To be fair, shouldn't the mayor also ban candy bars, cotton candy, any soda can or bottle larger than 16 oz., donuts sold by the dozen, ice cream, milk shakes, wedding cakes, the list is endless. The mayor needs to work on more important problems.

If it isn't obvious by now that things are steadily deteriorating for the West, one is not paying attention. "Gay" marriage is simply the latest symptom of the total moral collapse of the West into hedonism and moral anarchy. Our courts are tied up, our schools are tied up, our politicians are tied up, our leaders are confused and distracted. There is only one solution: a traditional marriage amendment to the US Constitution. If it doesn't happen, then more family breakdown, more education idiocies (boys dressed as girls at school), financial morass, more civil chaos, more political infighting, more judicial snarl-up. We're approaching the 40th year anniversary of Roe vs. Wade--the biblical "40 years." God's at end of His patience.

I wrote an e-mail to your outfit which supposedly got forwarded to you--hope you write back. Since so much on this website is now being trolled (and "flagged" by trolls, unpredictably), I'd like to communicated off-line (if that's permissible). I am trying to learn more about your outfit. For instance, I don't really understand your post above. I'd say most member of main stream media are agnostics or atheists and so don't understand how believers think. There are books being written on this topic (i.e., how the MSM can get into and understand the mind of the believer). I don't think it's possible, which is why there is such a breakdown in communication/civility right now. There is a culture war on, conservatives losing.

AmyDB, I wrote your outfit www.wyomingasatru.com for your e-mail. A lot of posts are getting deleted, so I'm going to cut back here. You can write me at my private e-mail which I communicated to www.wyomingasatru.com. I'd like to hear more of your story and tell you more of mine, if you're interested. This forum is getting filled with trolls who are flagging a lot of messages, so posting here has its limitations.

I would not describe it as giving "gay their rights." I'd say we've given gays our rights, our right to free speech and freedom of religion. Sooner or later (and it seems sooner), the bad currency (hedonism) drives out the good (restraint), especially if it's gone viral. Our leaders are so stupid they bought the lie that a behavior is a race. They didn't study enough philosophy to understand man's endowment (by His Creator) of "free will." One may have certain temptations (there's a big lure or glamour to sin, elsewise we wouldn't be attracted to it), but one is supposed to try to resist, with God's help.

Amen, S.A. Here's another wonderful scripture for today's confused: "You have wearied the Lord with your words; Yet you say 'In what way have we wearied Him?' In that you say 'Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and He delights in them,' or 'Where is the God of justice?'" (Malachi 2: 17). Jesus warned that all sins will be forgiven except the blaspheming of Holy Spirit. I would argue that in labeling faith as "hatred" (racial hatred), the LGBT are blaspheming the Holy Spirit and are putting God to the test. What will He do? It's already in motion--which is why the West cannot recover its economic footing. God will not prosper a rebellious, disobeying people. Europe abandons God, God abandons Europe. We're next

Whether we admit it or not, religion informs culture, culture informs politics and law. Our laws enshrine the ten commandments (in various ways). There will not be nothing--laws are built on a foundation or philosophy. The foundation the LGBT are offering is hedonism. It is not bedrock like the Bible, but sand. I'd say (St. Thomas Acquinas would say (based his work on Aristotle), St. Augustine would say (based his work on Plato)) that traditional marriage reflects natural law for the survival of the species. It is common sense. But as G.K. Chesterton (and many others) have pointed out, common sense isn't all that common, esp. today.

As Adams points out, our federal, state and local governments have chosen to subsidize marriage in various ways--the tax code, inheritance laws. I think people will work harder when they have the hope of passing on the fruits of their labor (family business, family farm, family home) to their off spring. It drove the homesteaders to do back-breaking and dangerous migration and labor, which (some books argue) was an economic engine for growth in US--well, those homesteaders passed on the fruit of their labors to their kin, by and large. How a society defines marriage and a family matters. We're seeing the legal anarchy attendant on its redefinition--freedom of religion and speech are also at peril.

Yes, Amy, we're all guilt of that (repetitious). I wrote you more below, Amy. Over and out...oof, up too late again.

But you might then be wondering--what does it matter? Because we suffer when we are separated from the truth and the source of truth. Jesus is who he said he was: the way, the truth and the life. I want the real thing. I need it, I found it, and I will never let go. Once you get plugged into the real source of power, truth and love, you cannot turn back, cannot let go. There really aren't words.that's why I sometimes compare him to Jack in "Titanic," and the Christian like Rose. He will do anything, anything to save Rose, loves her with his whole being, saves her in every way there is to save a person. Rose survives, and we do too, because of Him. So I say good night , TH, ugh, another Monday, another day of crashing stock markets