Black pastors led a rally in downtown Washington Tuesday against same-sex marriage.
They were joined by dozens of religious believers across the street from city hall. That's where the city council is expected to vote May 5 to recognize gay marriages performed in states where the practice has now been legalized.
A couple of the pastors took issue with the way homosexuals equate their fight for gay rights with the African-American struggle for civil rights.
"The homosexuals want to have their sexual choices protected, as if being gay was the same as being black," said Rev. George Gilbert of D.C.'s Holy Trinity United Baptist Church. "This is untrue, and it's very offensive."
Bishop Harry Jackson of the High Impact Leadership Coalition organized the rally. He said, "Marriage has been defined by God, and everyone in America does not have an equal civil right to get married. Two close relatives cannot get married because it's not good for the culture. A man cannot marry a three-year-old because it's not good for the culture."
Risking the Racist LabelJackson warned those at the rally if they defend traditional marriage, they will be branded as both anti-gay and anti-civil rights. "Your kids will be told that gay marriage is a civil rights issue, and that those who oppose it are akin to the racists who historically opposed interracial marriage. That's what your kids will be taught even about your rally here today if we don't stand up."
Many of D.C.'s black churches are quite conservative on social issues like gay marriage. But they operate in the midst of an unusually liberal city...and in a country that the pastors warned is being governed more and more by liberals. That led Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council to say, "I want to commend the pastors of this city as I commend the pastors of this nation. They are the last line of defense...I would even go so far as to say they're the last line of defense for sanity in America."
Perkins pointed out 23 years ago he married his wife as he stood in his U.S. Marine uniform. He said though he's now wearing a suit, "I stand with those who are defending marriage as those who defend our freedoms because marriage is as central to the future of this nation."
Government Shouldn't Tinker
Other speakers at the rally warned government it goes too far when it begins to tinker with the tradition of marriage. Rev. Anthony Evans of the National Black Church Initiative pointed out, "The state regulates marriage, but the church ordains marriage. Therefore the state has no business in the issue of marriage. Marriage is the union between one man and one woman, not two boys or two girls."
The pastors said they'll mobilize their congregations and fellow clergy to fight against gay marriage in D.C. and across the country. As the Reverend Gilbert shouted, "My brothers and sisters, we've got to cry aloud. We've got to say 'not on our watch!'"
Then the crowd joined him in chanting, "Not on our watch! Not on our watch! Not on our watch!"
Source: CBN News
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MIND Over glands...
The defenders of homosexuality continue the oxymoron contradiction of attempting to use the mind to justify the rule of carnal glands.
Thinking Americans still don't give 'a tinkers-sham' what homosexuals do with their body-parts. An individual or a society which is by law and tradition committed to the natural human hierarchy of mind over body will not, however, sanction glandular rule over the human mind.
Undisciplined human desire can induce distorted perception. The disturbed personality or inverted character can be considered to be cognitively confused. This description is
confirmed by the work of English psychoanalyst Money-Kyrle, who indicates that it is more accurate to recognize such a condition as the result of distorted perception.
Neurosis, psychosis, stunting of growth, etc., are all, from this perspective, cognitive diseases contaminating not only perception but thinking, learning, remembering, valuing, and
decision- and choice-making.
Money-Kyrle affirms that scientific truth is not attained by a trendy self-serving fashion, confession of inadequacy, abdication, or collective majority-vote. There is no excuse for
professional ignorance willfully maintained.
By definition, a standard that is flexible is not a standard at all. The human mind requires a standard of comparison that is invariable. A criterion must be greater than the value measured
in order to supply value-meaning ina predictable direction of survival and progression. The mind thus equipped is enabled to maintain a natural dominion over the body and its appetites.
The very survival of the body itself, therefore, depends upon this maintained intellectual authority.
Our posterity cannot respect what it does not perceive, and it cannot perceive that which has been abandoned or inverted to an appetite of physical expediency by the equivocal person.
With confidence in the laws of human nature, we can know that in the clash between carnality and intellect, the 'man of the mind' will always prevail.
That is nature and GOD's way & intent all along.
selah
Never forget...
"NO ONE IS SMARTER THAN THEIR CRITERIA." selah
semper fidelis
Jim Baxter
Sgt. USMC
WWII & Korean War
Joel 3:14 Psalm 25:12 kjv
Psalm 119:1-176
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I have no idea what the last commenter was trying to say. Similarly, I have no idea how gay right are NOT civil rights. Let me refresh some memories. The judge in the Loving criminal case - which ultimately led to Loving v. Virginia said:
"Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix."
That has a certain familiar ring to it. No?
I in the book of Ezekiel 16:1-6: Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying, "Son of man, cause Jersalem to know her abominations, "and say, 'Thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem: "Your birth and your nativity are from the land of Canaan; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite. "As for your nativity, on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed in water to cleanse you; you were not rubbed with salt nor wrapped in swaddling cloths. "No eye pitied you, to do any of these things for you, to have compassion on you; but you were thrown out into the open field, when you yourself were loathed on the day you were born. "And when I passed by you and saw you struggling in your own blood, I said to you in your blood, 'Live!' Yes, I said to you in your blood, "Live!' It is time for the Church to show the world there sin!
I would hope that these same preachers were as concerned about the prison industrial complex and the systemic injustice and systemic evil that poor people and people of color encounter on a daily basis. This failure to live up to the teachings of the prophets, Jesus, and Paul does not look good for the church. To be honest, there are more pressing issues affecting people than same-sex marriage
Why is it that life has to be so one sided when it comes to the homo issue. This has to be addressed as well as other things. Everythings has its place, and whatever is addressed at the moment doesnt mean the other things are being ignored. This is a sin and those that are in the public's eyes are to cry loud and spare not. Do you know that this type of sin is the one sin that destroyes the image of God. A man trying to act like a wife, and a woman trying to act like a husband.
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