Well I have to appreciate your persistence. But truly you are not gaining support.

I am certainly not “about feeling” and if you have “looked at all sides” of the issue of equality under the law and somehow decided that you should have rights that I don’t have because your denomination doesn’t like me, then you are neither a follower of Jesus nor a lover of freedom.

And if you’re concerned about wheat and tares, I refer you to Matthew 25:31-46.

You see a people in need, those who have been denied the right to marry, to look after each other, to care for children, and to live in peace with their neighbor and you have decided that that is A-ok with you because you don’t like the way God created them.

Sir, your soul is in peril.

Actually Dr. Crowell believes just like most actual Christians, that everyone should choose what they believe after trying to look at all sides of an issue. However, if anyone does not believe they are right they should not believe that way. We must be very careful in what we believe, it is not about feeling.

The wheat and tares will be separated by someone with a lot more wisdom than what us humans have been given.

Ron

Yes, clearly Shaun is a conservative Christian of the ‘force everyone else to live by what my church teaches’ variety.

Thanks, but I vote against theocrats, not for them.

I am his dad. That is my email and his Website. Check out his website and get it right this time.

Ron

So what you’re saying is that you are more partisan than GOProud. Yikes.

Well no, but thanks for twisting my words.  If you ever actually want to discuss something rather than just dismiss me like a child, you know where to find me.

Ryan
Have they coalesced around anyone to write in yet?

The whole thing is so stupid (and funny). If Democratic Party leadership had just ran one sacrificial lamb who was a credible token who could talk to the press and who could insist on debates, then they could at least have a voice in presenting ideas and could hold Corker to positions and challenge his values – even if they knew they would lose.

At this point, they need to find a person to be the figurehead. How friggen hard can that be? Just announce that good Democrats should write in the party chairman, or a state-wide elected official.

But to vote for him simply because he has a “D” next to his name seems incredibly short-sighted.

That is one view, one I don’t share.  Both are anti-gay, so that legislation is moot.  But the man must be a Democrat for some reason.  So if presented with two anti-gay candidates, one from each party, and given the current make-up of the Congress, I would chose the Democrat. 

I would gamble that there would be other areas of that platform where he would vote with the party and therefore maintain that majority.  The GOP — on the national level and increasingly on the local level — is simply too toxic across the board.  In another time and situation, I would not feel so pressed to vote that way.  I do now.

The point has been made more than once that this is all moot anyway.  First, I don’t live there and can’t vote for either of them.  Second, it would seem the prevailing wisdom that the GOP candidate is going to win. 

Until the GOP either survives this case of ideological rabies it has contracted or a viable third party splits off, my vote will be far more partisan than in previous years.  If you feel differently, by all means vote your conscience.