NATURE OF SIN – Fascinates, Stimulates, Motivates, Assimilates, Permeates, Dominates, Assassinates

Isaiah 53:6 - All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God’s paths to follow our own. Yet the LORD laid on him the sins of us all.

AS SIN INTENSIFIES IN THE HEART IT EXTENSIFIES IN SOCIETY

Romans 1: 18-32

DENY TRUTH, DARKENED HEART, DISPLACE GOD, DEGRADING PASSIONS, DEPRAVED MIND

ACCEPTANCE, APPRECIATION, CELEBRATION, FORCED PARTICIPATION

1. Farmer banned from the Farmer’s Market in Michigan b.c he won’t host gay weddings at his farm

It started when Steve Tennes, who owns a 120-acre farm in Charlotte, Michigan, expressed his traditional view about marriage on the farm’s Facebook page.

This drew a warning from an official more than 20 miles away in East Lansing, Michigan, that if Tennes tried to sell his fruit at the city’s farmers market, it could incite protests.

No one showed up to protest that August day last summer, though, and Tennes continued selling organic apples, peaches, cherries, and pumpkins at the seasonal market until October, as he had done the six previous years.

Nevertheless, East Lansing moved earlier this year to ban Tennes’ farm, the Country Mill, from participating in the farmers market when it resumes June 4. The city cited its human relations ordinance, an anti-discrimination law that includes sexual orientation. So Tennes, a retired Marine, and his wife, retired from the Army, sued the city for religious discrimination.

2. THE FEDERALIST: Illinois Purges Social Workers And Foster Families Who Don’t ‘Facilitate’ Transgenderism

llinois’s child welfare agency has proclaimed staff must ‘affirm’ gender ideology and ‘facilitate’ LGBT identities for kids—or be fired.

Mary Hasson wrote: No matter that sexual difference is a scientific fact, or that billions of sane people across the world acknowledge it. Illinois has decreed its own “truth” about the human person and served notice that it will muzzle the speech and religious beliefs of employees, caregivers, professionals, and cooperating agencies who think otherwise.


3. Ben & Jerry’s bans two scoops of the same ice cream
As the company explained on its website: "Imagine heading down to your local Scoop Shop to order your favorite two scoops of Cookie Dough in a waffle cone."

"But you find out you are not allowed ... you'd be furious!
"This doesn't even begin to compare to how furious you would be if you were told you were not allowed to marry the person you love.
"So we are banning two scoops of the same flavor and encouraging our fans to contact their MPs to tell them that the time has come—make same-sex marriage legal! Love comes in all flavors!"

Dr. Michael Brown - What if some chocolate ice cream identifies as vanilla? (I mean, who are they to be so primitive as to label all chocolate ice cream chocolate just because that's what society has done through the ages?) Can you then go ahead and get a scoop of chocolate and a scoop of trans-flavored (chocolate to vanilla) ice cream?"
“AND the nature of its protest is self-refuting, demonstrating the point that same-sex "marriage" is not marriage at all.

Let me explain.

Let's say chocolate represents men and vanilla represents women. You take one scoop of chocolate and one scoop of vanilla and what do you get? Something new. Something distinct. A unique blend of the two flavors. Two entities that are different and yet similar now become one.
That is a picture of marriage, which is the unique blend of male and female, the unique union of two different and yet similar entities.