@Musicguy: Did you actually read the post, or did you just decide to respond with a template answer?

If you’d read it, and understood my side of the argument, you would have seen that my argument is that I think that this boycott is unprofitable, and needs a positive counterbalance where change is made on a personal basis. Nowhere in my argument will you find me calling for a civil law to outlaw gay marriage.

Like I said, sounds like your talking points don’t exactly fit my argument. Let alone the fact that a discussion of what I believe the Bible says about the sin and its relative position with other sins, is not inherently cultural.

A true understanding of what I said would reveal that, though I believe that homosexuality is a sin, I believe that it’s the result of greater sins up the chain, and that we should be worried about changing the heart, not trying to control the outer actions.

But on the flip side– I am entitled to reject your ideology, beliefs, and interpretations. I am entitled to refuse to live by your biblical rules and regulations. I am entitled to belief that the Bible is a wonderful collection of stories, and nothing more.

I see a much more definitive separation between CIVIL and RELIGIOUS. You blur that line so much that it’s hardly visible anymore.

So to wrap this up- your beliefs=great for you, your family, friends, and church. Just please don’t attempt to foist them on me, or create laws that would force me to follow your religious ideology.

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Since my boys are too young to give them an appropriate answer as to why we will not frequent McDonald’s any longer. The only thing they understand is that their favorite restaurant is doing something against God.

Great post, MIn.

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We can try to mend the outside, and we can try to enforce conformity, but one of the lessons to be learned from the Old Testament Law is that even though the Israelites had them, they still had an empty heart. Just look at the Pharisees.

@Sarah@Life in the Parsonage: Thanks for stopping by! Pride is definitely the core sin here, and everything in our culture screams to “have it your way” and “just do it.” And we wonder why our country has fallen where it has.

@Andrea: You’re right– we can’t “fix” anyone. Only the power of God can change a heart and lead to lasting change.

It really does all start with Pride and rejecting God…funny isn’t it, how we sometimes want to just fight the sin without getting to the heart of the issue.

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When I was taking Romnas, I noticed there was a certain progression about this passage. If you look at the “list” at the end of Romans 1, a case can be made about the progression of sins that shows the problems originate in heart with beliefs about God. The physical actions that result from these beliefs occur way down the line. The problem exists within the mind and heart.

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