Posted on 07/04/2016 9:29:26 AM PDT by Menehune56
The owner of online dating site ChristianMingle.com has agreed to let gay and lesbian users search for same-sex matches under a judge-approved settlement of discrimination claims. Two gay men filed class-actions claims against Spark Networks Inc. in California courts in 2013 alleging that ChristianMingle.com and several other sites in the company’s portfolio of niche dating services excluded users looking to meet singles of the same sex. ChristianMingle, billed as the largest online community for Christian singles, required new users to specify whether they’re a man seeking a woman or a woman seeking a man. The lead plaintiffs, two gay men who tried using it, claimed that the limited options violated California’s anti-discrimination law.
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Garbage. That isn’t Christian.
I didn’t know they didn’t allow gay online match-making services. /s
And how! In the 1960s there were 4.2 million Episcopalians in the US. The leftists infiltrated and took over and now there are 2.4 million remaining. And the number continues to drop.
The aberrant sex is what defines someone as being homosexual.
God thinks that is an ABOMINATION! Let me repeat that, “ABOMINATION”.
IF you repent, ask forgiveness, accept Christ’s free gift of salvation you can become a Christian, no matter what you have done.
BUT... you have to have really MEANT IT. You can’t trick God. (All Knowing) If you just keep on sinning in the same way as before, you were never really a Christian anyway, you just said some words.
So NO! You can’t be a homosexual Christian. You can’t be a lesbian minister, or a gay pastor or priest and be a Christian. There is a special placed in Hell for those folks.
As mentioned in related threads, please consider the following.
The only sex-related right that the states have amended the Constitution to expressly protect is voting rights as evidenced by the 19th Amendment. And since politically correct LGBT “rights” are clearly outside the scope of voting issues, such “rights” not expressly protected by the Constitution like the enumerated rights are.
In other words, LGBT “rights,” including gay “marriage,” are being legislated from bench using 10th Amendment-protected state powers that activist judges and justices are stealing from the states.
Also, note that when the states ratified the 14th Amendment (14A) they prohibited themselves from abridging constitutionally enumerated rights as evidenced by Section 1.
14th Amendment, Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
So low-information, pro-LGBT activist state officials and judges who are using constitutionally unprotected, pro-LGBT equality rights to trump constitutionally enumerated rights, the 1st Amendment-protected rights of religious expression and speech in such cases, are unthinkingly violating Section 1 of the 14A imo.
Also consider that when the Founding States drafted the Constitution, they had prohibited both themselves and the feds from establishing protected / privileged classes. This is evidenced by the following constitutional clauses.
Article I, Section 9, Clause 8: No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States [emphasis added]: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
Article I, Section 10, Clause 1: No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility [emphasis added].
So by making laws and policies which promote constitutionally unrecognized LGBT “rights” and privileges, both the feds and pro-gay activist states are effectively violating these clauses imo.
On the other hand, what is worse, pro-gay activist federal and state officials who are abusing their government powers to make life miserable for Christians, or Christians who evidently don’t know their constitutional protections well enough to protect their lives and businesses from unconstitutional government interference?
In fact, citizens with religious convictions should note regarding exercising their 14th Amendment protections that Acts 22:23-30 shows that Paul claimed his rights as a Roman citizen to save himself from being flogged.
That went out the window with the cult worship of multiculturalism.
Homosexual Muslims don’t dare advertise for fear of being murdered.
Maybe there were technicalities or legalities that would have been possible to take advantage of what is left of this, like creating a club with dues or making it a formal church ministry. But this is all wild guessing. The wrongheadedness of “well intentioned” civil rights laws has morphed into a major monster. Black families were managing to get within 5% of white families as Jim Crow drew to a close, and had they simply been set free without meddling from the government, social shame and the market would have sufficed to bring down almost all barriers. Instead, a class of nannies was created, and got everyone looking to it. Clever, no? A cleverness from hell.
This is all kind of moot with the arrow of leftism in the Achilles’ heel of the constitution, i.e. the USSC.
As for the last remark I would caution that Paul continued to see his life as a ministry of the gospel. He shamed his persecutors in that instance, proving that the good Lord was still watching out for him. The suffering called for by Christ is not an indiscriminate, purposeless suffering, but a suffering that has moral consequences, and His plan has much mercy in it.
However, Christians need to rethink their lives as ministries of the gospel too if they aren’t already thinking in those terms. One doesn’t have to be a preacher to be a display of what God has done for one.
“Christian” Mingle acceding to this is the worst thing about it. What they do is UN CHRISTIAN.
If Christian Mingle is truly Christian they will close down operations rather than intentionally enable homosexual behavior.
It became all too easily polluted, it seems.
I don’t know much about Spark Networks or the people behind it. Were they interested more in principle or in money, were they blindsided? A principled approach would be to bring the whole thing down rather than carry it on with a polluted arm.
It might be only nominally so.
I hope research is done into how organizations like this can be created with a more solid legal foundation (for now). Perhaps they could be created as private clubs.
Just the ones who want to start trouble.
And this may be a time to draw a sharper distinction between what is a religious or church ministry, and what is not.
*** It is to gleefully force themselves on people who want nothing to do with them. It is about weakening religion.***
That is exactly right. If they wanted a gay friendly, Christian dating sight some entrepreneur could have simply started one. But no, this was a lawsuit specifically driven by a gay group backing these individuals to force a Christian business into excepting
their lifestyle. Fascism.
And the small dedicated “gay churches” — if they aren’t already in possession of enough resources before this.
Maybe the wastefulness of wickedness will partly cancel out its compromises here.
Agree.
I think in at least the near future, a far more tight definition of what comprises a church is going to be necessary to ward off the wolves.
And yet even fishermen went to sea. They didn’t just sit on the beach and hope a walking or flying fish would make its way there.
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