Time to put on those travelin’ shoes and go a-fishin’
The first time I saw the great Elvin Bishop, we were both younger men. It was back in the early ’70s, in Raleigh, N.C., right about the time he put out his excellent and underrated album “Let It Flow.” Looking through the song list from that album — “Travelin’ Shoes,” “Stealin’ Watermelons” — is like going back in time.
That album also included Elvin’s classic celebration of fishing, the aptly titled “Fishin’.” It’s a critically important theme, so important that Mr. Bishop felt obligated to revisit it at more length in a later song, the equally aptly titled “Gone Fishin’ Again,” as in “me and my no-good friends are gone fishin’ again.”
Which of course we are. See ya’ll back here in a couple of weeks. Be good, be cool and be wishin’ you were with us, ‘cuz we plan on having us a damn good time.
– Jay Bookman
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Oscar
July 21st, 2012
3:36 pm
Since there was no criminal intent by the man in the car, I would think the charges were dropped. No jury in the world would convict someone in that situation.
Anytime you take action of any sort, you take a risk. And sometimes you are wrong. But decisions have to be made every day. Using the facts you have at hand.
Otherwise, better just hide in your closet all day.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 21st, 2012
3:36 pm
Brosephus:
You may not be aware of this (I am because I have a son who is a uniformed officer) but most police department policies state that an officer should not immediately go in during an “active shooter” scenario. I know that sounds absurd but trust me on this one. They are to wait for sufficient backup and/or SWAT to arrive.
How many people can be murdered during those minutes with an officer or two hunkered down outside. It happened in Columbine and Va. Tech.
It’s always better (the odds are) if “someone” in there has the means to neutralize the perp. – stop the carnage – anything but doing nothing.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 21st, 2012
3:37 pm
Oscar:
You are correct. That’s why most states (including Georgia) have good Samaritan laws.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
July 21st, 2012
3:38 pm
Otherwise, better just hide in your closet all day.
Yeah, ’cause there is no middle ground between the two.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 21st, 2012
3:51 pm
There is a middle ground.
1) Reasonable gun laws.
2) Right to carry.
RB from Gwinnett
July 21st, 2012
3:55 pm
It doesn’t appear all the gays/liberals are all that tolerant of Chic-fil-a’s lifestyle choices.
Can we just stop the charade and admit “liberal tolerance” is an oxymoron and put it to rest?
G Mare
July 21st, 2012
3:55 pm
Mellisa Etheride has a song about flight 93. I think it is called TUESDAY MORNING. I cry every time I hear it.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
July 21st, 2012
3:59 pm
Well, I guess this CO shooting means a whole bunch of you are ready to trample on my Constitutional Rights if I walk into a movie with my trusty M-60 machine gun to keep me company. This proves how crazy the libruls are. Besides, I bet that guy never even had a Liscence to Carry.
Have a good Saturday everybody.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 21st, 2012
3:59 pm
RB:
Exactly !
Chic-fil-A does not discriminate on who they serve in any way. The owner(s) simply state they do not approve of gay marriage.
Of course liberals find that intolerant because they are intolerant.
Tundra Dude
July 21st, 2012
4:00 pm
Oscar wrote, in part:
He graduated in 2010. Had trouble finding a job. Entered grad school in 2011 and was in the process of dropping out.
I smell a wat. Very odd, this guy has thousands of extra $$ lying around to buy expensive weapons, equipment.
If he was such a nutcase, it’d be even more emotionally-gratifying to hear of peeps searching his apt to have been killed or injured.
Colorado Batman shooting shows obvious signs of being staged
http://www.naturalnews.com/036536_James_Holmes_shooting_false_flag.html
(snipped)
All this looks like James Holmes completed a “mission” and then calmly ended that mission by surrendering to police and admitting everything. The mission, as we are now learning, was to cause as much terror and mayhem as possible, then to have that multiplied by the national media at exactly the right time leading up the UN vote next week on a global small arms treaty that could result in gun confiscation across America.
UN Arms Transfer Treaty (ATT) on Small Arms: Gun Grab Gradualism
http://lewrockwell.com/eddlem/eddlem61.1.html
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
July 21st, 2012
4:00 pm
Can we just stop the charade and admit “liberal tolerance” is an oxymoron and put it to rest?
I’m not tolerant of douchebaggy asshats.
Never have been.
Never claimed to be.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 21st, 2012
4:01 pm
Redneck:
It was a “gun free zone”. I guess he didn’t know that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7pGt_O1uM8
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 21st, 2012
4:02 pm
And conservatives are not tolerant of evil or absurdity in whatever forms they may take.
This Is Still America
July 21st, 2012
4:05 pm
Lots of anti Christian hate by militant “gays” against Chick – Fil – A’s right to oppose “same sex marriage”. Chick – Fil – A doesn’t hate “gays” and they are welcome to eat there where they are greeted with respect like everyone else. Chick – Fil – A disagrees with “gay” marriage.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 21st, 2012
4:05 pm
Question:
In an “active shooter” situation, does a person who has the ability (armed or unarmed) have the “moral” (not legal) duty to react to attempt to stop the carnage?
G Mare
July 21st, 2012
4:05 pm
0311, thanks for IN THE MIDNIGHT HOUR – love that song.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 21st, 2012
4:06 pm
This Is Still America :
Thank you.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 21st, 2012
4:06 pm
G Mare:
You’re welcome.
I’m out for awhile ……………. those who wish to please ponder my 4:05 and I shall return.
Everyone be nice.
RB from Gwinnett
July 21st, 2012
4:07 pm
Tundra, did you see Jay and his sheep acting like that small arms treaty didn’t exist earlier this week? I guess if they pretend it doesn’t exist, it won’t affect them or something….
Brosephus™
July 21st, 2012
4:10 pm
Kam
True. Nowadays, you never know what the situation is. It may be better to be a living good witness instead of another casualty because of tombstone courage.
Responding officers do not know who they are but rarely (I repeat rarely) does it end badly.
Although you state it rarely ends badly, there’s times when plain clothes and undercover officers get shot by their own colleauges in the confusion of gun battles. I know the point you’re trying to make about others responding to stop an incident, but I’ll ask you one question. If you’re the person trying to stop a shooter with the FBI HRT coming through the door, do you really want to be caught holding a gun in your hand raised in a firing position?
RB from Gwinnett
July 21st, 2012
4:14 pm
Kammie, “I’m not tolerant of douchebaggy asshats.”
I assume that’s your label for everybody who disagrees with you on any position? So bsicially, like most liberals, you’re only tolerant of people who agree with you.
That’s NOT tolerance.
Brosephus™
July 21st, 2012
4:15 pm
most police department policies state that an officer should not immediately go in during an “active shooter” scenario. I know that sounds absurd but trust me on this one. They are to wait for sufficient backup and/or SWAT to arrive.
A single officer going into an unknown situation with no idea of how many shooters or what kind of weapons has just as much of a chance to become a statistic as the ones inside the incident area. I know about your son, and I’ve also had that active shooter training. My Class III body armor does nothing to stop a round coming from any rifle. An officer running into a building where he doesn’t know where the shooter is located is at position of disadvantage, and I’m sure you remember that you always want to be at a position of advantage.
That said, I’ve had the same disagreement as you from a moral level. From a professional level, I also understand the need to not rush headfirst into a situation of which you have no idea of what’s going on.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
July 21st, 2012
4:16 pm
I assume that’s your label for everybody who disagrees with you on any position?
Assume away sport, but you would be wrong.
Now, ain’t your face tight?
RB from Gwinnett
July 21st, 2012
4:18 pm
” If you’re the person trying to stop a shooter with the FBI HRT coming through the door, do you really want to be caught holding a gun in your hand raised in a firing position”
I don’t, but I’d sure rather have one in my hand than stand there and be target practice for a moron with a gun.
RB from Gwinnett
July 21st, 2012
4:22 pm
Kammie, “Assume away sport, but you would be wrong.”
Don’t think so lib. You’re no different than all your hate filled bretheren.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
July 21st, 2012
4:23 pm
Don’t think so lib.
Don’t think, meat. It can only hurt the ball club.
getalife
July 21st, 2012
4:24 pm
I have zero tolerance for the cons acting like an enemy of our President.
Brosephus™
July 21st, 2012
4:27 pm
I’d sure rather have one in my hand than stand there and be target practice for a moron with a gun
And what if that “moron with a gun” just happens to be some disgruntled SpecOps marksman? That’s the thing about random shootings, you don’t know the ability and/or of the gunman until after the dust settles. Not only that, if you just happen to be the first victim, you probably won’t have a chance to react and go for your gun.
Situations like this have infinitely many possibilities. The only commonality is to seek cover and/or escape as quickly as possible. Then, if you’re armed, you’re better off playing Rambo from behind cover as opposed to being completely exposed.
Brosephus™
July 21st, 2012
4:32 pm
“ability and/or **skill**…
getalife
July 21st, 2012
4:32 pm
Please, after reading the cons fear of brown people, they would be the first out the door.
getalife
July 21st, 2012
4:36 pm
Looks like they disarmed the bombs. I heard the Chief joke about not hurting their robot because they have no money to replace it .
barking frog
July 21st, 2012
4:40 pm
Some people must die so that others don’t. Soldiers
and police and firemen bear
this burden.
RB from Gwinnett
July 21st, 2012
4:40 pm
“I have zero tolerance for the cons acting like an enemy of our President”
Are you referring to the president who called people who disagree with him “enemies” several years ago? The same one who promised to unite us all??
You don't say
July 21st, 2012
4:53 pm
Chickfila ownership as well as the corporate brand, which is basically one in the same, are welcoming and have every right to express their views as they see fit. Those who do not agree are welcome to not conduct commerce with Chickfila.
End of story
Recon 0311 2533
July 21st, 2012
4:56 pm
This Colorado shooter is evidently a menses society level individual. They’ve successfully disarmed the explosives in his apartment which we’re highly sophisticated. I heard one report that indicated he’d rigged mortar rounds 60 mike mike’s or whatever in a configuration that if someone had opened the door the explosion would have taken out the entire building probably killing dozens of people. How did he get the know how and access to that type of ordinance. In Marines I had experience with C4, det cord, TNT and caps but even with military training that they say this guy never had I wouldn’t have been knowledgeable enough to put together the sophisticated booby trap that according to reports this guy did in his apartment. This is one dangerous young man that unfortunately took so many lives and seriously altered many others. Fortunately he’s in custody.
getalife
July 21st, 2012
4:58 pm
rb,
Linky?
G Mare
July 21st, 2012
5:00 pm
Recon, what’s menses society?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
July 21st, 2012
5:00 pm
Those who do not agree are welcome to not conduct commerce with Chickfila
I am one of those ending my relationship with Chick-fil-A, and I don’t require your permission to do so, sport.
End of story.
Recon 0311 2533
July 21st, 2012
5:04 pm
G Mare, an association of people with far above average I.Q’s
getalife
July 21st, 2012
5:04 pm
The Chick fila decision lost half their customers .
Stupid.
Recon 0311 2533
July 21st, 2012
5:09 pm
getalife, Chick-fil-A has not lost half their customers. Even many who’ve indicated that will no longer go to any of their locations will probably return at some point. They’ll survive.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
July 21st, 2012
5:09 pm
The Chick fila decision lost half their customers .
Stupid.
Don’t know about the half part, but I gotta agree. Theirs is definitely a niche market product and many burger joints have been offering the same product since Chick-fil-A was born.
Chick-fil-A doesn’t really have customers to lose, like McDonalds does.
The people that are going to go there anyway aren’t going to increase the loss.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
July 21st, 2012
5:11 pm
Oops.
“increase their consumption to off-set the loss.”
You don't say
July 21st, 2012
5:11 pm
I have already done the same. My point is that Chickfila spoke and now it is time for those who do not agree to speak as well.
The AFA, a conservative org, is in constant boycott of Home Depot and other companies for giving domestic partner benefits. Their right to do so.
RB from Gwinnett
July 21st, 2012
5:18 pm
“Those who do not agree are welcome to not conduct commerce with Chickfila. ”
So, if a HVAC technician shows up at a Chic-fil-a with a rainbow sticker on their van, CFA can tell them to leave because it’s ok to choose not to do business with people based soley on their sexual preferences, right?
Don’t sit there and tell us all it’s ok for gays to choose not to do business with people they disagree with but it’s not ok for everbody else to choose based on the exact same criteria. You people are such hypocrits it’s just not funny.
You don't say
July 21st, 2012
5:24 pm
RB
Quit being the usual milly mouth nothing you are.
I said Chickfila can say and do as they wish. Those who disagree can do as they wish and not go
End of story
Twist it all you like
Doggone/GA
July 21st, 2012
5:26 pm
“It doesn’t appear all the gays/liberals are all that tolerant of Chic-fil-a’s lifestyle choices.
Can we just stop the charade and admit “liberal tolerance” is an oxymoron and put it to rest?”
Nope, we can’t agree. Where’s Chic-Fil-A’s tolerance?
Skip
July 21st, 2012
5:26 pm
It’s obvious most of you have never been a live fire situation, It’s not like you see on TV. Any first timers here that think they know what they would do are dreaming. That said some of the most violent shoot anything that moves were guys you would never guess could be so cold blooded.You never know.
G Mare
July 21st, 2012
5:27 pm
Recon, I thought that was the Mensa Society. It seems to me that the shooter would not qualify for the menses society, as he is a man. But hey, I’ve been wrong before.
You don't say
July 21st, 2012
5:27 pm
)
Don’t be so stupid
Didn’t I say it was AFAs right to boycott Home Depot?
Yes I did
Dumb is you. Accept it
Erwin's cat
July 21st, 2012
5:32 pm
I try not to let the opinion of others affect my own…i don’t agree with Cathy, but it is his opinion and he’s entitled to it….should I try and persuade him to artificially change his publicly by extortion…i think not…i’ll still go there the few times i do….it’s a good product…when was the last time your acceptance of a meal was dependent of the cooks passive beliefs?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
July 21st, 2012
5:33 pm
The AFA, a conservative org, is in constant boycott of Home Depot and other companies for giving domestic partner benefits. Their right to do so.
Good for them if they want to boycott and I never implied that they couldn’t/shouldn’t.
You seem to be laboring under the misapprehension that any boycott requires your seal of approval.
getalife
July 21st, 2012
5:34 pm
You should know by now, I am seldom wrong.
“BOSTON (AP) — The mayor of Boston is vowing to block Chick-fil-A from opening a restaurant in the city after the company’s president spoke out publicly against gay marriage.
Mayor Thomas Menino told the Boston Herald (http://bit.ly/OevB9z ) on Thursday that he doesn’t want a business in the city “that discriminates against a population.”
Stupid.
Erwin's cat
July 21st, 2012
5:38 pm
get – disapproval is not discrimination
Soothsayer
July 21st, 2012
5:39 pm
Now, menses is one of those topics I wouldn’t touch with a 10-foot pole.
As far as Chik-Fil-A is concerned, that’s another matter. I think Truett Cathy is an honorable man, however, I think this stance by Dan, his son, is nothing more than a publicity stunt.
As I’ve made clear here before, I think Chik-Fil-A is a Republican bastion. And that’s why I don’t shop there.
You don't say
July 21st, 2012
5:40 pm
Erwin
Is it extortion or free choice?
Chickfila has the choice and buyers do as well.
Kamchak
Just merely showing that it goes both ways and I am good with it both ways
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 21st, 2012
5:40 pm
Brosephus:
“If you’re the person trying to stop a shooter with the FBI HRT coming through the door, do you really want to be caught holding a gun in your hand raised in a firing position?”
The chance of that happening (FBI SWAT takes time to mobilize) is very, very remote (even for local police SWAT). The shooting is usually long over by then.
If it means saving other’s lives, I’ll take my chances. Just my opinion.
P.S.
I don’t know too many officers on this earth (including you probably) who if first on the scene and they hear children screaming and being shot inside a school, or church, or movie theater or even a mall aren’t going to go on in (despite “policy”).
They can always get a new job ……….. but they have to live with hearing those screams and doing nothing. There are Va. Tech. officers who are burdened with that right now.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 21st, 2012
5:41 pm
Sooth:
Chickens are Republicans ?
Erwin's cat
July 21st, 2012
5:42 pm
Youdontsay – depends on intent
Oscar
July 21st, 2012
5:42 pm
G Mare
July 21st, 2012
5:27 pm
________
You are a sly one, G Mare. Remind me not to mess with you.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 21st, 2012
5:42 pm
“In an “active shooter” situation, does a person who has the ability (armed or unarmed) have the “moral” (not legal) duty to react to attempt to stop the carnage?”
I’m still waiting if anyone wants to address this one.
Oscar
July 21st, 2012
5:44 pm
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 21st, 2012
4:05 pm
_______
I think we have a moral duty to act to stop the carnage.
You don't say
July 21st, 2012
5:46 pm
Erwin
Cool. I don’t think AFA is extorting nor do I think those who wish to by pass Chickfila are extorting….
Their right to express what they are expressing
Erwin's cat
July 21st, 2012
5:46 pm
it’s that “I’ll show him” mentality of those that disagree w/me….it’s shallow
Tundra Dude
July 21st, 2012
5:47 pm
I thought that was the Mensa Society
That’s right, Mensa. Only the top 2% qualify. The really smart, one in a million, belong to the Mega Society (John Sununu)
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
July 21st, 2012
5:48 pm
Erwin’s cat
Speaking only for myself, I’m not extorting anyone to change their mind.
My relationship with Chick-fil-A is over. If Dan Cathy were to publicly recant his statement, I still wouldn’t darken their door.
In fact, I would lose what respect for him that I already have.
And as far as your analogy with the cook — a false equivalence as the cook is not speaking on behalf of the entire restaurant or corporation as Dan Cathy did.
I would still have been a patron had DC made it clear that he was only speaking on behalf of himself.
Erwin's cat
July 21st, 2012
5:51 pm
Scout – my kneejerk is NO…our first reaction is to save ourselves….but “will” doesn’t dictate the situation…ya gotta roll with what ya got….the situation will determine your risk assessment…and then you’re off
Soothsayer
July 21st, 2012
5:51 pm
“Chickens are Republicans ?”
No, Chik-Fil-A is where stay-at-home “pampered princesses” take the “heirs to the throne” brats in their rolling thrones (also known as giant SUVs) through the drive-through for a leisurely lunch that they can take back home before “The View” comes on.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 21st, 2012
5:54 pm
Oscar:
“I think we have a moral duty to act to stop the carnage.”
I do to but …………….. that’s a personal choice and I won’t fault someone who doesn’t. Even the Supreme Court has ruled that policy officers don’t have the “duty” to risk/give their lives. They might be fired if they disobey policy but they don’t “have” to give their lives.
barking frog
July 21st, 2012
5:54 pm
I have been to Chikfila twice.
Food was nowhere as good
as it was expensive. With the
public pronouncement my
last time was my last time.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 21st, 2012
5:54 pm
Sooth:
Oh ……………….. but what about Mickey D’s ?
Oscar
July 21st, 2012
5:55 pm
Soothsayer
__
Kind of hostile toward moms with money aren’t you.
josef
July 21st, 2012
5:55 pm
The funniest thing about the Chik-fil-A thingie is that it’s the anti-gays, so-called Christians, who are getting the most milage out of it. The more they hoo-rah, the more word gets out, and the more folks join folks not going there.
Cathy has every right to say and do as he wants. He doesn’t want my money. I don’t (and haven’t long before this) give it to him.
The really sad part of it all, to me, though is the damage he is doing to the faith of so many of my fellow countrymen. It is they who will have to repair the damage being done to a faith of love and tolerance. They are, in a milder fashion, acting much as the taliban, al Qaaida, et al in hijacking and perverting that faith that has given so much to the world and human civilization.
Erwin's cat
July 21st, 2012
5:56 pm
Kam…i get it….we all pick our battles…it’s not so false, politically me and my fam don’t always agree, but we celebrate together every holiday
i respect your boundaries … and Cathy’s
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 21st, 2012
5:56 pm
barking frog:
I don’t like chicken sandwiches. I just go for the milkshakes.
But ………….. it is the cleanest, friendliest fast food restaurant chain ………. in my opinion.
You don't say
July 21st, 2012
5:56 pm
Erwin
Using your analogy isn’t chickfila doing the same “I will show” you by taking the stance the did. One thing to have personal belief another to wear on your corporate sleeve.
Again, they have the right and others also have the right to do as they see fit and spend their hard earned money as they wish
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 21st, 2012
5:57 pm
josef:
And of course …………. you couldn’t be more wrong.
barking frog
July 21st, 2012
5:57 pm
0311
Enjoy your meal tomorrow.
Soothsayer
July 21st, 2012
5:58 pm
“Kind of hostile toward moms with money aren’t you.”
Just Republicans.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 21st, 2012
5:59 pm
“TRUTH IS HATE TO THOSE WHO HATE TRUTH”
PULLING NO PUNCHES
“An open letter to homosexuals”
Exclusive: Matt Barber has a message for average, ordinary ‘gay’ people
“I write this not to professional homosexuals. That is to say, not to members of the well-funded, politically powerful homosexual activist lobby. They will mock and reject my words outright. They will twist and misrepresent what I say to further their own socio-political agenda. That’s fine. It’s to be expected. It merits little more than a yawn and an eye roll.
Instead, I write this to my fellow travelers in life – average, ordinary people, male and female, young and old – who happen to call themselves “gay.” I write this out of obedience to God.
It is my hope and prayer that you will consider what I have to say and take it at face value. My intentions are pure and my motives upright. If I can plant the seed of truth in just one person, and that seed begins to sprout, then I consider this letter a success.
I pray that you are that person.
What I write may offend you. It may even infuriate you. But I hope it makes you think. Know this: Your friends have lied to you. Christians do not hate you. We love you intensely. We love you because of who you are, not because of what you do or because of who you think you are.
Still, to love someone and to lie to them is to hate them – especially when that lie inevitably leads to a tragic and hopeless end.
If you have a loved one, blindfolded and running full speed toward cliff’s edge, do you not yell, stop! Would you not run after them, even tackling them if need be to prevent them from plummeting to certain death? What would we think of the person who said: “Keep running; all is well.”
All is not well, and you know it. On this path, “it” decidedly does not “get better.” It only gets worse. You will fall and you will die – perhaps not physical death, straight away – but certainly, an emotional and spiritual death. Homosexual activists, “progressives,” Hollywood, the media, academia and popular culture are telling you to keep running.
I’m yelling, stop!
Your lifestyle – homosexuality – is always and forever, objectively and demonstrably wrong. It is never good, natural, right or praiseworthy. If you have “gay pride,” you have “sin pride.” Although homosexuality is not the only sexual sin, it is, indeed, sin. Scripture is unequivocal on this fact throughout both the Old and New Testaments.
But this reality is manifest beyond the pages of Scripture. Unnatural behaviors beget natural consequences. So-called “homophobia” is not responsible for the fact that, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one-in-five “gay” men and adolescents in major cities across America have been infected – through bad behavior – with HIV/AIDS.
Sin is responsible.
In almost every category – disease, depression, drug and alcohol abuse, and suicide – those who call themselves “gay” live and die with consequences that have nothing gay, in the true sense of the word, about them.
Is this you? Be honest.
At least be honest with yourself.
Scripture admonishes: “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 6:23). This does not simply mean physical death, but something far worse: spiritual death.
Yes, hell.
I know from which I speak. I am no better than you. I, too, once lived a lifestyle of sexual sin. Not homosexual sin, but sexual sin nonetheless. As a young man I did not treat God’s daughters as He intended and, instead, engaged in a lifestyle of selfish womanizing and fornication.
The wages of sin in my life was death – spiritual and emotional death. I was on your same path.
But by His grace, I was offered and accepted “the free gift of God.” I, instead, was saved and given “eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Do I still struggle with sin? Of course. Every day. We all do. We are fallen. We are sinners.
Still, Christ’s gift to me was forgiveness, redemption and life everlasting. My friend, that gift is available to you as well.
Snatch it up. Please.
During the Awakening 2011 – a national conference held, that year, at Liberty University – I was visiting with a young woman from the hard-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). I liked her. I loved her, in fact, in the way her heavenly Father, Christ Jesus, loves her and has enabled me to love her. I think of her and pray for her often.
In recent years, the SPLC has taken to smearing Christian organizations that defend the biblical sexual ethic as “hate groups.” After visiting for a while, I asked this young woman if she really believed that we Christians hate homosexuals. To my surprise she admitted that we do not. “But the things you say are sometimes hateful,” she added.
Indeed, truth is hate to those who hate truth.
The truth is that you have immeasurable value. You are a beautiful, unique, priceless human being. The very Creator of the universe, in the person of Jesus Christ, took such an interest in you that He meticulously wove you together in your mother’s womb. He loves you with a love that no human can fully grasp. Still, this is true not because of your so-called “sexual orientation,” but, rather, in spite of it.
You are valuable and worthy of love because God created you in His image. If you define your identity based upon sexual temptations and behaviors your Creator has called sin – an “abomination” – then you are not fulfilling the purpose for which He created you. In so doing, you have become the sum total of your sins. You are in rebellion against God and you know it.
He made you to know it.
Yes, the activists tell you to take “pride” in your “sexual orientation,” but you don’t feel pride. You feel ashamed, and so you try, in vain, to numb the shame with more of the very behavior that causes it. You will never fill the void you feel with drugs, alcohol or more sexual acting-out. These things only expand your emptiness.
Christ alone can fill the void.
And He will.”
http://www.wnd.com/2012/06/an-open-letter-to-homosexuals/
G Mare
July 21st, 2012
6:01 pm
Oscar,
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Erwin's cat
July 21st, 2012
6:01 pm
You don’t say – No I dont
Soothsayer
July 21st, 2012
6:01 pm
Oh! Lord! Scout’s gonna pray you straight!
Give it up, Scout! OK?
Thank God for thumbwheels.
G Mare
July 21st, 2012
6:03 pm
Sooth@5:39, your mama didn’t raise a fool.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 21st, 2012
6:03 pm
Sooth:
“TRUTH IS HATE TO THOSE WHO HATE TRUTH”
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
July 21st, 2012
6:05 pm
“TRUTH IS HATE TO THOSE WHO HATE TRUTH”
“Bullsh*t is bullsh*t is bullsh*t.”
– Thomas Jefferson
You don't say
July 21st, 2012
6:06 pm
0311
Maybe the guy who wrote that letter can hook up with those cure gay clinics. Seems like they have common interest
barking frog
July 21st, 2012
6:06 pm
0311
Each time you have sex
without the intent or ability
to procreate you are as
much an abomination as
a homosexual if you believe
the bible.
Soothsayer
July 21st, 2012
6:06 pm
“TRUTH IS HATE TO THOSE WHO HATE TRUTH”
Well, heck, Scout. Let’s pray away your military. How many people have met their end because of you? But, then again, you were just following orders, weren’t you?
Brosephus™
July 21st, 2012
6:08 pm
Scout
I never said I wouldn’t attempt to stop an active shooter. What I won’t do is barrel into the situation completely blind. I’m going to work towards a position of advantage to stop it. If that’s not possible, I will try to save as many as I can. If I allow myself to become a casualty, I’ve given the shooter another weapon to use.
I’ve been caught in crossfire before. What seems like minutes, are only seconds in reality. It’s hard to sit here and speculate on what I would do. My hope is to never have to find out in real life.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 21st, 2012
6:09 pm
Hummmm ………….. the truth always strikes a chord.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 21st, 2012
6:10 pm
Brosephus:
No problem with your 6:08.
I would add, the more people “in the position” to possibly stop the carnage the better.
josef
July 21st, 2012
6:11 pm
SCOUT
I couldn’t be more wrong? Says you. You have every right to be as didactic and hate (yes, hate) mongering as you choose. You’ve picked gay folks, yet you and yours went out singing the hosannahs of the multi-married Gingrich without ever posting on, and on, and on about his sins against the tenets of the faith you purport to speak in the name of.
You fail to grasp that what you are promoting is exactly what has led to that lunatic in North Carolina wanting to set up concentration camps. Do I think you want that? No. But I also don’t think you are taking a Christian stand against it either and I don’t think you are taking responsibility for your own f*ggot added to the flame almost daily here.
I honestly believe that if we were ever to reach that point of round ‘em up to put them there, you’d hide me. But you’d still never take the responsibility for your own role in bringing it about. We’ve been there recently, and as you say, Never Again! Think about it…pray about it
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 21st, 2012
6:13 pm
barking frog:
“Each time you have sex
without the intent or ability
to procreate you are as
much an abomination as
a homosexual if you believe
the bible.”
I happen to think you are wrong but let’s assume you are correct.
What would be additionally wrong would be for me to “promote” that activity rather than just keep it to my self.
In other words, “Equal Rights for Adulterers” ! I want my girlfriend along with my wife as a deduction on my tax return ! Adulterers Pride Parades, etc., etc., etc.
josef
July 21st, 2012
6:13 pm
BTW, y’all,,,the original post on that 8:11 got thrown into moderation because I forgot to take the letter out of f*ggot, even though I used it in its correct meaning. Ever wonder why so many of us call ourselves that?
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 21st, 2012
6:13 pm
Excuse me: “myself”
Erwin's cat
July 21st, 2012
6:14 pm
I can separate his chicken sandwich store from (that employs 10’s if not 100’s of 1,000’s).the media op…
just sayin…who will you punish?
getalife
July 21st, 2012
6:16 pm
God is a particle that is why it took so long to find it.
Anyhoo, I think we just witnessed a tiny bit of Syria.
Damascus looks like Baghdad.
Bombs blowing up all over that city.
G Mare
July 21st, 2012
6:16 pm
0311, please don’t force me to put you back on my ignore list just when we were getting along so well. It seems to me that all & each of us have/has the right to believe we wish. It also seems to me that this blog is not the place for proselytizing, for whatever beliefs we have or do not. Okay, I guess politics is fair game, as long as we keep things fairly civil. It is my opinion that religion here should be taboo as it stirs up too much animosity, both pro & con. Just my opinion, of course.
getalife
July 21st, 2012
6:18 pm
scout,
When have you ever been right about anything?