rehctub,

I will never accept SSM either, and I will never be comfortable with homosexuality, which is totally unnatural, but which occurs in a very small number of unfortunate people. You and I will be OK, as long as we see the situation not as a problem to solve, but as a reality to live with.

The twisting of society has been some time coming, but has now reached fruition. There will be fake marriage, and after that, worse things will come about. But, remember, it is possible to ignore and withdraw when society becomes unbearable. Think about the Amish, even the Mormons, monks in the past. The withdrawal need not be physical, though, it can be mental.

We will be OK, because we are normal. The others (the majority eventually: they are unable to resist) will go to hell - mataphorically of course, and do it on Earth.

Christ came to release captives [Luke 4; 18 10], so slavery is not in Christ's agenda. That people employed as slaves in NT times became Christian they were to uphold good character as Joseph sold into Egypt, or Daniel taken captive in to Babylon. No disgrace there! To get the updated story of slavery read John Newton's story, once a slave trader. http://www.christianitytoday.com/history/people/pastorsandpreachers/john-newton.html

Regarding SSM it is not equal to heterosexual relationship as it has no possible natural fertile reproduction. It is not biological possible for two men to create another human.

It is a Marxist agenda to destroy natural family relationships and to call denial of SSM inequality. The level playing field of equality by a man who never worked a day in his life

"It is a Marxist agenda to destroy natural family relationships. Never a truer word spoken, Josephus. The Left hates families and self-sufficient communities for the threats they are to their evil plans. The family is the basis for the sovereign state, which of course, they also hate, preferring world government and the corrupt United Nations. World government because national governments want the heat taken of them; they don't like the scrutiny anymore. That's what brought about the European Union, dictator to sovereign countries in the real Europe.

Dear Josephus,

“Newton then served as a mate and then as captain of a number of slave ships, hoping as a Christian to restrain the worst excesses of the slave trade, "promoting the life of God in the soul" of both his crew and his African cargo.”

What apologist rubbish this is.

After being saved and 'saved' during the storm which converted him to an evangelical christian he went on to become a slave ship captain hauling repeated cargoes of misery from Africa until a stoke disabled him. But even after this he continued to invest heavily in the trade through his father's friend Mansley.

It took 34 years before he finally publicly condemned the trade most of that time holding Christian offices of lay preacher, then curate, then rector.

There is a singular observation from his path, that embracing Christianity in his day had very little to do with one's attitude toward slavery and instead it often gave it scriptural validity.

We have rejected slavery as a moral evil. This is not God's perspective but one we have arrived at ourselves. We will hopefully take a moral stance in this country and reject the unfairness of denying same sex couples the right to marry.

What could possibly put people into more slavery than being caught up in the homosexual lifestyle.

I was just listening on ABC-FM about how the composer Tchaikovsky had a nervous break-down within hours or days of marrying a woman, and took off to Italy to recover. Can we talk about heterophobes ? Not necessarily 'hating' [or more correctly, fearing] heterosexual people, so much as being disgusted by the notion of the heterosexual act ?

After all, heterosexuals may get on okay with homosexuals, but despise the notion of homosexual acts. In comparison, we may support the right to drink, but be appalled by overt drunkenness; or the right to drive, but be angered by some hoon tail-gating us [that's you, SUV drivers]. Most of us can distinguish between the person and their acts.

Something might be legal but we don't have to like it.

Joe