Unfortunately, being a busy body is relegated to party affiliation. People/politicians of all stripes love to tell people what they can and cannot do. If you do not have dominion over your own body, how can you have liberty? Tod Kozeluh Lexington, KY

the assisted chicke never developed the muscles it needed to survive. This is a perfect analogy of what social assistance has done to our great nation. I think an ad showing this just might open some eyes to what the progressives have done to enslave people and create a completely dependant class of voters. Tod Kozeluh Lexington, KY

In the 1960's, I was in elementary school. I recall seeing a film of chicks being born. We were told how laborious the task was for the chick to peck his way out of the egg. It takes a good thirty minutes of strenuous pecking to free himself from the egg. It was decided that the chick needed help. Once the chick made the first crack in the shell, indicating it was ready to come out, the shell was cracked and the chick was helped out of the shell. Unfortunately, the chick that received the assitance, never gained the strength needed to stand and it died. We were taught that the pecking process developed the muscles necessary for the chick to be able to walk. Without the adversity of removing itself from the shell .... (cont'd_

The missionary model is the best way to try and influence people. Only when someone feels that you care about THEM will they allow you into their confidence and give any credence to what you say. Before a missionary ever talks about God, they meet the physical needs of the people they are serving. After those people learn that the missionary truly cares about them, only then will they hear what he/she has to say. Beating people over the head with statistics does not show love or concern. If you want to help, donate time helping those whom you wish to help. Once your love for them is received as unconditional, only then will you have influence. Tod Kozeluh Lexington, KY

Everyone is born with a predisposition toward sin. Everyone. Some sins are just more acceptable in society. Homosexuality just tends to creep many of us out so we think of it as sin more contemptible in God's eyes. Not true. God hates the sin of my lust and greed just as much as the sin of homosexuality. Tod Kozeluh Lexington, KY

BTW, USMC, what is it you hope to achieve by posting all those stats about homosexuals? I'm not contesting the veracity of the stats, just wondering what is your intent.

1 Corinthinian 6:12 Everything is permissible for me"--but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me"--but I will not be mastered by anything. (NIV)

Define "thriving, functioning society"? Is China thriving and functioning?

I have a responsibility to uphold society in way that promotes what I believe is good. But I also believe that others do not have to make the same choices I have. Otherwise, where is the liberty? The problem we have right now is that people want freedom without responsibility. A person's poor choices should be their burden to bear, not society's. I may, out of the goodness of my heart, assist someone who has made a poor choice, but they shouldn't be allowed to vote money out of my pocket to enable them in their poor choices. Tod Kozeluh Lexington, KY

The Bible teaches that all things are permissable, though not all things are beneficial. God HImself has given me the free will to accept or reject His teachings. Am I then to pass laws that force others to adhere to the teachings God allows one to accept or reject? The word hypocrisy immediately comes to mind. I do not have to like the choices others make with the freedom God has given them, and they do not have to like mine, but in a nation that was founded on individual liberty, it MUST be allowed. Do I think prostitution or drug use is good? Absolutely not. But should consenting adults be free to make those choices? Absolutely! I believe that the choices I make affect not only myself but society as a whole. And I believe ....