Useful tweets for everyday Christians – 2009-08-28
- The collapse of the family is the rise of power of the State ~ Dr J Roeback-Morse #
- The greatest persecutor of evangelical #Christianity is probably liberal Christianity – John Macarthur #
- #God labours to make us lovable because He loves us: http://bit.ly/fYglp #christianity #
- apparently ur personal beliefs ought not sway ur public office: commissioner loses case for refusing to marry gays: http://is.gd/2zcR1 #tcot #
- more success for adult-stem cell research: http://is.gd/2zciu #ethics #science #escr #
- ppl still oppose ssm: RT @ccoalition: Press Room: Judge is right to dismiss homosexual "marriage" lawsuit http://bit.ly/BuiGc #tcot
Contradiction? No. Misunderstanding? Yes.
Lately I have been working my way through CS Lewis’s classic, The Problem of Pain. In it there is one line that I lifted out of its pages and plugged into my Twitter timeline – and after that there started some dialogue with a fellow (we’ll call him Pete) who believed that the statement was contradictory and who subsequently mocked it as such.
Well, either this Pete is a very intelligent man and CS Lewis was an idiotic fool or, quite probably, the quote I twittered was most likely misunderstood.
Speaking on the necessity of God’s love for us and of the characteristic of God’s love for us, Lewis wrote “[that it is because God] already loves us… Continue reading ...
Useful tweets for everyday Christians – 2009-08-21
- @Wingtipshoes why oughtn't Govt protect relationships that r fundamental to our society? SSC can still love & commit to eachother. Y marry? #
- @Wingtipshoes "why can't they marry" marriage permeates family law, established to protect kids rights & interests. SSM threatens this. #
- @Wingtipshoes "no business of mine 2" the state has a genuine interest in long term hetero marriages. We've been over this ground. Refute. #
- @Wingtipshoes "no business of mine 1" It is if ppl want to redefine an institution that is the bedrock for the society in which we all live. #
- @Wingtipshoes "who can't marry" u can't marry ur siblings or children. & Govt cares about
“It’s not fair: homosexuals can’t marry who they love”
Without a doubt, the most common objection to marriage remaining as the union between one man and one woman, for life, is that current marriage law “unfairly” discriminates against homosexuals who desire – and cannot help but desire – those of the same-sex (second to this is the claim that current marriage laws offer unequal protection / rights to homosexuals – that’s the subject of a different discussion).
Often, the objection is phrased in such terms as: “Heterosexuals are free to marry who they love, but homosexuals can’t – that’s unfair”, or “Banning same-sex marriage discriminates against homosexuals because it prevents them from marrying who they want”.
In almost all variances of this particular objection… Continue reading ...
My Twittering Week for 2009-08-14
- RT @UnbrnHumnRights: After Tiller: two ex-abortion doctors speak out | STLtoday http://ow.ly/gtTR #abortion #humanrights @myen #
- @Wingtipshoes who designed marriage and for what purpose and how is it a disadvantage to gays when the law applies equally to all ppls? in reply to Wingtipshoes #
- God wants to give us something but cannot because our hands are full – there's nowhere for Him to put it ~ #StAugustine #
- [The saying] "we have all we want" is a terrible saying when "all" does not include #God. #CSLewis #
- The ugliest things in human nature are perversions of good or innocent things. #
There’s no inequality for the Greens’s Marriage Equality Amendment Bill to address
On 25 June 2009, Australian Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young lodged the Marriage Equality Amendment Bill in the Australian Senate.
This Bill seeks to repeal the definition outlined in the Marriage Act 1961, redefining the definition of “marriage” as meaning:
the union of two people, regardless of their sex, sexuality or gender identity, voluntarily entered into for life.
The current definition of “marriage” reads, and ought to remain, as meaning:
the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others, voluntarily entered into for life.
All Australians concerned about retaining the natural definition of marriage ought to consider writing a brief letter to the Senate, requesting them… Continue reading ...
My Twittering Week for 2009-08-07
- Love may cause pain to it's object, but only on the supposition that that object needs alteration to become fully lovable. #CSLewis #
- @riyel27 @BCharmagne @Timb_er ~ thanks for the RTs! #
- You can have no greater sign of confirmed pride than when you think you are humble. #
- hey … your worldview does matter. What's yours like? http://is.gd/20aeP #
- Creator of the infamous cartoon of Muhammad with a bomb in his turban wants to put it up for auction: http://is.gd/209UR #religion #
- Ppl who think “if you love me u will not punish me” r misguided: love is exactly y u punish wrong behavior. To not is an injustice #tcot #
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