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Is it still ok in America to believe marriage is between man and a women?

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  • Christy 2012/05/10 11:39:25 (edited)
    yes, explain
    Christy
    +10
    That's what I believe in and if people that are gay don't understand that, it's fine with me. I don't jump on the bandwagon like many others do in this country, I believe in tradition and if people don't like it oh well.

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  • Chewy 2012/05/21 04:26:23
  • carrotcat 2012/05/13 05:33:32
    other, I think this
    carrotcat
    Think whatever you want, but I thought this was the "home of the free".
  • Chewy carrotcat 2012/05/21 04:28:11
  • Melizmatic 2012/05/11 17:37:05
    other, I think this
    Melizmatic
    +1
    It's 'okay' for everyone to define what a marriage is to them, and as long as everyone involved is sentient, willing, of age, and human, I really don't care what others do with their personal lives... especially if it doesn't affect me.
  • Katherine the Renaissance W... 2012/05/11 17:17:18 (edited)
    other, I think this
    Katherine the Renaissance Woman
    +2
    I think this topic is becoming spam, quite quickly. I've discussed this five times in the past 3 days, and I'm really done on the matter. When this quiets down, ask this question in like 8 months...

    But for real. It's perfectly fine to believe that marriage is between a man and a woman, but you better not try to dictate your beliefs and shove them down my throat as the ONLY definition there should be. I fight for gay marriage on the idea that marriage comes with legal rights that are denied to homosexual couples because they are denied marriage. If someone were to say, "Okay, Civil Unions have exactly the same legal rights and responsibilities as marriages do", then I might not have to push so strongly to get gay marriage legalized.

    I think marriage should be between any combination of adult male or female, and as such I think legal rights of marriage should be extended to everyone who falls under my definition.
  • *Mahogany Goddess of P.H.A.E.T 2012/05/11 17:06:43
    other, I think this
    *Mahogany Goddess of P.H.A.E.T
    +2
    Yes; it is still ok for you to believe marriage is between a man and a woman. Just like it is ok for others to believe differently. If others believe in gay marriage, well then so be it. This is a Republic; not a Democracy, live your life the way you see fit.
  • Tara-ABO-2012 2012/05/11 08:55:59
    yes, explain
    Tara-ABO-2012
    +2
    It is perfectly fine to believe that marriage is between a man and woman. It is not acceptable to force others to live by that belief. If you believe marriage is between a man and a woman, live your life accordingly.

    I have no issue with people who believe marriage should be between a man and a woman. I have an issue with the people who believe that and try and stop other people from being married because of their beliefs.
  • westernslope~PWCM~JLA 2012/05/11 07:50:58
    yes, explain
    westernslope~PWCM~JLA
    man & woman .... simple family unit
  • mrdog 2012/05/11 07:17:30
    yes, explain
    mrdog
    +1
    Tradition.... rocket science...bark
  • GeorgeAMartini 2012/05/11 06:30:52
    yes, explain
    GeorgeAMartini
    Until the thought police invade our heads.
  • miss Smarty 2012/05/11 06:22:27
    other, I think this
    miss Smarty
    Yes and no. Gay and lesbian people should have the same civil rights as a married couple of a woman and a man. Marriage to me is a sacred word. It means a spiritual and civil union between a man and a woman. Marraige is not the word I would use for a love union between two woman or two man. I am sorry but I was brought up roman Catholic Christian. The church does not support gay marraige. I am also a believer in freedom, equality and what is fair. Gays and lesbians deserve the same civil rights as a married couple.
  • Wonder Woman 2012/05/11 04:09:37
  • Vitalani 2012/05/11 04:00:06
    other, I think this
    Vitalani
    +2
    Think whatever you want. But you're WRONG in 8 states and many parts of Europe, South Africa, the middle east, Latin America, Canada, Asia-Pacific and Central Asia, the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, and Iceland. Among other places. ;-)
  • Cloud 2012/05/11 03:39:11
  • Cloud Cloud 2012/05/11 03:46:50 (edited)
    Cloud
    Oh one more thing Some American white girls and some American white women are mean/or being mean American girls and American women in general and they treat us true good American men like myself like crap and like i said and don't worry i didn't say all i mean some of them/or most of them are not all of them act like this way :).
  • Kat 2012/05/11 03:09:21
    yes, explain
    Kat
    Marriage was made to be between one man & one woman. Period. But, its not like I'm going to walk around complaining about what other people do. What they do is their business.
  • GLaDOS Kat 2012/05/11 17:33:37
    GLaDOS
    Here I thought part of it was one man, several women, and a whole lot of concubines.
  • Kat GLaDOS 2012/05/15 17:18:55
    Kat
    Well you thought wrong. Try again.
  • GLaDOS Kat 2012/05/15 18:28:04
    GLaDOS
    Not according to the bible, I didn't, or various other cultures. ^_^
  • Kat GLaDOS 2012/05/15 18:29:34
    Kat
    I don't know what bible you read. But, the bible I read says marriage is to be between one woman & one man. & that homosexuality is a sin.

    But that's what I believe, you believe what you will. Not my problem. To each their own.
  • GLaDOS Kat 2012/05/15 18:36:16
    GLaDOS
    Where does it say that in the bible? And how many men in the bible had more than one wife at a time?
  • Me 2012/05/11 02:39:57
    yes, explain
    Me
    You can believe what you want
  • justfred 2012/05/11 00:51:03
    yes, explain
    justfred
    +1
    You can believe anything you want. The First Amendment guarantees it.

    Just don't try to force your belief on others in order to take away their rights, though.
  • chicago justfred 2012/05/11 17:01:50
    chicago
    For curiosity's sake, gays being allowed to marry takes away which right of yours?
  • GLaDOS chicago 2012/05/11 17:34:29
    GLaDOS
    Don'tcha know? Then he'd be forced to get married to another man. lol
  • Melizmatic chicago 2012/05/11 17:38:12
    Melizmatic
    I don't think he meant that's what advocating gay marriage does.
  • justfred chicago 2012/05/11 23:16:08
    justfred
    +1
    None. My point is that RESTRICTING people from marrying who they want does. (I think we are on the same side, here).
  • chicago justfred 2012/05/11 23:47:08
    chicago
    Sorry if I came across as bitchy. At times it's difficult to interpret the nuances of the written word, my apologies!
  • Leah 2012/05/11 00:15:11
    yes, explain
    Leah
    +1
    Of course it's OK to believe that. It's not OK to force that belief on everyone, though.
  • Cloud Leah 2012/05/11 03:49:23
    Cloud
    +1
    I agree with you Miss
  • Mark 2012/05/10 23:35:00
    yes, explain
    Mark
    +2
    As long as you also acknowledge that it's okay between two adults of the same gender as well.
  • Jacob 2012/05/10 23:20:21
    yes, explain
    Jacob
    +1
    Of course. 95-99% or even 90% of Americans shouldn't change the definition of marriage just because 1-10% have a different definition.
  • Vitalani Jacob 2012/05/11 04:03:29
    Vitalani
    +1
    Did you know that 99.94758474% of all statistics are pulled out of the purporters rectum?

    Try 41% who have a"different" definition.
  • Jacob Vitalani 2012/05/11 04:17:13
    Jacob
    Fine. Have another definition. Just don't hypocriticaly try to change ours.
  • Vitalani Jacob 2012/05/11 04:21:28
    Vitalani
    +1
    Get your facts straight and no one will have to.
  • GLaDOS Jacob 2012/05/11 17:40:37
    GLaDOS
    The first definition of "marry" is "to join in wedlock." The definition of wedlock, is "marriage." And, the first definition of marriage is "state of being married." That definition is taken out of a dictionary from 1936. Then, as an aside, after a semi-colon, it says "also, the mutual relation of husband and wife, wedlock." So, while some definitions emphasize the gender difference, not all of them do. So, it is an appropriate term.
  • Michael The Archangel 2012/05/10 22:29:22
    yes, explain
    Michael The Archangel
    +2
    Zion or United States, May 10, 2012

    What I the Lord have spoken, I have spoken, and I excuse not myself

    (Doctrine and Covenants | Section 1:38)

    THE EAST WIND OF DESTRUCTION.

    Gay marriage: How Americans, like Obama, are ‘evolving’ on the issue
    http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/t...


    This people of this country and all the nations of the gentiles and/or of the world that suffer these iniquities and abominations to be, should fear and tremble because they have no idea of the sudden destruction that awaits them unless they speedily repent and amend their ways.

    The commandments of God are not suggestions or merely good ideas; they are the constitution of eternal life. And they are non negotiable and no amount of democratic support for wickedness will change that fact anywhere, at any time and in any place. For it is written that the LORD cannot look upon sin with the least degree of allowance and that even if the heavens and the earth shall pass away, but that the word of the LROD shall not pass away and that it shall be fulfilled. And it is also written that if the people sow filthiness they shall reap the EAST WIND, which brings about imminent sudden destruction in the form of the sword, plagues, famine and pestilence among other grievous and desolating judgments and scourges. ...



























































    Zion or United States, May 10, 2012

    What I the Lord have spoken, I have spoken, and I excuse not myself

    (Doctrine and Covenants | Section 1:38)

    THE EAST WIND OF DESTRUCTION.

    Gay marriage: How Americans, like Obama, are ‘evolving’ on the issue
    http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/t...


    This people of this country and all the nations of the gentiles and/or of the world that suffer these iniquities and abominations to be, should fear and tremble because they have no idea of the sudden destruction that awaits them unless they speedily repent and amend their ways.

    The commandments of God are not suggestions or merely good ideas; they are the constitution of eternal life. And they are non negotiable and no amount of democratic support for wickedness will change that fact anywhere, at any time and in any place. For it is written that the LORD cannot look upon sin with the least degree of allowance and that even if the heavens and the earth shall pass away, but that the word of the LROD shall not pass away and that it shall be fulfilled. And it is also written that if the people sow filthiness they shall reap the EAST WIND, which brings about imminent sudden destruction in the form of the sword, plagues, famine and pestilence among other grievous and desolating judgments and scourges. Here is the law and the testimony:

    For behold, the Lord hath said: I will not succor my people in the day of their transgression; but I will hedge up their ways that they prosper not; and their doings shall be as a stumbling block before them.

    And again, he saith: If my people shall sow filthiness they shall reap the chaff thereof in the whirlwind; and the effect thereof is poison. And again he saith: If my people shall sow filthiness they shall reap the east wind, which bringeth immediate destruction.

    And now, behold, the promise of the Lord is fulfilled, and ye are smitten and afflicted.

    But if ye will turn to the Lord with full purpose of heart, and put your trust in him, and serve him with all diligence of mind, if ye do this, he will, according to his own will and pleasure, deliver you out of bondage.

    (Book of Mormon | Mosiah 7:29 - 33)

    And it shall come to pass that I will smite this my people with sore afflictions, yea, with famine and with pestilence; and I will cause that they shall howl all the day long. Yea, and I will cause that they shall have burdens lashed upon their backs; and they shall be driven before like a dumb ass.

    And it shall come to pass that I will send forth hail among them, and it shall smite them; and they shall also be smitten with the east wind; and insects shall pester their land also, and devour their grain. And they shall be smitten with a great pestilence—and all this will I do because of their iniquities and abominations.

    And it shall come to pass that except they repent I will utterly destroy them from off the face of the earth; yet they shall leave a record behind them, and I will preserve them for other nations which shall possess the land; yea, even this will I do that I may discover the abominations of this people to other nations.

    (Book of Mormon | Mosiah 12:4 - 8)

    Now it is not common that the voice of the people desireth anything contrary to that which is right; but it is common for the lesser part of the people to desire that which is not right; therefore this shall ye observe and make it your law—to do your business by the voice of the people.

    And if the time comes that the voice of the people doth choose iniquity, then is the time that the judgments of God will come upon you; yea, then is the time he will visit you with great destruction even as he has hitherto visited this land.

    (Book of Mormon | Mosiah 29:26 - 27)

    HEARKEN, O ye people of my church, saith the voice of him who dwells on high, and whose eyes are upon all men; yea, verily I say: Hearken ye people from afar; and ye that are upon the islands of the sea, listen together. For verily the voice of the Lord is unto all men, and there is none to escape; and there is no eye that shall not see, neither ear that shall not hear, neither heart that shall not be penetrated. And the rebellious shall be pierced with much sorrow; for their iniquities shall be spoken upon the housetops, and their secret acts shall be revealed.

    And the voice of warning shall be unto all people, by the mouths of my disciples, whom I have chosen in these last days. And they shall go forth and none shall stay them, for I the Lord have commanded them.

    Behold, this is mine authority, and the authority of my servants, and my preface unto the book of my commandments, which I have given them to publish unto you, O inhabitants of the earth.

    Wherefore, fear and tremble, O ye people, for what I the Lord have decreed in them shall be fulfilled. And verily I say unto you, that they who go forth, bearing these tidings unto the inhabitants of the earth, to them is power given to seal both on earth and in heaven, the unbelieving and rebellious; Yea, verily, to seal them up unto the day when the wrath of God shall be poured out upon the wicked without measure— Unto the day when the Lord shall come to recompense unto every man according to his work, and measure to every man according to the measure which he has measured to his fellow man.

    Wherefore the voice of the Lord is unto the ends of the earth, that all that will hear may hear: Prepare ye, prepare ye for that which is to come, for the Lord is nigh; And the anger of the Lord is kindled, and his sword is bathed in heaven, and it shall fall upon the inhabitants of the earth. And the arm of the Lord shall be revealed; and the day cometh that they who will not hear the voice of the Lord, neither the voice of his servants, neither give heed to the words of the prophets and apostles, shall be cut off from among the people; For they have strayed from mine ordinances, and have broken mine everlasting covenant; They seek not the Lord to establish his righteousness, but every man walketh in his own way, and after the image of his own god, whose image is in the likeness of the world, and whose substance is that of an idol, which waxeth old and shall perish in Babylon, even Babylon the great, which shall fall.

    Wherefore, I the Lord, knowing the calamity which should come upon the inhabitants of the earth, called upon my servant Joseph Smith, Jun., and spake unto him from heaven, and gave him commandments; And also gave commandments to others, that they should proclaim these things unto the world; and all this that it might be fulfilled, which was written by the prophets— The weak things of the world shall come forth and break down the mighty and strong ones, that man should not counsel his fellow man, neither trust in the arm of flesh— But that every man might speak in the name of God the Lord, even the Savior of the world; That faith also might increase in the earth; That mine everlasting covenant might be established; That the fulness of my gospel might be proclaimed by the weak and the simple unto the ends of the world, and before kings and rulers.

    Behold, I am God and have spoken it; these commandments are of me, and were given unto my servants in their weakness, after the manner of their language, that they might come to understanding. And inasmuch as they erred it might be made known; And inasmuch as they sought wisdom they might be instructed; And inasmuch as they sinned they might be chastened, that they might repent; And inasmuch as they were humble they might be made strong, and blessed from on high, and receive knowledge from time to time. And after having received the record of the Nephites, yea, even my servant Joseph Smith, Jun., might have power to translate through the mercy of God, by the power of God, the Book of Mormon.

    And also those to whom these commandments were given, might have power to lay the foundation of this church, and to bring it forth out of obscurity and out of darkness, the only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth, with which I, the Lord, am well pleased, speaking unto the church collectively and not individually— For I the Lord cannot look upon sin with the least degree of allowance; Nevertheless, he that repents and does the commandments of the Lord shall be forgiven; And he that repents not, from him shall be taken even the light which he has received; for my Spirit shall not always strive with man, saith the Lord of Hosts.

    And again, verily I say unto you, O inhabitants of the earth: I the Lord am willing to make these things known unto all flesh; For I am no respecter of persons, and will that all men shall know that the day speedily cometh; the hour is not yet, but is nigh at hand, when peace shall be taken from the earth, and the devil shall have power over his own dominion. And also the Lord shall have power over his saints, and shall reign in their midst, and shall come down in judgment upon Idumea, or the world.

    Search these commandments, for they are true and faithful, and the prophecies and promises which are in them shall all be fulfilled. What I the Lord have spoken, I have spoken, and I excuse not myself; and though the heavens and the earth pass away, my word shall not pass away, but shall all be fulfilled, whether by mine own voice or by the voice of my servants, it is the same. For behold, and lo, the Lord is God, and the Spirit beareth record, and the record is true, and the truth abideth forever and ever. Amen.

    (Doctrine and Covenants | Section 1:1 - 39)

    These things I say not of myself but as the LORD has spoken he shall also fulfill. Therefore, as one having authority, I now seal up the testimony and bind up the law among the Lord’s disciples and I do it I the sacred name of Jesus Christ, amen.

    Attentively yours from an unworthy servant in the hands of Christ

    Miguel Angel Tinoco Rodriguez

    Behold, I sent you out to testify and warn the people, and it becometh every man who hath been warned to warn his neighbor. Therefore, they are left without excuse, and their sins are upon their own heads.

    He that seeketh me early shall find me, and shall not be forsaken. Therefore, tarry ye, and labor diligently, that you may be perfected in your ministry to go forth among the Gentiles for the last time, as many as the mouth of the Lord shall name, to bind up the law and seal up the testimony, and to prepare the saints for the hour of judgment which is to come; That their souls may escape the wrath of God, the desolation of abomination which awaits the wicked, both in this world and in the world to come.

    Verily, I say unto you, let those who are not the first elders continue in the vineyard until the mouth of the Lord shall call them, for their time is not yet come; their garments are not clean from the blood of this generation. Abide ye in the liberty wherewith ye are made free; entangle not yourselves in sin, but let your hands be clean, until the Lord comes.

    (Doctrine and Covenants | Section 88:81 - 86)
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  • Mark Michael... 2012/05/10 23:36:07
    Mark
    +1
    Again? Seriously? You really need to get out more. Maybe that's why you don't know much about how the world works?
  • Michael... Mark 2012/05/11 01:41:25
    Michael The Archangel
    WRONG...becasue I was out much I am here in the desert of my afliction, I suffered much when I was a wicked man and I was to suffer eternaly also. THat is a joke of cast iron and it is for real men to suffer for wickedness sake. I got sick and tired of suffering. Since I was converted I became a child of God, if I suffer still, but it is because of righteousness sake and the yoke is light ans easy to carry. It will end when I depart this world. For the LORD said:

    Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

    (New Testament | Matthew 11:28 - 30)

    P.S. I know more about the world than what you may think, I helped to create it.
  • Mark Michael... 2012/05/11 07:06:27
    Mark
    You helped to create it, eh? lol Yeah, and I'm the Son of the Morning Star. XD I have suffered as well, but I never felt more alone than when I was a Christian.

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