Posted on 12/13/2009 12:56:30 PM PST by myknowledge
I’ve worked in Houston, and have friends who’ve lived there for 10 years. Lee Brown was lazy and borderline retarded, yet supposedly sensible Houstonians elected that affirmative action baby. ‘Nuff said.
To Eagle Eye
That’s a tough one.....I never said to discard people because of their homosexuality.....Personally though, I could never support an openly gay candidate, just as I could not lend a vote to an active alcoholic, drug addict, ect......I contend it is a spiritual sickness.....And based upon the spiritual principles our founding fathers set this once great country upon, I think compromise of those same principles is why we are here in the first place.....Homosexuality like adultery has always been, and will always be, but when you start to accept and celebrate a certain sin, that’s where the trouble starts......
To Clay+Iron_Times
Thank you....And may you and your household be blessed and stay faithful also......America has fallen away from her first love......
You better look at some of the Founding Fathers and their behaviors a little more deeply then.
Or just look at the Bible and some of the people God chose despite their sins: David and Paul in particular.
To Eagle Eye
The difference being, they repented, or at least kept it hidden....Their actions showing they knew right from wrong being convicted of thier sins.....This woman along with the rest of the gay movement has no shame or sense of repentance, and actually wants everyone else and the world to put Biblical truth aside......That is a completely different scenario than King David writing a Psalm of repentance and literally begging God to restore His Holy Spirit.......
What's personal about my saying Houston is a great city ... grow a thicker skin and get over yourself.
I would think that Jesus feels sorry for “fags” and would
give them council so they could lead normal lives.
David didn’t repent until confronted by Nathan. Until then he was an adulterer and murderer.
I’ll grant you that last time I checked I think homosexuality was condemned more often in the Bible than murder.
But we are not in a theocracy, never have been.
It seems that it was anti-gay conservatives that made her lesbianism an issue, not her.
Maybe there was campaign subthemes that were too subtle for me to notice since I don’t live in the immediate area and had no previous knowledge of Parker. I’m sure that those who knew her knew about her private life, but it doesn’t seem like she was the one who made her private life a political issue.
I don’t have a horse in this race, no personal stake in it but it seems like some people think she ran a campaign under the raibow colors at all times and that just isn’t the case.
Some people consider shacking up unmarried to be a sin. Would this have mattered if she was hetero and shacking up?
You're not likely to get Dr. Dobson elected to anything in San Francisco.
So what does it say about the GOP that they nominated McCaine?
To Eagle Eye
I can only speak for myself Eagle Eye, but yes, that would have made a difference to me (if she were hetero and living together)....If President Bush and Laura had been living together and had the girls I doubt he would have been elected president or even governor for that matter.....I guess you just don’t get my point that a lack of a certain moral compass does make a difference in a society (whether you consider it a theocracy or not).....I can disagree with you respectfully........
I get it.
What I am trying to point out is that vices don’t often equate into incompletence in once chosen job.
Obviously excess and out of control behavior in any aspect of life makes one more prone to failure than would control and moderation.
But I can’t see how shacking up or being homo makes one inherently less capable in a job than being married or hetero and that is what I think you’re trying to tell me.
You certainly don’t have to vote for the fat guy, the smoker, the drinker, the gampbler, etc. but any one of those people may be a dang fine administrator or politician. Or cop or fireman. Or Doctor.
How many kids did Ben Franklin have?
To Eagle Eye
I’m a Christian so naturally I look at the world from that point of view.....I think Franklin questioned the divinity of Christ at one time, so he and I would not agree either....I pray he made his peace before he left this world.....Look, I don’t judge you or anyone else, there is one far greater than me who will judge at the appointed time.....But I do read the Bible and believe what is written, and follow it to the best of my ability.....Also adultery, fornication, drunkenness, homosexuality, greed, and every thing else that is so prevelent in todays society has been embraced by the masses before the fall of noted civilizations.....History itself shows that outside of the Biblical truth......We could go on and on but I’m signing off.....Be of good cheer....
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