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The more things change…
Posted By katie allison granju
Knoxville and Knox County mayors Haslam and Ragsdale today lent their names to the kickoff of a big religious event that managed to insult Knoxville’s gay citizens, as well as Knoxvillians who are pro-choice.
Sex outside of marriage is a sin,” Graham said as he kicked off the weekend’s three-day revival in a style many consider even more candid than that of his father, Billy Graham, who drew thousands of people to Neyland Stadium in 1970.
“Marriage is defined by God as a relationship between a man and a woman. It is not between two men or two women, I don’t care what the law says….Murder is a sin. …There are some murderers in here tonight. … Abortion is murder.
Mr. Graham has a right to his opinions, although many active, devout Christians disagree with them. And Mayors Haslam and Ragsdale certainly have a right to their personal opinions.
But I am surprised that our mayors decided to attach the influence of their offices to a message of exclusion and intolerance such as this.
And how is it “character building” to allow this group access to public school students during school hours, when some of those students have taxpaying parents who happen to be gay?
Apr 26th, 2008
And I find humor at Mike Ragsdale attaching himself to any cause that has morality at it’s base. He certainly is in need of a crash course in that very subject but somehow I think he’ll miss that one. You know, just like he skipped all of his accounting and ethics classes too. Behavior tells the tale. As for Rev. Graham, I feel that God has surprises in store for people like that. I do not choose to believe in a God whose message is delivered with hate and intolerance. Sorry, but that’s not my God. Not now and not ever. Love one another - that’s the message I read and hear. And I do.
You have got to be kidding me.
Unless you can show that Mr. Graham made these statements to public school students on public school grounds at a “required attendance for all” public school students event, the fact that you are espousing the highest degree of intolerance toward Mr. Graham because of what he believes to be true, and for words that he has said seems a tad hypocritical to me.
Why don’t you just admit it, what you are really saying is that Franklin Graham should not have access to public school students at all, ever, end of story.
This just proves your lack of faith in: 1. our system to educate our childern, 2. the ability of our parents to raise their childeren, 3. the ability of our children to make wise choices.
First amendment be damned. Where’s the love?
Graham is stating what his Biblical interpretation of sin is. I would also guess that he no doubt thinks incest is sin. Child molestation is sin. Rape is sin.
Would anyone disagree with those three?
Personally, I don’t believe Graham should allow his introductions to be made by politicians. It distorts the discussion and the discussion is clearly Biblical, not political.
The objection of many in the modern world is that there is no sin, only behaviors or actions contrary to law. Or only diseases. Or mental sickness.
There are those, like Graham, who say they don’t care what man’s laws say, they still recognize a sin as being a sin.
Too many people today don’t want to hear the truth as Christians believe it. They, instead, want to make their own rules and scorn anyone who disagrees, pleaing all kinds of violations of amendments to the constitution. We would have a better world, in my opinion, if more people adhered to the original, rather than politicized, basic ethical, religious, and moral values of the past. More people used to do this, and we had a more gentle, less violent, more tolerant world, than the world of today, where everyone wants to claim the first amendment while bashing someone for saying what they believe! Clear hypocrisy.
I don’t think Rev. Graham would say that someone who is a mental illness is commiting sin, I know I wouldn’t. Well, I say that depends on the mental illness. If the mental illness keeps the person from having the ablity to determine right from wrong then they get a pass. If not, procecute to the fullest extent of the law.
I’m not 100% sure what you are saying (i.e. are you for or against abortion for example, and no I’m not asking your view). I think Rev. Graham sees it as wrong and no mater what the law says on this matter, it doesn’t change what he believes.
Note that liberal “tolerance” does not extend to the principles of Christianity…we can’t have that, for Christ insisted that there was such a thing as absolute truth. Absolute truth is, of course, anathema to the Left.
I’m Catholic…
I’m glad Franklin Graham said what he did. The truth is not a question that is up for a majority vote. Truth is not popular…
The truth was, in fact, so unpopular that it got Christ crucified.
Those who do not embrace absolute truth are just like Pontius Pilate, who asked that very question-”what is truth?”