Steelplate
Bluesman
That's the difference between freedom, and oppression, incidentally.
What about the freedoms of the people doing things you don't like? Do they not count? IMO, you people obsessed with this stuff that has truly ZERO effect on you....have no real faith. You look for man to do God's work.
You look to fight against sin with man's law. I don't understand homosexuality....I don't condone it....but I am not going to wring my hands in fear because two people or even two million people have a legally binding commitment to each other.....I don't even care if some churches sanction it as marriage. If God finds it sinful, he will be the ultimate judge, won't he?
Same with abortion....Those people who aborted their pregnancies will have to answer for that.
I will have to answer for things I have done wrong in my life. I've lied, I've stolen, I've hated, I've even commited adultery...physically? Never...in my thoughts? too many times to count. I've taken the Lord's name in vain, I've done many things over my 47 years on this earth that I know that God does not approve of...and I know that I will fall short many times before I die.
You can't legislate people from personal sin. You have to have enough faith in God that he will act justly and mercifully....YES....Mercifully. I would never hope for anyone to be damned.
You see, God knows what is in our hearts....God hears our prayers and our pleas for forgiveness....You and I don't. For that reason, and the fact that we ourselves are full of sin by nature....we are in no position to play God.