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As it should be. I think it's wrong to assume that just because an organization is religious, it should automatically be considered charitable. Don't you?
FYI: religious beliefs expressed in good faith are exempt from Canadian hate speech laws.
I wonder about a god who demands we fight against our nature to love. Actually, I wonder why any deity should be concerned with how and how often we have sex. Seems quite petty. Not to mention that when mortals engage in similar behavior, we call them interesting things like "voyeur". LOL
I live in a fairly small town (~30,000 people) and I happen to be planning a wedding right now. For any particular wedding size, there's probably at most 2 venues with the right capacity. If you want to do things outdoors under a tent, there's only 1 tent rental place. Caterers don't generally have fancy dishes; if you aren't having your wedding at the one hall that has a "package deal" (they do the venue, dinner, dishes, wait staff, bar service, furniture, linens, etc... but only for their own events), there's only 1 place that will rent fancy wedding-appropriate dishes.
All this blather and you did not address a thing I said. Where does Christ speak about homosexuality. He doesn't. Yet you parrot the homophobic fear that has become the totem of your faith, which, btw, is not at all what Christ taught. And of course, who can forget...the verse you quote is from Paul. A man who never knew Christ and whose writings indicate he did not have the first idea of what Christ taught either.
Those were Paul's words, not Jesus' or God's. Paul claimed to have gotten his "authority" through a "vision" of Jesus on the road to Damascus that left him trembling and was not seen by his fellow travelers. I feel that it is reasonable to take Paul's words with a grain of salt for this reason. He merely claimed to speak for God, and expected everyone to just take his word for it. I'm not buying into it though.
Excellent point. I really wonder, who in the world asks a photographer what faith they are?? Similarly, if a gay couple goes to a particular photographer and his or her morals cause them to refuse service, who flipping cares?? Find another who really wants the money.
What exactly is 'sin' and who gets to decide if I am sinning or not? You? I think not. I live a moral life without breaking a single one of your bloody commandments. So in essence, I am not sinning. Unless one states that I must believe in Jesus and if I don't, I then am sinning. That is threat, plain and simple.
I should have known my love, that you would say pretty much what I did without reading a head. Sorry about that. But for the record, you speak for me.
That has to be the sweetest thing I've ever heard. Personally I rather enjoy my own moral agency. I "get" that sometimes people grow apart and that there's no rational reason we should have to suffer each other's continued existence in our lives, effectively creating a perpetual state of misery, just because some mythical being might get pissy with us for divorcing.
You have to admit that divorce is ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY in many circumstances, right?
Thank you dear. My husband and I use the word loosely, put me in the ICU not once but twice. I had bruises constantly for no damn reason whatsoever than he had a hair across his fat arse. Divorce was the only kind thing that ******* agreed to with me.
I was not arguing that it was right or moral. I was responding to the allegation that it was unnatural. Which it is not. Natural does not always equal good and unnatural does not always equal bad. Things occurring in nature does always equal natural though.