Posted on 07/25/2015 12:36:05 PM PDT by markomalley
The state of Kentucky has begun imposing a religious test on volunteer pastor counselors in its youth division, insisting that they refrain from calling homosexuality “sinful” and dismissing those who cannot bend their religious faith to accommodate the state requirements.
The policy was uncovered by Liberty Counsel, which has sent a letter to Bob Hayter, commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice, demanding that the state religious test be dropped and that a dismissed counselor be reinstated.
“Liberty Counsel writes regarding the blatantly unconstitutional revocation of volunteer prison minister status of ordained Christian minister David Wells, who has provided voluntary spiritual counseling and mentorship to juvenile inmates under the control of the Department of Juvenile Justice. … This revocation was issued by Warren County Regional Juvenile Detention Center on the basis of the April 4, 2014, DJJ Policy 912, which mandates full DJJ support of homosexuality and transvestism.
“With no evidence of any violation of DJJ policy on Mr. Wells’ part, his volunteer status was revoked by the Warren RJDC superintendent because he could not sign a state-mandated statement that homosexuality was not ‘sinful,’ among other things,” the letter said.
The policy states that DJJ staff, volunteers and others “shall not imply or tell LGBTQI juveniles that they are abnormal, deviant, sinful or that they can or should change their sexual orientation or gender identity.”
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You go Trump, trump the dems and rinos liberals who are destroying our freedoms by bowing down to evil and unconstitutional laws of mad politicians and devilish judges. I digress.
God will judges all the executive politicians who persecute His children created in Christ Jesus and will cast them into the hell they so richly worked for all their worthless lives on the earth. Scum dems and rino politicians and judges alike will walk naked in the fires of hell for their devilish works on earth.
Homosexuals aren’t really libertarian or freedom loving Constitutionaliststoo bad so many are willing to pander to them!
I always check the Greek before reading too much into the English tenses. Creating another category of unforgivable sins does not seem to be in the biblical intent here.
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>> “Sin/Sinful exist within a religious framework.” <<
All ‘religious’ frameworks are created by men.
Sin has been declared in the realm of YHVH, and is a concern of his elect.
Religious frameworks are designed to allow men to feel comfort while sinning.
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Sin is a disgrace to any people...
Actually I am waiting for something similar to occur in the military.
And SCOTUS established a new religion where marriage means, well, whatever we say it means, today.
It is clearly about a commitment, not something that happens gradually.
There is but one unforgivable sin, the decision to delay coming to God until some future time of personal choice, and there appears to be such a choice in taking the mark.
YMMV.
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>> “Sin is a disgrace to any people” <<
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You’re getting closer, but still not quite hitting it.
A man made framework allows pride rather than disgrace.
That is Religion.
Look carefully at yourself in a mirror when you speak of man made frameworks.
People do not need to be elect to be cognizant of sin. To be eternally saved, yes. To be cognizant of sin and even able to superficially address it, no.
You are calling what seems to be clear to you clear in the abstract... you had better be God to substitute your mind that way.
I have not said that anyone is not cognizant of sin.
I said that religious frameworks allow comfort in sin.
That is what the “emerging church” movement, for example, is doing.
Your tap dance is substituting your thoughts for mine, in my head.
That is simply a defense mechanism.
No where is your evidence they dont take cases because they are afraid of what losing will do to their win/loss record? That was the question i asked you.
One acts in accord to how one thinks or believes.
One does not usually act contrary to the way they think or believe unless coerced or in order to obtain something. My understanding is that the latter is a mark that the world sees and knows and that mark is displayed in regards to the homo agenda being used as a hammer.
What I want to know is what that guy does with his hand that shows he’s with the Beast.
Systems and governments of men often become as ‘gods’ and demand to be worshipped.
Whether it was the Emperors of Rome, Fuherers and Duce’s or Dear Leaders of godless secular Communist regimes.
Tyranny will not suffer allegiance to anyone or anything but the state, and how one thinks and acts must be in accord with the State - or imprisonment, starvation and/or death have historically resulted.
We may differ on whether or not the ‘mark’ is literal, but we would all agree it means that one must accept evil, in order to buy or sell in this system Revelation describes.
Bob Hayter. This story is satire.
And who is “the state?” Do the people of Kentucky thing THEIR state government, who works for them, is prohibiting the free exercise of religion? Seriously man, this is why we have a first amendment.
“The nation has never been ‘Christian’,”
Yes it was.
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