homosexual marriage
COUNTER BOYCOTTS ARE IN ORDER FIGHT AGAINST THE GAY AGENDA
04 15 , 02:20 Filed in: News
COUNTER BOYCOTTS ARE IN ORDER FIGHT AGAINST THE BULLIES
The developing firestorm around the Religious Freedom Restoration Act has opened yet another door to weaken the moral fiber of our nation. We can choose to act to close the door or witness further deterioration. It is people of faith who are being discriminated against; it is a violation of a person’s faith and their right to exercise that faith.
Modeled after the federal law passed in 1993, the Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act protects religious liberty against government overreach. It allows people with religious beliefs the chance to argue in court against government laws and regulations. Indiana COULD have been the 20th state to protect religious liberty and against government discrimination. But similar to Judas on Holy Thursday, Indiana's lawmakers and enforcers choose to betray Jesus for silver coins. Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, who initially passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act that would protect religious liberty, signed into law a bill today that will prohibit any business the right to refuse services based “on sexual orientation or gender identity.” What does all this mean? Simply put, State of Indiana lawmakers gave the middle finger to businesses with religious beliefs.
Why the change of heart you ask? Big businesses threatened boycotts! Business such as Apple, Walmart, Salesforce.com, and Angies List.
And Satan entered into Judas, who was surnamed Iscariot, one of the twelve. And he went, and discoursed with the chief priests and the magistrates, how he might betray him to them. And they were glad, and convenanted to give him money. And he promised. And he sought opportunity to betray him in the absence of the multitude. (Luke 22:3-6)
As stated by Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, “the only bigotry to be tolerated is their own bigotry against religious beliefs.” It appears that their freedoms are the only ones that matter.
Persons’ rights come from God and not government. Article I of the Bill of Rights states: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. The role of government is to protect the inherent rights and freedoms of its people, NOT to attack and destroy them. “The law is used as a defense against lawsuits or government action, not as an aggressive action against others” (Mollie Hemingway, Federalist senior editor).
Religion doesn’t tell you it’s ok to discriminate, it tells you to obey God’s law and, because someone refuses to accept God’s law, or the belief that God exists, that doesn’t give them right to discriminate against those who do.
Absent strong objection to these tactics, be prepared for the next momentum of pressure to obliterate religious expression. Counter boycotts are in order. Withdraw support of those organizations opposed to freedom of religious expression.
- Apple
- Salesforce.com
- Angies List (call them them at 1-888-944-5478 and cancel your membership and DEMAND the 110% refund that they promise)
- Walmart
- Disciples of Christ (do not let their name fool you, Judas was also a disciple)
- National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
- Former Disney star Miley Cyrus
- Actor Ashton Kutcher
- Former CNN host Larry King
Pope Benedict on Homosexual Marriage
06 14 , 18:09 Filed in: Theology
"The Church's conscientious effort to resist this pressure calls for a reasoned defense of marriage as a natural institution consisting of a specific communion of persons, essentially rooted in the complementarity of the sexes and oriented to procreation. Sexual differences cannot be dismissed as irrelevant to the definition of marriage."
"Marriage is holy, while homosexual acts go against the natural moral law. Homosexual acts close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. This same moral judgment is found in many Christian writers of the first centuries and is unanimously accepted by Catholic Tradition."
"Such unions are not able to contribute in a proper way to the procreation and survival of the human race."
"Civil laws are structuring principles of man's life in society, for good or for ill. They play a very important and sometimes decisive role in influencing patterns of thought and behavior. Lifestyles and underlying presuppositions these express not only externally shape the life of society, but also tend to modify the younger generation's perception and evaluation of forms of behavior. Legal recognition of homosexual unions would obscure certain basic moral values and cause a devaluation of the institution of marriage."
"As experience has shown, the absence of sexual complementarity in these unions creates obstacles in the normal development of children who would be placed in the care of such persons. They would be deprived of the experience of either fatherhood or motherhood. Allowing children to be adopted by persons living in such unions would actually mean doing violence to these children, in the sense that their condition of dependence would be used to place them in an environment that is not conducive to their full human development."
"The principles of respect and non-discrimination cannot be invoked to support legal recognition of homosexual unions. Differentiating between persons or refusing social recognition or benefits is unacceptable only when it is contrary to justice. The denial of the social and legal status of marriage to forms of cohabitation that are not and cannot be marital is not opposed to justice; on the contrary, justice requires it."
"Because married couples ensure the succession of generations and are therefore eminently within the public interest, civil law grants them institutional recognition. Homosexual unions, on the other hand, do not need specific attention from the legal standpoint since they do not exercise this function for the common good."
"In those situations where homosexual unions have been legally recognized or have been given the legal status and rights belonging to marriage, clear and emphatic opposition is a duty. One must refrain from any kind of formal cooperation in the enactment or application of such gravely unjust laws and, as far as possible, from material cooperation on the level of their application."
In conclusion: "The Church teaches that respect for homosexual persons cannot lead in any way to approval of homosexual behavior or to legal recognition of homosexual unions. The common good requires that laws recognize, promote and protect marriage as the basis of the family, the primary unit of society. Legal recognition of homosexual unions or placing them on the same level as marriage would mean not only the approval of deviant behavior, with the consequence of making it a model in present-day society, but would also obscure basis values which belong to the common inheritance of humanity."