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To: xzins
The disagreement comes on one issue only - should a Christian provide goods and services to a gay wedding. That’s it. . . . We’re talking about a wedding, which millions of Christians view as a sacrament of the faith and other, mostly Protestant Christians, view as a relationship ordained by God to reflect a holy relationship.

The problem is, a same-sex wedding is not a "holy relationship" that is "ordained by God." This author seems to think that you can take any two persons, declare them "married," and that somehow sanctifies the relationship. He's putting the cart before the horse. The marriage itself is only legitimate if the couple being married are a legitimately marriageable couple.

Speaking only for myself, if I were a Christian wedding photographer, I would probably have no problem welcoming moneybusiness from gay couples. Only thing is, all my business stationery, promotional materials, Web site, card board frames, etc. would be full of photos of happy, beautiful heterosexual couples, and monogrammed with Bible verses like Genesis 2:24. And if I were a baker, of course I'd be compelled to charge the gay couple extra, since I had to break open two sets of the little bride-and-groom cake toppers.

160 posted on 02/24/2014 9:21:17 AM PST by RansomOttawa (tm)
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To: RansomOttawa

So you think the government should be allowed to dictate what everyone’s religious beliefs are, as long as it’s what you believe? No one should be allowed to believe that it’s sinful to participate in the desecration of holy matrimony, because you don’t view it that way?


164 posted on 02/24/2014 9:52:06 AM PST by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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To: RansomOttawa

The author said Jesus would NOT NOT NOT bake a cake for a gay wedding. And that because it would violate His beliefs. I agree with that.

But I also think that if a gay walked into Joseph’s carpenter shop that Jesus would not refuse to sell him a chair.


198 posted on 02/24/2014 1:57:41 PM PST by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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