The quotes attributed to me in this article came from my blog post at thomascwaters.com. I’m glad to see the content used here as those ideas align with the comments I made at the protest as well as inside the stockholders meeting. However, I feel it is disingenuous to portray Target as remaining neutral on the gay marriage ban. Those were the words used by the CEO, but they are just empty words when viewed in light of Targets actual actions. By knowingly turning a blind towards politician’s stance on civil rights issues, like equality for the LGBT community including marriage equality, but still funding them, Target is an accomplice in efforts designed to harm the LGBT community and that is not a neutral stance at all.
Target can do better at growing profits and improving sales by distancing itself as a corporation from politicians and social agendas are designed to segregate and marginalize portions of their customers such as gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people.
For someone who thinks they know alot about the bible,you know very little. The old testament says alot about sexual perversion and fornafication.Did you skip the part in the old testament about Sodom and Gimorra. He destroyed the whole city with fire balls hurled from heaven. They where having orgies and same gender sex. It was an abombanation in the eyes of god. Yes we are created in the image of God, but your sexual preference has nothing to do with that, that is your choice just as Adam and Eve chose to eat from the forbidden tree. We live in a sinful world and Jesus came to earth to be a sacrafice and defeat sin, meaning he became the bridge to heaven so that all we needed to do was to ask him for forgiveness of our sin and to sin no more, not to keep living in the sin over and over. Gods laws are not the laws of this world. You need to find out what Gods laws are if you ever what to meet him in Heaven, but it seems like to me you want to please the flesh and not the God that loves you! God loves the sinner but hates the sin! For your information, The constitution was written with God in mind . They were God fearing men who prayed before writting any Bill or Law. Many years after they were dead and gone, man misinterpreted what the forefathers meant. You seem to be an intelligent person, just read some of their writting for yourself. They had brilliant minds, not like these idiot polititions of today.
While the old testament says to stone folks like you, I am not a perfect Bible reader. I am a Christian and we lean over backwards to forgive. LBGT has had a license to do what they pretty much please in this society for far too long. I believe you have certain rights as defined in the Constitution and no more. Society has given you the world at the expense of God fearing people. It is written that those who sleep (have carnal knowledge) with same sex people are in violation with fundamental laws as given by God. He will be your judge as he is certainly judge of us all. You make your peace and your case with Him. Stay out of my childrens’ school rooms and their heads. If it were “natural” for same sex people to mate, children would be born without both a mother and a father and it wouldn’t be deemed a sin in God’s Word!.
Actually the Old Testament doesn’t say anything about “folks like you.” What we know as Gay and Lesbians didn’t really exist in the time era covered by the Old Testament. There were individuals who had same-sex affections, and loved members of the same sex. In the Bible, we see these romances illustrated in the stories of Ruth and Naomi and Jonathan and David for example. But there is no hebrew word for gay and lesbian. No hebrew term for homosexual.
Even if there were however, God’s gift in the sacrifice of his Son , the Christ created a new covenant, which rendered Hebrew Law as not applicable any longer. The followers of Christ have struggled with this since the time of Paul and Peter.
One of the cornerstones of our constitution is the freedom of religion and the freedom from religion. So, it is really irrelevant what you claim the Old Testament does or doesn’t say.
The Constitution is also a living document with the ability to be amended, precisely so that the basis of it can continue to be applied to our current and future social needs. Civil Marriage has been labeled as a constitutional right by the Courts, and same-sex couples are simply asking to be treated just like anyone else. You didn’t mention what the Biblical punishment was for adultery, nor divorce, yet divorced people are permitted to marry. Adulterers are permitted to marry. It isn’t the government’s role to force any one religious set of beliefs onto everyone.
In the end, we each face God on our own. I will stand before my Maker as you will stand before your Maker. We will each be held accountable for the way we have lived our own lives, not based on the way we sought to control the lives of others. I have no doubt that God created me in God’s image and that includes my sexual orientation.
Over the centuries, close-minded fearful people who didn’t have real Faith have tried to force their beliefs onto others. Consider how hard the Church worked to hold that the Earth was flat and that the Sun circled around the Earth. But eventually, even the Religious had to accept Science and admit that the Earth circles around the Sun. At another point, left-handedness was seen as a sign of a demon. Eventually, we will understand genetics, and biochemistry and development enough to see that Sexual Orientation is natural, and that for the whole of God’s creation, there is a place for heterosexuals, homosexuals, and bisexuals. It isn’t a matter of one or the other, but all are part of the fullness of God’s creation.
You really have a mixed up and non-Christian idea of Sin! Unless you are reading the original Hebrew, Greek or Aramaic, please do not even begin to tell me what is in “God’s word, because YOU DON’T REALLY KNOW. According to that same Bible , we are all sinners, and all sin. You are no less a sinner or have no less sin than I. Get to work at taking the log out of your own eye before you worry about the spline in mine.
Civil Marriage has nothing to do with the Bible or God.
Have a great day.