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Originally Posted by scgraham
How does homosexual marriage impact your life? Remember that selling point from the homosexuals and their advocates? Well, it does affect other people.
"A Christian retirement care facility in St. Louis, Missouri, is being sued after it turned away a lesbian couple in accordance with its biblically-based housing policy.
Seventy-two-year-old Mary Walsh and Bev Nance, 68, filed a federal lawsuit last month against the Missouri-based nondenominational nonprofit senior housing community Friendship Village Sunset Hills, a case that could have greater implications when it comes to the religious freedom rights of faith-based nonprofit institutions.
The couple, married since 2009, claim that the facility violated the Fair Housing Act and the Missouri Human Rights Act when it rejected their application for housing in July 2016 because they were a lesbian couple.
The refusal was based on the fact that Friendship Village's "cohabitation policy" limits those who can live together in the same unit to spouses, parents, children and siblings. Although Walsh and Nance are legally married, Friendship Village's policy defines marriage as "the union of one man and one woman, as marriage is understood in the Bible."
They're not nondenominational then. They're just bigots.
Churches are increasingly accepting their gay followers.
I went to one recently that made a point of announcing at the very beginning that everybody, regardless of race, gender identity, or sexual orientation is welcome and loved by God, because being a good and faithful person is what matters most to Him.
My husband and I are just an ordinary straight couple, but I really gravitated to the loving vibe there.
Location: By the sea, by the sea, by the beautiful sea
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Your religion is irrelevant in the matter, though I personally think that private non-essential businesses that don't benefit from public funding at all should have the right to decide who they'll serve for any reason.
The issue isn't same sex marriage itself, it's that laws aren't defined clearly enough. That's why you hear of legal cases about businesses refusing to bake cakes for LGBT customers, or not serving coffee to Christian customers.
Don't all non-profits benefit from public funding by not paying taxes?
The multitudes are in a burning hell as we speak; they all lived as they wanted.
Ohhhh Hell. Sounds scary!
I can't wait until the ignorance and intolerance that people like you spread is a thing of our past. Religion is a cancer of human history.
We need to just accept people for who they are and leave it at that.
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