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June 26th, 2013
11:53 AM ET
`Jesus wept' or tears of joy? Faithful react to gay marriage rulingsBy Daniel Burke, CNN (CNN) As news broke of the big Supreme Court rulings on gay marriage, religious leaders took to Twitter to express joyous praise or strong condemnation. http://storify.com/danielsburke/religious-reaction-to-scotus-decisions |
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There's this calculus party, and all the functions are invited.
ln(x) is talking to some trig functions, when he sees his friend ex sulking in a corner.
ln(x): "What's wrong ex?"
ex: "I'm so lonely!"
ln(x): "Well, you should go integrate yourself into the crowd!"
ex looks up and cries, "It won't make a difference!"
John is 7 1/2 Amanda is 27 3/4.
Why do you need to know where her husband is?
I laughed.
It looks like a lot of whackjobs will have to cling to their guns and bibles a lot harder tonight. Watch out, the gays are gonna git ya!
So much ado about something that doesn't impact their lives at all.
F you buddy. I am a life member of the NRA and I rejoice at this ruling. Don't stereotype pal.
God says marriage is between a man and a woman. His opinion is the only one that matters.
But there is no god.
The gods never said that. Salomon had 300 wives and no gods objected. The Patriarchs had multiple wives, and no gods objected. This is NOT a theocracy. If you want to live in a theocracy, move to Iran, and see how you like them apples.
And for the people who say there is a God – they don't agree on the subject. Good case you have there, Robert.
Nowhere in the bible does it say one man one woman. Quote the exact verse that says that. It doesn't exist, and you know it.
Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubine. Bible never said he was wrong to do that.
The bible also says you can't wear clothing from two different fibers. Do you follow that? I bet you don't.
The bible says not to eat shellfish. Do you follow that? I bet you don't.
The bible says not to cut your hair. Do you follow that? I bet you don't.
So, since you aren't following the bible, who are you tell others to? Your hypocrisy is laughable and incredibly transparent.
Where does your imaginary friend say that???
If there is a god, as we have no evidence of one – how do you know its opinion and when did it authorize you to speak for it?
@robert...........Not according to the supreme court!
Robert, sweetie, your god doesn't make laws for us. The courts do.
If God told you to kill yourself would you?
So it looks like the Catholics are REALLY REALLY REALLY scared all their sheeps are gonna run out and "turn gay".
Says a LOT about the mentality and education levels of their Rome appointed bishops.
Gov. Mike Huckabee,
You've been in here entirely too long.
The bishop is exactly right. Anyone in ministry who says otherwise is a false prophet, a wolf in sheep's clothing, who is accursed (i.e., damned to Hell). And anyone who thinks this is a good thing is also accursed as are the Supreme Curt Justices who made the ruling AND the Democrats who saw to it that the court was stocked with such grossly depraved personns and morally bankrupt activist judges.
Wrong. It was unconstitutional. End of story.
The laws in the Old Testament came from an ancient culture, which is why they ended up in the Bible.
The Bible was NOT the origin of the customs. No one "accursed". "Judge not lest ye be judged".
There is no reason modern humans need to live by a book of ancient customs, which were then later sanctioned by a religion.
Religion was not the origin of the customs. NOTHING in the Bible was unique. Everything came from the culture.
There were three levels of abominations. This was the lowest, equal to eating with an Egyptian. There was no notion of "se'xual orientation". The law was against assumed STRAIGHT men having s'ex with straight men.
Janie: How very blessed you must be as it appears that God came to you and delegated to you His right to pass judgment and to proclaim who is a sinner and cursed. That is what has happened, isn't it? Why don't you just accept what you vindictive, self-righteous, biased, hate-filled Bible beaters always say when someone encounters a consequence they didn't want or a cross to bear: "It's God's Will."
Janie, only God knows who is going to Hell and who is not. Your bigotry is not welcome here.
You think Democratic presidents appointed the majority of the SCOTUS?
'AND the Democrats who saw to it that the court was stocked with such grossly depraved personns and morally bankrupt activist judges.'
Looks like you are a reviler, and revilers are specifically mentioned in the bible as those that will not go to heaven. Looks like you are just as 'morally bankrupt'.
sorry, not my rules you understand.
Janie, can you justify DOMA using the Constitution? Please do so. Otherwise, stuff it.
Jesus? That long-haired druggie who claimed he could walk on water?
That boy be long dead, and he be as dry as a bone. No tears coming out of those bird-pecked eyes.
Seriously folks, grow up. It is fun to believe in Santa Claus until about age 8, but seriously ... there ain't no ghosts, there ain't no goblins, no trolls, no fairies, no angels.
Sorry to have to break it to ya ... but some of us live in the real world.
No goblins???
Nope, no goblins. And besides Joe Montana and Barry Bonds, no Gods either.
It gets worse ... next thing you know, someone is going to legalize women and minorities voting.
Yes ... this is a brave new world.
Homophobia re-defined: The fear that gay men are going to treat you the way you treat women and that a lesbian will treat your woman better than you do.
HS, Lollygag; LionlyLoser: Without using your buybull, please enlighten us as to what your personal reasons are for opposing the LGBT.
IF you want a real laugh look this up "The Straight Woman's Worst Nightmare Just Got Real Lesbiany"
and you American Christians are doing soooooo great at marriage ...
Luke 16:18
Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and the man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
You know what mouth? I'd be thrilled to support the new news of success for the GLBT community which includes my friends, but when you sling hate at "American Christians" you happen to ALSO be slinging hate at my grandparents who, by the way do not oppose marriage equality. Don't assume dude, honestly.
- Sarcasm ON
Is this not proof that Obama is the anti-christ ? Charasmatic speaker that is controlling the other branches of government to wreak havoc upon the American people ?? and espcially xtians??
Jesus' second coming must be close. The rapture is near !! The end times are upon us
- Sarcasm OFF
– Sarcasm ON...............Oh yea no doubt. Obama has super magical powers. – Sarcasm OFF Think about it though, Obama can control the IRS, Supreme Court, etc. but yet can't get congress to pass a job bill.
Or get them to pass any meaningful gun control legislation
Well, one can see the cycle.
White horse Bush I
Red Horse Clinton
Black horse Bush II
Pale horse Obama
Next on the agenda is the slaughter of Christians. Get OUT of the churches. Why make it easy for the little antichrists??
What color is pale, lol??
Not to mention that the 1000 years of peace isn't here.
Keep reaching.
Your persecution complex is strong today.
What makes you think that Revelation was talking about the US, lol?? Man, you are quite insane.
lollygag: Poor persecuted christards! One more thing in the grand book of delusions that the courts have denied as being good and beneficial. No-one wants you dead, we just want the religion dead and that will happen in time...we are a patient group.
Rumour has it it's green as in greenbacks, as in the biggest spender in wurld history, well maybe not if you count Solomon.
Congress approves all expeditures, lol??. Basic Government 101. Try again.
Akira is right: keep reaching. Maybe you'll grab the gold ring of bs sometime.
Human dignity has been ruled constitutional in the United States.
and lets not forget "equality"
Want to know what else quashes human rights and has no dignity? Islam. Now shut up and quit pretending to be Muslim.
It's no surprise that the country is rejoicing. But then, this culture thinks entirely out of its pants. It can't tell the difference between love and an orgasm.
equal rights always bother bigots
Equal wrongs will take you further in this wurld.
by his words, your god thinks like this country it seems ...
Ezekiel 23:20
There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.
{!}, who are you to make the decision on which is which? Do you really believe your opinion is the one that laws should be based on?
Further dunce-talk gets you zero credibility, Lollipop.
apparently {!} has never had either love or an orgasm
You're the idiots who can't tell love from an orgasm. Do you think sex is what this is about? News flash for you: If that was all that mattered, gays wouldn't care about getting married. Is YOUR marriage only about orgasms? Don't be such a fvckwit.
There is nothing wrong about equal rights.
tom ever the compassionate humanist lol makes all atheists look like rubbish take yer meds
Conservative Christians would have no clue about an orgasm because they never had one with a human.
Hi Jack
I guess the religious whack jobs didn't pray hard enough for the supreme court to rule the way they wanted.This proves that PRAYER DOESN'T WORK. Now if God was really against the ruling he would give a symbol showing his unhappiness. Now gays and lesbians can be unhappy in marriage just like straight people. Gays and lesbians can marry for money, healthcare and citizenship just like straight people. Make you wonder why anyone gets married?
there's thunder and lightning here at my house. Could that be the Christian god's displeasure? Or is that just Thor?
@dog...........God must be pis'sed all the time because we've had thunder and lightning since the beginning of time.
It is my blood-brother's son Thor... the god of thunder... striking the firmament with his mighty hammer Mjolnir...
We've got all mannerisms of physical sensualities within mankind's communal domains. But the spiritual sensualities require everyone to accentuate above physical normality's sensual degradations found disturbingly below us within the animal kingdoms.
Blah, blah, blah. Gay marriage is legal in CA, LL. DOMA is dead. You're irrelevant.
So you admit to ra.ping your sheep?
@lion.................You're still spouting bu'll Sh'it. Your god just told you to go fvck yourself with this ruling. Do us all a favor, Tear up your bible (or better yet burn it) Deal with the reality that when you get to heaven, GAYS AND LESBIANS WILL BE THERE WITH YOU. 🙂 🙂 🙂
Sensualistic animalisms should not be a human tradition to be found prideful of.
"Sensualistic animalisms should not be a human tradition to be found prideful of."
Nor is the slavish devotion to iron age comic books
@lion..........Boo hoo.
Ken Margo wrote to lionlylamb stating, "You're still spouting bu'll Sh'it. Your god just told you to go fvck yourself with this ruling."
Speaking of crap,,,
Comparing gay people to animals is a very narrow and bigoted view, ll, not to mention that there is gay behavior in every faction OF the animal kingdom. As is hetero behavior.
Human ARE animals, ll. Time you learned that, big guy.
Akira wrote, "Comparing gay people to animals is a very narrow and bigoted view, ll, not to mention that there is gay behavior in every faction OF the animal kingdom. As is hetero behavior. Human ARE animals."
Where within the above posts of mine did I ever 'single-out' gays? We, yes, are emotionally enticed to be physically sensualistic yet in the spiritually wise concentrations of many folks; physical sensuality is not a social issue to be prideful of.
Akira
That one pushed ll over the edge and chad should know that by now .
'Sensualistic animalisms should not be a human tradition to be found prideful of.'
Why not?
God be merciful to me a sinner.
Luke 18:
9 And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:
10 Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.
11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.
12 I fast twice in the week, I give t.ithes of all that I possess.
13 And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
Ezekiel 23:20
There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.
Psalm 137, 9:
Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
Leviticus 19:27
Do not cut the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.
LOL.... how's that praying working out for you?
sin is a man made concept, robert. so is heaven, hell and god
if you weren't indoctrinated into the christian religion as a child, do you think you would have adopted it?
you have stated that you never seriously considered the possibility that there is no god
why not:?
were your ancestors slaves, robert?
that would explain the slave religion
Dyslexic, without the context those sound real rough.
Lucifer’s,
Praying works great, thanks.
come on, robert....try not to be yet another cowardly christian trolll
do you think you would have become a christian if you were not raised in the church?
sam stone,
I don’t have any way of knowing if I would be a Christian now, if I hadn’t been raised by Christians.
It would be difficult for me to seriously consider the possibility that there is no God because he is here with me right this second.
I don’t know if any of my ancestors were slaves. As far as it was traced back there weren’t any, but if you go back far enough, who knows?
"Praying works great, thanks."
If god is omniscient, how is prayer NOT blasphemy?
Do you claim to know better than god?
Perhaps with this ruling, we can see that not enough prayer was expended to defeat it
How do you tell the difference between an answer of "No" and no answer?
"It would be difficult for me to seriously consider the possibility that there is no God because he is here with me right this second."
Look up "confirmation bias" and get back to me.
I think if we go back far enough, most of us had ancestors who were slaves
sam stone,
He wants us to pray. Prayer isn’t just asking for, it is also listening.
No, I don’t know better than God.
God always answers.
My ancestors were Conquistadors and Germanic Knights... warriors, not slaves...
And why should we care what two cons-ens-ual adults do in privacy??
For both heterose-xuals and ho-mo-se-xuals:
The reality of se-x, abortion, contraception and STD/HIV control: – from an agnostic guy who enjoys intelligent se-x-
Note: Some words hyphenated to defeat an obvious word filter. ...
The Brutal Effects of Stupidity:
: The failures of the widely used birth "control" methods i.e. the Pill (8.7% actual failure rate) and male con-dom (17.4% actual failure rate) have led to the large rate of abortions and S-TDs in the USA. Men and women must either recognize their responsibilities by using the Pill or co-ndoms properly and/or use safer methods in order to reduce the epidemics of abortion and S-TDs.- Failure rate statistics provided by the Gut-tmacher Inst-itute. Unfortunately they do not give the statistics for doubling up i.e. using a combination of the Pill and a condom.
Added information before making your next move:
"Se-xually transmitted diseases (STDs) remain a major public health challenge in the United States. While substantial progress has been made in preventing, diagnosing, and treating certain S-TDs in recent years, CDC estimates that approximately 19 million new infections occur each year, almost half of them among young people ages 15 to 24.1 In addition to the physical and psy-ch-ological consequences of S-TDs, these diseases also exact a tremendous economic toll. Direct medical costs as-sociated with STDs in the United States are estimated at up to $14.7 billion annually in 2006 dollars."
See also: http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/26/opinion/bolan-se-xual-health/index.html?hpt=hp_t4
And from:
"Adolescents don’t think or-al se-x is something to worry about (even though is becoming a major cause of throat cancer)," said Bonnie Halpern-Felsher professor of pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco. "They view it as a way to have intimacy without having 's-ex.'" (Maybe it should be called the Bill Clinton Syndrome !!)
Obviously, political leaders in both parties, Planned Parenthood, parents, the "stupid part of the USA" and the educational system have failed miserably on many fronts.
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Footballer Aaron Hernandez arrested for murdering 27-year-old Odin Lloyd last week. Lloyd's sister, Olivia Thibou, said she was glad to hear about Hernandez's arrest. "God is great," she said.
So ... the omnipotent Christian god who controls everything ... he must have consciously caused or knowingly allowed or unwittingly did not prevent the slaughter of Olivia's brother. And she thinks he's "great"
what a brainwashed bunch you are!
With a little more maturity you'll realize that not everyone who disagrees with you is brainwashed. And your theology comes from The Little Pop-Up Book of Athiest Sayings. God can control everything, but does not. That is why you are a free agent.
My thoughts exactly... e.g. "god is great for sparing my famiiy" but they never say "god is a SOB for indiscriminatly wiping out my town" or... "why did god kill my fellow christians, but failed to kill those evil gay atheists?"
It's ATHEIST, Einstein.
@! – and you ridiculous book of fairy tales is better?
So what's the athiest saying in the little pop-up book – you know, the one that's the most athy of them all?
The Little Pop-Up Book of Atheist Sayings is a one liner
"THERE IS NO GOD!"
There are no gods...
Did someone say POP-UP Book? You mean the one called the bible? I have one, but for some reason most of it is filled with graphic scenes of torture and killings.
Why would your god allow the following:
Number of god's creations who died horrible deaths from the following diseases:
1. 300,000,000 approx.
Smallpox
2. 200,000,000 ?
Measles
3. 100,000,000 approx.
Black Death
4. 80,000,000–250,000,000
Malaria
5. 50,000,000–100,000,000
Spanish Flu
6. 40,000,000–100,000,000
Plague of Justinian
7. 40,000,000–100,000,000
Tuberculosis
8. 30,000,000[13]
AIDS pandemic
9. 12,000,000 ?
Third Pandemic of Bubonic Plague
10. 5,000,000
Antonine Plague
11. 4,000,000
Asian Flu
12. 250,000 or more annually Seasonal influenza
Yes Jebus is great. He sends a tornado and kills 100 babies, but saves 2 people. Yes indeed. Jebus is merciful.
God is not a puppet-master. You can choose to do good or evil, but the consequences are not the same.
I don't understand how you alleged, critical thinkers can believe that the universe just is and you just exist without any beginning or cause. THAT'S illogical.
Do dictators care 'bout rights??
No. Thankfully, we don't live a country that is under a dictatorship. As today's ruling indicated.
Your's doesn't.
Mine is the same as yours.
Apparently gay people are hard to offend. For the last forty years, the rest of society has been working overtime to make marriage unnecessary and irrelevant. 60% divorce rate. Wife swapping in the 70s. Back then a few bold people said,
" It's only a piece of paper lets shack up." Next, many thousands doing the same thing. It went from "We can think for ourselves !" to "But everyone's doing it." Sheep. And now, this culture invites gay people to be a part of this frivolous sham called marriage.
And who was it that made "marriage" the worthless frivolous sham you describe?
At least 80% of the people that did that were Christians.
This is nothing more than the federal government giving into the Gay Militia's threats.
Next they'll be mincing in formation all the way down to the schools where they'll try and recruit our children.
Well I for one won't allow it, no matter how fabulous the uniforms are.
wow.
just ... wow.
Yeah, Doc, summer school just let out for the day.
You mean the same schools where Christians want to recruit the children into the Christian Militia, by imposing their religion on the students with daily prayer?
I've seen Doc post for a couple of years now... and I can say that you are a handle stealing troll
Lol- what did Lewis Black say the "threat" was – Gay Bandidos?
Oh I thought he was just being "Colbert-like".
the mauve army
This is a handle-stealing troll. Isn't Doc from Canada, where gay marriage has been legal for some time?
This is definitely a troll stealing Doc's handle.
Doc is from Ontario, Canada. Gay marriage has been legal here since the early 2000's.
"Colbert-like" would be funny... but this post is atypical of Doc
How do you know how fab their uniforms are? Were you trying them on? I bet you looked divine....