@92b16vx,
92b16vx;13839 wrote:No, it wouldn't, not even close. What it would do with your ammendments, is let you hide behind religion and and belittle homosexuals, or worse.
Your ideal world, not mine.
Like I said, the only "freedom" it would be limiting is your freedom to hide behind religion while belittling gays. You'll still be able to say and read/write whatever you want, as long as it doesn't hurt anyone.
So, you don't care who you hurt as long as others don't "hurt" you. Teaching false doctrine carries eternal consequence for the teacher and those who accept that false doctrine.
You are either homosexual or bi-sexual (homosexual), have someone in your immediate circle who is, or have bought the homosexual train of thought. I really pity you and will pray for you. I don't want my children or grand-children or their children to be corrupted by homosexuals or any other body of man that chooses to do what is right in their own minds and structures society to promote their agenda. You are the product of that process. You rail against people who are not products of that process and who want to engage in the political process to reverse the damage caused to societal mechanism that make society deviate from what is acceptable according to God's Word.
By the way, the term gay was co-opted by the homosexual community to try to euphemize what they do to make it more acceptable. the term homosexual is descriptive. The term gay is non-descriptive. If the activity is out of sight it is out of mind. This was a brilliant tactic. It helped convince those who are homosexual that what they do is not out of the ordinary and those who heard someone was gay (homosexual) to think that that poerson was just "happy" with their life style. This allowed the homosexual community to ask, "why is my choice hurting anyone?" That placed the responsibility for the consequences of the homosexual lifestyle on someone other than the homosexual and place the load of guilt the homosexual feels at the feet of anyone who disapproved. Well, when you are absent from the body and present with the Lord, you may rapidly experience a need to weep and knash your teeth.
While the term homosexual is not in some translations of the Bible, the behavior of the homosexual is always there, and God condemns it.
1 Corinthians 6, “Does any of you who has a complaint against someone dare go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest cases? Do you not know that we will judge angels—not to speak of things pertaining to this life? So if you have cases pertaining to this life, do you select those who have no standing in the church to judge? I say this to your shame! Can it be that there is not one wise person among you who will be able to arbitrate between his brothers? Instead, brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers!
Therefore, it is already a total defeat for you that you have lawsuits against one another. Why not rather put up with injustice? Why not rather be cheated? Instead, you act unjustly and cheat—and this to brothers! Do you not know that the unjust will not inherit God's kingdom? Do not be deceived: no sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes,
homosexuals, thieves, greedy people, drunkards, revilers, or swindlers will inherit God's kingdom.
Some of you were like this; but you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
"Everything is permissible for me," but not everything is helpful. "Everything is permissible for me," but I will not be brought under the control of anything. "Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods," but God will do away with both of them. The body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. God raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by His power. Do you not know that your bodies are the members of Christ? So should I take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Absolutely not! Do you not know that anyone joined to a prostitute is one body with her? For it says, The two will become one flesh. But anyone joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.
Flee from sexual immorality! "Every sin a person can commit is outside the body," but the person who is sexually immoral sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body.”
This is the message that the people supporting this bill do not want others to publish or broadcast, in private or in public fora. If this Word was not the Word of God, men would pay it no attention and go ahead an fulfill their desires. It is because It is the Word of God that anyone pay attention to It. If the Word of God can be prohibited from being spoken or taught, then those who are governed by their flesh will have no prod to "hurt" their consciences. That is really all a Chirstian does, prod someone's conscience by reminding them of the Word of God or rebuking behavior. Behavior is the outward sign of the inward person.
1 Thessalonians 2:15-16, "They killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and persecuted us; they displease God, and are hostile to everyone, hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. As a result, they are always adding to their sins, and wrath has overtaken them completely."
Christians are charged to be gentle to everyone, able to teach and be patient, instructing opponents with gentleness. This is with the hope that God will grant them repentance to know the truth. "Then they may come to their senses and escape the Devil's trap, having been captured by him to do his will."
1 Peter 16, "for it is written, Be holy, because I am holy."
1 John, 1:5 – 1:10, “Now this is the message we have heard from Him and declare to you: God is light, and there is absolutely no darkness in Him. If we say, "We have fellowship with Him," and walk in darkness, we are lying and are not practicing the truth. But if we walk in the light as He Himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say, "We have no sin," we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say, "We have not sinned," we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.”
