They Are Abomination Unto The Lord': Baker Who Refused To Make Wedding Cake For Lesbian Couple Faces State Investigation (federal government, problems)
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How were they sinning? Buying a weddng cake is a sin now?
Homosexual activity is a sin, but we've already had this circular conversation before. Go on sinning and believing in sin, but judgment will come to who refuse to acknowledge their sins and repent.
He's probably wearing a polyester/cotton blend too, but Christian's are not under the OT law. But, of course, being a person knowledgeable about these things, you already knew that.
No, bigoted Christians just pull out the OT when it suits them and ignore it when it doesn't.
However, lesbians are not mentioned in either the OT or the NT.
Protected class is a term used in United Statesanti-discrimination law.[1] The term describes characteristics or factors which cannot be targeted for discrimination and harassment. The following characteristics are considered "Protected Classes" and persons cannot be discriminated against based on these characteristics:
So isn't this just a battle between two "protected classes"? And it's "religion" versus "sexual orientation". After all, one can use "religion" to opt out of participating in Obamacare.
Nothing about lesbian 'activities' in the Bible anyway.
Were they male temple prostitutes? Were they heterosexual males wanting to rape male strangers? Were they using ritual sex acts to worship pagan fertility gods in a temple? That's the only type of 'homosexual activity' mentioned in the Bible. Nothing at all about homosexuals, especially female homosexuals.
However lesbians are not even mentioned in the Bible at all.
Why is that we see some "Christians" using religious beliefs as an excuse to discriminate against others, when they don't even know what the Bible does or doesn't say?
I had to google this:
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
Leviticus 19:28
Nothing about lesbian 'activities' in the Bible anyway.
Were they male temple prostitutes? Were they heterosexual males wanting to rape male strangers? Were they using ritual sex acts to worship pagan fertility gods in a temple? That's the only type of 'homosexual activity' mentioned in the Bible. Nothing at all about homosexuals, especially female homosexuals.
ROMANS 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
Calm down folks. The law is on the side of gay people here.
Go google other wedding incidents and you'll see the court rules in favor of the gay couple a good majority of the time and the other side is penalized and fined. Several have been driven out of business because of the hefty penalties as they are all small business.
Those with strong religious beliefs will be driven out of business..one lawsuit at a time.
ROMANS 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
Education. You should get some.
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Proposition 6: The one passage in the New Testament that almost certainly does refer to homosexuality is based on some highly debatable presuppositions about its nature and causes.
The passage in question is Romans 1:26–27. Earlier in this chapter, the author is talking about idolatry, the worship of false gods. Then, beginning in verse 24, he talks about the results of idolatry. Verses 24 and 25 identify the results of idolatry as lust, impurity, and the degrading of one’s body. Then, verses 26 and 27 spell out in more detail the nature of this lust, impurity, and bodily degradation as follows (New Revised Standard Version):
For this reason God gave them up to degrading passions. Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural, and in the same way also the men, giving up natural intercourse with women, were consumed with passion for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in their own persons the due penalty for their error.
Following verses 26 and 27, the remainder of the chapter lists some of the other results of idolatry, and the list is rather similar to the catalogues in 1 Corinthians 6:9–10 and 1 Timothy 1:8–11. In other words, homosexuality is but one among other types of unacceptable behaviors.
What must be emphasized, then, is that the passage, taken as a whole, is not about homosexuality. It is about idolatry. The only reason it mentions homosexuality at all is because the author assumes that it is a result of willful idolatry. Knowing full well that there is one true God, people nevertheless freely choose to worship false gods. As punishment for this idolatry, God “gives them up” to homosexual activity. Thus, in a sense, homosexuality is not so much a sin as it is a punishment for sin. This should mean, however, that no monotheist would ever take part in homosexual activity—no practicing Jew or Christian or Muslim. Only worshippers of false gods would engage in such activity. This was a fairly common assumption within first-century Judaism, and it is one of the dubious presuppositions that underlie Romans 1:26–27. Clearly, however, it is not consistent with what we can observe in the world around us.
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