Michigan gay rights push prompts protest from religious group outside state Capitol

[theHandpuppet]

http://www.mlive.com/lansing-news/index.ssf/2014/10/religious_group_blasts_gay_rig.html
Michigan gay rights push prompts protest from religious group outside state Capitol
By Jonathan Oosting
on October 22, 2014

LANSING, MI — Roughly 150 religious leaders and activists gathered outside the Michigan Capitol on Wednesday to protest a potential gay rights amendment to the state’s anti-discrimination law.

“Those wanting special rights for sexual orientation are seeking to rewrite the traditional moral fiber of our society,” Tim Berlin, senior pastor at Faith Baptist Church in Warren, told onlookers.

“We are not stopping anyone from their individual choices or from their individual preferences, but we are unwilling to allow them to redefine what has been our biblical and historic precedent.”...

...Stacy Swimp, a Michigan activist who has urged Christians not to have “false empathy” for gay residents or the “satanic agenda,” told the crowd he was “insulted and offended” that lawmakers would consider adding LGBT protections to a law inspired by the African American civil rights movement.... MORE at link provided above.

[shenmue]

1. What hate

They want the right to keep people unemployed.

How mean can you get?

[Arkansas Granny]

2. It just boggles the mind. For all their howling about being persecuted,

they don't mind doing it to others.

[nomorenomore08]

3. What the hell does "false empathy" mean anyway?

Either you feel for someone else's plight or you don't.

[theHandpuppet]

5. I think that's the new code phrase for "political correctness"

As best as I can figure, anyway.

[RKP5637]

4. Haters just have to hate, it feels good to them, the more persecution, the

better they feel. They hide under the veil of religion, but lift that veil and one will see some evil, deceitful haters straight from hell. Using their own vernacular, the devil comes in many disguises.

[theHandpuppet]

6. I think this verse is most appropriate, from the book of Matthew

"Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves."

[RKP5637]

7. Definitely! I think of that often! I don't think of any of them as religious, but rather

as misfits in a civilized society.