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With four helicopters flying overhead, we had no idea what to expect early this evening at Market and Seventh Street, at least in terms of turnout, regarding tonight's Prop. 8 protest.
It was huge. Massive.
Although SFGate (via AP) reports a scant 1,000 protesters, we can safely say that that number is false. People who showed up to protest the passing of prop. 8 -- gay, straight, tranny, black, Latino, Mormon, rich, poor, Christian, white, atheist, even a couple of furries -- were there in numbers that reached the thousands.
As of 8:15 p.m., we're hearing a number of around 25,000 people, at least according to KPIX. PinkNews reports 15,000+.
Much of the damage to homes and a small Christian college occurred overnight Thursday, but several more homes burned Friday in Montecito, a quaint area that has attracted celebrities such as Rob Lowe, Jeff Bridges, Michael Douglas and Oprah Winfrey. More than 1,000 firefighters worked to contain the blaze.
"It's not a time to relax," Santa Barbara County Deputy Fire Chief Tom Franklin said late Friday. "Everybody's got to be diligent through tonight."
Franklin said up to 200 homes may have burned in the area and asked for patience as crews tried to catalog the devastation in hilly areas accessible only by winding roads.
Homosexuals demanding to be "accepted" as normal humans..........
Originally posted by Stormdancer777
Homosexuals demanding to be "accepted" as normal humans..........
OH ouch?
Are you trying to get people angry?
21And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.
22Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
23Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.
24Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
25And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
26Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
27(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled
28That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.
29For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.
30Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.
L.A. and San Fransico, Modern day Sodom and Gomorrah
Originally posted by SLAYER69
L.A. and San Fransico, Modern day Sodom and Gomorrah
*snip*
I have no issues with gay marriages if that's their thing who really cares what I have issues with are gay couples adopting children what are they creating the next generation of Gay people?
And what does that do to children when they reach high school imagine all the ridicule the kids will go through you know teenagers can be brutal
Why set children up for that just so they can have their gay relationship and try to act like a traditional set of parents.
[edit on 15-11-2008 by SLAYER69]
Originally posted by bruxfain
I am not sure on this but I've been needing this answered...
Doesn't the concept of marraige/union have its origin in the Bible?
If so why do the homosexuals fight against the Bible with one hand and with the other seek to apply its concepts to their life style?
Am I missing something here?
Originally posted by Layla
That's pretty ignorant. Setting up the next generation of Gay people? First of all, Gay people have been around for thousands of years, without the help of adoptions. Secondly, how did they all get here? Straight parents. So now YOUR theory is pretty much blown.
Originally posted by Layla
Originally posted by bruxfain
I am not sure on this but I've been needing this answered...
Doesn't the concept of marraige/union have its origin in the Bible?
If so why do the homosexuals fight against the Bible with one hand and with the other seek to apply its concepts to their life style?
Am I missing something here?
Yes, you're missing something. Marriage/union is not a soley religious concept. The Bible does touch on it, but the Bible was written long after marraige existed. Do you think people didn't marry before Christianity came into existance? Do you think early pagans didn't have marraige/union ceremonies.
What you fail to understand is that not everyone follows, accepts, or bleives the Bible to be the final word, and should not be forced to live by it's doctrine.
Originally posted by bruxfainI am not sure that all people could marry in pre-biblical times. Only certain people. In pre-biblical times most people were owned by someone and property cannot marry. Only Royal or Noble marriages were recognized by law. But that is a long drawn out story and you may be very fixed in your beliefs.
Where is your evidence and proof that pagan's married or had the same concept of marriage as outlined in the Bible. It is one thing to assume that this was the case, it is another to prove it. Besides its not just the Bible that says that homosexuals cannot marry, apparently it is becoming the law of the land; decided in a democratic manner.
Originally posted by SLAYER69Sadly it's not a theory it's an opinion
Secondly Teenagers are brutal by nature they are imature and will be so until they grow out of it
Thirdly whether biologically or religiously speaking there are men and women
they seem to be made for each other
Again I have no issues with gay people and marriages
I'm allowed my " OPINION " On gays adopting children thank you very much
Peace