Posted on 06/08/2018 7:14:03 PM PDT by mairdie
Well, many folks believe her to be an icon and one of our most famous movie stars, as seriously flawed and damaged as she was.
I don’t see a problem giving her a statue (why in Stamford, Connecticut of all places is another question). It’s a depiction of probably her most iconic moment, standing above the subway grate in “The Seven Year Itch” that folks remember, even if they don’t remember the film itself.
As for it being “sick”, well, some might think so. If the image is actively encouraging sinful lifestyles, perhaps. I’m not nearly as bothered by it as by the aforementioned anti-Christian “church” she is standing in front of.
morphing libertarian wrote:
LOL unless she also had sex with AUH2O
{I see what you did there...}
Did you really have to drag Goldwater into this?
Rock on, morphing libertarian!
That was my bumper sticker when I was 18 AUH2O
My truth is the truth HE handed down. The truth you believe to be is not His, but an arbitrary one. There’s nothing joyful or celebratory about that, ma’am. No one has the right to redefine what is right and what is wrong. No one.
(BTW, the references to Mohammadans you’ve sprinkled in some of your posts as if it equates to Judeo-Christianity is also disturbing. This is also a Satanic creation to satisfy the Dark One’s bloodlust, and as clear a perversion of God’s word as imaginable. There is no co-existing with it, either. The irony that many gays support the party and ideology that wants to bring in millions of these animals into civilized nations, ones that demand their death, is truly remarkable. The worst you can say about today’s Christians is that we only wish to turn gays from sinful lifestyles, not to murder them).
Too bad you didn’t have the vote, yet. Of course, you’d have been outnumbered badly in ‘64 by the mindless yoots. The voting age ought to be raised up to 25 (just for starters).
I read, I think it was titled, In Your Heart You Know He’s Right.
We’re circling the discussion so I can’t add anything. We’ll just disagree, which is the American way. Have a lovely day.
And as it turned out, in our guts, it was LBJ who was nuts...
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(not to mention burying them in countless secretaries). *cough*
Please do consider aligning yourself with God’s word of what is right, which may not necessarily be how you view it to be. Our nationality has nothing to do with it. God’s word and truth is the same if it is Ethiopia, America, Outer Mongolia or Antarctica. I say that as a Christian. The last thing we want is folks going to the dark place because they embrace falsehoods.
I know you wish well for others. I wish well for you, too. I’m sorry you see the world in such limited terms, but it seems to make you happy so that’s good. I’m at peace with my view of right and wrong, and believe you’re dead wrong, but I’m really glad you’re happy with your positions. I hope that you find peace and contentment in your view of the world. I know that I do. I truly want you to be happy.
No, ma’am. Again, I see the world as God deemed it to be. His words. His vision. His truths. Not mine. His. You confuse “broad-mindedness” for goodness and righteousness. That’s right out of Satan’s handbook and how to rationalize and embrace sin and evil. I think you’re a smarter person that that. Again, I take MY lead from Him. You need to do the same and not take a lead from yourself, which opens you up to falling into darkness.
“I look at the small number of gays that I’ve cared about (they try to exaggerate their numbers for political purposes) and I see uniformly good people.”
If we are talking about good governance, the role of government is not to impose standards of morality and personal conscience or religion. However, good governance may coincide with Biblical morality whereby the government must serve to protect the rights of the individual and society as a whole. Prior laws against sodomy (and adultery, pornography, and even things like blasphemy) were based on the detrimental impact of these things on society.
Over time they became associated with religious morality exclusively, and then laws and court rulings abridged these traditional standards as imposing religious morality on others.
From a Biblical perspective, sodomy is against God’s laws. Therefore, any Bible-based Christianity has the duty to call sodomy sin, just as it must for all sin that the Bible clearly identifies. This does not mean Christians are perfect, nor does it mean that non-Christians are expected to live like Christians (or even as Christians are SUPPOSED to live). But it does mean these things are defined already. To redefine them is to abandon the basic message of the Bible. Christ came to save sinners, which all of us are.
“I can’t understand being gay. I haven’t the faintest idea if it’s nurture or nature.”
It is interesting that these are always to the options to explain any human behavior. But there is a third: choice. To the left choice is a right. To conservatives choice is a responsibility. There is a sense in which both are true. Of course nurture and nature influence us. But they do not hold absolute sway over our ability to choose. Growing up in a certain home may predispose us to various proclivities. Likewise “nature” in the sense of things like genetics may predispose certain things. But we find people from all backgrounds who make different choices from one another. So, for example, identical twins may grow up in the same environment, yet they will have distinct personalities, interests, and paths they choose to follow.
“I have to assume that that banner outside the church means they’re proselytizing Gay Pride. I’d stay away from that as fast as I’d stay away from proselytizing Christians or Muslims.”
It is the intrinsic nature of religious and moral views to seek to persuade others. Our first amendment is based on the ability to exercise religion AND free speech because persuasion is an important aspect of freedom and wise choices. However, persuasion does not mean coercion or even the right to demand that everyone listens to our free speech. This is also a choice.
What absolutely beautiful logic and argument. Thank you. Deeply impressive.
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