayer into our daily lives .Lets Honor and go by the words stated ( In God We Trust !)
    Get rid of the wrong doers and the government who are going against the peoples wants and needs to run our country in a better way , the way of our people and God’s laws and our constitution which has been cut down and they are trying to change . Lets honor and pray for our troops to come home and give them Peace and be with their families once again .Amen !

    • s c

      ‘S C,’ while you can, say whatever you want, but you are a PRETENDER. You do not write or think the way I do. There is nothing you can do to take over and put words in my mouth. You know you will be caught. You are beneath contempt, and you are living proof that Darwin was wrong. Get thee hence.

      • http://?? Joe H.

        sc,
        He is putting a 2 after SC so I’m not sure he is trying to put words in your mouth. I think he just isn’t real imaginative! Or maybe he admires you so much he wants to be just like you. you do put out some very thoughtful and truthful posts!

      • libertytrain

        Or maybe he just has those initials as well.

  • http://foxnews s c 2

    The problem lies with people not turning to God for answers and we need to pray daily against the bad evil things that come up daily and Prayer changes things .The Devil does not like prayer as it is the strongest power against all evil doings he throws before us in decision making and his evil temptations . Wake up people and fight for freedom and clean out the filth that’s storming our land . Be strong and ask God for forgiveness and pray for our America to win against all these things and help us to rise above all the wrong doings and make it right again so we can live in Peace and in Gods wonderful creation .

    • Denniso

      Are you joking? If prayer worked on a mass scale then why does it appear as though evil is doing very well in the world? Is your devil more powerful than your god? Is it only a question of numbers and if you can just get more people praying to your apparently ineffectual god than are doing the bidding of your devil,then the tide will turn and the mean old devil will be chased off our planet? Dream,dream,dream…

      • http://naver Samurai

        Just shut up, duhniso! Your atheism is showing sooooo much that if Jesus appeared before you and tried to get you to repent, you’d probably say “forget it, just send me somewheres very warm to live.”

      • Denniso

        Jesus apparently died 2,000 yrs ago…you hadn’t known that?

      • http://?? Joe H.

        Dennislobber,
        yeah I do know that and if you were a Christian and a true believer, you would know he rose up and will return again! But then, you DON’T believe so I’m probably wasting my time telling you but that is what my Lord tells me to do in his words!!!

      • http://naver samurai

        Duhniso, yes I know that. That’s why may of our legislation passed by our government says “In the Year of Our Lord.” Unfortunately, your “god” with a beard, tail, and pitchfork has been the ruler of hades since before that.

  • Suzanne

    Okay…
    First… the voters made their decision and a gay judge overturned that decision unilaterally. That judge overturned the voters without any reference to the Constitution… just on his own opinion. The judge in this case should be removed from the bench because he has forgotten the framework of his own job.

    Secondly… all the gay men I know are quite affluent, primarily because there is no gay marriage. With gay marriage, the gays will be subject to the same difficulties as straights… alimony, palimony and the forced splitting of community property in nasty divorce settlements. If they want marriage for the sake of designating whom property goes to or someone to make medical decisions on their behalf like a spouse does… it would be easier to go to an attorney and get a will and various power of attorney.

    Yeah… gays should have the right to be as miserable as the rest of us.

    • tg7357

      I agree: the judge should have recused himself for conflict of interest. But then again, if a hetero judge had ruled on the issue, then the gays would have have grounds to appeal. I think this is going to turn into one of those fights that no one is going to win.

      • Karolyn

        Do you think that a hetero judge would have to have ruled against gays? Judges, no matter what their sexual orientation, should be impartial. There you go again with “us” vs “them”. I’ll keep saying it over and over: We are all one!

      • tg7357

        “Do you think that a hetero judge would have to have ruled against gays? Judges, no matter what their sexual orientation, should be impartial. There you go again with “us” vs “them”. I’ll keep saying it over and over: We are all one!”
        Actually, no we are not ‘all one’. You’re trying to force people together under too broad of a category, and that includes heterosexuals as well as homosexuals. Nothing divides the human species up as completely and entirely as their sexual preferences. And I don’t see this argument as an ‘us’ versus ‘them’ thing. This is an argument over an interpretation of a concept: how do you define ‘marriage’ and who does it include?

    • JeffH

      Eventually the SCOTUS will have to sort this out. The people majority in the most liberal of states, California, have spoken yet it’s obvious that our voices don’t mean squat anymore. This overturn of the people is more about “benefits” than it is about a legal bond between two people.

      If I wanted to be a legal “fudge packer” I’d get a job at See’s Candy.

  • patrick

    you may be correct but then again we never would have had Islamic terrorists or bad Muslims, and we all would be living in paradise, no wars, no famine, no corruption, no abortions, no guns, no gays, no greed, no racism, no health problems, etc etc. Thay dam Devil and he still works hard daily in his attempt to tempt us all with his eveil ways! Be carefull.

    • Christin

      Yes, Patrick you are Right On!

      Eating the Forbidden Fruit got Adam and Eve (and all who were born there after… including us) kicked out of the beautiful garden paradise and put into hardship of toiling the earth for food and pain in childbearing… and our sin nature was released and separation from God began.

  • Karolyn

    If Eve had not eaten the fruit containing the knowledge of good and evil, we would have no choices. We would all be the same. What a boring world it would be. There would be no discussions like this. It would be like the book “Stranger in a Strange Land” or any of the movies depicting a future with all being of the same mind.

    • Christin

      If Adam and Eve had not eaten the forbidden fruit from the Tree of Life we would all be naked and having a great time in the Garden of Eden!

      • OMG

        Remember…..”In the Garden of Eden, it was not the apple in the tree, but the ‘pair’ on the ground.”

  • patrick

    I hear the highest rate of queerness and gay’s is amongst SNAKES! Do you read or have you heard what it says in the Bible? The Devil, in the form of a snake, tempted EVE to eat the fruit from the tree that GOD had forbidden ADAM to eat from. There you go folks, this queer/gay issue is from the DEVIL!!!

  • patrick

    ATTN: evertone… just once stop and think about how 2 queer men have sex? why doesn’t anyone explain this to their normal straight children? my understanding is that one of the queer fellows puts his penis into the other queer fellows anus, you know thats the place where your poop comes out, yummy yummy? it’s no wonder that queer gay’s are mostly to blame for the spread of AIDS worldwide! by the way, what was your answer when your kids asked you to explain the sex act between 2 queer gay people? did you tell em no comment? i think you should spread the truth to the children and i’ll bet 5 million dollars most kids would say, ” ICKY ICKY”. that my friends will be the begining of the stopping and promotion of the queer gay lifestyle!!

    • http://?? Joe H.

      patrick,
      after your descriptive comment, think of the other half of gay sex and you really will say YUCK, BLEACK!!! The thought would turn a maggotts stomach!!!!

  • del

    Leviticus 20:13
    If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

    • Karolyn

      Here is another interpretation:

      “Many would regard “abomination,” “enormous sin”, etc. as particularly poor translations of the original Hebrew word which really means “ritually unclean” within an ancient Israelite era. The Greek Septuagint translation of the Hebrew Scriptures (circa 3rd century BCE) translated “to’ebah ” into Greek as “bdelygma,” which meant ritual impurity. If the writer(s) of Leviticus had wished to refer to a moral violation, a sin, he would have used the Hebrew word “zimah.”
      Leviticus 18:22″
      http://www.religioustolerance.org/hom_bibh5.htm

      Moreover, in other translations it is thought to be used only as Hebrew law and with regard to Pagan worship.

      There are more, but at least this gives you an idea that YOUR interpretation is not the ONLY one!

      • ProudAmerican

        Karolyn, stop being so logical! ;-)

      • http://naver Samurai

        If you think that she is being logical, then you’ve been smoking way tooooooo much liberal crack. It don’t matter if you stop now, because all your brains (penut sized) have been fried and unable to be fixed.

      • ValDM

        Karolyn,

        Please stop blathering about “interpretations.” Go back and read the
        creation story again. God said it is not good for man to be alone.
        He created Eve for Adam’s companion……..It was Adam and Eve,
        NOT Adam and Steve!!!

      • Christin

        Love it… I agree. Thanks for the morning chuckle!

      • OMG

        Adam and Steve broke up. Adam is now with Tom in a lovely apartment in New York City. Steve headed south where he met Gary. They’re very happy together. Adam and Steve still send each other Christmas cards every year, and have remained friends after all these years. I thought you’d appreciate the update.

      • Christin

        OMG, That’s a good one!
        You have a gift for writing.
        Thanks for the funny update.

      • Karolyn

        The story of Adam and Eve is a fairytale.

      • Christin

        The Bible persons named Adam and Eve are found in Genesis in The Holy Bible… FACT not fairy tale.
        You are not a Christian if you don’t believe in the WHOLE Bible.

        Maybe you have spent too much time memorizing Catholic Creeds and not enough time learning the inherent Word of God. Wisdom in the Bible is a Blessing for those who Love Him.

      • Karolyn

        I never said I was a Christian. Not anymore. How can you take a book subject to interpretation of ancient language and written by who knows who and say that it’s fact? Sure, the Bible is basically a wonderful book. However, (once again!) it is subject to interpretation.

      • http://naver Samurai

        What are you atheist? Well, when you die get ready to feel the heat!

      • viktor leben

        Karolyn,

        Keep studying. Was the sacrifice of a lamb also ritual ? Keep up the studies !

        Was the concept of “ritual” and “non-ritual” prevalent at this time in history (when Moses was alive) or is that a later Hellenistic idea or modernist idea used to interpret later on ?

        What is your logic ? Did these concepts exist at that time ? Is this interpretation in agreement with the author of the book ? Is this the meaning the author intended ?

        If you ever watched the Rodney Dangerfield movie “Back to School” Thornton hires Kurt Vonnegut to write a book report. The book report was on a Kurt Vonnegut book. Kurt Vonnegut got a “B” …..HA HA ! I think it was Kurt Vonnegut .. correct me if I’m wrong.

        The English teacher gave a “B” to the original author’s book report ….

        Karolyn, keep on studying. You sound like a future Bible Scholar, some thing I’m not …

      • http://naver Samurai

        Stay on the subject at hand and quit trying to twist things around. A classic strategy used by the libs!

      • James

        Karolyn, By tinkering with “abomination” and ignoring the rest of Leviticus 20:13, you are grasping at straws. The first five books in the Bible were written many, many centuries before the Greek Septuagint. The O.T. law simply says if two men do it, they shall surely be put to death. Frankly, it could be argued that since Christendom has never enforced that law, as written, we could be under God’s judgment now.

  • FlaJim

    Resolution? That’s nuts Under Article III of the Constitution, all that Congress has to do is to nullify the judge’s ruling. End of story. There’s no power granted to the federal courts to weigh in on this issue and therefore, it’s left to the states or the people – who’ve already spoken.

    The enumerated powers given by the Constitution to federal courts are far less than those they’ve assumed in the past 190 years. And nowhere in the Constitution that federal courts are the final arbiters of what is or isn’t constitutional.

  • del

    1 Corinthians 6:9

    Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders.

    • Karolyn

      1 Corinthians 6:9
      If Paul wanted to refer to homosexual behavior, he would have used the word “paiderasste.” That was the standard Greek term at the time for sexual behavior between males.

      • http://naver Samurai

        The Bible was translated from Greek and Hebrew, so homosexual would be the English term for it. Please stop wasting our time with this useless info.

      • Karolyn

        You’re wrong!

      • http://naver Samurai

        Proove it! State your sources!

      • Karolyn

        I just typed the word in my post. It’s pederaste, whick is Greed for homosexual. That was not the word used in the Bible. I don’t feel; like copying and pasting right now, but that’s the truth from a neutral website that states both “sides”.

      • Christin

        Your source is “a neutral website?”
        Did you ever hear of ORIGINAL SOURCES??
        Try using the Holy Bible!

  • tg7357

    According to a California lawyer, the Fedeal judge had no legal grounds to overturn Prop 8. Since this was law that was passed by a A VOTE OF THE PEOPLE, and became part of the California Constitution as such, it should have been appealed directly to the Supreme Court of the US, not put in that judge’s hands. The California Constituyion was bypassed (no surprise during the current regime)and that low-life Jerry Brown, who is the AG of California, let it go through with no challenge. Since he is runnning for Governor and pandering, this is also no surprise.
    You people in California have one sorry state government working for you. I hope you toss 99% of them the h#ll out of office in November!!!

    • David

      If that California lawyer said what you say, then he or she is out of the mainstream of legal scholarship. If a majority of people in your state vote to make you a second-class citizen, and deprive you of the rights and privileges all others enjoy, would that be okay with you? A majority said so, right?

      Constitutional rights are not subject to a vote other than through the Constitutional amendment process.

      • tg7357

        ” If that California lawyer said what you say, then he or she is out of the mainstream of legal scholarship. If a majority of people in your state vote to make you a second-class citizen, and deprive you of the rights and privileges all others enjoy, would that be okay with you? A majority said so, right? ”
        First of all, the lawyer IS a California lawyer, so I would imagine he’s got a pretty good idea about California state and Constitutional law: he sues them on a regular basis.
        Second: no one is making gays second class citizens, legally or illegally. No one says gay people cannot marry: they can marry anyone of the opposite sex they choose, and THAT IS THE LAW. I didn’t write it, but 56% of the citizens of California AGREE with the interpretation of the marriage clause. It was voted on, the MAJORITY passed it, now move on with your life.
        Third: all I’ve heard out of the gay movement is that because they can’t marry, they can’t make decisons about or with their partners concerning end-of-life arrangements, hospital care, real estate matters, etc. because the family can over-rule or ignore them. Here is a piece of free, common-sense legal advice: its called a power of attorney or a living will. POAs and LW’s trump family fights every time. They are easy to obtain, you can write them to suit your needs, and they hold up in court.

      • Bob

        Let them start their own churches and marry in them.

      • tg7357

        And therein lies one of the problems. I think in time the states are going to have to change the way ‘marriage’ is interpreted across the board. I think eventually ‘marraige’ is going to have to be designated as a church-sponsored rite, performed by clergy, in a church, temple, or other designated location. The other side of it will be called a ‘civil union’, that is performed by a judge or other legal official. One can’t be less binding than the other to be fair to the participating couples, both would have to be neutralized in a divorce process in a court, and it would allow all rights a privelieges to be equal to the couples wheather they were joined in a ‘marriage’ or a ‘civil union’. The difference would only be in the religious or non-religious connotation, not the underlying rights and laws.
        this of course iwll make no one happy completely, but it might serve as a middle ground, at least.

      • David

        So, all California attorneys are right because they practice in the state. Do you have any idea how many California lawyers are disbarred in California for incompetence?

        What about the California lawyers who fought against Prop 8? According to your standard, they must be correct on the law because they practice in California.It’s a bit more complicated isn’t it?

        This case is about discriminating against people and denying them equal protection under the law because of their sexual orientation. See Ted Olsen on the matter!

      • tg7357

        How about you see the Constitution on this matter? Hate to tell you, but the voting MAJORITY ruled on this one. It went to a vote of the people of California, they voted on it, and it was voted down. Now, according to FEDERAL law, since it was an issue that was made part of the California state constitution, the appeal should have gone to the US Supreme Court, NOT a federal judge. Its a little technicality called a LAW. So now, according to the law, not only is the judge’s ruling illegal, but Jerry Brown as the State AG should have challenged it going into said federal judge if the only law body that should have ruled on it WAS the US Supreme Court. If you want to disbar a California lawyer, start with him. In the meantime, you have a federal judge with a conflict of interest making up the law as he goes along, ignoring the MAJORITY (right, wrong or indifferent, this went to the people for a vote and the gays lost) overruling the California Constitution, and furthering this mess.
        The judge’s brief stated that laws cannot be based on ‘moral’ issues, which is a crock because he ruled on this from a ‘moral’ standpoint: his own sexuality. He should have recused himself, or Brown should have demanded his removal and had this forwarded to the Us Supreme Court where it belongs.

      • http://naver Samurai

        How is that david? Don’t they have the freedoms of speech, press, right to bear arms, etc.? Last time I looked, they weren’t taken away from them. Remember marriage is one woman and one man. Not only does this say so in the Bible, but it was even passed under the Clinton administration as the “Defense of Marriage Act.” In my home state, Indiana, performing gay marriages is illegal and you can be thrown in jail for that. To allow gays to do these things would, over time, destroy the family structure and family values. You can say all you want about the gays, but their way is immoral and unethical. It will never be an accepted practice in this great christian nation of ours. FOR GOD AND COUNTRY!

      • Coservative at Birth

        We can regulate behavior as we see fit. There are no Constitutional protections for behavior. You are assuming there are.

    • Karolyn

      It should never have been put into the people’s hands. So-called morals should have nothing to do with the law. Actually, there are states that still have cohabitation laws on the books where two people cannot live together without being married. Should those laws be upheld?

      • Christin

        ” so-called MORALS should have nothing to do with the LAW?”
        Are you brain dead?

        All laws should be based on moral values and that which is RIGHT according to GOD. Morality IS important for our society to succeed.

        See the Ten Commandments in the Bible! They are still posted in most Court Houses. That’s where our Laws of our country came from.

      • Karolyn

        What I was referring to was individual moral values, such as believing gays are sinners.

      • Christin

        Homosexuality IS a sin. It does not come from an individual, BUT from God’s Word in The Holy Bible.
        Reread 1 Corinthians 6 : 9 – 11 above!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
        Will you argue with God, too???
        Don’t answer that I am tired of your warped conversation.

      • http://naver Samurai

        Our laws are based on the 10 Commandments and are influenced by what is morally right. Sit down and look at your state laws, then tell me what you think?

      • James

        Karolyn, In the United States, the government is of, by, and for the people. The people created their state governments and delegated certain powers to them. Then the people and their states created the federal government and delegated certain enumerated powers to it. Where have you been all this time?

    • HFlashman

      And there are wacked out attroneys (some who worked in the Bush Admin0 who state the Constitution is a ‘quaint document’ and ‘of no longer any use’

      Hmmm…. they must be right since they’re an attorney…

      • alpha-lemming

        I don’t doubt you’re right

        The most famous person I recall referring to the Constitution as…
        “a quaint dociment” and railing on about “antiquated notions of personal property” was Hill-dawg.

        Oops…. look at that… another lawyer
        My bad!!

  • chucky

    meant liberal not conservative for California LOL.

  • chucky

    The people of California spoke by voting against it.The gay community was all for the vote, thinking the most conservative state will pass this and get the ball rolling with a domino effect to put on ballots nationwide, and a judge who wants to legislate from the bench, add his own personal feelings rather than interpret the letter of the law which he swore to uphold when he took the position. For a judge to overthrow the vote of the people, He should of stood behind the people because of the majority vote and told the plantiffs if they did not like the result of the vote, then collect signatures and bring up the proposition again before the people and voters to hopefully with a majority vote, and get the result you favor.

    • David

      The judge took an oath to uphold the Constitution, not to uphold a particular law. The Bill of Rights is not subject to a vote. Ask Ted Olsen.

      • http://naver Samurai

        A good leader shall not allow his personal feelings or beliefs to interfere with his good judgement at any time. Chucky was right about this. The judge should have recused himself from the case. Since he made a decision from feelings, not the law or Constitution, it isn’t a legal decision and would probably be overturned at a higher court. People of California, don’t give up the good fight. Stand by your convictions. Hold onto them like a drowning man would hold onto something to stay alive. No retreat and no surrender! FOR GOD AND COUNTRY!

      • ProudAmerican

        Brady, it’s probably a good thing that you’re not a leader. Your personal feelings would surely get in the way.

      • http://naver Samurai

        Sorry, son! I was a leader in the army for 16 of 20 years. I’m also a father of four, church deacon, educater, have many more friends than you, so on and so on. By the way you are hounding me I would say that you are just jealous, because you have done nothing in your life and I have done soooooooo much more. 왜? 이놈은 질투해?

      • JeffH

        Samurai, it seems you have something attached to your backside, no pun intended…seems ProudAmerican is behind you wherever you comment here today. Might want to grab a roll of TP and wipe it off!

      • http://naver Samurai

        Agreed, but I hope these last few post shake him off. If not, the gloves are definately coming off. Army style, that is.

      • Coservative at Birth

        Behavior is not protected in the constitution. Ted Olsen is wrong. We descriminate against all kind of behavior all of the time!!!!!!!!!!!!

      • James

        David, the California decision has nothing to do with the U.S. Constitution, which says nothing about sexual conduct.
        Chief U.S. Judge Vaughn Walker struck down the voter-approved Proposition 8 (ban on same-sex- marriages). He’s a Republican who once came under fire for his membership to a powerful all-male club (the Olympic Club). Rumors had circulated for months that Judge Walker is a gay activist. A San Francisco Chronicle (SFC) column stated his sexual orientation was an “open secret” in gay activism circles. The SFC article quoted Maggie Gallagher (chairwoman of The Natural Organization for Marriage, a group that helped fund Prop. 8) who stated: “Here we have an openly gay federal judge substituting his ideology for those of the American People and of our founding Fathers who, I promise you, would be shocked by courts that imagine they have the right to put gay marriage in our Constitution.”

    • HFlashman

      The Constitution protects the Rights of the minority against the tyranny of the majority.

      • James

        HFlashman, the U.S. Constitution, with its Bill of Rights, protects our rights from federal government meddling. When the Supreme Court messes with rights within the States, it’s through the “liberty” of the 14th Amendment, or through misuse of their power over interstate commerce..

  • J.M.R.

    ive never seen two animals of the same sex doing it .like dogs cats cows horses hogs need i go on

    • David

      1500 animal species practice homosexuality. Please see the site below:

      http://www.news-medical.net/news/2006/10/23/20718.aspx

      • ProudAmerican

        You’re statement is absolutely right. The only problem with that is there aren’t enough variety in condom sizes to accommodate all of them. ;-)

      • http://naver Samurai

        Your ignorance is a sure sign of your sick mind!

      • Coservative at Birth

        So what? I am not an animal. I have a brain that functions. Do you?

      • alpha-lemming

        I guess “practice” being the key word there.
        Doesn’t “produce” much of anything now does it??

      • Crystal

        What a lame website. Anybody can create a website to say anything they want it to say.

    • Karolyn

      Go to Youtube. There are videos. My friend had a dog who did it to a male cat.

      • Bob

        Don’t you have anything better to do?

      • ProudAmerican

        Don’t you?

      • http://naver Samurai

        I really think you have too much time on your hands. You asked me once “isn’t there other subjects that should be more important?” How about you taking your own advice? I really only see you when the subject is gay or something dealing with gays, so you are nothing but a board troll. Seeking to stir up the waters when you can.

      • Michael J.

        Karolyn,
        You must think positively, it could have been worse for the male cat, your friend could have owned a rhinocerous instead of a dog.

      • ProudAmerican

        Wouldn’t the cat need a ladder?

      • Karolyn

        It was a small dog. :+)

    • HFlashman

      Never lived on a farm have you …

      • Karolyn

        Kind of a quasi-farm. – Small

  • HFlashman

    One question…

    If a christian church minister states Gay Marriage is not against the Bible or should be tolerated in obeyance to the teachings of Christ…inasmuch as it comes from a Minister of a Christian church…should Christians not follow those teachings? Or is there only one interpretation of the Bible? If so, how does one know the “correct’ interpretation since I would assume those knowing the answer are not living (since finding the answer means you’re dead)

    • s c

      HF, just because you dare to ‘read’ the Bible the same way you ‘read’ the Constitution (you can read, can’t you?), you think you can interpret and re-interpret anything. You are an opportunist and a hack. You have no standards in your life, other than trying to AVOID having standards.
      The polite word for you is a progressive. You know full well that progressives would vote for and worship ANYONE, as long as your puppet masters tell you to vote for him, her or it, and that includes Hitler, Stalin, Mao or the prince of darkness.

      • tg7357

        PS—the Prince of Darkness is now occupying the White House. :)

      • http://www.youtube.com/CanadaLarry Lawrence Edward Calcutt

        Tg7357
        You Don’t really believe the Prince of Darkness is occuping the White House, do You? Obama is too stupid, to controlled, to much in love with himself and to much under the influenec of the real Prince of Darkness who, at the moment must be real proud of his working(s) for him. Just wait until the real Prince of darknes takes hold of the American Government, then you will have something to bitch about and fear. Be carefull who you vote for next time you get to vote. November I believe.

      • tg7357

        Newsflash: I didn’t vote for Obama: I had more sense.
        Second newsflash: At the rate the current regime is destroying America, there isn’t going to be much left for the POD to work with. You can believe what you like, but right now a visit from Old Scratch is pretty far down the list of things I worry about right now. Not with doublt digit unemployment, double digit inflation and and a marxist regime threatening to take over my counrty. Besides, God will deal with the POD when the time comes. I’ll tend to my own business here in the day to day, and let God deal with all the rest. We’ve alreayd worked THAT out.

      • Coservative at Birth

        George Soros?

      • Bud in San Antone

        He’s at the very least the prince of Darkiness.

    • del

      1 Corinthians 6:9

      Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders.

      Anyone who Calls themself a Christian, should also believe that the Bible is the word of GOD. And GOD’s word is the TRUTH. And because it is the TRUTH we can not pick and choose which parts we agree or disagree with.

      • Karolyn

        Have you ever read any other interpretations of the Bible? Are you afraid? Why not open your mind to some other viewpoints. Bible scholars have been studying that book for hundreds of years. What about the gnostic gospels that were left out by the Church because they didn’t want the people to know them?

      • http://naver Samurai

        The Bible can only be interpreted the way it is written. If God says you will not or you will, how can’t you understand that? Being gay is an abomination in the eyes of God and there is no other way of translating that. FOR GOD AND COUNTRY!

      • Karolyn

        See my post below; or better yet go to http://www.religioustolerance.org/hom_bibh5.htm; and it is a neutral website.

      • ProudAmerican

        Brady, I think your statment machine is stuck on auto-repeat.

      • http://naver Samurai

        Unproud unamerican, I think you need to look in the mirror with that comment. I’ll just say that we agree to disagree and leave it at that.

      • viktor leben

        Karolyn,

        You brought up a good point. You should look at the “New Testament” as a commentary or interpretation of what the “Old Testament” means.

        The source of the whole Bible is Jesus, He is the Aleph Tav of Genesis 1:1 and the Alpha and Omega of Revelations … The Word of God. Go with His “interpretaion” of the Old Testament. He taught the Disciples ! and later the Apostle Paul(for 3 years ).

        The Author knows better what His book means than any teacher …

      • Karolyn

        And didn’t Jesus teach the opposite of some of the laws in the Old Testament?

      • viktor leben

        Karolyn,

        Good question ! I’m not a Bible scholar , don’t interpret what Jesus says in terms of “opposites”. Go with the fulfillment of the Old Testament Prophecies. SOME things Jesus say in the NT are actually harsher than the Mosaic Law. Look at his teaching on Adultery as an example … Jesus (the author of the Old Testament) explains what He means by the Law He gave at Sinai ..

        John 3:16, 17 are two good verses to keep in mind. It all comes down to a God’s plan for redeeming fallen mankind …

        Look at all the different books coming from one author (Jesus) who has different assistants working for him. For example, Paul’s “books” in the Bible are actually coming from Jesus .. Paul’s writing down what Jesus told him… miracuously helping Paul to remember what Jesus said …

        We show our love for God by reading the Bible …

      • s c

        Define ‘church,’ K. Which church? Are you talking about Christians or pretenders? What you call ‘open-minded’ amounts to a form of brainwashing yourself. And, before I forget, this topic deals with that useful idiot California judge. Why is it so hard for some people to stay focused? No wonder you’re a progressive.
        If you’re the same K who rants in Outside the Asylum, I’m betting that your attempt at getting an education via a Pell grant will be like whizzing up a tree. Enjoy getting wet.

      • Karolyn

        I only respond to what’s already posted. The discussion is about homosexuslity in general; and i didn’t start it.

        The Church I refer to is, of course, the first Christian religion, Catholic.

        I don’t know of the website you mentioned; however, I do have a Pell grant and am just starting my fourth semester. (at 63)

      • Marc

        There is more than on interpretation…and translation…of the Bible. I have a book of “The New Testament in Four Versions” sitting right here. And you are right…some books were left out… by people that possibly felt they didn’t fit a certain ‘agenda’.

      • viktor leben

        Marc,

        The Bible was closed when the Apostle John returned from Patmos. With what limited knowledge I have, John spent his last years in Asia Minor (?) probably Ephesus …. At that time the New Testament was completed and closed. Their might be an exception with the book of Hebrews (?) but I personally doubt it. Hebrews was probably written before the Aposlte John died. John was the Apostle who witnessed Jesus second coming ! Jesus said he would.. when He was talking to Peter at the end of the Book of John ….

        Don’t believe the German theories on when the Bible was written. The German Higher Critics were fools who lived at the end of the 19th century … damn evolutionists !

        Many books were written about Jesus in the first century. Those books were destroyed by the Roman Empire. Christians were killed off by the thousands, and their books burnt, during the persecution under the Roman Emperors for centuries. The Christians, in the first century were alot smarter, theologically than the Chrisitians of the later centuries.

        The Chrisitan “holacaust” was over 300 years. The Christians were always looking over their shoulder, wondering when they would be martyred. Definitely not a good environment for educating the young ! That’s why we had the Dark Ages. Don’t blame the Christians, the Roman Empire persecuted them so much that thier was a “dumbing down” …

        The only books to survive (miracuosly preserved) is the Bible of today … Damn Roman Empire !!!! THEY destroyed so much !!!! The books that were with John at Ephesus (?) ( Asia Minor). The new Testament of today ….

        I’m not a Bible Scholar, I took a Intro course. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize the Bible was miraculously preserved …

      • HFlashman

        Didn’t even come close to answering the question…whose interpretation of biblical reading is correct? How do you know? And should your opinion be seen as the “true word” ? Jeesh ….

      • Karolyn

        Should yours?

      • viktor leben

        Jesus interpretation is the correct one. Go with the Author …

      • Karolyn

        Ah, but if you think about some of the things he said, you can get different meanings. “The kingdom of God is within.” I take that to mean that we all have God in us in us. As a matter of fact, God is in everything, because he IS everything. That is why we are all one – all a part of the whole.

      • Christin

        Amen Del!
        The Bible is “God Breathed” and is the inherent word of God. It is HOLY. Jesus is ALIVE… not budda, not mohammed, not any other “god” from any other false religion.

        To “mock” it Karloyn puts you in the Lost category. No need to “open one’s mind to OTHER view ponts.” God’s Word in the Bible is Righteous and Just. It is complete and “sufficient for me.”

        Moral Values are what our current society is missing. Why should I want to follow “Man” who is arrogant and sins when I can follow our awesome Lord of Lords and King of Kings?!

        Why don’t YOU get a Bible perspective girlfriend?!
        That’s what’s missing in modern day America… God.
        Mankind are sinners and WE ALL NEED JESUS to be redeemed and follow His righteous way… otherwise we are left to our sinner’s behavior.

        Thus, a sinning gay activist Judge usurps his Constitutional limits and overturns the (American citizen) people’s VOTE and makes unjust Law. Only congress as corrupt as they are can make Law.

        I Corinthians 6 : 9 – 10 (in full reads)
        “9 The unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God. Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, 10 nor theives, nor the covetous (greedy), nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers (robbers), will inherit the kingdom of God.”*

        When you take Prayer and our almighty God out of the Schools, Courts, government and society ingeneral… well, then you get Godlessness as listed in the above Bible scripture. Wise up.

        The GOOD news is ANYONE can be forgiven and redeemed by Jesus.

        1 Corinthians 6 : 11
        “11 Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.”*

        * (Foot note: Bible)

      • Karolyn

        I’m not mocking anything, and I do believe in God. However, I believe in a God who made us as we are and does not punish us. If he made us in his image and likeness (as spirit), why would he be angry when we use what he’s given us? He would not have given us free will if he didn’t want us to use it. The original text in the Bible was in ancient language, which IS subject to interpretation. Open your mind. But, of course, you won’t because you’re brainwashed. I was too for most of my life until I looked at another view and felt in my gut it was right. I set aside my fear and ventured out; and it is GREAT! being FREE of the condemnation of the Bible, which after all, was written by man.

        I am a moral person who lives within the law. I am a good friend to my friends and am loved by many. (Just to give you some idea of who you’re conversing with.)

      • Christin

        Oh Karolyn, Karolyn, Karolyn,
        Take yourself OFF the pedestal.
        You are a sinner sister like EVERYONE else.

        Your comments are NOT one of a Conservative Christian.
        You are full of youself and that demonstrates pride and arrogance.

      • viktor leben

        We condemn ourselves !! People just don’t want to believe that they need Jesus to save them from Hell …

        Jesus rose from the dead. It’s recorded in the New Testament, a book that was miraculously preserved . To need more proof is just “Reductio ad absurdum”. There it is ! There’s the proof !

        Bibles are everywhere. The Author has put His own commentaries/interpretations of what it means. It’s been translated into so many languages. What’s the excuse ? Simple faith in Jesus (only Jesus !) we come as we are. We only look to Jesus and He takes care of the rest. God forgives us …

        The Deal of a lifetime ….

        I’m not religous .. nor a Bible scholar.

      • Christin

        You are a believer in Christ.
        That’s all actually that the Bible says you have to do… is BELIEVE in Jesus Christ.
        Job well done, vicktor.

      • Marc

        I Corinthians 6 : 9 – 10 (in full reads)
        “9 The unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God. Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, 10 nor theives, nor the covetous (greedy), nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers (robbers), will inherit the kingdom of God.”*
        I just checked four versions of this verse (King James, Revised Standard, Phillips Modern English and New English Bible) None of them state it EXACTLY as you quote it.
        What version were you refering to? Everytime Man translates or interprets something, it seems to pick up small changes…. how can you be so sure what things were first written ? (And consider some Books may have been written much after the time events occurred.)

    • del

      Leviticus 18:22
      Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
      Leviticus 18:21-23

    • William

      hf if my preacher told us gay was ok with God and the Bible I would get up and walk out and not go to any church he preached in afterwards,

      • HFlashman

        Such is your belief, your right, and I have no issue with it. Now…how do you know he is incorrect? If someone thinks differently than you…does that make them wrong?

      • James

        HFlashman, For Christians, the Bible is the infallible word of God, and Leviticus 20:13 clearly states “If a man…lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman…they shall surely be put to death.” The United States, in their beginning, made the ‘sins’ of Bible either misdemeanors or crimes. Every State had laws which made homosexual acts a crime, but no State made such acts a capital offense. This held sway until the Supreme Court, in its recent Lawrence v. Texas decision, held such laws unconstitutional, in that they deprived an individual of “liberty” (in the 14th Amendment). But that does not mean homosexual acts are no longer a sin, God’s Laws don’t change (Mt. 5:17-19). If a preacher says homosexual acts are now OK, he’s referring to that High Court decision, not God’s Law. The Bible says we’ll all be held accountable for our sins, not earthly law.

    • Crystal

      The Bible states clearly what laws are to be followed.

      • Karolyn

        Oh, like not eating shellfish or cloven-hoofed animals. How about women should be banished to a special tent when having their menstruation?

      • James

        Karolyn, Animals that chew the cud and have cloven-hooves, are clean meats. Those that have cloven-hooves but do not chew the cud, like pigs, are not clean meat. The Bible’s food laws do not prescribe any punishment for disobeying them, the implication is that unclean meats will exact their own punishment, with ill health.

    • dolphine2u

      Then it is not a bible based preacher. Most people that believe the bible know this. Bible based teachings which is what true church is. It also says in the bible very plainly that many will be deceived from false preacher and religions but because you know his teachings hopefully you will not be. Churches that change their structure and teachings to conform to society are for social gatherings not real churches. Women pastors, women priest,gay marriages,openly gay clergy, It is not my God that divides a church to do what it wants. We are held accountable in this world and death.

      • http://naver Samurai

        100% agree! FOR GOD AND COUNTRY!

      • James

        Dolphine2u, Well said, the scripture referred to is Matthew 24: 4-5: “Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.” That doesn’t mean some will claim to be Christ, then deceive, it means they will say that Jesus is the Christ (the Messiah), then teach a false doctrine.

  • Viktor Leben

    It’s just talk. The Republicans just want to take back control of congress. They are using the Christian right again.

    It’s just unbelievable that Prop 8 was necessary. This country is crazy. What are people thinking ? Look at all the homosexuals in our prison system, gang raping straight inmates … America has become like our prison system, homosexuals gang raping and killing straight innocent men, women and children. It’s happening today, you just don’t hear about because the media is under homo control. Just like in Sodom and Gomorra .. GANGS OF HOMOSEXUALS breaking into your house to rape and kill you and your family.

    The Republicans are just playing us. Laura Bush was on Larry King and gay marriage is OK with her ! You Republicans just sit on the fence…..

    Thanks for nothing, Republican Party !!!

    • tg7357

      You’re more than welcome, and in return, thanks to you libnuts foisting Barack Obama off on us. Give me 1000 George Bushs over 1 Obama. At least George had a game plan, which is more than I can say for the current regime.

      • Tim Layman

        It would be really wonderful if you actually new what you are talking about. We are in this economic mess because of the incompetence of Bush/Cheney! You owe it to yourself to get your facts from sources a little more reliable than Rush Limbaugh and Fox News (LOL).

      • mr P

        Tim, it would be nice if you actually read anything of substance. Bush’s last year in office had a deficeit of under 300 billion. Obama has already run up over a trillion. The unemployment rate is about 17% (real unemployment numbers).

        Bush’s last 2 years in office were with a dem. controlled congress. They were worse than the Repub. controlled congress. Obama is a just another liberal commie who wants to destroy the country. By the way, Rush and Fox news know more about what goes on than the gov. run press. They are afraid they will be called racist if they say anything bad about obama. If Tim could actually read and tried to verify everything he heard on ABC, CBS, MSNBC, or CNN he might learn something about this president and his regime.

      • tg7357

        Hate to break your lib bubble, babe, but I don’t listen to Rush, Laura or watch Fox News. Why is it that every time someone points out the faults, clay feet and marxist agenda of the Obama Regime, you sheep cannot imagine anyone drew their own conclusions about Soetero and saw him for the empty-suit-of-clothes he really is? I know the left wishes EVERYONE was as blind, deaf and dumb as they are, but its a sad fact we aren’t. We didn’t drink the liberal koolaide, we don’t want to become marxists, and we’re going to get Obama and CO out of the White House if its the last thing we do as Americans. Now, go put that bit of wisdom in your hooka and toke it up good, because reality is going to land hard on the left starting in November, and if you think we don’t like you, Barry, Shelly, and the rest of the Democratic / Liberal/ Looney Left Hitler Youth now, stand by.

      • William

        well said and well put Tg7357,

      • http://naver Samurai

        How could that be tiny tim? Bush gave us 2 tax cuts, got rid of the marriage penalty on our taxes, increased the deductions for children, etc., etc., the list is long and distinguished. What has this administration done about the economy? Messed up on the Gulf oil spill, forced an unconstitutional healthcare program down our throats (where more than 60% of the people didn’t want!), signed the U.N. Small Arms Treaty (Violates 2nd Amendment), wants to try to push cap and trade, etc., so how can you compare the two? Don’t forget it was the Clinton administration that told the banks they had to give loans to people that they normally wouldn’t do. We can also put some of the blame on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for destroying our housing market.
        I saw on CNN and ABC news last week of how people were living in tents outside of Atlanta, Georgia. There was nothing, nothing like that under Bush. The only people living like that under Bush were prisoners at the Maricopa County Jail in Arizona. I think you have drank tooooooo much kool ade. FOR GOD AND COUNTRY!

      • ProudAmerican

        Yes, tax cuts are a good thing in many cases especially if our tax dollars aren’t being spent wisely. However, if the country needs revenue to keep operating tax cuts aren’t the best way. According to the Treasury Department, when George W. Bush took office in 2001 the national debt was $5.73 trillion and when Bush left office in 2009, the national debt had increased to $10.63 trillion. That’s a 85% increase of $4.9 trillion. More than all the presidents combined in the history of America. If the last administration hadn’t kept borrowing trillions of dollars from other countries while at the same time cutting taxes, the country would be in the present financial situation.

      • http://naver Samurai

        You are wrong with your history and math. When Bush left, our debt was $4 trillion dollars, now it is more than $13 trillion dollars and may hit $20 trillion by 2012! Which administration are you talking about? You must mean this one that has borrowed trillions of dollars from China. Please post with facts and not lib propaganda.

      • William

        ti if you will check it out you will find the deemocrats were in controll the last four yeaars of the Bush Cheney administration. so put the blame where it belongs with you damned democrats,

      • http://na MT

        Tim Layman, it owuld be nice if yo kjept up with current events. The Brney Frank (D) and Chris Dodd (D) Subprime MOrtgage Lending Act ratified by a Congress that was majority Democrat in House and Senate was signe dinto law by then president Bill Clinton (D). Clinton was in the pocket of BOTH Lehman and Goldman and the contributed millions to his campaign as opposed to 100K to GHW Bush. The ACt coupled with the approved bundled derivatives, (also under Clinton), are the basis and cause of the mortgage meltdown and the entire Depression we are all sufferring under. Obama (D) has made it worse by attempting to use a Goverment injection form of Macr0-economics, (which never works).

        So, as you see, not only are yo9u horribly wrong on the accusation, you just horribly wrong on every possible fact. Are all liberal progressives this stupid? Another reason why we’r ein this mess…we trusted you to be intelligent, our mistake, (which we will own)

      • Coservative at Birth

        100% correct. I have been trying to educate my fellow citizens for 12 years. Great post.

      • Crystal

        Sorry Tim, but we are in this economic mess because of the Clinton years. Ever heard of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac?

      • Bob

        Could you let us in on that plan.

      • Jerry Clark

        Yes George Bush Jr. and George Bush Sr. had a game plan, and it wasn’t following the Constitution, keep in mind that there are Republicans as well as Democrats who support the New World order which is to bring in a one world Dictatorship and bring in Communism, and Socialism under one roof. Supporting George Bush Jr. and George Bush Sr. or Obama, or Jimmy Carter, or Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary Clinton, or John McCain, Jeb Bush, John Kerry, Scott Brown etc. is supporting the New World Order.

        The Only thing different about Barack Obama is he is doing his damage in Secret and in open display whereas the Bush family did all there damage in secret.These New World Order people are in both parties and these are the people we need to get rid of, they want to destroy the Constitution. Watch out, because if Obama does not succeed in his agenda, Jeb Bush talking the talk of Conservitive Values, will complete the Obama Agenda. The Father of George Bush Sr. supported Adolf Hitler financially, this is what your getting by talking good of the Bush Family, they are no better than Obama, in fact they are all in the same camp together, just in different parties to insure they accomplish their agenda. Wake up America.

      • Coservative at Birth

        The accusation about Hitler has been refuted. Get your facts straight. I agree that the Bush family supports the NWO. They are the lesser of two evils. We need to purge the Republican Party of these people (McCain, Snow, Collins, Brown, Crist, etc.) and get real control over our Government before it is too late.

      • HFlashman

        Bush/Cheney game plan = rape the nation, screw the average American, do away with Rights, liberties and freedoms for all but the wealthy, enrich thier cronies and stratify the American society into entrenched immovable classes.

        Naw…I prefer not to return to that fiasco of a presidency. We’re in the situation we are today because of that regime. No thanks.

      • Coservative at Birth

        Igorance = Stupidity.

      • HFlashman

        Glad you have self recognition

      • http://naver Samurai

        Baaaa! Bush, baaaaa! Cheney, baaaaa! Tax cuts for the rich, baaaaa! No rights, baaaaa! Chaaaaange! Can we please stop talking about Bush and put the blame where it should lie, at Obama bin Laden’s feet? FOR GOD AND COUNTRY!

    • Jeep

      Viktor you are a real class act. Gosh, I don’t know of many people who could bash the gay community AND Republicans in the same breath. You should be more careful, you just might alienate everyone.

      • viktor leben

        Their goes my political career …

        To hell with politics anyway !

      • ProudAmerican

        :-)

      • http://naver Sook Young

        누구냐? 시끄러 미친 놈아! Those words are from my wife to unproud american (Chris!). Be careful or I’ll let immigration know what you are doing illegally! FOR GOD AND COUNTRY!

      • JeffH

        Translation for both comments:

        Young Sook says: August 14, 2010 at 4: 01 am anyone? Noisy freak! Those words are from my wife to unproud american (Chris!). Be careful or I’ll let immigration know what you are doing illegally! FOR GOD AND COUNTRY!

        Seriously?!? Says: August 15, 2010 at 3: 10 am you think smarter. Stop embarrassing yourself! You are very rude woman. Start acting like a true American.

      • ProudAmerican

        You were asking how the judge could overturn the will of the people.
        Before June 12 of 1967 the will of the people had voted to ban interracial marriage in America. That was a bad law. At the time when the ban on interracial marriage was in place, the majority of the people voted for that law. Just because the majority voted for a ban on interracial marriage does make it right. A judge overturned that law. I’m very thankful for you and your husband, that you never had to know what it was like dealing with a law that would ban you from legally marrying to one you love. I hope the both of you will always have happiness in your lives!

      • http://?? Joe H.

        Proud Liberal American,
        at a guess it’s you! otherwise you would have just ignored it, knowing you like we do from your posts!!!

      • http://naver samurai

        Good job JeffH! Sorry about that, but my wife tends to speak her language. Seriously, you sound like unproud unamerican. Can’t fool me, dude!

    • Farmer

      Gangs of homosexuals??? LOL Wow! You’re nuts.

      As for the guy who says homosexual behavior never exists in nature….that rediculous. I have a farm. Trust me, it exists.

      I’m not condoning homos but really, do we not have more important issues at hand? If only the country was so perfect that the only thing we had to worry about was what the gays were doing.

      • Bob

        You should be out plowing instead of spying on the poor animals.

      • viktor leben

        Yes I am nuts.

        I’m not religous, I just want to be on God’s side. I don’t want to die !

      • OMG

        Hey, I’m gay and in a gang. We drive pink motorcycles with glitter streamers on the ends of our handlebars. Yeah, you don’t want to mess with us! We’re so tough – the other day we held this woman down while the others did her hair. Also, I really think the negative comments need a faaaaaaaaaabulous makeover!

      • Karolyn

        Thanks for the levity!!

      • http://?? Joe H.

        OMG,
        think your pink leather skirt got wedged in your black panty hose. you fairly squeaked on that last post!!! sorry guy, I just couldn’t resist!!!!

      • J.M.R.

        i don’t know what kind of farm you have but it never happened on mine

      • Seriously?!?

        I think it was the funny farm

    • Karolyn

      You gotta be nuts! Gangs of gays raping and pillaging! Wow! I think you need help bad mister. I can recommend a good therapist. BTW, the guys in prison are not gay – If they’re in there for any length of time and need to get their rocks off, they’ll do it any way they can. Besides that, it’s a way to control other inmates.

      • viktor leben

        Karolyn,

        What’s the definition of homosexuality ?

        1 : of, relating to, or characterized by a tendency to direct sexual desire toward another of the same sex
        2 : of, relating to, or involving sexual intercourse between persons of the same sex

        Your got to be kidding, your saying they are heterosexual ? What Dictionary are you reading ? Talk about “fuzzy” logic !

      • Karolyn

        If you went to a prison and asked them, you can bet they would say they’re hetero. Of course, they could be bi too. Just like the rape of a woman is for power, so is the rape of a man.

      • Marc

        You make some very good points, Karolyn……

    • William

      victor are you gay? are you wanting to marry your gay lover? you sound like a gay liberal IDIOT who wants to marry your gay lover,

      • viktor leben

        Good joke William ….

    • http://foxnews s c 2

      Don’t blame Republicans . We are all created equal but this whole act about gays marrying gays is against the law of the land and the majority of the American people and God’s laws whether you believe in God Almighty or not ! I do not care if it is Democrats or Republicans if it weren’t for God we all would not be here on earth today . He is our creator and set the laws of our land so be it !

      • s c

        ‘S C,’ I don’t know what your game is, but I am not impressed. You have about two minutes to disappear. Get a high colonic, and take a long nap. Those nasty drugs will wear off in a few hours.

    • OMG

      Listen Mary, I’m gay and in a gang. We drive pink motorcycles with glitter streamers on the ends of our handlebars. Yeah, you don’t want to mess with us! We’re so tough – the other day we held this woman down while the others did her hair. You all better watch yourselves! We’ll break into your homes and kill your awful decor and then give it a faaaaaaaaaabulous makeover!

      OXOXOX

      • http://?? Joe H.

        OMG,
        You sound just like a kid I knew that just graduated from High school. good kid too, Mike Z. He could talk any way he wanted cause nobody wanted to mess with him!! I think I heard he went into the service just recently. His little girl was born last year and I wish him nothing but the best!! sure gave me a lot of laughs over the past 5 years!!! Oh, and before you ask he was STRAIGHT!!!

    • Coservative at Birth

      Laura Bush is not representative of most Republicans. To think that there could be a conspiracy involving all Republicans is silly.

    • Bud in San Antone

      Come on Christian right.

    • dolphine2u

      I am an independent because I’m American Born in an independent country. When I was young and was asked to register. I asked what was a Dem. and Rep. and not one person registering me could tell me. So I registered as independent. Not sell my vote to any group of people or have them vote for me whether I am for it or not. All citizen should be independent we are all born independent. We should keep our own vote and not sell out to groupies. It is our vote not theirs.

  • JeffH

    Judge Walker should have excused himself from this case. He is a gay judge with a significant other and he and his are seen together at every function they attend, both straight and gay. That is a well known “secret” in San Francisco. He stands to make significant gains through this ruling, one the voters of California unanimously opposed at the polls, and make no bones about it…he’ll be getting married to his male companion. Just for the record, I grew up 35 miles from the City and gays don’t bother me one way or another…live and let live. When the people voted in majority the first thing the California legislators did, Boxer and Feinstein at the head of the list, was to start looking at overturning the vote against the will of the people. This, all my freinds, is what we are faced with thoughout the USA and again I’ll say “lets take our country back”!

    • http://naver Samurai

      I agree with you. Keep up the good fight fellow patriot! FOR GOD AND COUNTRY!

      • ProudAmerican

        Brady, you seem very passionate about this issue. It truly only effects you if you’re a gay person sharing a loving relationship. Does it truly effect your personal life? Does it change your marriage? No. Are there more important issues in the world to be passionate about and really worth fighting for? Yes. I’m sure the bond between two gay people is as strong as the bond between you and your wife. It’s really comes down to something as basic as that.

      • http://foxnews s c 2

        God made the laws of our land and we should go by his word not made up laws to steer the people in living in sin !He created man and from Adam’s side made him a woman to be his companion and bear his children . A child needs a man for a father and woman for the mother . Two men do not match in matrimony !If this law is passed we will have to answer to God for the conditions our land will suffer.

      • ProudAmerican

        Actually, man created the laws of the United States of America. God came way before 1776.

      • http://naver Samurai

        Our laws are based on the 10 Commandments and our christian founding fathers believed in nature and nature’s God. Look up anything about our founding fathers and you’ll say I’m right.

      • Denniso

        The ten commandments are from Jewish law,not Christian. And most if not all of them were around in other societies for centuries before that. Do you actually think that god gave the commandments to Moses literally? You don’t think there was any law before Moses?

      • http://naver Samurai

        You must really like hearing yourself talk, repeating like that!

      • Coservative at Birth

        Homosexuality is abnormal behavior. I do not believe a civilization can survive if it codifies abnormal behavior. I have known many homosexuals. Most of them were abused at a young age by older male adults. They are confused and need counseling. Marriage is the bed rock of our civilization. It should not be trivialized by the miniority. I don’t think it would be prudent. By the way, there are statistics that gay relationships do not last because they are promiscuous. The break up rate is over 80 %. What will come of the children exposed daily to abnormal behavior? Get them back in the closet!!!!!!!!!!!!

      • David MD

        As a professional, and after observing the manner in which you’re choosing to communicate, your behavior as an adult appears quite irrational, and bordering on psychosis. I would respectfully suggest seeking a professional, or at minimum, talking your minister/priest to discuss with him/her the pain and anger you’re holding so tightly onto. Without resolve, it can be detrimental to your health and well being. It is more than likely the root cause of your lashing out at others.

        Respectfully,

      • JeffH

        ProudAmerican, this is an issue, Prop.8, that a majority of voters in California overwhelmingly supported. Now this law has been overturned. I could care less if any combination of two people want to bond, but the people majority of California have spoken. Why do you question samauri and not I. All he did was support my comment. I believe that a recognized marriage was intended to be between a man and a woman.

      • Joyce from Loris

        I travel all across the nation, and we see the LOVE that people can have. We have seen WONDERFUL relationships between people and their DOGS and now the liberals wants CIVIL RIGHTS for the dogs, so that the DOGS can sue!! Where will this stop? The fact of the matter is this…. THE VOTERS, AMERICAN CITIZENS, THE MAJORITY SAID “NO”. That is not what they wanted for their state. How does it affect me?? I don’t want my country transformed into SODOM AND GOMORRAH.

      • Crystal

        No it’s not as basic as that. With more and more homosexual filth being put in the public schools (as early as Kindergarten), it goes beyond what you think is basic. It’s now an attack!

      • http://naver Samurai

        I don’t know who you are, but how do you know me? State your name or I may ask Bob to keep you from posting. This issue is about more than 2 people wanting to be together. It’s about a judge ruling on an item of legislation, voted on by the people, legally passed through the government process, to only be overturned by a judge that is gay. As my father told me: “A good leader is not allowed to let their personal feelings and/or beliefs interfere with their good judgement at any time.” This is very true in this case. The judge in question ruled against it because he was gay. It was not based on any law or the Constitution. Acccording to this mornings news, the ruling has been put on hold. It seems that the people have done the right thing and have appealed this judge’s decision. FOR GOD AND COUNTRY!

      • JeffH

        Well informed and well said Samurai…

      • http://naver Samurai

        Thanks JeffH! Keep up the good fight, fellow patriot! I think I know who unproud unamerican is, so I just try to ignore him when I can.

      • http://naver Samurai

        God did come before 1775, you are right about that. Just don’t forget that our christian founding fathers based our laws on the 10 Commandments. Gay lifestyle is an immoral and unethical lifestyle. Before you say that they can choose, read this: “As adults, we make decisions everyday. You come to a fork in the road, you can go left or go right. The choice is yours, but you must hold yourself 100% accountible for your actions. You must also be willing to accept whatever repercussions come back on you because of your decisions.” My father also told me that. It may be a choice, influenced by satan in their hearts, but they must take the two things I’ve said above. No such thing as blaming someone or something else, because of what is happening to them. Can’t blame God, DNA, the system, church, other people, no!!!! You can only blame yourself and stand up like an adult and take responsibility. Gays tend not to do that. They blame everything for themselves being gay, except themselves. They really need to grow up and get a life. With everything that is happening with this strange group of individuals, they can only blame themselves.
        FOR GOD AND COUNTRY!

      • HFlashman

        Depends upon what your god is and what you think is good for the country doesn’t it? Ever get a clue that if you’re viewpoint is disagreed with by most people, especially those with inteligence and education … perhaps you should consider that perhaps you may be wrong?

      • http://naver Samurai

        Dude, I’m just agreeing to what JeffH said. If you have a problem, take it up with him and shut your yap! By the way some of you act, you all must be in a gay relationship.

      • JeffH

        …or be shoveling coal when their time comes…

      • http://naver Samurai

        JeffH, I’ll personally give them a truck load to stoke the fires with!

    • William

      Jeffh. I have friends who are gay. as long as they leave me alone and respect me I will do the same for them. that’s why we’r friends,

      • Bob Wire

        I hate this subject! and have thought about it more then I wish.

        I’m willing to compromise !

        Civil Union ~ with all recognized privileges and benefits ~ Okay?

        Marriage? I think not.

        If that’s too hard to understand or accept ~ I’m sorry but rules of society conduct is based on the “norm” and not the deviant.

        That very nature of genetics is geared for reproduction of self. The very nature of heredity and the passing of the torch is built deep within our social system for clarity, documentation and understanding. The labeling of our off springs, family trees are complicated enough as they are. ~ what a mess!

        Civil Unions ~ ends the issue and creates less future one to be addresses.

      • ProudAmerican

        “Normal” is the setting on a washing machine.

      • Coservative at Birth

        Abnormal is a deviation from the norm. Therefore, homosexuality is deviant behavior.

      • http://naver Samurai

        Nornal is one man and one woman as set forth by Almighty God. Also, do not forget that Clinton passed The Defense of Marriage Act. This states that our country only recognizes marriage as one man and one woman. This also the will of the majority. Can you all be so passionate about other subjects than the gay agenda? I think you all have way too much time on your hands. FOR GOD AND COUNTRY!

      • Coservative at Birth

        NO!! NO to civil unions. Anything that codifies deviant behavior will be destructive to civilization. Remember Rome and Greece.

      • dolphine2u

        They were already were given civil unions and are not satisfied. They will never be satisfied because love is not their agenda.

      • JeffH

        William, I’m of the same mindset as you and agree 100%.

    • http://na MT

      It will be overturned and the ‘marriages’ that gays will HURRY and get will be ruled invalid…just as before. Homosexuals are NOT happy with the legally equivelant title “civil union” because they wish to FORCE a definition of normalcy down the gullet’s of good American people and for what? The right to say “I’m normal”? Rain is not dry, the Sun is not dark, life is not death, and gays are not normal from either a Darwinian or religious perspective…and never will be. Shameful, twisted minds. Mutation is mutation and this is not a good mutation whether social or biological. Deal with it. This problem is surely one of the pillars of corruption and demise in the US.

      • dan az

        I completely agree and thats all Ill say on this subject,it grosses me out!

      • Bob Wire

        Hmm? well, maybe is some states but I’ve heard some awful stories that do make me “sympathetic” ~ on this issue.

        I make well be seen as backward thinking ~ but I’m personally not ready to accept same sex marriages as “NORMAL”

        and more then I was to see a bald man at Walmart wearing high heels and a bra! ~

        I know nature can be mean ! ~ I’ve seen the bearded lady, the wolf girl.

        I’m most willing to be compassionate ~ but marriage is a legal biding union of man and woman for a clear purpose of witnessed and testament to society.

        Otherwise, you are playing “Post Office”

  • s c

    Whatever it takes to make social engineering judges nervous [and think long and hard before they render any useful idiot decisions] is what must be done. I’m sure Walker judge was petted, stroked and pampered after rendering his self-serving decision, but he needs to realize that this is America. A judge who dares to contradict and ignore the will of the people is a judge who considers himself omniscient.
    Solomon could claim that he had no peers in making decisions. Judge Walker isn’t fit to be in the same room with a coffee shop gossip club. Probably, he didn’t graduate from Haavid, but whatever school set him loose him on America needs to get re-accredited if he’s a sample of what we can expect from that ‘institution.’

    • Jeep

      That law school would be stanford…

    • William

      sc. judge walker should be impeached and disbarred and never allowed in a court house again except to stand trial for crimes against the people,

      • Cynthi

        I agree. Disbarr AND impeach him, along with Susan Bolton of Arizona, which will eventually be overturned in the Supreme Court by a 5-4 decision, which should be a 9-0 decision! Frankly I’m worried about Kennedy’s vote when Prop 9 reaches the Supreme Court. He has been sympathetic to the “gay” cause.

      • Denniso

        This is America? Really, and what does America stand for? Equal opportunity and liberty and justice for all…the constitution is supposed to guarantee equal protection under the law for all citizens,isn’t it? NOTHING in the constitution prohibits gay marriage,so where do you people get your ‘holy’ attitude that says gays can’t marry? Many of you get it out of the bible,since there is no other place that proscribes it…sorry to inform you,but the bible belongs in church,and if you want to belong to a church that won’t marry some people,that’s fine,but you can’t use your church book,whatever it may be,to define law in AMERICA.

      • GUNDOCTOR

        denniso:
        THE BIBLE IS THE PRINCIPLE UPON WHICH THE CONSTITUTION AND THIS NATION
        “WAS” BASED ON. ITS PEOPLE LIKE THE DEMOCRAPS, AND FAGGOTS LIKE YOU, THAT HAVE CAUSED THE DEMISE OF THIS GREAT NATIONS PRINCIPLES!!!
        GO WASH YOUR FACE AND RUB SOME PORK ON YOUR “BUTT CHEEK BRUISED” CHEEKS!

      • steve

        if you want to call SODOMY marriage, it just shows how far you have fallen,those who practice Beastiality,pedofilia, can all say WELL THAT IS JUST HOW I AM, AND THE LAW SHOULD JUST GIVE ME equal rights. who says those things are wrong? who decides what is right or wrong,you, me or collective society? i say there is moral absolutes and you are absolutly wrong. you should stop prancing around in the streets, proud of all the fudge you have packed.

      • jim

        The constitution doesn’t say that you can either. Marriage has always been looked upon as between a man and a woman. If two people of the same sex want to live together, fine by me. But, don’t defile the word marriage by using it to join two people of the same sex. I agree that any benefits that are given to married persons should be granted to a gay couple but marriage should not be a condition necessary to gain those benefits.
        And please – keep you disgusting public displays of affection for the privacy of your home. Some of you people are more demonstative than a heterosexual couple in public. It is sickening enough when straights do it but it is plain vomit inducing when two of the same sex go at it. It seems you purposely do it simply for its shock value.

      • reinhold

        Marriage is a Christian institution. Rational Civil Conduct holds, ” That having made one’s bed, he must lie in it.” Homosexuals choose to defeat Nature’s God by living as Sodomites. Like any other offender, homosexuals are free to choose which bed they will lie in. Doing so the homosexual voluntarily accepts the consequence. The homosexual shall lie in the bed of homosexuality. This precludes these deviants from occupation of the Marriage Bed of Christian Heterosexual Monogamy ! No one shall ever have the right to set asunder what Nature’s God has joined together. The religious doctrine of the Cult of Homosexuality resides in the establishment of religion known as the synagogue of Satan.

        Christian Society abhors deviant behavior and American Law prohibits it. The Laws governing the Sacred Institute of Christian Marriage are bound by the Constitution. The Religious Cult of Homosexuality shall not be allowed to defeat Christian Law. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. Those acting to overthrow the established American Christian government engage insurrection. That a homosexual acting under color of law pretending to be a judge assaults the lawful act of The People that founded the Christian Law of this Land is sufficient evidence to prove the belligerent hostility of homosexuals in general and that deviant judge in particular.

        The Religious Cult of Homosexuality demands that Christians are to be compelled to accept, tolerate and protect their religious practice of homosexual perversity. We shall not! The Religious Cult of Homosexuality demands that Christians are to be compelled to abrogate the law that they erected to protect the Sacred Institution of Christian Marriage. We shall not!

        Christian Law is recorded in the history of millennia. Antecedent to the Constitution, American Law, Government and Jurisprudence was founded upon the recorded Principles of Primitive Christianity as declared in the Christian Bible. Christianity is not founded in Talmudic Judaism! The synagogue of Satan (secular humanism) is an establishment of religion. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. In order to protect their destructive behavior, the religious Cult of Homosexuality is but one branch of this Tree of Evil that vainly seeks to abrogate the Christian Law and destroy the Christian Culture that is the foundation of American Liberty.

        Homosexuality is condemned by all Civilized Cultures. The Divine Power judged the arrogant hostility of the Cult of Homosexuality by His swift and utter destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. There, homosexuals learned fear when it was too late to obey the command forbidding their deviant behavior. Christians condemn homosexual conduct because this bad behavior threatens LIFE. The Sacred Institution of Christian Marriage nurtures LIFE. Because the Law prohibits it there can be no law respecting homosexual “marriage.”

        Those of the Cult of Homosexuality that demand that Congress make law respecting their establishment of religion in order to enforce their doctrines of secular humanism have failed. Resorting to judicial misconduct and a campaign of terror exhibits the diabolic purpose of the religious Cult of Homosexuality. All of Christendom shall meet such sinister belligerence with Eternal Hostility.

        The religious Cult of Homosexuality has crossed the Rubicon. Whether they are male or female these belligerents are Outlaw. Therefore they shall remain outside the protection of law.

        Americans cannot repent because Americans will not confess.

        NO KING BUT KING YAHUSHUA
        In His service

        Reinhold

      • Karolyn

        Reinhold – “The religious cult of homosexuality.” What? There is no cult. They live their lives as most people. God to whatever church they want. Believe or don’t believe in God. love their partners, families, and children, etc. “Cut” is totally out of place in this discussion.

      • Crystal

        Marriage comes directly out of the Bible. A book in which you truly haven’t any knowledge of.

      • Denniso

        Marriage IS NOT a Christian institution. Don’t you think people got married before Jesus appeared? Are you not aware that almost all societies in the world have marriage in one form or another? You need to think and maybe read before you post such nonsense.

        GunDoctor does what most rightwingers do…assumes that if I stand up for equality for another group of people then I must be one of the group…sorry Gunnysack, I’m probably straighter than you.The fundamental difference between Gunny and me and other liberals is that we care about other people including people not like us. Most of the socalled Christians are nothing more than provincial biggots.

      • Denniso

        Jim…the constitution DOES say that gays can be married because it establishes equal rights to all citizens…if non gays can be married then so can gays. Married does not mean in a church…that’s up to the church,it means married legally in the eyes of the States.

      • http://PersonalLibertyDigest Jill

        Just the way the human body is made disagrees with your theory of “the bible is the only place that disallows perversion.” You people get aids, then pass it on, then decide you are straight and give it to the opposite sex. You defy nature. It isn’t right. You know it. That’s why you are so loud and demanding.

      • dolphine2u

        I do not need the bible. Lets talk about science. The only true scientific homosexual person is a hermaphrodite. These people are born with both sex organs which one is usually removed with in the first six months of birth with the parents making the decision of with the doctors help. Sometimes when the child hits puberty his or her hormones can be more to the other organ that was removed and can cause conflict. This can cause what people refer to as a homosexual. These people do not choose to be who they are they are born this way with medical proof to show for it. This happens in less than 1% of the population. Most are not known because of thank goodness medical privacy. None would ever use the childish phrase coming out of the closet. I know because I have a relative with this medical condition. Unless the people can prove that they are truly homosexual then this is a choice that they made and should not have no special privileges or the lie of marriage,adoption ,tax exemption,medical of spouse. Get a test and prove that they are who they say they are. They complain about the bible because it is easier than listening to the truth of science. If I am to get disability do I not have to prove I am disabled. How in the world did all these people became homosexual since less than 1% of people are born this way. Unless you can prove it, it is a perversion and was legally put that way for good reason.

      • Denniso

        Just for the record,again, I’m as straight as a fence post. You people are showing your bigotry and it’s not very pretty and it certainly isn’t very Christian of you. Jesus never said anything about gays and the passages in the bible were written by others. You need to act like Christians,as I’m sure most of you claim to be,and stop sounding like mean spirited non humans doing the work of the devil you also believe in.

        Would Jesus talk like you do about fellow humans?

      • Mustang

        Evidently you don’t believe in the law as Prop 8 was amended to the Constitution of the State of California and that is the law

      • Denniso

        OK genius, the Federal Constitution always trumps the State Constitution. Pay attention….The Federal Constitution is what rightwingers claim to love w/ enough passion to die for and the appeals court judge who made the ruling made it based upon the constitutionality of the law. The State law has to pass muster w/ the Federal Constitution.

      • Byron

        I too am concerned about Kennedy – I believe that these freaks that went against the people on prop 8 had already discussed this matter w/Supreme (Kennedy) – I do see down the line how all this will backfire on this minority group imposing it’s agenda on the majority – how does the nation of is lame treat these sodomites, that’s right, it’s all an oxy moron. this is very serious and will not be taken lightly by the People and GOD, I do see that HE has a strong sense of justice and humor!

      • trut

        Only faggots believe from the bible, GUNDOCTOR. FAG!!

      • Hank William

        Cheney’s claims he loves his GAY daughter.

      • JeffH

        Why wouldn’t he?

      • Mustang

        If your daughter was a hop head or a whore wouldn’t you have love for her but not her life style?

    • http://na MT

      There are three-fold ways to pu this judge in check or simply remove him altogether. Here is the list we can work toward to get him under control, (as he is clearly a rogue judge):

      1. Work toward his disbarrment
      2. As Jefferson did in working with Congress in 1801, they completely ELIMINATED 22 Federal circuit courts because of the same set of problem, (judicial activism and rebellion against its citizenry).
      3. Has Stanford delisted from Federal funding, grants or loans for acts of sedition and judicial activism, (and make them pay millions in court costs to defend against it just as the Fed did againsdt Bob Jones for being a ‘religious’ intolerant school). Stanford is ‘intolerant’ of dissent and thus must be delisted.

      OK, let’s get to work on this.

      • Crystal

        I’m with you. How do we start?

      • Denniso

        You guys are whistling in the wind. Lamar Smith is a typical politician trying to make some political points off the issue…when Obama complained about the Court ruling that corporations have the samr free speech rights as do actual people,the rightwing yelled that he was stepping out of bounds in criticizing the Court. Now,aparently you rightwingers love your political leaders complaining about it.

        Hypocrisy…

      • http://naver Samurai

        No one at this moment is as big a hypocrate as Obama bin Laden.

      • Denniso

        So you have no rational response to my comment?

      • http://naver Samurai

        I did answer your response with a politician’s name and the reason for posting it. You’re just toooooooo ignorant to understand.

      • http://?? Joe H.

        Samurai,
        The appeals court reversed the reversal!!! One day before it became legal for gays to marry, it became illegal again!!! Guess that judge listens to the will of the PEOPLE!!!!

    • marvin blankinchip

      It’s about time Lamar Smith got off his ass and started doing his job. Being from his congressional distruct in San Antonio and a conserevative I have followed this guy for quite awhile. He has never been overly active in initiating any real change in the judiciary of this country. I only wish he would take on something a little more worth while.

    • EddieW

      Amazing!! One Corrupt Judge can over-rule 6 – 8 million Voters…why even vote if some idiot judge can throw out all votes…he’s a dictator!!! We might as well let corrupt judges rule!!!

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