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Ted Haggard Says Gay Marriage Not Biblical, But Should Be Legal
Christian Post ^ | 10/24/2012 | Anugrah Kumar

Posted on 10/24/2012 2:03:23 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

sorry, pastor. learn how to control your hormones
(everybody has to, in one way or another)

or go live with your boyfriend and hang up your preaching hat


21 posted on 10/24/2012 2:41:46 PM PDT by faithhopecharity
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To: SeekAndFind
Why is this article even worth the time and bandwidth?
22 posted on 10/24/2012 2:50:30 PM PDT by Coldwater Creek (He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadows of the Almighty Psalm 91:)
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To: SeekAndFind
There is a HUGH difference between making something legal or illegal or simply not addressing it.

We have laws such as DOMA protecting traditional marriage. IT DOES NOT make being gay or having gay sex illegal.

What Haggard is proposing would be making it legal (but its not currently illegal) thus legitimizing it.

That is the whole intention of the gay community. To legitimize their actions and lifestyle.

23 posted on 10/24/2012 3:00:50 PM PDT by mountn man (Happiness is not a destination, its a way of life.)
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To: mountn man

I think we should look at what is entailed by the term — LEGAL.

If by LEGAL, one means -— Not prosecutable under law, then there are many acts that are unbiblical but not prosecutable in the United States (unless we want to be a theocracy ).

Not believing in One God and having gay sex in the privacy of one’s house are just two of those that God will punish and judge someday, but the state should not prosecute (unless of course, we want America to be a theocracy).

However, there are also things that can be made LEGAL that REQUIRE people of faith to recognize and even PAY FOR with their own money.

Gay Marriage and Abortificents and Condoms for healthcare are but two of them.

Being LEGAL in the sense of not prosecuting and being LEGAL by requiring people to CELEBRATE and RECOGNIZE what their faith tells them is sinful are two different things.

Christians do not object to NOT prosecuting certain acts that even they find unbiblical. It is REQUIRING them to recognize and pay for such acts that they find abhorrent and rightly so.


24 posted on 10/24/2012 3:17:20 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
You can still marry your cousin
25 posted on 10/24/2012 3:20:20 PM PDT by Repeat Offender (Why do cops have more lenient ROEs when facing us than troops in combat facing suicidal islamists?)
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To: SeekAndFind

(In an online debate, he said while biblical law is against homosexual marriage, the state should allow it. “We’ve reached a point where human dignity and mutual respect is so important,)

What does dignity and respect have to do with allowing perverts to marry?


26 posted on 10/24/2012 3:33:45 PM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I sign up for the New American Revolution and the Crusades 2012?)
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To: mountn man

So he’s saying that mutual respect is more important than what the Bible directs.


27 posted on 10/24/2012 3:36:25 PM PDT by Shimmer1 (It's not what I do but the way I do it, it's not what I say but the way I say it. (Mae West))
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To: Gamecock

It is the correct title, a different source and posted after the four hour limit for duplicate threads.


28 posted on 10/24/2012 4:10:14 PM PDT by Religion Moderator
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To: Religion Moderator

Oh,
My bad.
I thought redundant stories were locked down.
Are the guidelines you posted above just for the RF or for all of FR?


29 posted on 10/24/2012 5:50:29 PM PDT by Gamecock
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To: Gamecock

It applies to all of FR.


30 posted on 10/24/2012 8:16:43 PM PDT by Religion Moderator
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To: SeekAndFind

Capital punishment for sodomites is BIBLICAL, Ted. (Leviticus 20:13 if you have a Bible).

We know from Hebrews 9 :10 that only laws relating to “meats, drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances” we’re only imposed “until the time of the reformation.” Jesus came not to destroy the law, but to fulfill. (Matthew 5:17) So, the rest of the law stands. We do not make the law void through faith, we establish it. (Romans 3:31)

And should you be so silly as to say that Jesus never taught keeping the law, then you do not know his word and consequently do not know him. Since he is God (and the only God there is—Isaiah 43:10,11), he in fact spake these words to Moses. And if we love him, we are encouraged to keep his commandments (laws).


31 posted on 10/24/2012 9:01:25 PM PDT by nonsporting
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To: Religion Moderator

I had no idea, thanks!


32 posted on 10/25/2012 4:32:26 AM PDT by Gamecock
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To: SeekAndFind

Homosexual sex is an abomination to God. Should Christians support laws that criminalize gay sex?


Normal people, Christian or not know it is sick, anti gay is not for Christians only but for any one who is sane.

I hated queers before i became a christian,they are predators and they prey on children, i am not supposed to hate now but i still know that it is sick.


33 posted on 10/25/2012 6:29:04 AM PDT by ravenwolf
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To: SeekAndFind

There may be some sort of problem bonding with a distant or absent father, or sexual abuse in Haggard’s background. His acting out with males and using the drug crystal meth is so common with those of the homosexual orientation.


34 posted on 10/25/2012 2:22:51 PM PDT by MDLION ("Trust in the Lord with all your heart" -Proverbs 3:5)
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