padremike Loc: Phenix City, Al

That's one more you'll have to answer for. Paul never married and he condemned homosexuality. He probably wasn't homosexual. I don't use the word "gay" because it projects a false dichotomy of happy homosexuals hop skippering through the meadow carpeted with flowers instead of a perversion of human sexuality.

padremike Loc: Phenix City, Al

Only those words that you personally don't approve or believe!

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

padremike Loc: Phenix City, Al

I left out "playing a ukulele."

kemmer

But you don’t know that, do you. There are theories.

We’re happy enough without your corny daydreams, thank you very much.

kemmer

Please. Try a little Mozart.

kemmer

So what’s wrong with believing God doesn’t want me to live a solitary, loveless life?
That’s what monasteries are for.

padremike Loc: Phenix City, Al

Suicide rate and early deaths rates do not corroborate your fantasy about happiness. You are certainly entitled to your free will; no argument from me there.

padremike Loc: Phenix City, Al

I think you might be taking "love thy neighbor" too literally. We have a capacity to deeply, intensely love thousands of people. Unfortunately in this age some people take that meaning as a challenge. Love consummated in sin is not love. Sincere, genuine, Godly love means you cherish and protect the soul of your loved one. You do not mutually engage in wilful sin together. This is not love, it's lust. These things apply just as much to heterosexuals as they do homosexuals. Of course the cry of outrage, even from some Christians, is "keep God the hell out of my bedroom" as if that were even possible.

kemmer

I’m thinking you’ve never
experienced love except in the abstract. Not someone I’d want to hear any lectures on love or “sin” from.

padremike Loc: Phenix City, Al

Of course you'd think that; sorta covers your own butt to fix blame on someone else. A cheap shot I'm sure you will agree.

I have been faithfully married to the same wonderful wife and mother for 56 years. I cannot begin to express in words what depth and breadth of love it is like to start out young and grow old with someone you cherish and adore. There is nothing earthly that is comparable.

There are others on this forum that know exactly what I'm saying because they have expressed it in their own way. We returned today, temporarily, to our home, north of Panama City, Florida, to meet with FEMA and our insurance representative. Before we arrived home it occurred to me that if our home was a total loss, mother and I have already given the most precious possession we own to our children; our faith and the example and steadfastness of two parents who deeply love one another and their children. My wife is actually more beautiful to me today than was that mere 20 year old girl I married so long ago. It's that inner beauty that never fades but only grows. I really wish I could tell you more about her. She's wonderful. I do know about love, Kemmer, the sincere, genuine, lasting sort of love that helps each other attain heaven which is one of the purposes of Holy Matrimony.

kemmer

Sorry for your loss, if any.
My partner and I have been together for 43 years, so I don’t need any lectures from you about love.
We haven’t married because years ago before marriage e******y was even a dream, we spent 1000s with a lawyer to guarantee all the rights and privileges of marriage.
And we have no worries about what God thinks about that. We’ve attended gay friends’ marriage rites at our local Episcopal cathedral, and all is right with world.

padremike Loc: Phenix City, Al

Prime example why the Episcopal Church is anathema. It may be right with part of the world but it is sin in God's. Make no mistake about it.

I wonder why it is that those churches that ordain women gravitate to the acceptance of homosexuality as normal and healthy?

"Marriage e******y" - the very idea makes me ill. Valid marriage is between one woman and one man and militant homosexuality will never change it. No wonder you v**e Progressive considering the horrible social sexual agenda they advocate.

"You have no worries what God will think"..........now! That's because you have relegated God into the democratic process where power emanates with the people and is benevolently offered upwards for Him to accede. I'm the bearer of bad news! It's not going to work like you think.

If you truly loved your "partner"....you really do know the answer to what I would say. Unfortunately, lust is more important than love. BUT, I still respect your free will.

kemmer

You’re rather free with tossing about your nasty little anathemae, aren’t ya, poppy. Gawd! What sort of a troglodytic little “church” do you belong to, the one carrying h**e signs at funerals?

Ahh... padremike’s Church of Holy Mysogeny.

Duh. It’s changed. Get used to it.

That “horrible agenda” is called love. You wouldn’t understand.


Sure it will.


Yup. Marry a woman and ruin both of our lives, right?