Deuteronomy 22:28-29 NAB
If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her.
All who curse their father or mother must be put to death. They are guilty of a capital offense. (Leviticus 20:9 NLT)
If a man commits adultery with another manās wife, both the man and the woman must be put to death. (Leviticus 20:10 NLT)
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I donāt think you can pick and choose. If youāre going to live by the Bible, you have to be prepared for the consequences for everything.
If the woman is an Orthodox Jew you might have a point
But Christians are bound by the New Testament where the religious laws are different but still condemn homosexuality
Christians are "bound" by anyone else's understanding of the New Testament. Here in America, Pete is free to be Gay and this woman is free to not vote for him because of it.
A Time For Choosing.
A civil war for the soul of the Democrat Party broke out this week. The headlining fighters were potential presidential nominee Sen. Bernie Sanders and longtime Clinton Consigliere James Carville. Carville, the bombastic Raginā Cajunā, scolded Sanders over his radical policy positions, and proposed the party take a good look in the mirror. He questioned the direction of the party, and the interest of everyday voters in things like free healthcare for illegal aliens and prison inmates voting from their cells, both policies Sanders supports. āThe Democrat Party is becoming the British Labour Party,ā he continued.
Sanders responded on CNN, calling Carville a āpolitical hackā who represents the very establishment he is seeking to destroy. Carville responded strongly. āLast night on CNN, Bernie Sanders called me a political hack,ā Carville said. āThatās exactly who the #ā I am! I am a political hack! I am not an ideologue. I am not a purist. He thinks itās a pejorative. I kind of like it! At least Iām not a communist.ā
The former campaign manager of a democrat U.S. President called the man most likely to be the next democrat nominee a communist on national television. Sandersā supporters are up in arms dismissing the attack as more sour grapes from the Clintons. But it begs the questionā¦ is he a communist? What are the key differences between a communist and a socialist? Marx and Engels certainly made no delineation between the two terms. If heās not, heās certainly the closest thing to it to occupy the national stage in American politics.
Jimmy Carter was no communist, but in his time he was certainly the most liberal person to have ever been elected president. After four grueling years of Carter, America elected to go in a different direction. Enter President Ronald Reagan. Reagan rose through the political ranks with fiery oratory and intellectual assaults on communism, first as president of the screen actors guild and later as governor of California. In those days, there were some openly advocating for American communism as an end to the Cold War. āBetter red than deadā was a popular slogan. Reagan warned against those advocated for a ānot undemocratic form of socialismā in his 1964
A Time for Choosing speech. By the time of his ascendance to the presidency, those fringe voices had mostly quieted, as republicans and democrats locked arms in the Cold War bout against the USSR. Well, most democrats. It was during this time that Bernie Sanders and his wife spent their honeymoon living it up with kindred spirits where else but the Soviet Union.
Socialism always fails because governments cannot control economies without controlling people. The idea that it can long coexist with democracy is farcical. It is an anathema to lovers of liberty.
