3 posts from February 2009

"Homosexuality is seen as a violation of this natural created order, and it is an offense to God...I'm not saying this (homosexuality) is the only sin that's out there. We have murder. We have all sorts of sin. We have adultery. And we don't make laws making those legal, and we would never think to make murder legal."

Scott Renfroe is in the Colorado legislature, so I thought it might be a good idea for someone to explain some things about the law to him.

The first thing I’d like to point out is that the bill he was speaking against, Senate Bill 88, which would extend healthcare coverage to the same-sex partners of state employees, does not make homosexuality legal. Lawrence v. Texas did that. Senate Bill 88 gives people medical coverage, so it helps sick people as in Matthew 4:23-25, where Jesus healed all the sick, not just those who were sinless.

Second, we absolutely make laws that make sins legal. While it is true that both murder and adultery are illegal in Colorado, the sins that God frowns upon the most are made legal by the highest law in the land. Really, take a look at the first four sins described in the Ten Commandments:

1. You shall have no other gods before me.
    
2. You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
    
3. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
    
4. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
   
   

The First Amendment makes all of those sins legal. By ensuring the freedoms of religion and speech, we make it legal to have other gods, make graven images, take the Lord’s name in vain, and work on Saturday. The First Amendment is not just any law. It is the highest law, and it runs absolutely contrary to the first and highest laws of God. Our system of laws may have been influenced by Biblical law, but it is certainly not based on Biblical law. Our laws are based on the freedom from Biblical law.

Third, if Senator Renfroe is truly worried about illegitimate marriages being supported by Colorado’s state employee insurance benefits, may I suggest that he try to kick the people off who have married after being divorced? Colorado has one of the higher divorce rates in the US. And Matt 5:31-32 says that any man who marries a divorced woman is committing adultery. As I recall, adultery was one of the sins Senator Renfroe was so worried about, so surely he would sponsor a bill that prevents divorced women and men who have married state employees from getting health insurance, right?

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Tragic.

I love Ginsburg. She’s my favorite Justice. I feel silly crying. It’s not as if I know her. But I just love her. Brilliant. Just. Accomplished.

She can be proud of the life she has lived. We can be proud to have had her on the highest court in the land.

I'm just heartsick over this.

Grant - Orrery of Turds - Morrison

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Grant Morrison has announced that he has cancelled his appearance at the New York Comic Con.

“Then what should we do with our torches and pitchforks?” asked a member of an angry mob of Final Crisis readers.

Morrison sited “family issues” as his reason for not showing.

“Does this mean that his family found out that we intended to kill him?” a machete-wielding member of the mob asked. “Or does this mean that his family has disowned him for writing Final Crisis?”

Several of the mob suggested that they were insulted by Morrison’s announcement.

“Family issues? Really?” a woman with shreds of all seven issues of Final Crisis falling from her mouth said. “I mean, if he said he was suffering from dementia, we’d at least have some evidence of that. That’s believable. Or if he said he just hated us -- really, really hated us -- and wanted to do anything he could to screw us over, I could totally see that, but family issues? It insults our intelligence. Surely, he must know that we want to kill him. That's why he's not appearing.”

A support group for frustrated mob members has been formed and will meet at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.

“I think the Grant Morrison Revenge Squad will help to channel the murderous rage comic readers are feeling right now,” said Scott Anderson, the leader of the support group. “We plan on hunting him down in Scotland, where we’ll get him to autograph our copies of Animal Man. And then, of course, burn him alive in a pyre of Final Crisis issues that none of us want to ever look at again.”