Posted on 05/06/2011 5:34:58 AM PDT by GonzoII
A Minnesota lawmaker is under scrutiny for pro-homosexual remarks he made before a house panel arguing that being gay is "godly and holy."
Video of the lawmakers' speech quickly went viral on YouTube.
"How many more gay people does God have to create before we ask ourselves whether or not God wants them around?" state Rep. Steve Simon, D-St. Louis Park, said.
"And how many gay people does God have to create before we ask ourselves whether the living of their lives the way they wish as long as they don't harm others, is a godly, holy, and happy, and glorious thing?" he continued.
Rep. Simon urged members of the state's Civil Law Committee to vote "no" this week on a traditional marriage amendment. The measure would allow voters to decide the matter on the 2012 general election ballot.
Simon argued that sexual orientation is a gift from God and that religious justification should not be applied to ban same-sex marriage.
Randy Thomas, executive vice president with Exodus International disagreed, saying the ideology behind the lawmaker's remarks is convoluted.
Thomas spoke by phone with CBN News in response to Rep. Simon's remarks. Click play for his reaction.
"The theology behind that statement is so absent, it's very confusing," he said.
"The Lord is the author of every breath so every person who is alive on this planet today is here because the Lord ordained their existence. So of course he wants them here," he explained. "He wants them to know Him, He wants to love them, He wants to save them."
"That does not mean that He agrees with everything that we do or what we believe," Thomas continued.
"He loves us enough to tell us 'yes' when we are in line with His will and He loves us enough to tell us 'no,'" he said.
Gay marriage is not recognized under Minnesota law. The House committee passed the ballot amendment 10-7, making way for the people to decide in 2012.
Video at Source.
God doesnt make gay people, people in sin make choices to be gay.
How many more cannibals?
Ya, God didn’t make the plumbing for procreation, it’s there for you to abuse for recreation....../sarc
....and that abomination is “holy”????
Unbelieveable isn’t it. they’re arguing that because they want gay sex, it’s because of God. I guess we just need to ask the homos theological questions because they channel God’s will directly, and have no free will.
Holy homos, Batman!
God’s Anger at Sin
18 But God shows his anger from heaven against all sinful, wicked people who suppress the truth by their wickedness.
19 They know the truth about God because he has made it obvious to them.
20 For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God.
21 Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn’t worship him as God or even give him thanks. And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. As a result, their minds became dark and confused.
22 Claiming to be wise, they instead became utter fools.
23 And instead of worshiping the glorious, ever-living God, they worshiped idols made to look like mere people and birds and animals and reptiles.
24 So God abandoned them to do whatever shameful things their hearts desired. As a result, they did vile and degrading things with each other’s bodies.
25 They traded the truth about God for a lie. So they worshiped and served the things God created instead of the Creator himself, who is worthy of eternal praise! Amen.
26 That is why God abandoned them to their shameful desires. Even the women turned against the natural way to have sex and instead indulged in sex with each other.
27 And the men, instead of having normal sexual relations with women, burned with lust for each other. Men did shameful things with other men, and as a result of this sin, they suffered within themselves the penalty they deserved.
28 Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their foolish thinking and let them do things that should never be done.
29 Their lives became full of every kind of wickedness, sin, greed, hate, envy, murder, quarreling, deception, malicious behavior, and gossip.
30 They are backstabbers, haters of God, insolent, proud, and boastful. They invent new ways of sinning, and they disobey their parents.
31 They refuse to understand, break their promises, are heartless, and have no mercy.
32 They know God’s justice requires that those who do these things deserve to die, yet they do them anyway. Worse yet, they encourage others to do them, too.
“”How many more gay people does God have to create before we ask ourselves whether or not God wants them around?” state Rep. Steve Simon, D-St. Louis Park, said.”
The same God who created Hitler and Usama Bin Laden, etc?
(Talk about a lack of logic.....)
What does that make "Charlie bit my finger, again" at 315,000,000 views?
Even that idiotic Rebecca Black video has over 100 million.
Articles claiming this video is viral are mostly trying to make it viral.
The word “holy” gets thrown around so much. It’s a shame very few know what the biblical definition is.
If God doesn’t punish the pro-homo, pro-abortion lawmakers and pols of this country, He’s going to have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.(SP)
With all due credit to Mike Royko(deceased), writer for the Chicago Sun-Times.
That was his observation of San Francisco when he covered a Democratic convention.
He also labeled California the Granola State - Fruits and Nuts.
This is commonly known as "double talk". I suppose God was for it before he was against it.
I guess He decided to check some polls. /S.
Are you seriously advocating murdering people because they sin?
Yeah that works. /s ;-)
If you’re going to kill all sinners you’d better have a lot of ammo and save a bullet for you.
In his defense, didn’t he say holEy?
And Royko was being punny. As journalists sometimes are.
The Royko bit was a journalistic exercise twisting what was said by Rev. Billy Graham in the 60’s and repeated by Jerry Falwell in Listen America -and by countless preachers in pulpits across America. The terms seems to have been commentary on something said by the British Historian mentioned favorably by Senator Joe Lieberman at a Republican Convention- commenting on Americas’ decline. “As given by Billy G. “If God doesn’t judge America for the way we are living now ,I believe He owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.” Sad part is “except the Lord had preserved to us a very small remnant (I believe the Greek term is sperma?)
We would have all been made to be like Sodom and Like unto
Gomorrah.” As true of America today as it was when the Apostle Paul used what was said by the Old Testament Prophet
Isaiah of the rulers of Jerusalem. Truth knows no timeline.
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