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Should churches be forced to perform gay marriages?

Should churches be forced to perform gay marriages?

  • Im a right leaning American, yes.

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Im not American, yes.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    93
Character assassination from Kobie. Not surprised. Its easier that way isn't it Kobie?

Gnnnh.

In the linked piece from The Blaze (should have been the first clue), Walsh was quite obviously using unsound arguments in a facetious tone. Sorry you don't like that it was called out for what it is.

I knew that article would strike a nerve. :mrgreen:

"Strike a nerve" is not a synonym for "set off the bull**** alarm."
 
Nearly 300 posts later, and a poll about an entirely fictional scenario that will never happen is still being debated.
 
Nope. If it was I wouldn't fund liberal schemes.

So you are a prisoner being held against your will then. Would you like us to call the police for you?
 
Gnnnh.

In the linked piece from The Blaze (should have been the first clue), Walsh was quite obviously using unsound arguments in a facetious tone. Sorry you don't like that it was called out for what it is.



"Strike a nerve" is not a synonym for "set off the bull**** alarm."

Kobie, you are inflamed to the point of gibberish.
 
Translation=Damn that guy gets under my skin! :damn

nobody honest, educated and objective would ever think that LOL

sooo we are still waiting
. . .do you have anything accurate, factual and logical that supports churches will be forced? its weird you keep dodging this request?
if you do, please post it in your next post . . thank you
 
To clarify, one does not need to pay tithing to be a Mormon. Anyone who has ever been baptized into this church, and who has not subsequently either been excommunicated (which requires one to have committed a far greater offense than failing to pay tithing) nor undergone a specific process of being voluntarily removed from membership in the church, is a Mormon.

Paying tithing is one of the criteria by which one is judged to be in good enough standing with the church to be eligible for a Temple recommend, or to hold certain positions in the church. There is nothing more done to verify that a member has paid a full and honest tithe than to ask him. I do not know of any circumstances in which any official of the church would ever ask to see a member's tax returns or other such documentation.

You left out the fact that you may not attend temple if you don't tithe and that tithing is also called "fire insurance" since you are told you will be burned alive on judgement day if you don't tithe. Also there is a "review" every December to determine if you have paid enough. It is estimated that the LDS takes in $7 to 8 Billion a year from tithes. It sounds like a racket more than a religion to me. Church "donations" should be made voluntarily from the heart and not out of fear of damnation or being ostracized. Don't you think? Could your God be so petty as to set you afire because you paid only 8% instead of 10?
 
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The odd thing is that other nations actually enforce immigration laws. Citizenship in another nation is quite expensive and difficult to obtain-though it is possible.

Instead of leaving, I prefer to minimize the dangers of leftism here in the USA. Its my country. :2wave:

It is your country but not your ideology. Your ideology died in the ashes of the Great Depression. May it rest in peace,
 
You left out the fact that you may not attend temple if you don't tithe and that tithing is also called "fire insurance" since you are told you will be burned alive on judgement day if you don't tithe. Also there is a "review" every December to determine if you have paid enough. It is estimated that the LDS takes in $7 to 8 Billion a year from tithes. It sounds like a racket more than a religion to me. Church "donations" should be made voluntarily from the heart and not out of fear of damnation or being ostracized. Don't you think? Could your God be so petty as to set you afire because you paid only 8% instead of 10?

Your repeated lies and distortions about my faith are off-topic in this thread, and would be so even if they were true. I will not contribute any more to your efforts to derail this thread in this direction.

I called you on your lies once, and I'm not playing this game wirh you any longer.
 
Your repeated lies and distortions about my faith are off-topic in this thread, and would be so even if they were true. I will not contribute any more to your efforts to derail this thread in this direction.

I called you on your lies once, and I'm not playing this game wirh you any longer.

Fair enough. If you want to believe you can buy your way into heaven that is your right of course.
 
Damn, can't see the names for the people who voted "yes" except for like one or two.

We could have had a better idea of who the real authoritarians around here are Oh well.

Anyway, hell no. How anyone could agree to this is a mystery to me, at least anyone that gives a **** about a "free and open society." Thank God for the constitution.

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63 people voted "yes," that's pretty damn scary.
 
Damn, can't see the names for the people who voted "yes" except for like one or two.

We could have had a better idea of who the real authoritarians around here are Oh well.

Anyway, hell no. How anyone could agree to this is a mystery to me, at least anyone that gives a **** about a "free and open society." Thank God for the constitution.

EDIT:

63 people voted "yes," that's pretty damn scary.
Seems scary to me as well. Someone's high jinks?
 
Damn, can't see the names for the people who voted "yes" except for like one or two.

We could have had a better idea of who the real authoritarians around here are Oh well.

Anyway, hell no. How anyone could agree to this is a mystery to me, at least anyone that gives a **** about a "free and open society." Thank God for the constitution.

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63 people voted "yes," that's pretty damn scary.

nobody vote yes the poll was spammed and the one identified yes vote was a accident
 
Nice. The only thing lefties and righties can agree on is that churches should not be forced to marry gays.
 
No they should not be forced... If the church wants to fine but to impose an ethical law like that is crazy because I mean technically if this law is in ace they are not freely able to express their beliefs assuming they agree that the Bible says it is a sin.... Anyway just saying xP
 
Fair enough. If you want to believe you can buy your way into heaven that is your right of course.

um you do no only a couple of things will send you to a non fiery but permanently unpleasant afterlife in his religion right? you know they got like several different heavenly kingdoms and you just need observe all of the right practices to get into the top 1 right?
 
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