BALTIMORE. Md. - Controversial comments have surfaced in connection with the upcoming vote on same sex marriage in Maryland.
In a taped speech earlier this month, a local pastor said people who engage in homosexual behavior are "worthy of death" and he says, so are people who support them.
The referendum on same sex marriage will appear as "question six" on your ballot when you go to the polls.
8 comments:
According to my religion I agree. the Lord crush the city sodom.
VOTE NO on 6 + 7...also NO on the DREAM act unless you like high taxes.
Agreed again. I'm having trouble with the last one though, Question D. I cannot seem to find how the law is written now. How can I vote to change or modify a law if I cannot find the existing version? Can anyone get me a link?
How embarrassing for Christianty.
I'm also confused on the questions A-D. The ballot information I got in the mail explains questions 1-7, but I want the others written out so I know what I'm for or against when I'm at the polls. I know how I'm voting on 1-7, but A-D, I want more info!
This is disgusting and I question the sanity of any "Christian" that would advocate killing anyone.
There is a difference between supporting the actual sin of homosexuality and support the right of gay people to be able to enter into a union. The government is not church, nor should it act like one. Just because the dominant number of citizens in Maryland are christians does not mean that the state should automatically adopt law based on the religious affiliation and the laws thereof.
This is a Constitutional Republic we live in, not a theocracy or a republic based on the bible. Laws do not have to meet biblical standards, but constitutional ones. The government should not make a distinction between a person's gender and their ability to enter into a marriage contract. It's as simple as that. I do not feel that stating as much in any way encourages or approves of the gay lifestyle. Instead it is an admittion that gay people exist and have the same constitutional rights as citizens as straight people do. That's it. That's the only thing this law is about or should be about.
People against this law are not bigots (as many have said) and people for it are not worthy of death- as this pastor states. The fringes are just that. We can get along as people and disagree on this law. We don't need more absurd finger pointing that does nothing but create space between otherwise neighborly folks.
I'm OK with the government establishing their own policy of civil unions....Marriage is not a civil union - it is of God - that does NOT condone homosexual behavior.
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