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For Churches That Won’t Perform Same-Sex Weddings, Insurance Begins to Look Iffy
National Review ^ | 07/09/2015 | David French

Posted on 07/09/2015 5:32:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

The church needs to recognize that what the state calls marriage is an arrangement wholly under the control of Caesar.


21 posted on 07/09/2015 6:06:52 AM PDT by BlackAdderess ("Give me a but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth". --Archimedes)
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To: SeekAndFind
Strike back at those chickenshit insurance companies.


22 posted on 07/09/2015 6:08:11 AM PDT by Dilbert56
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To: SeekAndFind
Come on people. This isn't bad as it may seem. Maybe, just maybe, it will FORCE Christians to pull away from idolatry and only support Christian businesses and activities, as it should be.

As it stands, Christians are so woven into our godless society, we econoically support our enemies through our patronage of the world.

Full ECONOMIC WARFARE is the only answer. Stevie Wonder could see this coming a mile away.

23 posted on 07/09/2015 6:09:48 AM PDT by Salvavida (The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)
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To: I want the USA back
It was never about gay “rights”. It was always about destroying Christianity.

That was the original KGB plan, as exposed by defector Yuri Besmenov in the 1980s. And the Democrat party has seen it through, point by point.

24 posted on 07/09/2015 6:11:45 AM PDT by montag813 (Pray for Israel)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel
Coming soon?


25 posted on 07/09/2015 6:12:32 AM PDT by taildragger (It's Cruz & Walker. Anything else is a Yugo with Racing Stripes....)
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To: SeekAndFind

From day one this has always been about destroying the Catholic Church. If they can do that the rest will fall soon after. Nevertheless the Catholic Church will not fold on gay “marriage.” The question will become which Churches will be able to hold on until sanity comes back. The Catholic Church will weather this storm.


26 posted on 07/09/2015 6:20:31 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: jmaroneps37

AMEN!!!


27 posted on 07/09/2015 6:31:25 AM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo....Sum Pro Vita - Modified Descartes)
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To: taildragger
More like....


28 posted on 07/09/2015 6:39:08 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Alberta's Child
"I suspect a lot of people have been devastated to learn that the Ayatollah Khomenei was right all along when he referred to the United States of America as “the Great Satan.”"

Tragically true, and yet, the Homosexual Left largely backs Iran and Obama's enabling the Islamic bomb. The common element must be that they are both anti-Christian.

29 posted on 07/09/2015 6:42:12 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: SeekAndFind

any Church can still perform marriages to their doctrine, providing they don’t perform State sanctioned marriages. Im of the opinion they should drop their tax exempt status, preach political issues from the pulpit, and stop being agents of the State in performing marriages recognized by Americas perverse legal system


30 posted on 07/09/2015 7:04:41 AM PDT by Revelation 911
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To: I want the USA back

That is what the left intends to do, using the sodomite agenda as its best tool to date-they finally found a way to affect the churches-but what they don’t seem to realise is that they are only going to strengthen the true, Bible-believing Christian church. Persecution will purify-as the Bible puts it, it will separate the wheat from the chaff. It will force people to make a stand-the left is not going to allow anyone to avoid taking one, they are reaching into private life, into homes and families, and forcing all who have been able to avoid the issue because it didn’t affect them or anyone in their lives, to make a stand one way or the other. I am not talking about people who were “on the fence” on the issue-I’m talking about people who oppose sodomite “marriage” and the sin of sodomy, who have always opposed it, and opposed it openly in their private lives-these people are not going to be allowed to maintain their private opinion their private lives. If they are active in their faith, attend a church, have children in schools, etc, they will be forced to make their views known publicly, one way or another. The left wants to know, because they need to know the view of every single person in this country in order to punish, one way or another, those who don’t conform to their view. As the Communists used to say, “the personal is political”, and the left will leave no opinion private-and God help those of us who don’t conform. I mean that sincerely, for we will need the full armor of God to fight this battle, the battle to maintain-merely to hold-our Christian faith.


31 posted on 07/09/2015 7:27:58 AM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: Salvavida

“Full ECONOMIC WARFARE is the only answer”

I have a short, but growing, list of companies I will not do business with. I urge others to do the same.


32 posted on 07/09/2015 7:48:20 AM PDT by riverdawg
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To: GreyFriar

Thanks for the ping. Now that the SCOTUS has created a Constitutional right to same-sex marriage, churches cannot win this fight unless another SCOTUS decision grants them an exception.


33 posted on 07/09/2015 8:50:28 AM PDT by zot
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To: SeekAndFind

They have been like this for over a generation. But I have never seen things move so fast as the past 6 years.

You gotta give it to Obama,...


I think it is supernatural. Our system of government is not designed to give one man the power to collapse our country at such a rapid speed.


34 posted on 07/09/2015 9:01:55 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: SeekAndFind

Churches can count on government persecution here. This can be said with certainty, because it is already going ahead full steam in Canada.

Their radicals swore blind that their kangaroo courts would never, ever persecute churches. And those promises were as empty as any comparison with “fairness” that might be found on those courts.

Granted, they are firm believers in all forms of censorship and oppression, and are more than willing to take on anyone who fails their political correctness litmus test. But the oppressors and tyrants in America are chomping at their bit to do the same.


35 posted on 07/09/2015 9:31:30 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: SeekAndFind

I see this coming at all faith-based organizations, not just houses of worship, that refuse to service this demographic.

A former roommate of mine, a clinical social worker, works at a religious (Jewish) family service. She has so far managed to circumvent gay clientele & the pressure from insurance companies, as well as government agencies who fund her place of employment.

A sane gay client (oxymoron?) would prefer a specialist among their demographic, or at least someone sympathetic. But these people are out for blood, which is particularly sickening. Their motives are purely hostile & vengeful.


36 posted on 07/09/2015 10:30:46 AM PDT by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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