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Celebrating
that one unaccountable man has redefined more than six thousand years
of tradition from across the width and breadth of human society with one
stroke of a single pen.

Seems more than a little ridiculous to me.  To say nothing of arrogant and presumptuous in the extreme.

I’ve seen a lot of hate and viciousness since yesterday afternoon.  Most of it seems to be coming from those who were most clamoring for “equality of love”.  I can’t understand that.  Or maybe I can and I don’t care to articulate why… because what would be the point?

It’s
not same-gender marriage.  Same-gender marriage is a contradiction.  It’s an
oxymoron.  It is something so illogical that it cannot exist.  There will be consequences. Legal and
otherwise.  Especially legal.  Ramifications for both “sides” of this debate.

Personally, I’m not worried at all about yesterday.  Marriage is something beyond human establishment.  It’s untouchable. 

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A&E fired the star of not just its #1-rated series, but the top-rated series in the history of cable television.

That’s not just shooting yourself in the foot; that’s chainsawing your leg off at the hip.

This will go down as the stoopidest move in television programming history.  He could have been less crass about it, but Robertson said nothing any more offensive than the vast majority of other series.  Based on Robertson’s comments, I’d say that he’s expressing the heart of a true Christian: love God, and love each other.  When Phil Robertson said that he has no hate toward anyone else and that God created each of us equal and loves us in spite of how wayward we go from Him, I can’t but trust his heart on the matter.

Let’s say this for what it really is: Phil Robertson and the rest of his family on Duck ...

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I received it during my Eagle Scout ceremony at Fairview Baptist Church in Reidsville, North Carolina on August 16th, 1992.

It immediately went into my wallet.

I have carried my Eagle Scout card with me ever since.  It has been with me through college, across the ocean, through some very dark times and into some very wonderful times.

I’ve never been without it.  I had long planned to someday be buried with it.

Moments ago I removed my Eagle Scout card from my wallet.  I do not plan to carry it with me ever again.

Within the past hour it has been announced that the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America has passed a resolution to allow openly homosexual members.

This is incompatible with the spirit and the meaning of the Scout Oath and the Scout Law.  The principles of Scouting are about being the best that God ...

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Jason Collins is no Jackie Robinson.

In 1947 there was an institutionalized discrimination against non-white athletes playing in major league sports.  Jackie Robinson broke through that barrier not because he happened to have been a black man but because he was very, very good at playing baseball.

In 2013 there is no institutionalized discrimination against gay athletes, lesbian athletes, bisexual athletes or transgender athletes.

So what does Jason Collins think he is proving by telling everyone “I’m gay”?

Does that make him a better basketball player?  I thought the whole point of sports as a multi-billion dollar commercial venture was to hire the best players possible, manage the team to the best of your ability and turn a profit by winning lots of games, selling lots of tickets and letting fans buy lots of over-priced beer.

So where does “I’m gay” figure into the scheme?

I’ve worked many jobs over ...

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If true… IF this is at all true… this represents the most insane turn of events that I have ever seen coming out of the Boy Scouts of America in my thirty-some years affiliated with the organization.

The honor of a Boy Scout, painting by Norman Rockwell

First, I wish to direct your attention to an article by Austin Ruse on the website for Catholic publication Crisis Magazine.  Titled “Something Rotten in the Boy Scouts”, Ruse raises a red flag about apparent manipulation of data at the Boy Scouts home office regarding the possible change of policy that would allow boys of homosexual orientation to have membership in the Boy Scouts.

Awright, let me be put it this way: the home office is ignoring the data from its own survey!  From the article:

There’s deception going on in the front office of the Boy Scouts. It includes

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The Boy Scouts of America has been a part of my life since I was eight years old, in the fall of 1982.  That was more than thirty years ago.

I started in the Cub Scouts.  I earned my Bobcat, Wolf and Bear ranks.  In fifth grade I graduated to the Webelos Scouts and earned the Arrow of Light.  A few months later I became a full-fledged Boy Scout.  And that was one of the happiest points of my childhood.

It was like choosing to be a part of something with high ideals that I would always be striving to understand and fulfill.  I guess you could say it was like being a medieval squire, doing his best and learning all he could and gaining skills and experience.  Until the day when he would be dubbed at last a knight and forever honored as an avatar of virtue, honor and ...

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One of the front-page stories of today’s edition of the (Greensboro, North Carolina) News & Record is about DC Comics delaying publication of science-fiction writer Orson Scott Card’s story for the upcoming first issue of DC Comics’ Adventures of Superman anthology.  Chris Sprouse, the artist assigned to illustrate the story, is refusing to work on grounds that the “controversy” about Card’s publicly-stated beliefs that homosexuality is wrong.  Especially his opposition to “gay marriage” during the lead-up to last year’s amendment to North Carolina’s constitution affirming that legal marriage is between one man and one woman.

You won’t find it in the story posted on the News & Record‘s website, but the article’s synopsis in the print edition reads thusly: “An uproar over author Orson Scott Card’s homophobic views leads illustrator to withdraw.”

“Homophobic”  As in, literally, “Orson Scott Card is in fear of homosexuals”.  The implication being that ...

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And not just legal but apparently endorsed.

Found this on Facebook and it was too good not to share…

Just more proof that if you study the Bible hard enough, if you want to find something, you can find sanctioning for just about ANYTHING in it!

Okay, in all seriousness: I know and would dare say most everyone else knows that the Bible does not condone sexual immorality or drug abuse. But scriptures can… and indeed have… been twisted by selectively choosing out of context and inane literalism to create beliefs and doctrines that have no merit and indeed do not exist from study of the Bible as a whole.

No matter where you’re coming from though, that graphic is still funny 🙂...

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…and you wanna know why?

Because today I just don’t feel like I want to eat chicken.

It has nothing to do at all with the recent statements by the company’s president, Dan Cathy, regarding his beliefs on homosexuality and “gay marriage”. It was a statement of his personal opinion and he’s entitled to have them. Personally, I’m inclined to agree with him, but that’s not the point of this post.

So today has been declared “Let’s Go To Chick-fil-A And Buy Their Food And Show We Support Traditional Families For God And Country Day Hurrah For Us!” or something. It’s in response to the boycott that some “gay rights” groups (I never understood the concept of “gay rights” either: what rights exactly do some homosexuals believe they’re being deprived of? I’ve never seen a “Straights Only” lunch counter in all my years of living in the South of all ...

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