And your entire post shows ignorance of what I believe in.
Here's a heads up, I'm not part of the religious right.
The state has every right to do so.
YOu cannot find this in scripture.
Your pastor can ONLY MARRY YOU, because of the powers vested in him by the state he resides in.
You cannot find this in scripture.
God appointed the government to protect the people.
This could be true in a vague sense, but if you are using Romans 13:4, that talks about the punishment of evildoers and not marriage licensing. However, I didn't say "government", I said the State, which is an important distinction.
God provides for His enemies, not just those of his Church,
Sure, but what does this have to do with anything? All I said was that government should stay out of the marriage issue. That's it.
(not that gay bashing people are part of said Church.)
I'll leave that to God, but I hardly think saying homosexuality is sinful is gay bashing. And I didn't even say that. I said that the government has no right to define or redefine marriage.
You say that you know better, God is wrong, and we should do it your way.
Err.. no I'm saying God isn't saying what you think he's saying. Genesis 2:24, which predates all States, says that marriage is between a man and a woman. Now, if two guys or two girls would like to have a ceremony and pretend that they are getting married, I'm not going to stop them. But I don't want the State to use my tax dollars to put a legal stamp of approval on that union either. The State should have nothing to say about it. Leave it to the parties involved.
Christ said if a man sues you for your shirt give them the coat too. There was no check to see if they sin, or are gay, or anything else first.
When did I say anything about that?
Christ immediately after that says that God loves His enemies AND THAT THIS LOVE PROVIDES FOR THEM.
OK.
I'd say that you figure gay people are God's enemies,
"gay people" is broad. If you mean unrepentant practicing homosexuals, than yes I'd say they are God's enemies. But that isn't the reason for my stance. I don't want the government to regulate homosexuality, I want them to leave it alone because it isn't their business. At all.
so why don't you do what Christ said and love them just like God does. That's a command, not a suggestion. Do you spit on Christ's commands all the time, or just when you think it's cool?
I love the sinner and hate the sin, but what does that have to do with anything he said?
Jesus paid his taxes, and commanded to give unto Caesar what is Caesar's. Since God appoints the government, I propose that is another part we are to give them, their right to do their GOD APPOINTED JOB.
Which is to... recognize gay marriages? Really? Even if Romans 13:4 is prescriptive, it doesn't say anything like that. Frankly, your assertion that Jesus actually approves of taxation when he repeatedly refers to tax collectors as sinners is concerning to me, although its no surprise.
The government protects ALL it's citizens, not just the ones who scream, cry, say God's name and hallelujah the most. That's all THeobabble and has nothing to do with the substance of what Christ speaks of.
I'm not a theocrat. I'm a voluntarist. I want the State to stop its stealing, kidnapping, and murdering. Which is part of why I continually mock aCW's "law enforcement" career. aCW is a self-righteous hypocrite that wants to loudly condemn sexual sinners, yet he has no problem with being a political whore for the police state. And this government certainly doesn't protect anybody except its own.
Here's a newsflash for you the Church that Christ is the head of has a ministry with the people, in hands on loving ministry work. Not standing in congress screeching bigoted, hate mongering things in the name of GOD.
I don't think congress should be addressing homosexuality at all. Not their job.
Truly those are some that He will claim he does not know, because they are directly AGAINST what the faith teaches them to do.
Sure. Political whores will be among them. Give up your statism.
The fact you don't understand it, is irrelevant. Just do what God said and taught and shut up and let HIM do the management work. There is no example of forcing the government to behave as the bigots in the church feel they should.
And I don't want the government to behave in the way that the religious right wants them to either. I want the government to be 100% privatized.
In fact the government and church thing was unheard of until Augustine, which most protestants will claim was a horrible, corrupting experience, and yet here they are wishing he was in charge of the government. You corrupt the faith in your Anti Christ behavior.
I agree with separation of church and state, preferably via abolition of the State.
