Wow, based on what the government and media constantly bombard us with, you would have thought America would be bright red. I guess we are not as intolerant as they keep telling us we are.

#16

Only if it is used to protect them from another business selling an identical product in there area. It should not be used to strongarm a competitor that may have a better business model and product that people want and is legal to sell.

Because there are existing franchise dealer agreements in place, hence "Contract Law"#13 | POSTED BY PANEOCON

Pan, you may be accurately highlighting contract law but, this is anti free market big time. What happen to true fre enterprise in this country. Its a disgrace.

Zero, if I was that thinned skin I wouldn't bother coming here. I like to challenge what other people think especially when its different than my own. I also enjoy defending what I think when it differs from others.

I bet this will cause the greenies to shoot blood from their eyes.

Since the shooter was "dark skinned", I think all "dark skinned" individuals should be banned from owning firearms.

Donnerboy

Hmm, I wonder why they are not calling this a "mass shooting"? Oh nevermind, they didn't use "assault rifles".

#100

No, I do not deny that homosexuals have sincere and real love for one another but, how do you feel about a heterosexual man who has a sincere and real love for a woman other than the one he is married to? Is it not wrong and if so, why?

Nothing in the bible about abortion.

There's nothing in the Bible about "fetus" either but, there is 26 occurrences of "with child". To "ME" with the exception of life of the mother, abortion is murder. I think the Bible is pretty clear on that topic.

So what did you mean? You're talking morals? Then you're still putting God's law above the laws of the land.

#89 | Posted by pragmatist

We are instructed by Christ to follow the laws of men that are in authority over us. However, when it conflicts with what God has instructed us, then yes, I will choose to follow God. This is why abortion is such a thorny issue. I see it as a violation of God's natural law but I am not required to participate. If man passed a law that required me to violate God's law, then I would refuse and suffer the consequences.

Why do you imagine homosexuals exist whatsoever when we have to be ostracized and often harmed both physically and emotionally by "true believers"?

This I agree is wrong of believers. I know many of us have way too many knee-jerk reactions to "sin" and tend to look the other way at a different "sin" especially when it's our own. I think Jesus gave us a great example to follow:

7 So when they continued asking Him, He raised Himself up[g] and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first." 8 And again He stooped down and wrote on the ground. 9 Then those who heard it, being convicted by their conscience,[h] went out one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. 10 When Jesus had raised Himself up and saw no one but the woman, He said to her,[i] "Woman, where are those accusers of yours?[j] Has no one condemned you?"

11 She said, "No one, Lord."

And Jesus said to her, "Neither do I condemn you; go and[k] sin no more."

My spell check failed me. Wish I was better with words. But anywho, the judgments of man and of God are two totally different realities. Man will judge the flesh here on this plane and God will judge the soul on the next.

Prag, you know better than that. That's not what my statement implied.

#15

Link please or is that just your personal opinion? Maybe if our society wasn't so hypersexualized that bombarding our children about sex as soon as they are out of diapers wouldn't be a problem.

#82

That's a pretty bold statement to come from a Christian. Although, I must admit, I'm a pretty piss poor example of one, but I do try.

As for living under the law, those who except Christ are not under the law, however, those that reject Him, will be judged by them.

Corky, I think we all know that the word homosexual is a modern word. It does not matter what we choose to call it. For a man to lay with a man as with a woman is "in the eyes of God" wrong today as it was in OT times. Sins of the OT are still sins today. We live in an age of grace and not judgment under the law as they did in OT times. We are free to live as sinful of a life as we choose today and don't have to worry about paying the tab till we checkout. If you choose that way of life, then do so in peace, just don't try and tell me its good and wholesome when I know "for myself and family" it is not.

please define Homosexual as used in the Bible.

arsenokoitēs- one who lies with a male as with a female, sodomite, homosexual.

"Sin" only means "missing the mark", like an archer who misses a target.

Corky, Corky, how pleasant your words are to the ear. Your attempt at watering down the word saddens me.

Sin(chata')
1) to sin, miss, miss the way, go wrong, incur guilt, forfeit, purify from uncleanness

a) (Qal)
1) to miss
2) to sin, miss the goal or path of right and duty
3) to incur guilt, incur penalty by sin, forfeit

b) (Piel)
1) to bear loss
2) to make a sin-offering
3) to purify from sin
4) to purify from uncleanness

c) (Hiphil)
1) to miss the mark
2) to induce to sin, cause to sin
3) to bring into guilt or condemnation or punishment

d) (Hithpael)
1) to miss oneself, lose oneself, wander from the way
2) to purify oneself from uncleanness

Thanks for responding but I found it a bit ironic. Please don't misunderstand my preachy words that I personally condemn or would deny your right to any lifestyle you choose. As for my faith, I believe that our actions in this life will determine what happens to us in the next. You my feel free to mock and make fun of this belief all you want if you so desire but, what if I am the one who has chosen correctly. One of us will temporarily be made a fool while the other may receive a judgment that isn't very pleasant. If I have come across in a knee-jerk hateful way, then please except my apology.

I know, I know - any ol' day you can find roving bands of homosexuals attacking straights on the street, ridiculing those God has deemed worthy of actual rights.

You are correct, even though you were being facetious. It has been becoming more and more "exceptable" for the pro-homosexual crowd to persecute the "straights".

Sociological need could imply that heterosexuals need homosexuals as equals, but that is just a stonesthrow away from accepting each other as family.. If you had a gay child wouldn't you want for them the same security and love that you raised them with? At least?

I think that what is missed is, homosexuality is a sin. As is adultery, fornication, liars, etc. A sin is a sin and it is destructive to the mind, body and soul. When a man is consumed by his sin, his conscience is seared and he no longer sees it as destructive to himself. And he despises, if not fervently hates, those that point it out. I myself am guilty of sin but, my conscience immediately convicts me and I am ashamed. I know the power of sin and I have witnessed its destructive force upon my life and those that I love. I also know that promoting sin as something good and wholesome is a very dangerous thing.

And so you would seek to have them pay for that poor judgment rather than correct it?

Yes, if they used poor judgment and got drunk and killed someone, then yes, they will have to deal with the consequences. Actions have consequences whether it's drinking, smoking or have sex. I just think it is very destructive to us as a society to make poor judgments in life easier to get around. It really shows how the human race is rapidly descending into the abyss.

#10

Probably for the same reason they don't want them to have access to alcohol and cigarettes. Children are very good at making poor judgments at that age.

The bible says god had many sons.

Genesis

6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

Is the bible lying?

God says there are many gods. Is God lying?

#20 | Posted by Buffalo_Bob

No, the bible isn't lying. Let's look at some other sources shall we?

The Book of Enoch

ENOCH 6:1 And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto 2 them beautiful and comely daughters. And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: 'Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men 3 and beget us children.' And Semjaza, who was their leader, said unto them: 'I fear ye will not 4 indeed agree to do this deed, and I alone shall have to pay the penalty of a great sin.' And they all answered him and said: 'Let us all swear an oath, and all bind ourselves by mutual imprecations 5 not to abandon this plan but to do this thing.' Then sware they all together and bound themselves 6 by mutual imprecations upon it. And they were in all two hundred; who descended in the days of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon.

and another:
The Book of Jubilees

JUBILEES 5:1 And it came to pass when the children of men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born unto them, that the angels of God saw them on a certain year of this jubilee, that they were beautiful to look upon; and they took themselves wives of all whom they 2 chose, and they bare unto them sons and they were giants. And lawlessness increased on the earth and all flesh corrupted its way, alike men and cattle and beasts and birds and everything that walks on the earth – all of them corrupted their ways and their orders, and they began to devour each other, and lawlessness increased on the earth and every imagination of the thoughts of all men 3 (was) thus evil continually.

#31

Nah, not for those with principles. It was an abomination a 1000 years ago, it will still be an abomination in 10, 100, 10,000 years from now. But, let them reap the rewards from the seeds of their own destruction, afterall, it's a free country.

One side won't allow the democratic process to happen. This is the most obstructionist Congress I have ever seen in my entire life.

#92 | Posted by danni

LOL, it's because we've had the worst leadership from the oval office in your entire life.