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Jimmy Carter on Homosexuality: ‘Jesus Never Said a Word About It’

Jimmy Carter Talks Biblical Gay Marriage, Slavery, Womens Rights & More

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter (AP)

Former President Jimmy Carter is a controversial figure here in America. But beyond being known in more conservative circles for his intriguing (sometimes troubling, depending with whom one is speaking) positions, he’s also distinguished himself with his outspoken Christianity.

His new book, “NIV Lessons from Life Bible: Personal Reflections with Jimmy Carter,” delves into some of the former president’s own lessons that he taught over the years during Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plans, Georgia. These lessons are meshed together with text from the New International Version of the Bible.

In an interview published today with The Huffington Post to promote the book, the nation’s 39th president tackled some tough Biblical questions on slavery, homosexuality, women’s role in the Christian church and more. Carter, who has come under fire for his stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and his positive comments about Occupy Wall Street movement, among other issues and statements, offered up some intriguing spiritual insight.

Jimmy Carter Talks Biblical Gay Marriage, Slavery, Womens Rights & More

HuffPo’s Senior Religion Editor Paul Brandeis Raushenbush started the conversation by asking Carter if God wrote the Bible.

“God inspired the Bible but didn’t write every word in the Bible,” Carter responded. “We know, for instance that stars can’t fall on the earth, stars are much larger than the earth. That was a limitation of knowledge of the universe or physics, or astronomy at that time, but that doesn’t bother me at all.”

When it came to addressing homosexuality, a contentious issue in many Christian circles, Carter talked about its historical nature and delved into his views on how civil ceremonies should be treated:

“Homosexuality was well known in the ancient world, well before Christ was born and Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things -– he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.

I draw the line, maybe arbitrarily, in requiring by law that churches must marry people. I’m a Baptist, and I believe that each congregation is autonomous and can govern its own affairs. So if a local Baptist church wants to accept gay members on an equal basis, which my church does by the way, then that is fine. If a church decides not to, then government laws shouldn’t require them to.”

Jimmy Carter Talks Biblical Gay Marriage, Slavery, Womens Rights & More

Following this question, Raushenbush asked, “What about passages saying slaves obey your masters? (Colossians 3:22) Do you think there is ever a time to say, ok, we know that we don’t agree with that passage, let’s get rid of it?” This question was particularly timely, considering the controversy over atheist billboards in Pennsylvania that utilized this verse to rail against Christianity.

“Well, the principles of that are still applicable. It wasn’t a matter that the Bible endorses slavery, it was that throughout history, now and in the future there are going to be some who are in a subservient position like when I was commanding officer of a ship when I was in the submarine corps,” Carter explained. “It is meant to preserve the basic principles that don’t cause resentment or hatred or betrayal or false attitudes. But it also says that a master should respect your servant. So, it works both ways.”

Read the entire interview here.

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  • Dale
    Posted on March 19, 2012 at 11:50am

    I’m just guessing here, but jimmy’s biblical understanding may just explain why he was lost in the white house; and could not produce a single consistent, coordinated policy.

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    • Auralae
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 1:05am

      @ZERO5692 et al I’ve seen a lot of people bringing up Matthew 19:4-6 But even after skimming 12 pages (currently the end) I’ve not seen even one person bring up what comes directly after those verses—which answers ZERO’s doubts that this subject is indeed covered by that context:

      “Because of your hardness of heart Moses permitted you to divorce your wives; but from the beginning it has not been this way. 9 And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.”

      10 The disciples *said to Him, “If the relationship of the man with his wife is like this, it is better not to marry.” 11 But He said to them, “Not all men can accept this statement, but only those to whom it has been given. 12 For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb; and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are also eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. He who is able to accept this, let him accept it.”

      So there you go. Marry one woman for life, or be a eunuch. The ONLY acceptable sex is between man and wife….and that’s precisely why it was called a “hard teaching”

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    • Meyvn
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 6:12am

      What an idiot Carter is… Jesus IS God and said plenty about it.

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    • TRUTHSENSE
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 8:13am

      Maybe Jimmy needs to join The Jesus Seminar if he is not already a part of it. These supposed scholars with superior knowledge get together and vote on which parts of the Bible are really of God and which are not. I also can’t help but wonder about our current Presidents understanding. If he is the Christian he says he is, why is it that I only hear him refer to The Holy Bible as The Bible, but he refers to the Qu‘ran as The Holy Qu’ran? If he is Christian and not Muslim, then why is the Qur’an holy, but the Bible is not?

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    • Demosthenes Locke
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:00am

      @Auralae – You keep using that word “eunuch”. I don’t think that word means what you think it means. A eunuch is a castrated male. Not a gay person. They’re not equivalent. There are some males born without testes, due to genetic abnormalities or damage from poisons, environmental factors, or parental disease. Some eunuchs were made so by others to make them “safe” among women. Think “harem guard” in that. And some made themselves into eunuchs for the sake of some really out there religious sects, believing that chopping their nuggs off would reduce their “worldly passions”. But none of this has thing one to do with homosexuality.

      And @777Jenn The only outright exhortation regarding anything like homosexuality is in Leviticus, but there’s room to question that, as the original terms used were for “temple prostitutes”, so that exhortation would seem to mean “Don’t patronize temple prostitutes, this is an abomination”. But Leviticus is not Jesus. So what Carter said was accurate. Jesus didn’t say it.

      And don’t forget — Jesus didn’t CHANGE the law…he FULFILLED the law. All of it.

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    • FFSTEVE
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 12:08pm

      Romans 1:26-27
      1Timothy 1:10
      Leviticus 18:22
      Leviticus 20:13
      1 Corinthians 1:9

      KJV

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    • P3ngnr
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 12:50pm

      “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold [back] the truth in unrighteousness… Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves… For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

      And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another, men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which is meet.”
      Romans 1:18, 24, 26-32

      It wasnt that hard to find.
      9Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

      10Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

      11And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

      1 Corinthians 6: 9-11

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    • ConservDadASD
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 3:47pm

      @ Demosthenes Locke who said:

      “The only outright exhortation regarding anything like homosexuality is in Leviticus, but there’s room to question that, as the original terms used were for “temple prostitutes”, so that exhortation would seem to mean “Don’t patronize temple prostitutes, this is an abomination”. But Leviticus is not Jesus. So what Carter said was accurate. Jesus didn’t say it.
      And don’t forget — Jesus didn’t CHANGE the law…he FULFILLED the law. All of it.”

      I guess that copulation with animals is okay since Jesus never mentioned this either. And how about marriage to your sibling or 1st cousin or parents or uncle? Look like these are all okay to marry or to conjoin to as long as they are not temple prostitutes.. right? Or since Jesus FULFILLED all the law, i guess these (or any sexual combinations I, or Leviticus, haven’t mentioned) are okay… right?

      I think you attend the same “How to study and read the Bible” class that Jimmy attends.

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    • 66MustangConvertible
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 6:46pm

      Carter is surprisingly well studied. I think he deliberately parses ideas conveniently… however, if a Baptist Church chooses to be part of the Southern Baptists, Independent Baptists, Missionary Baptists, or any number of other ‘flavors’, there are guidelines… if they are not part of a group they CHOOSE to affiliate with, there leadership will make the decisions for the congregation as long as the congregation allows them. Each Baptist Congregation is accountable only as long as they want to be affiliated. The Southern Baptist Convention and the missionaries they support tend to be more conservative than the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. Independent Baptists (& missionaries supported) tend to be more consistently conservative than some in the SBC.

      Carter has taught Sunday School from time to time for more than 50 years. He has keen insight on many scripture passages and I encourage anyone to visit the Church he attends in Plains (they post his teaching schedule). Measure his text to the scripture. We have found his editorials to be off our conservative perspectives, however, many of his lessons are insightful… To understand his swing to the left, you can see the basis of his views in stories from his youth ( Recommend “An Hour Before Daylight”, his book that describes his youth).

      The bottom line: Old Testament describes how God views homosexuality. It also reveals what God thinks of all kinds of sexual immorality. God never changed. Jesus revealed

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    • inblack
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 8:17pm

      This is a ridiculous and illogical claim by Carter.

      Since it is pretty obvious that the bible did not capture every word Christ spoke when he was here on earth, a statement like Jesus never said… is non-sense (how would Carter know).

      Secondly Jesus IS the Word. Before there was a universe, an earth or the old testament there was Jesus. Therefore any prophet or old testament writing is the inspired word of God and therefore Jesus.

      Thirdly, an argument to a non-statement is not a proof. There are plenty of evil things that are not condemned by quotes of Jesus in the NT.

      That said, I support gay peoples rights to be left alone and not harassed, just like any other human.

      But I do not support special rights or those rights reserved for married couples.

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    • lovenfl3
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:23pm

      Good ole Jimmy. At least he‘s no longer the worst President that we’ve ever had. He’s gotta love him some Obama for that. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MfgeFnOZbI

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    • Nathen
      Posted on March 21, 2012 at 9:27am

      I am the most conservative person ever to comment on the Blaze and can say that he is right that Jesus never mentioned it. Gays are mentioned in the Old Testament and all that was cancelled out by Jesus’ death in the New Testament

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    • DesertDave54
      Posted on March 21, 2012 at 12:29pm

      Okay, so let’s give the Marxist Peanut Farmer the benefit of the doubt. JESUS didn’t SAY… as far as we know… anything about homosexuality. We DO, however, know what the Holy Bible says. Jesus may not have quoted all the Commandments, either, but that doesn‘t mean we don’t follow them. Wow, what twit that old Commie is! And just in case there are Carterites out there, here is what even Jimmy Carter’s bible probably has in it: If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. — Lev.20:13

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    • Kitkarr
      Posted on March 22, 2012 at 4:11pm

      Nathen – “…all that was cancelled out by Jesus’ death…”

      Matthew 5:17-18 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them. I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.” (NIV)

      John 14:2-3 – “In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you may also be where I am.” (NIV)

      Heaven and Earth have not disappeared (and won’t, completely) and He has not come back because it is not all accomplished, yet. Thus, its still against the Law to have homosexual relations.

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on March 19, 2012 at 11:48am

    .
    That first picture says it all…….

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    • elihu
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 11:56am

      @‘Spank’

      Boy do you have that right…see my other similar comment.

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    • 9111315
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 2:15pm

      I think that was the Jimmy Bobblehead doll. It is almost lifelike.

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    • ImMadAsHell
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 2:34pm

      Man I have got to agree with you on that observation. Old Jimbo is not looking his best…. Next issue: Will someone PLEASe shut that OLD man up? We dont give a rats “A” what he thinks about the fricken Gays and Homos. I 4 one am sick of those groups….. I didn’t ask to hear bout them so Dont tell me U lizzard

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    • notmeatglennbeckdotcom
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 2:36pm

      It’s not a bobblehead, it’s the Eye-Popping Martian Stress Doll.

      Here – check it out.

      http://www.officeplayground.com/Eye-Popping-Martian-Toy-P27.aspx

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    • bitter.clinger
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 2:42pm

      Uh…Jimmy….puddin – looks like you need to read yer Bible. There are many things that are sinful and against God’s will for us…you can select to read and believe what you want, but that does not make your selective reading & belief anything remotely Christian. And to be blunt – you have now set yourself up against God’s word as a false teacher and will be judged as such unless you repent, which I pray you will do so.

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    • zer05692
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 2:54pm

      He has a point. Jesus really didn’t say anything on the subject of homosexuality. Piper2 pointed out the following verses: Methinks Jimmy hasn’t actually read his Bible in awhile:

      Matthew 19:4-6
      4 “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’[a] 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’[b]? 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

      Mark 10:6-8
      6 “But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’[a] 7 ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,[b] 8 and the two will become one flesh.’[c] So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

      Those two verses are in fact the exact same moment being talked about and they are in reply to the exact same question brought about by some pharisees “Is it lawful to divorce your wife”. They have nothing to do with homosexuality itself.

      Also, many of you have referenced Soddom and Gommorah. Find ONE verse in the Bible that say’s that was about Homosexuality. Ezekiel 19:49 points to the truth saying “‘Now THIS was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.” Nothing about homosexuals.

      Homosexuality is in Leviticus, so is women not talking in church. Deuteronomy,

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    • lukerw
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 2:59pm

      JESUS NEVER SAID… ‘Don’t put a Stick up your Ass’ nor other things… because STUPID people did not come to HIM!

      JIMMY: Let us know how this works out for you!

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    • Unix
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 3:07pm

      Ah, Jimmy ‘Bug eyed peanut head’ Carter, Jesus may not have directly addressed homosexuals, because God did. I wonder has he ever read the Bible? Leviticus, Romans, Deuteronomy, I think God says it all there, and Jesus Christ gave us the new Covenant, but upheld the old covenant by God at the same time. The left and their lies astound me every day!

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    • JohnnyMidknight
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 3:12pm

      @ zer05692

      The Old Testament also talks about stoning offenders, and Jesus said, “Let they who has not sinned cast the first stone.”

      We are not to judge someone’s shortcomings when we have shortcomings ourselves. I think he was saying, Worry more about yourself and not what others do. What crimes has someone who is gay committed against the stone thrower?

      Also, the Old Testament only speaks against male homosexuality and not female homosexuality in terms of capital offense (IE death warranted).

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    • 000degrees
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 3:20pm

      ….Andy, I’ve got both of the cells swept out. I‘m gonna head over to Floyd’s barber shop to see if I can get a game of checkers. Later me and Thelma Lou are gonna take the squad car up to the lake……

      Andy?….Andy!!!!! Nip it!!!!!!

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    • robert
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 3:25pm

      I’ve got news for you, Jimmy old boy. Most of us don‘t give a rat’s ass what Jesus ever said or didn’t say about homosexuals. Nature itself instills in each of the drive to procreate and to find abominible and repulsive anyone within our ranks who deviates from the natural order.

      We instinctively reject any form of deviency that is of a perverted nature, and it is a fact that homosexuals are NOT born that way, but are in the same vein as drug addicts and alcoholics who refuse to try to change or seek help to attain normalcy.

      Jimmy Carter is an old fool who is so far into do-gooderism he’s reached a level of unparalleld evil.

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    • robert
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 3:29pm

      What did the apostle Paul [by Christ’s authority] say about the practice of homosexuality? (Rom. 1:26-27; 1 Cor. 6:9-10.)

      Yes, Jesus did condemn homosexuality in His Word. The good news is, “there is hope for the homosexual; he has reason to believe there is hope for a brighter future. Paul states that some at Corinth had engaged in homosexual acts, but they had been washed, sanctified and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus (1 Cor. 6:9-11.) The same can happen today. As anyone who repents of a sin, the homosexual can be forgiven. He can experience the same freedom and joy that any other sinner knows when he becomes a Christian. The Bible condemns homosexual sex but clearly states that non-practicing homosexuals can be saved” [Doug Sensing, “Christian Response To Homosexuality,” Gospel Advocate, April '93, Vol. CXXXV, No. 4, 12.]

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    • Hollywood
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 3:32pm

      Paul, the apostle, compares homosexuality to murder,and pimping, in I Timothy V 9&10. Maybe Carter spent too much time trying to be the worst one term President of all time, rather than reading Scripture. Heck, he is even going to fail at being the worst Pres,.as Barry looks like he will assume that mantle. Carter should go back to peanut farming, but probably too old now. What a legacy. Why does he not just shut up,and go silently into ignomy??

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    • mycomet123
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 3:35pm

      @ZERO5692, Scripture against homosexuality/lesbians—ROMANS 1:26 God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received the due penalty for their perversion. For fuller clarity read all of Romans 1:18-32.

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    • Hollywood
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 3:35pm

      Scary! And I thought the walking dead in the movie Night of the Walking Dead were all actors,and it was science fiction. Proven wrong again,I am!

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    • Clive
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 3:40pm

      GOP is on the losing end of this battle. More americans support gay marriage year after year, And last year, the majority of americans supported it, gay marriage is coming, whether you like it or not. My position is “i don’t care what two guys do, or what two women do”. They pay taxes, they can be afforded the same rights. In 10 years, 90% of the country will support it. This is just how things work… and like i said, who really cares. If you are really concerned with what gay people are doing, you are probably gay. Most people i know are too busy trying to feed their family, to care about this nonsense.

      This type of issue is a red herring, its a distraction. What they should be doing right now is figuring out how to get jobs, and how to cut spending, and solve our disgusting debt problem… but they would rather talk about “gay marriage” and waste some more time on fluff.

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    • Greenwood
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 3:41pm

      @zero……….many of you have referenced Soddom and Gommorah. Find ONE verse in the Bible that say’s that was about Homosexuality”
      ——————————————————————-

      Genesis 19:4,Before they could lie down, the men of the city, the men of Sod´om, surrounded the house, from boy to old man, all the people in one mob. 5 And they kept calling out to Lot and saying to him: “Where are the men who came in to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may have intercourse with them.”

      1 Timothy 1: 8Now we know that the Law is fine provided one handles it lawfully 9in the knowledge of this fact, that law is promulgated, not for a righteous man, but for persons lawless and unruly, ungodly and sinners, lacking loving-kindness, and profane, murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, manslayers, 10fornicators, men who lie with males, kidnappers, liars, false swearers, and whatever other thing is in opposition to the healthful teaching 11according to the glorious good news of the happy God, with which I was entrusted.

      Homosexuality is fornication which is condemed over and over in the bible.

      1 Thessalonians 4: 3 For this is what God wills, the sanctifying of YOU, that YOU abstain from fornication; 4 that each one of YOU should know how to get possession of his own vessel in sanctification and honor, 5 not in covetous sexual appetite such as also those nations have which do not know God;

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    • blattack
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 3:42pm

      Jimmy Carter is anti Jewist —anti Israel and now telling everyone what Jesus said or did not say, I’m sorry but his mind and heart is blinded by his own lies. The Bible does speak of homosexuality, both Paul, Jude and others spoke of this as sin..period,man must not lie down with another man same as he does a women, or women with another women, nor humans with a animal, Deep in our very being we know this is wrong in Gods eyes.READ YOUR BIBLE FOR YOURSELF SO”“YOU”” KNOW WHAT IT SAYS Not what others who try and pervert it and out right lie to you for their own gain, those who do this have no love for God or his word .

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    • Beckofile
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 3:45pm

      Soros brother

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    • Hickory
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 3:46pm

      Looks like Jimah just toked on a bad joint.

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    • Hollywood
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 3:50pm

      Re the Slavery issue used by some to say God/Jesus condoned it.. IF they understood Scripture they would know that there was indentured servitude, where some obligated themselves to their masters,overseers, in order to get paid,eat, sleep,have housing etc. Poor people did this quite frequently, or for other reasons, as Jacob did in order to marry Rachel 2 X 7 years actually. See Genesis Chapter 29 for details. God NEVER has condoned FORCED slavery, He condemned it! When the Lord speaks about Free Men or Slave, THIS is what he was referring too,not FORCED slavery. Poor fools who do not understand Scripture,or read INTO it what they want, will be rewarded justly, for their misuse of His word, to try to show HE is UNJUST,or unloving. Poor fools! I wil pray for them!

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    • Jinglebob
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 4:00pm

      Poor Jimmy…he can’t stand to die.

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    • mycomet123
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 4:01pm

      @CLIVE “I don’t care what two men or two women do”. I don’t care either, BUT God apparently does as it states in Romans 1:26. When you call yourself a Christian that means you believe & SUPPORT the word of God. It’s not about what you approve of ,OR what you don’t care what people do as long as they pay there taxes! God’s kingdom is not a democracy!

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    • WSGAC
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 4:22pm

      @ZERO – You said,

      “Also, many of you have referenced Soddom and Gommorah. Find ONE verse in the Bible that say’s that was about Homosexuality. Ezekiel 19:49 points to the truth saying “‘Now THIS was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.” Nothing about homosexuals.

      REPLY: Not every reference to Sodom’s sin will cite the abominable sex acts practiced in the city. Prophets like Ezekiel will reference Sodom’s destruction when speaking out against certain other sins that were found in that city. Many of Israel’s prophets advocated for the widow and the poor, how they were mistreated, and thus used Sodom‘s destruction to speak to Israel’s sin.

      There are numerous references to its “abomination”, however. In the New Testament we find Jude verse 7 speaking to it — “In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.” Jude v.7

      Clearly, there was more to Sodom’s sin than Ezekiel cites. Homosexuality is perversion, plane and simple. Jesus didn’t speak on it, but neither did he speak on incest, beastiality, pedophilia, necrophilia, sado-masochism…etc. Shall we assume then that his silence on these are thus approval of them? Get a clue!

      Jimmy Carter is an evil man. Looking more like the Star Wars Emperor with

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    • AzDebi
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 4:29pm

      LIAR! Wonder if he and BO are actually related? If their lips are movin’… they are LYIN!

      n Revelation, the last book of the Bible, chapter 22:14, 18-19, Christ says to all and warns all by saying—”Blessed are they that do His commandments, that they may have right (God-promised ownership) to the tree of life and may enter in through the gates into the city.” Christ warns in verse 18, “For I testify unto every man that hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.” Christ is warning here in Revelation,

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 5:44pm

      Carter couldn’t be more wrong. In one of the few direct reiterations of the T‘orah by Jesus he echoes the t’orah and restates that marriage between a man and woman is the ONLY union blessed by God.

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    • Unix
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 6:41pm

      Clive – i could care less what society thought. if society said you should jump off a cliff and die, you would do it. What morons we raise these days, it makes me ill to think just because some people think it is ok, that it is ok, morons the lot of you who think this way! go jump in a lake of fire, because i said so, lemmings!

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    • Unix
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 6:55pm

      @Clive – YOU will lose in the end my friend, a lake of fire awaits you and the minions who think like you do, who spurn the grace of God. My pity is for you.

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    • blondenblueeyed
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 6:59pm

      YUP….I agree. It is the picture of a stupid, old man who needs to be committed.

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    • Onowicit
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 7:07pm

      there was a time when you could say he was a good but naive man. now you can not call him good or naive. he is sinister and wicked.

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    • Patriot of My America
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 7:55pm

      I was most irritated when Jimmy Carter was the Commander in Chief, I read in the Army times as I was serving that at that time Our National Debt was about 56 Billion dollars.. that would have been in the 1974 time frame… I still despise this utopia Godless man I am a forgiven man as I have taken John 3:16 and I have never been any thing more than a Woman loving man,, The idea of what men do in so a unnatural way is vomit producing.. Homosexuals spread disease and medical costs due to the diseases they spread…. Carter has a personal Demon waiting for him him in the Eternal Seperation from God… Burn Jimmy,…

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    • Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 8:06pm

      The Bible: written by the uneducated for the uneducated.

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    • VoteBushIn12
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 8:34pm

      @ROBERT et al

      The ONLY parts of the Christian bible that denounce homosexuality are those parts referenced in Leviticus – the Old Testament. Also contained therein are the other 612 commandments regarding how to live your life that God proclaimed to the people of Israel.

      If you so believe Jesus came and nullified us of those sins through his selfless sacrifice (thereby no longer requiring we eat only of animals that chew their cud with a cleft hoof, avoid wearing mixed linens, and sanctify the Sabbath) then you must ALSO accept the fact that he accepted the homosexual also. For, as He said regarding the adulterer…

      “When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” ”
      John 8:7

      Yet who does Jesus REALLY think is deserving of eternal damnation? The wealthy among us
      “I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
      Matthew 19:23-24

      Get the facts.

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    • Armed Patriot
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 8:37pm

      Leviticus 20:13 “If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.”

      Jesus never needed to say anything about homosexuality. The Laws of Moses were already written, you antisemitic, jew hating SO, Hamas supporter .Go back to building houses that fall apart in 3 years and STFU. I hope you have a heart attack tonight and die. Not because I hate you (which I do) but because you curse Israel and the one true God, I Am that I am.

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    • edmundburk
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 8:48pm

      @CLIVE- “whats popular is’nt aways right, and what is right is’nt always piopular.”

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    • joboww
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 9:11pm

      @CLIVE

      Really need to think before the typing occurs. Similar thought was put forth in legalizing abortion.

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    • Clive
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 9:22pm

      Unix, judging from your comments, i have more intelligence in the tip of my pinky, then you will ever have. I’m not sure what Christ you believe in. Mine is the one that says “judge not, lest ye be judged”, and “love the sinner, hate the sin”. I’m a grown, self made, catholic man, with a wife and children. I wouldn’t go around condemning people, telling people that they are going to burn in hell, or speaking in the name of god if i were you. Trust me, God doesn’t need a phoney, hateful, cowardly, halfwit speaking in his name. You sound like one of those Westboro Baptist dirtballs that protests military funerals. Get lost chump.

      The point of my post was, we have bigger fish to fry than gay marriage, or birth control pills. This is all a stunt to distract us from the real problems we face. Politicians would rather have you waste your time on this, rather than demand that they do something to earn their paychecks. The media (blaze included) isn’t helping the cause.

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    • jwt
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 9:48pm

      carter has said Paul”s writtings should be deleted from the bible as not Jesus writtings

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    • Clive
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 9:48pm

      No joboww, i stand behind my comments. Listen, if you want to get your panties in a bundle, and waste time over this, that is your right. You are fighting a losing battle. The logic against you, is that gay people are citizens, and citizens of this country, are afforded certain rights. That’s why this will be the law of the land ten years, but go ahead, spin your wheels, cry outrage, kill more time, and hate more people, it will be great for your soul i’m sure.

      I don’t have time in my life to focus on hating these people, I have kids to raise, my focus is on providing for them. As far as gays, i’m not for them, or against them. I do not really care about this issue. I realize you do. It says a lot about you.

      Also, comparing gay marriage, to abortion joboww? One of them is killing a child. One of them isn’t. Its a pretty big difference. To quote a not-so-wise man, “thought really needs to occur before the typing”. Punk.

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    • kalli
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 9:50pm

      @ZERO5692 states:
      Also, many of you have referenced Soddom and Gommorah. Find ONE verse in the Bible that say’s that was about Homosexuality. Ezekiel 19:49 points to the truth saying “‘Now THIS was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.” Nothing about homosexuals.
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      Wrong Zero. Read Genesis 19 and you will see what Sodom and Gommorah are about Lot was told to leave quickly before the Lord destroyed the 2 places. Furthermore, there are numerous places in the New Testament that talk about what we call homosexuality…Jesus made sure His disciples understood the LAWS of God, one of which a man lying with another man, or woman with woman, as a man lays with a woman is an abomination to God and sinful.

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    • VoteBushIn12
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 11:06pm

      @ARMED PATRIOT

      See my post right above yours and be silent. Your claims are unfounded and your logic is flawed.

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    • mlite9
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 12:50am

      Will this man not just close his mouth? He makes me ashamed to say that I live in Georgia. What a peanut-head.

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    • Wolf
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 1:10am

      Looks to me like he has the Turd’s dingus up his rectal orifice.

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    • freeus
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:30am

      @Clive
      And you call yourself Catholic?

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    • vicsemprini
      Posted on March 21, 2012 at 9:39am

      @VoteBush: No, there’s a lot more than Leviticus on the topic, Biblically speaking. I don’t think you know very much about the subject.

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    • VoteBushIn12
      Posted on March 21, 2012 at 12:27pm

      @VICSEMPRINI
      Please provide me with scriptural evidence to back your claim.

      I did you the courtesy of pointing out scripture to support mine, I would expect similarly in return.

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    • VoteBushIn12
      Posted on March 21, 2012 at 12:27pm

      @VICSEMPRINI
      Please provide me with scriptural evidence to back your claim.

      I did you the courtesy of pointing out scripture to support mine, I would expect similar in return.

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    • desertdink
      Posted on March 21, 2012 at 6:45pm

      @VOTEBUSHIN12…

      Regarding New Testament references against homosexual acts…1 Cor. 6:9-11 and 1 Tim. 1:9-11 make it plain as day that the Levitical condemnation of homosexual acts were just as condemned under Christianity as sinful in the early church by the Apostle Paul. Since homosexual acts in these passages are associated with what is “sexually immoral”, consequently ALL references to sexual immorality in the NT can then also be applied to referring to homosexual acts, among other sexual sins.

      It is important to note in the 1 Cor. 6 passages, that St. Paul’s rebuke it aimed, in part, at FORMER homosexuals who had turned from this sexual sin in becoming believers…and were being tempted to fall back into their former life. That there was PLENTY of homosexual acts (and FAR worse) going on in Corinth at the time is a historical given.

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    • VoteBushIn12
      Posted on March 22, 2012 at 1:13am

      @DESERTDINK

      Those verses hold homosexuals to the same standard as liars and the greedy. AKA, every single person on earth.

      Have you ever told a lie? Liar. Do you posses more money than you need to survive? Greedy. Do you engage in homosexual acts? Homosexual.

      Luckily for that last part…
      “But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.”

      It’s ok, because Jesus has forgiven you of all of those sins – yes, even the homosexual parts.

      Face it. Jesus abhorred the sexually immoral just as much as he abhorred the idolaters, lustrous, and untrustworthy. That is to say, he died for them all the same and they are all washed of their sins the same.

      If you believe any of it, you must believe of all of it. If you want to pick and choose that’s fine, but realize two things
      1) You are creating for yourself a cult of Christianity
      2) You are not a true follower of Christ.

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  • midwesthippie
    Posted on March 19, 2012 at 11:48am

    …gives new meaning to “peanut” farmer

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    • SpankDaMonkey
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 12:02pm

      .
      See that bank of microphones in the first picture?

      The look on Jimmy’s face tells me Barney Frank was hiding in the podium……..

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    • piper22
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 12:22pm

      Methinks Jimmy hasn’t actually read his Bible in awhile:

      Matthew 19:4-6
      4 “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’[a] 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’[b]? 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

      Mark 10:6-8
      6 “But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’[a] 7 ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,[b] 8 and the two will become one flesh.’[c] So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

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    • Chuck Stein
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 12:31pm

      Carter was a better President than he has been as an ex-President.

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    • SpankDaMonkey
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 12:37pm

      .
      Quick somebody get Chuck his Meds…………..

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    • watchtheotherhand
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 12:41pm

      Wolf in sheeps clothing…..nuff said.

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    • db321
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 12:43pm

      Get him Lord – allow him to be accountable of his words.

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    • Faith1029
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 12:45pm

      He must have missed the part about Sodom and Gomorrah.

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    • john
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 12:49pm

      lol.

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 1:03pm

      Carter Jesus said go and sin no more. Homosexuality had already been determined to be a sin sodom and gomorah ring a bell. Jesus didn‘t condemn ****’s he did excuse them either. Jesus came to tell us we could be forgiven of our sins if we sincerely ask for forgiveness.

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 1:12pm

      Chuck WTF you’re an idiot if you think Carter was a good president.

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    • Chuck Stein
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 1:27pm

      @ Spankdamonkey
      @ Progressiveslayer
      Did I say that Carter was a good President? Nope. Do I think that Carter was a good President? Nope. Actually, I think that Carter was one of the worst Presidents in the 20th Century. Now, kindly re-read my earlier post. Thanks.

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    • teamarcheson
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 1:33pm

      A Peanut Farming LIAR.

      What about the homosexual cities of Sodom and Gomorrah? God had his angels destroy both cities with nuclear weapons. The word ABORTION is not in the Bible Either. The Bible does not oppose slavery.

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    • @leftfighter
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 1:39pm

      @SpankDaMonkey

      Actually, I was thinking how much he looked like Barney Fife there…

      As to Jimmuh Carter’s take:

      “Homosexuality was well known in the ancient world, well before Christ was born and Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things -– he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.

      I draw the line, maybe arbitrarily, in requiring by law that churches must marry people. I’m a Baptist, and I believe that each congregation is autonomous and can govern its own affairs. So if a local Baptist church wants to accept gay members on an equal basis, which my church does by the way, then that is fine. If a church decides not to, then government laws shouldn’t require them to.”

      I’m with him 100% there, but I tend to believe Jesus said nothing about homosexuality because either 1: some things go without saying or 2: because everything that needed to be said actually *was* said when Jesus said that he didn’t come to abolish the law but to uphold it.

      Jesus didn’t need to say anything about homosexuality because He already said everything he needed to say to Moses in Leviticus, almost 2000 years prior.

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    • MYHEROISRON
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 1:47pm

      Carter doesn’t care what he says so long as he feels significant. Unfortunately, he will have the need to be significant right up to the time he drops … just ignore him, people.

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    • MS-GlenNBC
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 1:49pm

      @PROGRESSIVESLAYER
      @SPANKDAMONKEY

      Proving once again how bright you are….

      Carter sucked as a president….. as Chuck Points out… As an Ex President he is even worse… Duh!

      Do you need everything spelled out for you? If Carter was a Bad President he is even worse as an ex-president. Do you guys support Romney?

      Don’t worry Chuck I understood what you meant. I don’t support Romney or Obama so I can read your whole post and get the meaning. Well Stated.

      I think Spankdamonkey and Progressiveslayer are just a Bit smarter than Obama…. Just a bit.

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    • beachj11
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 2:03pm

      “Jesus never said anything about it”? … Leviticus 18:2 (The Lord speaking to Moses) “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.” Leviticus 18:30 “Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the Lord your God.
      Try again Jimmy.

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    • ScreaminEagle
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 2:04pm

      @ Spankdamonkey
      Good post, I’m still laughing. Carter is just to easy a target. Man I hope I’m not that ugly when I get that old. Oh and secret service I didn’t mean that target thing in the literal sense.

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    • turkey13
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 2:06pm

      Peanut Farmers are cringing all over the world now. Someone tell him to pick up and read that Bible on his coffee table. Start over in Romans 1 Ver 26 to verse 32. Verse 27 tells of men leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one for toward another. The other verses cover the sins of man up to verse 32. Verse 32 says ” Who knowing the judgement of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same , but have pleasure in them that do them.” Revelation Ch. 22 verse 19 says, “and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.”

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    • 2bfree
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 2:23pm

      To SpankDaMonkey
      …You crack me Up, hahahahaha!!! LOL, good one!

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    • encinom
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 2:41pm

      beachj11
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 2:03pm
      “Jesus never said anything about it”? … Leviticus 18:2 (The Lord speaking to Moses) “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.” Leviticus 18:30 “Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the Lord your God.
      Try again Jimmy.
      ________________________________
      Actually Leviticus is old testamnet, not new in the anthology of myths and legends that bible thumpers preach about. Try again.

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    • Paul
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 2:47pm

      @SpankDaMonkey

      Thanks I needed that !

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    • IronSights
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 2:47pm

      Um……pretty certain that God more than just frowned on it. AND when you take into account the whole Holy Trinity thing, I would have to say that former president Jimmy (duhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, what) Carter is wrong. And those who deal in false teachings will be dealt with pretty severely (2 Peter 2). Poor guy is loosing it. The title (pre Ob@m@) of worst president ever has taken a toll on him.

      Leviticus 20:13 – “If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.”

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    • txjb
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 3:48pm

      encinom , The Lord God in the beginning ,is who we know now is Jesus , the second person of the God head . He is the creator God ,He did all the speaking to the prophets and Abraham and others . There will be a falling away in the last days Jimmy !

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    • @leftfighter
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 4:47pm

      @piper22

      No, these two verses give biblical precident for Jesus’ santion of marriage, unfortunately not an express condenmation of homosexuality. The better argument is the one I made earlier on.

      That said, does anyone here think that if Jesus actually *did* expressly condemn homosexuality, it would make a lick of difference in the attitudes or opinions of the Left? If anything, Jesus‘ express condemnation would send them even further into the Left and they’d have either said He was a bigot or would begin trying to reinterpret what He said to fit their worldview.

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  • NHABE64
    Posted on March 19, 2012 at 11:47am

    My, my we have to still hear garbage from the mouth of this old socialist fool. The damage this trash did to our country. He should spend his last years in prison. Complete and utter disgraceful failure. It sickens me to even look at his wretched socialist face.

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    • Exrepublisheep
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 12:25pm

      Rolaids.

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    • Cavallo
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 1:07pm

      I wonder if Jimmy knows that Jesus was a Jew? He is a decrepit old communist sympathizer but I find his expression that government lay off religion rather paradoxical to his political view points. On that fact I whole-heartedly agree with him.

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  • GeorgieJo
    Posted on March 19, 2012 at 11:47am

    My family suffered through your 4 years of potus Jimmy
    WHY on earth do I care about what you think about homosexuals?
    Miss Liilian would not approve of this Jimmy—-Why make her roll over in her grave?
    Keep building houses and put the pen down. You sir are no author.
    Read Romans and smell the latte!!!

    OMG 2012

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    • CatB
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 1:22pm

      I agree .. I prayed we would never have to suffer through another fool (socialist) like Carter .. then we got Obama …

      OMG 2012!

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  • Peter Yohansen
    Posted on March 19, 2012 at 11:47am

    Jimmy looks like an old witch from a cheesy 90′s horror flick.

    Do you really have to crack out those stock photos whenever a story with Mr. Carter pops up?

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    • bpodlesnik
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 1:32pm

      No, no, no. The Blaze got it wrong, they posted a picture of the first photographed zombie instead of Carter.

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  • Jobeycool
    Posted on March 19, 2012 at 11:45am

    Uhh it clearly talks about homosexuality in the new testament being a sin.Unreal..

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    • Locked
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 11:59am

      Christ Himself never spoke on it though, which is what Carter (correctly) said.

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    • ClunkerT
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 12:13pm

      Carter is a typical liberal “Christian”, they don’t read their Bibles. Trying to lend support for homosexuality using the Bible would be like a NFL referee going into Madison Square Garden with his NFL rule book and refereeing the Knicks basketball game using those NFL rules. He gives peanut farmers a bad name. Jesus constantly reminded us that the only acceptable sexual encounter is to be between a man and woman in a marriage relationship, what part of that doesn’t Jimmy boy understand.

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    • texasbeta
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 12:25pm

      Clunkert – you obviously don’t read your bible, because nothing attributed to Jesus regarding homosexuality is in there. Did you write it in there yourself? Moron

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 12:36pm

      He is correct that Jesus never specifically condemned homosexuality but, I don’t think he condemned bestiality either. Using Carter’s logic, you can marry your donkey and be good with God.

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    • DMG8487
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 12:40pm

      Once again Jimmy delivers “common knowledge” ignorance of the Bible – and others have been parroting this line for a while so it needs to be clearly refuted.

      God the Father, Jesus the Son and the Holy spirit are united as the Bible explains – therefore, if a topic is addressed ANYWHERE in the Bible then Jesus in effect did say it. Just because he didn‘t feel the necessity to restate the obvious about this topic when he was here in person on earth does not mean that he didn’t already make his position clear. Nowhere does he suggest that this behavior is now somehow OK in the New Testament – therefore all Old Testament references are still in effect!

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    • Locked
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 12:53pm

      @Drago

      “So i guess you read the bible eveyday and go to church every sunday…yeah right.”

      I sure do.

      “The word homosexual wasnt even around the, and would not be referanced in the bible”

      Men sleeping with men was though. Homosexuality was pretty popular among the Romans at the time of Christ. It’s mentioned both in the Old Testament and other places in the New Testament. It’s just never mentioned by Jesus.

      “As Jobeycool stated,the bible, and Christ said, the a union or marriage is between a man and a woman.”

      I’m not sure what you were trying to write here, but I imagine it‘s Christ’s defining marriage as a union of a man and woman. That’s very true; but it doesn’t change the fact that, as far as the phrasing goes, Jesus never condemned (nor condoned, mind you) homosexuality. Hence what I said: Carter is quite right in his wording, while Jobey had to change Carter’s wording to make his point.

      I also think you should stop breaking the profanity filter. And mistaking me for other posters, as you’re a liar :-)

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    • encinom
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 2:45pm

      So if a beckerhead disagrees with another poster, even if the other poster is a beckerhead, some how its me. Talk about paranoid freaks. The gene pool on this site is smaller than the pool in the Barbie dreamhouse. Most of you have a single branch for a family tree.

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    • jsDway
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 3:17pm

      @ DMG8487 – Very, Very good statement! Jesus came to fulfill the law, we are still under the law as far as doing right and wrong – but we are no longer condemned by the law. We are condemned by our denial of Jesus Christ – the Son of God! If we deny the sonship of Jesus as Gods son – then we will be condemned to eternal seperation from God in Hell! The Bible is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow!!!

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    • CurlyJ49
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 5:23pm

      Remember Jimmy studies the New International Version of the bible, it may not match what your translation says.

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  • tmplarnite
    Posted on March 19, 2012 at 11:44am

    Somebody…pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease slap this dirtbag!

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  • cessna152
    Posted on March 19, 2012 at 11:44am

    Hey Mr Carter… all scripture is GOD BREATHED…do you know what that means?
    2 Tim. 3:16 (NLT)
    All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It straightens us out and teaches us to do what is right.

    The Bible is not a collection of stories, fables, myths, or merely human ideas about God. It is not a human book. Through the Holy Spirit, God revealed his person and plan to certain believers, who wrote down his message for his people (2 Peter 1:20-21). This process is known as inspiration. The writers wrote from their own personal, historical, and cultural contexts. Although they used their own minds, talents, language, and style, they wrote what God wanted them to write. Scripture is completely trustworthy because God was in control of its writing. Its words are entirely authoritative for our faith and lives. The Bible is “God-breathed.” Read it, and use its teachings to guide your conduct.
    Oh and jimmy…Jesus never talked about “collective salvation and social justice”….

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    • TRONINTHEMORNING
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 11:51am

      You said it all, CESSNA! Jimmy may be saved and all, but his igonrance-if that’s what it is; is astonoshing. Jesus is God, so yes, Christ addressed deviant behaviour in the Old Testament. Funny thing how God is flawlessly logical; but libs just can’t climb that wall because they wish not to see the truth.

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    • Itsjusttim
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 11:55am

      The real question is: do you know what that means? “It’s God breathed”, and if I place a person one foot from me, one three feet from me, and another person six feet from me, and yet another person eight feet from me,and blow really hard each person is going to feel a different strength of wind, and they will right down what they feel.

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    • sw12
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 11:57am

      Amen

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    • Espada
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 12:03pm

      “Hey Mr Carter… all scripture is GOD BREATHED…do you know what that means?”

      Hey, that’s a coincidence … that’s exactly what Muslims say about the Koran !

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    • MrChurch
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 12:11pm

      This doesn’t really make any sense. He states that the Bible was written by man. His words are pretty clear: “God inspired the Bible but didn’t write every word in the Bible.” You’re saying the same exact thing. You take it a step further insisting that is all God’s word – but aren’t men imperfect beings? And if men penned scripture on behalf of Him, surely they could have made some mistakes, no? Even if guided by the Holy Spirit?

      I mean, this sounds a little ridiculous. You‘re mad at him for saying what you’re saying.

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    • Copo
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 12:20pm

      Exactly. Hey Jimmy, Christ is the word of God part of the trinity, meaning he did say it.

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    • VanceUppercut
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 12:25pm

      @cessna152

      So God really does want people to stone their children to death for being disrespectful? How about the many contradictions in the bible. Who was Joseph, father? Matthew 1:16 says it’s Jacob, but Luke 3:23 says it’s Heli. How did Judas die? Matthew 27:5 says “And he cast down the pieces of silver into the temple and departed, and went out and hanged himself.” Acts 1:18 says “And falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all of his bowels gushed out.” What was the color of the robe placed on Jesus during his trial? Scarlet (Matthew 27:28) or purple (John 19:2)?

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    • texasbeta
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 12:27pm

      Really? Like living for 900 years, talking to donkeys, and living inside of a fish for 3 days? Morons.

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    • thegrassroots
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 1:55pm

      Instead of taking random Scripture Verses out of context and, therefore, failing to speak with intelligence —
      How About Getting Yourselves InTo A Bible Based Christian Church With A Pastor Who Teaches Chapter and Verse Out Of The Bible?

      Wouldn’t it be better for you naysayers to do the research and speak from Truth?
      As It Is —
      You Are Losing Credibility By Making Inane Comments About Something You Know Nothing About!

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    • cessna152
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 1:56pm

      Luke 16:19-26 (NLT)
      Jesus said, “There was a certain rich man who was splendidly clothed and who lived each day in luxury. [20] At his door lay a diseased beggar named Lazarus. [21] As Lazarus lay there longing for scraps from the rich man’s table, the dogs would come and lick his open sores. [22] Finally, the beggar died and was carried by the angels to be with Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried, [23] and his soul went to the place of the dead. There, in torment, he saw Lazarus in the far distance with Abraham.
      [24] “The rich man shouted, ‘Father Abraham, have some pity! Send Lazarus over here to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in anguish in these flames.’
      [25] “But Abraham said to him, ‘Son, remember that during your lifetime you had everything you wanted, and Lazarus had nothing. So now he is here being comforted, and you are in anguish. [26] And besides, there is a great chasm separating us. Anyone who wanted to cross over to you from here is stopped at its edge, and no one there can cross over to us.’

      (Continued)

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    • cessna152
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 1:57pm

      (continued)
      Luke 16:27-31 (NLT)
      “Then the rich man said, ‘Please, Father Abraham, send him to my father’s home. [28] For I have five brothers, and I want him to warn them about this place of torment so they won’t have to come here when they die.’
      [29] “But Abraham said, ‘Moses and the prophets have warned them. Your brothers can read their writings anytime they want to.’
      [30] “The rich man replied, ‘No, Father Abraham! But if someone is sent to them from the dead, then they will turn from their sins.’
      [31] “But Abraham said, ‘If they won’t listen to Moses and the prophets, they won’t listen even if someone rises from the dead.’ ”

      Paying special attention to verse 31

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    • cessna152
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 2:10pm

      @texasbeta,

      Really? Single celled organisms miraculously turned into walking/talking human beings? A timber wolf came from a Dolphin…really? The blow hole closed up, grew fur and legs…and fangs? How about the “big bang theory”? That just happened by accident and you know exactly how it happened? Yet you can’t [even] explain tangibles like tornadoes, the brain and so forth. Yet you claim to know how everything was formed…really? Morons…

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  • OTBoxer
    Posted on March 19, 2012 at 11:43am

    Jim Carter is an ignorant or senile man because he doesn’t seem to know that the whole Bible is the Word of God Jesus Christ.

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    • EndTheGOPTEA
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 11:55am

      Jesus in not God.. You insult God by you’re Personalization.

      Santa is Not Real!

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    • thegrassroots
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 2:58pm

      @end

      Jesus Is God!

      If you are denying the Trinity as well as the Deity of Jesus, you’ve got the wrong belief system!

      Get into the Bible!
      A good place to start reading Is The Gospel of John!
      Take you and your Bible to a Christian Bible-Based Church, with a Pastor who Teaches Chapter and Verse Out Of The Bible!

      If you will start reading and listening to the Truth —
      By The Grace Of God, You Will Start To Understand and Believe The Truth!

      The Lord Jesus Christ Of The Bible Loves You!

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  • txwheels
    Posted on March 19, 2012 at 11:43am

    I guess Carter never read the King James version of Genesis chapter 18 and 19.

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  • nocalifornia
    Posted on March 19, 2012 at 11:43am

    As the second worst president in history tries to give cover to the worst president in history I wonder when will the God, whose word this Jack Wagon tries to falsely spin, will have enough of his liberal socialist political proselytizing and put an end to it?

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    • VanceUppercut
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 2:23pm

      @nocalifornia

      Obama is the worst president ever? So, Dubya inherits a surplus and leaves with a recession, starts two wars that he puts on the credit card, signs into law the PATRIOT Act, which is anything but patriotic, appoints clueless friends into positions they are totally unqualified for (remember, “Browny” over at FEMA? Or read Imperial Life in the Emerald City, and learn that one of the reasons Iraq is such a cesspool is because Dubya was more concerned with people’s political leanings than whether or not they knew how to put a country back together). Conservatives love to talk about high gas prices, but they seem to forget that the first time we ever saw $4 a gallon gas was under President Alfred E. Neuman–I mean, Bush. And what has Obama done? Made it so health insurance companies can’t deny you coverage because of a pre-exising condition, credit card companies have to be more honest about their fees, and he made it easier for kids to get college loans (wait, I forgot, college is for snobs). He killed bin Laden and al-Awlaki, and increased drone strikes (yet is somehow still soft on terrorism?). He, increased the Border Patrol and increased the rate of deportations (yet is still soft on illegal immigration?). Oh, and he actually won the popular vote when he got elected.

       
    • majasdad
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 6:40pm

      @NOCALIFORNIA
      VANCEUPPERCUT just pwned the living daylights out of you. That must burn…

      Good on ya, Vanceuppercut.

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  • Jobeycool
    Posted on March 19, 2012 at 11:41am

    http://ronconte.wordpress.com/2010/11/09/jesus-and-gay-marriage/ This will show you Jesus never approved of Homosexual marriage.

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  • MN NICE
    Posted on March 19, 2012 at 11:41am

    Is he still alive? Or does somebody have their hand up his a$$ making his lips move?

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  • DrFrost
    Posted on March 19, 2012 at 11:40am

    Jimmy Carter has a real knack for picking the wrong side of an argument. If you ever find yourself agreeing with the man you should take a big step back and really evaluate your position.

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    • texasoysterman
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 2:11pm

      So true…he is one of many people who is always wrong. Always. Barney Frank, Nancy Pelosi, Algore, Sheila Jackson Lee, Alec Baldwin, Keith Olberman, Al Sharpton, Rachel Maddow, Joy Behar, Noam Chomskey, John Kerry…

      My goodness, the list is endless.

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  • Southpaw
    Posted on March 19, 2012 at 11:37am

    When did Jimmy Carter start to look like Gollum? That first picture is rough. Jesus also mentioned that he did not come to do away with the law. Hebrew law is pretty clear about homosexuality being a sin.

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  • Itsjusttim
    Posted on March 19, 2012 at 11:36am

    That’s because men are not supposed to condemn homosexuals, because God condemns them. That’s why I say step back and let them get married in their concept of marriage because their labor pains will be multiplied by 1000.

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 11:40am

      Actually Jimmy…Christ did “say a word about it”. He reiterated the t’orah directly in that he stated that ONLY the union between a man and woman is blessed.

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    • Itsjusttim
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 11:42am

      While stars don’t fall from the sky, they do fall from Heaven, and that is the very meaning of Heaven and earth fading away. There are no stars in the deep, those very stars that the Lord asked Abraham if he could count.

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    • Itsjusttim
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 11:45am

      People just love all their distractions more than they love God, and so the distractions need to be taken away.

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  • ltcwilly
    Posted on March 19, 2012 at 11:36am

    Interesting that he says the passages on slaves and slave owners has application to today. These came from Paul’s letters, of which several strong condemnations of sexual immorality come. It is not easy to misinterpret:

    24 “Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

    26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.”

    You just can’t play the game of “I choose to believe this passage, but I want to throw that one out.” If his church welcomes gays in, that is commendable. If they are allowed to practice homosexuality openly without being confronted with the sin, the church has problems. Love the sinner, hate the sin.

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  • sw12
    Posted on March 19, 2012 at 11:35am

    Romans 1: 24 So God abandoned them to do whatever shameful things their hearts desired. As a result, they did vile and degrading things with each other’s bodies. 25 They traded the truth about God for a lie. So they worshiped and served the things God created instead of the Creator himself, who is worthy of eternal praise! Amen. 26 That is why God abandoned them to their shameful desires. Even the women turned against the natural way to have sex and instead indulged in sex with each other. 27 And the men, instead of having normal sexual relations with women, burned with lust for each other. Men did shameful things with other men, and as a result of this sin, they suffered within themselves the penalty they deserved.

    28 Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their foolish thinking and let them do things that should never be done.

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  • COFemale
    Posted on March 19, 2012 at 11:34am

    He is senile, what do you expect. I certainly can point out several passages in the Bible that call men with men, women with women an abomination.

    Hey FORMER President Carter read ROMANS.

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  • MrButcher
    Posted on March 19, 2012 at 11:33am

    Our country and economy are on the verge of annihilation and some are worried about homosexuals and what some dead guy from 2000 years ago never said about them.

    Where is Nero with his lyre?

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    • SquidVetOhio
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 11:47am

      Jesus is not dead. He sits at the right hand of the Father awaiting to reclaim His church SOON. And he did speak about it. Jimmy needs to read his Bible, and I’m thinking you might want to give it a once-over.

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    • Inkmage
      Posted on March 21, 2012 at 4:23pm

      Isn’t it silly?

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  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on March 19, 2012 at 11:31am

    That makes it OK, Jesus never talked about Sexting, internet scams, national healthcare, or proper Airplane eddicate. So anything Jesus didn’t talk about, go ahead and do it, because he didn‘t say it’s bad, he didn’t say anything.

    I wonder if you can use that in your defense at criminal court?

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    • HKS
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 11:36am

      Liberals have some kind of logic to justify their sick ways. That’s why I just cant stomach watching them on TV, I just say no and turn the Chanel.

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    • AmosProphet
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 12:46pm

      Your point is a logical fallacy. The arguments against those things do not stem from scripture; they stem from logic. The argument against homosexuality stems directly from scripture. Thus, it should be supported by scripture.

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  • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
    Posted on March 19, 2012 at 11:30am

    Funny how much Jimmy Carter and Ron Paul have in common. Beside’s the fact of one being a nut farmer from Plains, and the other just a plain nut…

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  • Mandors
    Posted on March 19, 2012 at 11:29am

    Jesus didn’t say anything about tossing ex-Georgia governors into wood chippers either, but I still don‘t think he’d approve.

    Too bad.

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    • barber2
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 11:43am

      Clever. Thanks.

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    • GoodSis
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 1:39pm

      Thanks for the comic relief here, MANDORS, and pointing out the stupidity in Carter’s assertions. Jesus did NOT re-state all prior doctrines.

      Graham, the Vatican, Falwell, or somebody, better step up and DIRECTLY challenge former President Carter’s statements.

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  • 777jenn
    Posted on March 19, 2012 at 11:29am

    HellO, Jimmy. Ever read Leviticus? Ever read that Jesus is Emmanuel/ God WITH us?!….Ever read when Jesus states He did not come to change ONE JOT of the law? (btw…looking in Jimmy’s eyes–does he NOT look possessed?..just sayin’.

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