Bill Press’ article on same-sex marriage in the May 14, 2012, MDJ talks about “those who try to hide their bigotry behind the Bible.” Bill’s Bible must be like President Thomas Jefferson’s Bible where he cut out only the parts of the Bible that he accepted, kept them and discarded those he didn’t accept. Press apparently cut out Revelation 22:18-19 which shows the penalty for this “surgery.”
Press wrote, “Nowhere in the Bible does God say marriage must only be between one man and one woman.” He shouldn’t have cut out Matthew 19:4-6 which “God with us” who is Jesus, states that Bill’s diatribe is completely false and detrimental to those who accept it as fact.
For those who are interested in finding Bible truth should go to the full Bible rather than accepting Press’s adulterated one.
Jim Storey
Marietta
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In the United States, your religious beliefs of what is a marriage should not be forced onto a person who does not believe the way you do. I do not think anywhere in our recorded, man made Constitution or Bill of Rights does it say marriage is between a man and a woman only. It is each state that decides that and I am not so sure each state should decide what is a marriage.
As a Christian, who is a member of a local Southern Baptist Convention church, I do not want other denomination's beliefs forced upon me by the federal government of the United States or the local governments. What a gay couple does or believes does not affect my marriage or my actions. I have gay friends and what you or I perceive as a sin, like homosexuality or marriage between like sexes, is no greater sin than lying.
There is only one sin greater than any other sin and you know what that is.
Exodus 31:14: Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death
I wish I was making this stuff up, trust me.