Merrill Keiser
Posted on 03/07/2006 12:46:16 PM PST by Conservative Coulter Fan
Democrat for Senate: Kill practicing 'gays'
Candidate says incumbent Republican not advocating biblical values enough
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
Merrill Keiser |
A Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in Ohio wants to make homosexual behavior a capital crime punishable by the death penalty.
Merrill Keiser Jr. is a trucker with no political experience, but he hopes to beat fellow Democrat Rep. Sherrod Brown in the May primary. The winner will try to unseat Republican incumbent Sen. Mike DeWine, assuming he wins the GOP primary.
"Just like we have laws against murder, we have laws against stealing, we have laws against taking drugs – we should have laws against immoral conduct," Keiser told WTOL-TV in Toledo.
Keiser, 61, says he's running as a Democrat because that's how he was registered the last time he voted.
The trucker, who hails from Fremont, Ohio, says there needs to be more adherence to biblical values in government, business and education – something he claims DeWine is not promoting.
"I believe that the United States has been moved in a Godless direction by the courts," he told the Sandusky Register. "To get good men on the court, we need good senators."
Some of Keiser's other positions include defense of the Second Amendment, securing U.S. borders, lower taxes to stimulate the economy, support of Israel and prayer in public schools.
Keiser told the Register the United States should make conversion to Christianity part of the war on terror to teach Muslims the error of their choice in religion.
The candidate also decries evolution, saying it is contrary to the Declaration of Independence.
Do you advocate the death penalty for homosexual conduct? Please don't quote scripture at me, just say "yes" or "no".
Yes!! Don't dare touch my family!!
You should be banned for advocating directly or indirectly the killing of homosexuals. Indeed you should be reported to the Police.
Absoultely right. We can abonish people for bad behaviors as long as we don't engage in them ourselves. The key to judging those is not to enforce God's law.
Jesus saved the prostitute because they were all guilty of some sort of sin. Based on God's law we all deserve to die.
When he said to her "sin no more" he was asking her to turn away from sin and turn herself toward God. Through Christ's grace she was "born again".
So if you are so rightous and believe in God's law why aren't you out there doing God's work in face of imperfect laws by an imperfect Gov't?
Are you afraid of following what you preach?
bump for later.
You sound more like a liberal in sheep's clothing. Trying to call people out to run and post it somewhere else.
You can hide behind the fact that we are all wicked but it's to your own folly.
That's the point. It would be no more murderous than sentencing a killer or rapist if it was a capital offense. No one here is advocating "killing" practicing homosexuals. The discussion is....... is it a capital offense to the state biblically.
Even if you say it isn't today, be carefull how you ridicule it. No one will deny that God himself declared it to be to Moses himself.
The discussion would then be.... does God still expect the state to continue?
If you don't need man-made laws to carry out your plan, what are you waiting for? Or have you started already?
That's Exodus...the Word of God as recorded by Moses.
Is the Old Testament wrong?
Are the words that we understand to be God's words an interpretation of His Word as recorded by others, and not His Words?
Is that what you are saying?
God commanded that anyone who worked on the Sabbath must be put to death.
There's no interpretation there.
"They are worthy of death, yes."
One way to speed things along would be to make it legal for insurance companies to refuse to cover HIV infected individuals and make it legal for hospitals to turn away such patients. The exceptions to that would be: those born with HIV, infected by contaminated donated blood or organs, infected when attacked such as rape or the use of a contaminated needle as a weapon, and accidents such as an EMT or doctor becoming infected through contact with someone he/she is treating.
Because people like him end up on the evening news... just like Eric Rudolph, or the abortionist killer (Kopf?).
Nothin' like runnin' for office on a practical agenda...
I believe Ward Churchill and a great many college professors in America say things, which are far more of an outrage than what this man has said.
Do you favor killing abortionists also?
That doesn't appear to be the case. See post 110.
The simple truth of the matter is, Jesus didn't have to say ONE word about homosexuality, or anything to warn us about homosexuality, at the time Jesus walked among men homosexuality was a capital crime punishable by death. Common knowledge to everyone of that era and common sense to everyone of this era that cares enough about the TRUTH to seek it honestly.
Can you show us in the Bible where Christ was a homosexuality advocate?
Christ said... Mark 10:6 But from the beginning of creation he [God] made them male and female. 10:7 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother, 10:8 and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh. 10:9 Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
That looks ironclad to me, no divorce and no homosexuality a.k.a. same sex marriage.
While it is true Christ is not on record condemning homosexuality, Christ is also not on record condemning child molesting, bestiality, necrophilia, excessive credit card interest charges, smoking crack cocaine, injecting hard narcotics into your circulatory system or consensual cannibalism. Should all these be okay, then????
You see. Jesus Christ is (present tense) a Jewish Rabbi, well versed in the "Torah" A.K.A. old testament law of the prophets.
Here's what he said about the law...
Matthew 5:17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have not come to abolish these things but to fulfill them. 5:18 I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth pass away not the smallest letter or stroke of a letter will pass from the law until everything takes place. 5:19 So anyone who breaks one of the least of these commands and teaches others to do so will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever obeys them and teaches others to do so will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 5:20 For I tell you, unless your righteousness goes beyond that of the experts in the law and the Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
Can you give us one single example of same sex marriage using the bible? Didn't think you could.
Look at the context of a bible verse in order to interpret its meaning. In Leviticus 18, homosexuality is one of three sins mentioned, each given equal precedence as sinful. In order, God condemns child sacrifice (shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire), homosexuality (shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind), and bestiality (Neither shalt thou lie with any beast).
God then groups all three sins under the same warning: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you. In other words, God said "I destroyed the other nations that used to be in this land because of these sins, and the same warning applies to you"!
IF we are to say that homosexuality was given equal billing with child sacrifice and bestiality, and IF we are to believe that homosexuality is now acceptable to God in this current age, then we must believe that child sacrifice and bestiality are also acceptable in our current age. You cannot have it both ways: either homosexuality, bestiality, and child sacrifice are forever sinful abominable acts in God's sight, or all three are acceptable "alternative lifestyles.”
A conservative, common sense interpretation of Leviticus 18 demands that we understand that all three acts were and are sinful in God's sight, contrary to His Will for mankind.
Leviticus 20 is even more specific. The sins listed as forbidden are, in order, adultery (adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death), incest (man that lieth with his father's wife), non related incest (man lie with his daughter-in-law), homosexuality (man also lie with mankind), and intra-family fornication (man take a wife and her mother). All are given equal billing. All are equally evil in God's eyes. If homosexuality was only temporarily forbidden, then we can conclude that incest between parent and child is now acceptable. How foolish! None of these sins were temporarily forbidden, all were and are abominations in God's sight.
As to the Homosexual theologian charge that the dietary laws would have to be enforced if we enforce the Levitical code against homosexuality, this is mere smoke and mirrors. First, the dietary laws are not even represented in these Bible texts.
Second, the dietary laws were just that, dietary laws, they were not moral laws (which the above texts represent).
God Himself rescinded the dietary laws for the sake of the Gentiles.
The dietary laws were abolished in Peter's vision (Acts 10.14-15).
Among other things abolished in the new testament: Circumcision, ritual washing, crop mingling, blended fabrics, animal sacrifice for the atonement of sin etc.. God never rescinded the moral laws against the sins listed in Leviticus 18, in particular, the sin of homosexuality.
Finally,(and this is is for you Fred Phelps) the reason that homosexuality, like adultery and incest, is no longer a sin that one must be stoned for, is the fact that we now live in the era of Grace. Christ paid the penalty for ALL sin on the Cross of Calvary, even the sin of the homosexual.
In this era we no longer stone sinners, we preach the Gospel of Christ to them. The homosexual, like the adulterer, needs the salvation that Christ can bring. They do not need to be stoned, they need to be saved so that they can "go and sin no more.”
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