Comments on: Baptist Pastor In Texas Running As A Democrat?

By: Pyst

Pyst — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 13:09:34 +0000

Single issue voting is exactly how we got the mess we have.

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By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 02:48:46 +0000

I would hope that the Rev would be more upset about abortion, considering it kills a living human being, than adultery, which can indeed rend families but everyone has a chance to heal. It should have no bearing that he’s a pastor – I’d rather have a Wiccan pro-lifer in office than a dodgy Baptist pro-choicer. (And who is this man to think that he’s going to regulate adultery beyond the usual family stuff in court?)

By: Pyst

Pyst — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:53:29 +0000

And what of the non-religious citizens of this country, that don’t partake in adultery, gambling,drugs, or physical abuse? But wonder why religious leaders turn a blind eye to obvious violations of their own relgions, and then want those religions enforced on all regardless of some of those citizens NOT being followers Rev.

I call it selective morality, and hypocracy.

By: BrianOfAtlanta

BrianOfAtlanta — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:30:21 +0000

Matt, I also was a bit confused by Horn’s explanation for why he’s running as a Democrat. He’s certainly free to do so, but since he felt the need to explain his decision, it would help if the explanation made sense. He’s a Baptist preacher who decided to run as a Democrat in a heavily Republican district for reasons of his own. So what?

As for sin, God doesn’t make distinctions as to degree*. We as humans tend to rank them on a scale, but it’s all the same to God. Cheating on your taxes will condemn you to Hell just as quickly and surely as murdering someone in cold blood. Homosexuality has several scriptures warning against it, but drunkenness has more.

*With one exception.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 06:00:10 +0000

Umm, Citizen, I think you missed the tongue in cheek part of my comment. I just get so very tired of the moral oneupsmanship. I’d kill for a candidate with the occasional idea rather than the usual platitudes.

I was just saying that the uppity tone of the post, assuming that all males on the so-called religious right cheat on their wives, was just a bit ludicrous. Painting with a large brush merely makes the artist look untalented.

By: Rev. Don Spitz

Rev. Don Spitz — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 04:04:54 +0000

Another homosexual thinks he is better than anyone else just because he is a sodomite. Well sodomite, see what the Holy Bible has to say about your sex preversion. Whatever you think, you will not be able to change God’s Word regarding homosexuality and will one day have to pay the price for not believing what God has written.

Leviticus 18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

Leviticus 20:13 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.

Romans 1:22-27

V22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, V23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

V24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

V25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, Who is blessed for ever. Amen.

V26 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:

V27 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.

1 Timothy 1:8-10

V8 But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;

V9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

V10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;

1 Corinthians 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind

SAY THIS PRAYER: Dear Jesus, I am a sinner and am headed to eternal hell because of my sins. I believe you died on the cross to take away my sins and to take me to heaven. Jesus, I ask you now to come into my heart and take away my sins and give me eternal life.

By: Charles Jordan

Charles Jordan — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 03:40:50 +0000

Republicans don’t focus on what really destroys families: gambling addictions, drug addictions, physical abuse, and adultery.

The GOP sticks with the easy ones: gays and abortion, and single moms.

I guess it’s much easier for straight men to define what’s destroying the country once they take themselves out of consideration.

By: CitizzenQ

CitizzenQ — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 03:30:03 +0000

Matt,

Are you claiming that America’s institutionalized “oppression” with all our fancy anti-discrimination laws is equivalent to Sharia death laws against women and homosexuals? If not, I don’t think that your extrapolation fits the curve.

By: CaliBlogger

CaliBlogger — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 03:15:21 +0000

Much has been written about the many “fighting Dems” running in 2006 as a strategy to shore up the security cred of the party. Perhaps this will turn into a new trend: “preaching Dems”.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 02:45:37 +0000

Yes, and as long as America is oppressing females and gays, we certainly have no right to call attention to conditions suffered by Saudi women.

According to this guy, nobody would be allowed to speak about anything. First stone and all that.