Appearing on Bill Maher's show, Brad Pitt said that religion doesn't make sense to him but gay marriage does!
"I grew up in a religious family, in a religious community and it just doesn't make sense to me. It just doesn't work for me in the long run," Pitt said.
"I never wanted to stop anyone else's religion and their beliefs until I started seeing it defining policy.... Like gay marriage. You have a group of people telling other people how to live their lives, and you can't do that."
He added: "If there was a nation of gay married couples that were telling you you couldn't practice your religion, I'd be speaking up for you, too... So, let's stop the nonsense."
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Marriage between a black and a white was against the law until 1968!
Maybe someday.
Religion should leave gay people alone and drop its bigotry.
Christ said in the New Testament to Love one another and Judge not lest ye be judged. He also said to love God with your whole heart and to love your neighbor as yourself. How many people miss this I don't know.
All I know is Satan is the sin counter not God. Satan is the accuser as written in the book of Job. God is the Judge and Jesus is our attorney who took care of our bond (ransom) and who will defend us if we allow him in our life and accept his free gift of being our attorney. If we don't believe in him, we will be standing there alone with Satan and god..and my faith allows me to believe I won't be standing alone.
People get so hung up on proving others to be sinful...and doing the judgements and speaking for God. They need to worry about their own backyards and their own souls. Judge not lest ye be judged is quite clear...judge others and you open the door to judgement on yourself.
Each of us are on our own path with God and we need to realize that and not make enemies of others with God.
My God and my Jesus are loving and kind therefore I am loving and kind for I realize I may be the only Bible anyone reads.
...and frankly, since I've mentioned it, I'd like to point out that the term "gay lifestyle" used as I've heard it in these discussions, referring only to a multi-partner, partying lifestyle, is quite an insult. Maybe we should start referring to the drunken-bar-hopping-frat-boy-jumping-post-adolescent-party phase some women go through as the "straight lifestyle" ...or maybe it could be applied to the jumping-from-abuser-to-abuser phase some other women go through ... or maybe the screw-every-hot-chick-that-comes-along phase some young men go through could be the "straight lifestyle" ...or the seven-divorces life of many celebrities? How about the man's end of "battered" syndromes, in which (as I've seen happen with friends) some straight men go through decades of failed-relationship jumps because they keep dating psychologically abusive women? Is that the "straight lifestyle?"
For that matter, why don't they mention the "bisexual lifestyle?"
Oh, wait... I forgot... I keep getting told we don't exist. :P
I do practice and believe in my religion, but I can not justify discrimination in any way, so I think outlawing gay marriage is wrong, too. One need not cancel out the other.
The same goes for the homosexual community. They have the right to have the same rights as all adults in the United States. I am a Christian and therefore a sinner. What would give me the right to judge someone else when I have things in my life that i need to focus on?
Hint: You don't.
You love who you love and loves so mush better than hate!
God Bless
But only fools like me, you see, can make a god who makes a tree."
--i forget the poet's name
(I'd faint)
Peter, you'll just have to make due with Brad and Antonio.
This is true I feel.
She didn't condemn anyone Dexter.
What is wrong with homosexuality?
A whole lot of things, but mostly this: It's an abomination to God. He said this not once, not twice, but several times...and it wasn't all in one breath, but was spread out over 1,500 years. In the beginning, God created man and then He created a woman to be man's helpmate. I imagine that if God had thought homosexuality was okay, then he would have created another man...or just two women. But He didn't, so that's the beginning. When God gave the Law to Moses, He was very clear about the fact that if two (of the same sex) lie together, or "know" each other as man knows a woman, then those two were to be put to death, because "it is an abomination to God." God also destroyed the cities of the plains (Sodom and Gomorrah and a couple of others) because of their proclivity to homosexual behavior. The men of Sodom even tried to seduce the angels that were sent! (Sounds like San Francisco.)
About 1,500 years later, God spoke through the Apostle Paul to re-affirm that those who practice homosexuality "shall not enter the Kingdom of Heaven." Many argue that times have changed and we need to become modernized in our thinking. But the fact is that God is the rock. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Therefore, we can easily conclude that He has not changed His mind. Homosexuality is still an abomination to Him.
Now this does NOT mean that God doesn't love homosexuals. He does, and He wants them to REPENT (turn away) from that which is NOT pleasing in His sight. Can homosexuals be saved? Yes, emphatically yes....IF they will repent (turn away) from that which is wrong. It isn't the sinner that is hated; it is what he or she does (the sin). Is there such a thing as a Christian homosexual? No. You can either be a Christian, or you can be a homosexual.
"If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood [shall be] upon them" (Lev. 20:13).
"For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet" (Rom. 1:26-27)
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Pastafari! May the Flying Spaghetti Monster touch you with his noodly appendage.
Marriage is a contract... no religion required.
1 John 3:7 (NKJV)
7 Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous.
Well I have spent many thousands of dollars on Bible study aids in the few years. I think you need to go back to the Bible and start from the Beginning. I do that from time to time.
God Bless
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