cocoberry10
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Ladies:
PLEASE KEEP THIS THREAD CIVIL (I WILL REQUEST IT GET LOCKED IF NOT).
This has seriously been on my heart lately, and I want us to have a healthy, spiritual dialogue on this topic.
With the announcement of Palin's 17 year old daughter being pregnant out of wedlock, her plans to marry the "baby daddy," and Palin's stance against abortion, I MUST ASK:
Why does it seem like sometimes we "categorize" "sin" in terms of what's acceptable and what's not. I know not everyone does this, but I find this a lot from those of us that follow the Lord.
How can the sentiment be that Christians should be against a woman's right to choose (legally, not just morally), but we live in a society where we allow divorce (legally)? Every election, we continue to debate a woman's right to choose, but we've never debated a person's right to divorce (unless that divorce is due to adultery). I must ask, what would happen if that became a focal point of these elections? What if a Presidential candidate decided that one could no longer divorce unless their spouse committed adultery (and then, only if the spouse that was the victim of adultery wanted the divorce)?
Likewise, we debate whether two people of the same sex should be allowed to marry, yet we don't debate whether there should be some type of constitutional/legal ban on allowing two heterosexual people to engage in premarital sexual acts. I can't help but feel that we are hypocrites (not all of us). But I wanted to discuss this, since these topics are frequently a part of both the church and the political structure (sorry it's the Christian Lawyer psycho-analyzing side of me coming out).
I think we can handle this! I hope I'm RIGHT
PLEASE KEEP THIS THREAD CIVIL (I WILL REQUEST IT GET LOCKED IF NOT).
This has seriously been on my heart lately, and I want us to have a healthy, spiritual dialogue on this topic.
With the announcement of Palin's 17 year old daughter being pregnant out of wedlock, her plans to marry the "baby daddy," and Palin's stance against abortion, I MUST ASK:
Why does it seem like sometimes we "categorize" "sin" in terms of what's acceptable and what's not. I know not everyone does this, but I find this a lot from those of us that follow the Lord.
How can the sentiment be that Christians should be against a woman's right to choose (legally, not just morally), but we live in a society where we allow divorce (legally)? Every election, we continue to debate a woman's right to choose, but we've never debated a person's right to divorce (unless that divorce is due to adultery). I must ask, what would happen if that became a focal point of these elections? What if a Presidential candidate decided that one could no longer divorce unless their spouse committed adultery (and then, only if the spouse that was the victim of adultery wanted the divorce)?
Likewise, we debate whether two people of the same sex should be allowed to marry, yet we don't debate whether there should be some type of constitutional/legal ban on allowing two heterosexual people to engage in premarital sexual acts. I can't help but feel that we are hypocrites (not all of us). But I wanted to discuss this, since these topics are frequently a part of both the church and the political structure (sorry it's the Christian Lawyer psycho-analyzing side of me coming out).
I think we can handle this! I hope I'm RIGHT