A Gay Marriage Surge

In fact, I call for all African-Americans to speak out agains this slogan of "Gay is the new black". It is not! If you're gay, you'd better chnge that slogan quick because I will surely speak out against it all rally other blacks to the cause.

It makes me sick to thing of how perverted this country has has become. To even consider letting homosexuals raise adopted children is sicker than gay marriage itself. God help us!

O.K., this entire thing being related to the civil rights movement is completely retarded! black people can't chose what skin color they are the same as a white person can't chose to be asian! it's like some of these comments say "sexual preference" preference! choice! they mean the same thing.

The California Constitution was written to promise equal rights under the law to all it's citizens regardless of gender, religion and sexual preference. When the mostly conservative California Supreme Court ruled that gay marriage was a right for all of California's residents, it was simply following the Constitution as written. This change did not, and would have never affected any religions ceremonies as church and state operate independently. Just as interracial marriage was going to destroy the institution of marriage, now gay marriage is going to do the same thing. In 1961, when Barack Obama was born, his parents could not have married in 16 US States. The laws remained that way until 1967. Had that change been tested by popular vote, it would have never stood. Guess what, fear drives a great deal of discrimination, and the Catholics, Mormons, and evangelicals made their case that this would somehow affect children. There is not one gay or lesbian on the planet that became gay from being exposed to gay people. 90% were raised in good Christian or Mormon households. Is the real sin how other people love, or is it a sin to prevent others from having the rights we enjoy?

I really can't understand why people think it's activist judges. Marriage is a fundamental right of all human beings. While every religious denomination in the US does not necessarily have to recognize it or practice it, US law should. I hate to tell you and every other social conservative that uses it as a bullet point, but it's not the court that is activist. Lawmakers knowingly put forth bills that they know are illegal and then when STRICT constructionist judges say that they are illegal (as such is the case against gay marriage) they are called activist judges and accused of legislating from the bench. The truth of the matter is that republicans (maybe a democrat or two) use gay marriage and their opposition to it as a wedge issue to try and distract voters from thei own shortcomings. However, in a democracy minorities have rights and they should be protected. Are you honestly telling me that if 50 + 1% of the American people decided you should be put to death for absolutely no reason then the courts should not be able to say that is illegal? You would just say, "Well, they voted and I lost. I guess it's time for me to die...". I very much doubt it. You would scream about your rights and your equal protection at the top of your lungs. You would beg for an "activist judge" to save you from your fate. In the end it's not the judiciary that is activist, but rather the legislature.

Polls, polls, polls. Get any answer you want, just "aim" it properly. Isn't it odd that every time a ballot initiative is put before a group larger than a city council, municipality or a state's supreme (sic) court, the voters side on the one-man/one-woman version of marriage? And yet, to hear pollsters, the homosexual lobby's work is done, everyone firmly sides with Polk Street in San Fransisco. Amendment 2 in Colorado 15 years ago "surprised" the homosexuals, and ever since then, ballot initiatives have passed even in deep-left places like California. An interesting use of "narrow" and "landslide" can be observed in this election cycle: Prop 8 "narrowly" passed wtih 52% / 48%, yet Obama won by a "landslide" with a 53% majority of the vote. It's all in the spin, folks. As once was said, "There's lies, D*mn lies, then there's statistics". And isn't it funny that, per the polls, less than half those polled realized Congress actually has a Democratic majority -- Republican president had a higher rating than Congress even as low as Pres. Bush's rating has gone, yet everyone seemed to think Republicans are the source of all evil. Perhaps the pollsters and prognosticators are right, average Americans really can be led by the nose. After all the poll says so...
Sheesh!

IBoy tells his dad- Jack & Bob go to a different church than we go to, but hey go every sunday. Kids at school say they want to be married I think they are really nice people. What do you think Dad ? Dad- stay away from those 2 - they are different from us. But Dad - it's not like the others they are the saame color and from this country. Dad- they have no business in ourneighborhood- they don't have the right to be married to each other. Oh wow Dad I didn't know that. Wait till I get in class monday - we have been studying the constittution and declaration of independence. I will tell thre class
that not everybody has the same rights. Hey Dad who tells us what rights each bunch of people have since there are different ways to get the liberty and pursuit of happiness and equal stuff we have been talking about at school. I did not know that different church people that say they believe in Jesus and God did not also believe the same way. Jack & Bob say they believe in Jesus and God and go to their church where some women go that want to be married. Dad - just tell me what to say to my class monday - I bet they would like to have you tell them about Jack & Bob.

They need to keep gov't secular by revoking the non-profit status of churches and religious organizations who start delving into politics. Prepare for the Rapture, and worry about your own damn souls and the souls of your congregations and stop worrying about what everyone else is doing or not doing in their respective bedrooms and/or living rooms.

Seems to me the same chapters of the bible they always quote (Leviticus and Exodus) also say that you can sell your daughter into slavery, kill your mother for wearing garments made from 2 different threads, can be put to death for planting two different crops side by side and for working on the Sabbath. For Football fans--touching the skin of a pig makes one unclean-is it okay if you wear gloves? You can also be put to death for marrying a woman outside your tribe, of non child-bearing age, who is divorced etc.

If the ignorant tight-assed club is going to sight these chapters then let's enforce the rest of the rules from them as well.

Funny how these "christians" are the LEAST CHRIST-LIKE of any group I've ever met or maybe I missed some attributes like pre-judging and uncharitable, being unkind and not loving your neighbor -- in other words: Republican

Straying from the subject--nothing makes a PRO-LIFE republican pro choice faster than "Your daughter's pregnant and the father's black!"

NewsWEAK is as usual trying to distort & pervert the truth along with the many supporters it has. No matter how many times people claim the bible "GOD's Word" does not say what it clearly states, it will not change anything. GOD is a loving God and a just God. That simply means that people will be held accountable for thier sins that they refuse to admit are sins and therefore reject God's free forgiveness. These people will go to hell for eternity. People cannot change GOD's mind by putting it in print or speaking it to others. Homosexuality and lesbianism is a sin and an abomination in GOD's eyes. It will allways be, no matter what people say. GOD's Word, the bible, clearly defines it as a detestible sin. The Isralites were to put a man to death who slept with another man. GOD only defines marriage between one man and one woman. Anything else is against GOD's Word. For all those people who say otherwise, try actually reading the bible without thinking you have the right to sit in judgement of GOD. Homosexuality, lesbianism, sodomy, bestiality, child pornography, insest, rape, etc. are all just extensions of the same perversion. In GOD's eyes, all sins are the same and need to be repented of. Anyone who rejects GOD's free forgivenes by refusing to acknowledging their sin is held accountable for it and will go to hell.

"Jesus does not want people to be lonely and sad." This is true. Jesus is an all-inclusive person. He loves each one of us just they way we are. He died for us while we were still denying him and he continues to chase after each one of us in a way that will get our attention. He died for the sinner--no matter what kind of sin it was or is--and loves us despite of our faults. That is the Jesus I know. But, to say that he loves us so much as to look away from our wrongdoings is naive and untrue. Would a spouse look away from the infidelity of their significant other? Should a parent ignore a child who is about to hurt themselves or a child who blatantly refuses to obey? Our God, our Jesus, loves us yes, just the way we are, but he loves us TOO MUCH to allow us to stay how we are. He knows we are ALL sinners and wants us ALL to turn from that sin and turn to him. He has given us free will and wants us to choose him, not our sin, because it is impossible to have both. Homosexuality is a sin, just like murder is a sin, lying is a sin, gossip is a sin, drunkeness is a sin--the Bible is CLEAR on sin and how it separates us from the love of God. No sin is worse than any other sin in the eyes of God. It ALL separates us from him. Therefore, we should hate all sin, but not the sinner. We are taught to turn away from our sin, confess our sin to the Lord and he will save us (from ourselves and our sin). It's not for us to judge one person's sin over another, but we should not openly condone it either. Whether you want to acknowledge it or not, the United States of America was completely based on the Christian principles and values that we find in the Bible. Jefferson wrote his own, plain-English version of the Bible for his children; Madison stated that without morality which comes from Christian education, the American Republic would never last; every single one of our Founding Fathers prayed and kept journals about how this Consitution was only going to work with the grace of the Almighty. If we are to stay true to the principles of America, we have to stay true to our Christian heritage. We are not perfect, not one of us. But the Bible principles are and we ought to follow them. According to Revelation, in the last days of man, the good will be seen as evil and the evil will be seen as good. Newsweek, unfortunately has continued the recent barrage on all that is GOOD in our world and has seen fit to call the evil "good". That is unfortunate, yet exciting because I know we are now truly in the "last days."

You just remindem me of why I abhor your magazine. Why don't you stick with the "new"....Newsweek and leave the Bible to Godly men and women who know how to interpet it correctly!