It has everything to do with this because the cops breaking the law are not jailed. Who did she harm? No one.
It's not just about "harming." Someone who breaks into your house and just steals your TV didn't harm you, but they still receive punishment, don't they? The cop argument makes no sense. You are justifying being outraged at someone being jailed for violating the rights of another by being outraged at someone not being jailed for violating the rights of another. It's hypocritical. If you see cops getting off for their crimes as wrong, then you should say Davis getting off for her crime as wrong.
What I'm saying is that she should not be jailed for following her beliefs. No matter which way you look at it, the growing Christian minority is slowly losing their religious freedom.To answer your comparison, no I'm not stating that. But you have a woman going to jail for belieiving her religion, but a guy who participated in raping kids having his jailed sentence reduced. Our law system is a joke
Except that's not the way it works. Your religious freedom allows you to follow a religion of your choice. But it does not give you the right to impede on the rights and safety of others in the name of your religion. If the law states that gay people have the right to receive marriage licenses, you cannot deprive the of that right in the name of your religion. She was not arrested because she believed homosexuals shouldn't get marriage licenses. She was arrested because the law says that homosexuals cannot be denied marriage licenses and because she refused to carry out her duty as an elected government official. If a cop refused to arrest a rapist because the rapist did so to a homosexual and he doesn't believe in their rights, or a doctor refused to perform a check up on a homosexual patient because of his religious belief, the same thing would happen.
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So God supports homosexuality now? Don't quote scripture if you don't know what your talking about. Times were different in that day and the laws were not like they are today. Another thing pointed out in the verse is "evil" which in biblically definition homosexuality follows under. In that same verse it also says that live as free not using freedom to cover up evil which negates anything you just said
e subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme, or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good. For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people. Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God. Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.
Riker, please don't be ignorant and quote scriptue you don't understand because this is a battle you won't win. So let's just leave scripture out of it.
The only thing I agree with is her quitting she should not have been jailed
And again with have another ignorant person who doesn't understand scripture trying to interpret what they don't know. What sin did she commit? Who is she judging? You talk about understanding people yet she was put in jail for something like this. People steal yet they get off with probabtion, the man that participated with Subway spokesmam in those pedophile rapes and child porno paid his way to prevent jail time, cops are killing blacks for no justifiable reason and are only getting suspended. Please don't come at me with nonsense like I don't know anything
God destroyed a city based off homosexual acts, did you know that?
Funny you talk about ignorance when you were ignorant to the scripture I was talking about. It's this, by the way:
Romans 13, 1-5
1 Everyone must submit to governing authorities. For all authority comes from God, and those in positions of authority have been placed there by God. 2 So anyone who rebels against authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and they will be punished. 3 For the authorities do not strike fear in people who are doing right, but in those who are doing wrong. Would you like to live without fear of the authorities? Do what is right, and they will honor you. 4 The authorities are God’s servants, sent for your good. But if you are doing wrong, of course you should be afraid, for they have the power to punish you. They are God’s servants, sent for the very purpose of punishing those who do what is wrong. 5 So you must submit to them, not only to avoid punishment, but also to keep a clear conscience.
This scripture declares that God has instated the governing authorities. He said "Do not do wrong" in reference to disobeying said authorities, showing that God views breaking the law of the governing authorities as wrong. By going against the authority that God instated, as he himself said he did, she is going against her religious beliefs.
There are, however, two arguments I've seen against this reasoning, but both backfire. One is that the scripture does not apply to laws that contradict God's standards and declarations. So if a law permits you to murder, or rape, or steal, you can't follow it. If that's the case, then she should not be in this position. If the career requires you to do something that goes against God's law, then you cannot be a part of that career. If that is the case, then it is not her place to deny these people their marriage licenses, but to quit.
The other, as you have said, is that the scripture no longer applies to modern day society. It is outdated, the standard no longer applies, and applied to a society of long ago. That means that a part of God's word, standards that God saw as good, have become obsolete. And even more strongly, they have become wrong because following them now would be wrong, due to them being obsolete. This makes the scriptures and the concept of God as a whole flawed. God is supposed to be a perfect being. Then how can his standards ever become obsolete and outdated; his standards should be perfect. The Bible is supposed to be infallible and indefinite, as it comes from God. Then how can parts of it be obsolete, useless, and not worthy of following in modern day society? If standards can become obsolete, then how do you know that some of the standards you still have haven't become obsolete, but you can't realized because you maintain usage? How do you know it all hasn't become obsolete?
This was not originally the terms of her job. Her job was to provide marriage licences to people under laws that did not contradict her belief. Her choice was a job that didn't contradict her beliefs, but was changed to be something that does not fit her beliefs. You're basically saying "Oh, the terms of her job have been changed on her? Tough, she should be unemployed!"
This needed resolved, as the job is now something that condones gay marriage, but imprisoning her is insane. This is breaching equality, and reaching domination.
No. Her job was to provide marriage licenses to people who the law says are eligible to receive one. That is her position. He religion does not affect how she does her duty, or what her duty is. If she lets her religion influence her duty when it shouldn't, then she is on grounds to be fired. And it just so happens that in this case, the way her religion affected her duty and the fact that she allowed it to affect her duty was illegal.
"You cannot be punished for following your beliefs." There are religions that believe it's right to commit human sacrifices. Pretty sure that's still punishable by law.
