Du2, you can't fool me, and you can't fool TH readers. You are nothing more than a name-caller. That's what the LGBT call "argument"--ad hominem attacks. And here's the trend, Du2--the West is mired in mess and ruin, just like Rome 476 AD. Things weren't going so well for them--they had gays, they had gay marriage, and they had infanticide. Then, ka-put. Who said I was scared? Read the sign of the times, Du2. Things are NOT going so well in the West, and there's a reason. Go look in the mirror, you're part of the problem.

The LGBT agenda has always been a Trojan horse for an attack on the faithful of the world's major religions, particularly Christianity. The proof is in the mounting, targeted numbers of lawsuits against people trying to practice their Christian faith in the conduct of their lives. And God will not abide it, which is why things are not going so well for the West right now. God will not bless a stiff-necked, wayward lot that insist on marrying two men and killing babies. And the name-callers don't fool me and never have fooled the faithful--they are the haters, not Christians. We're in for more trouble until it stops (baby killing and tyrannical rule by the LGBT movement).

Good column. When President Obama stood before a meeting of Planned Parenthood personnel last week and said "God bless you," a chill ran down my spine. Those words were an insult to God. God will not bless a country that systematically kills children. And any person, family, country that God does not bless founders. In the Old Testament, whenever the chosen people became spiritually derailed, God first cajoled and warned--sending prophets and priests to warn the people of oncoming wrath. God is very patient--warning for 40 years. Then He lets the erring people "have it." We're 40 years out from Roe vs. Wade. So, either we turn back from systematic baby-killing or suffer God's wrath. I'd argue that His wrath is already upon us.

Islam currently is a bad religion. It is based on hatred of the infidel, but also includes killing each other. The violence will not end until the religion evolves away from intolerance and cruelty. The Islamic faith is where Christianity was at 1500 years of age--the Inquisition, with its torture and killing of innocence, and massive cruelty, esp. toward women, who were burned at the stake and drowned as witches. The war between the Sunnis and Shiites is like that between the Protestants and Catholics. Unfortunately, we're probably in for 50-80 years of this before the adherents say "enough!" The improved status of women within Islamic countries is key to this turn from violence.

What we'll have, Mr. Buchanan, is the persecution of the faithful. LGBT has always been a Trojan horse for the persecution of the faithful, which has already begun in the form of lawsuits against anyone not toting the LGBT line. We in the West have lost our moral compass. We can't figure out it is a sin to murder a live baby; nor can we figure out that "marriage" can only occur between a man and a woman. But God has a way of re-introducing the truth into the deep wood of error, and I'd argue that we mid- chastisement that will continue until we "get it." Ready for H7N9 (bird flu), the cicadas, the N. Koreans, Iran, having our nation handed over to a new nation (Mexico), continuing financial malaise, bad leadership? Whatever it takes.

He's awful. Why do the Repubs keep putting up awful people? No wonder we lose so many elections.

Dollysboy, you do not know history. God wil and hasl invariable(d) act if his people (and the West is "his people") do certain things: such as, the systematic murder of children. That is one of the reasons things are heading downward for the West. Europe has abandoned Christianity, and so Christ will abandon Europe. And that's all it takes--for things to go wrong. If God does not help a person, a family, a nation, it's all over except for the crying. Hitler should have known: systematize the murder of (among others) children, you're toast. We're headed for a fall in the West. Cyrprus is probably the first crack in the facade.

Thank you, jfhdsiu. It is not a burden to defend my Savior. Like you, I love Jesus. Which of us does not stand up for the one we love, with joy?

Continuing on the theme of Jesus and statements re: homosexuality, notice that when Christ was arguing with the Pharisees (who were trying to trap him) about the propriety of divorce (Mark 10, verses 6-10), He said that if a man divorces his wife he forces her to commit adultery. He didn't bring up men-on-men marriage, etc., because it would have been an absurdity, like asking Jesus "is it okay to murder a baby as it is being born?" It would not have entered into the mind of anyone at that time that such a thing as SSM could legally occur--homosexuality was an abomination according to Jewish law, and a homosexual act would then have been considered grave sin, and not the basis for marriage, for heaven's sake.

Mike, you're wrong. Jesus did indirectly allude to homosexuality when he stated Matthew 11:23: "And you people of Capernaum, will you be honored in heaven? No, you will go down to the place of the dead. For if the miracles I did for you had been done in wicked Sodom, it would still be here today." (This is "the new living translation" (2007).) Also, when asked about the propriety of divorce, Jesus quoted Genesis stating that God made them male and female and for this reason a man shall leave his parents and cleave unto his wife and they shall be one flesh. (I'm paraphrasing Mark 10: 6-10. Jesus did not need to lecture on gay marriage because to even propose such a thing in His time would have been preposterous.