HOMOSEXUALITY IS A 'SIN'

[Pyrrho]

Humans definitely do not have thought crimes in the same sense that the Bible does. For that brand of thought crime, someone has to literally read your mind, and the thought itself is the primary crime.

With both hate crime and conspiracy, some kind of provable, outward action has to occur. Neither is an actual thought crime, at least not in the sense I'm using the term. No human can punish you for your actual thoughts unless you somehow make them known, and to my knowledge there is no secular law that punishes a thought and nothing else.

So thinking gay marriage is wrong, and refusing to facilitate a gay marriage because of your thoughts is not a punishable crime in your imaginary world?

I posted a fox news link that says otherwise. That pastors are threatened with jail unless they concent to marrying gay people in certain states.

Your story has been debunked, and you still present it as if it were accurate.  Try reading it this time:

http://atheistforums.org/thread-35017-po...pid1007557

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see my last post.
on what?

Being Christ despite circumstance is hard no matter what. It is so much easier to just give up and adopt some sort of bastardized morality and justify whatever you want so long as no one get hurt.

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,actually no. The US is currently jailing pastors for not marrying gay couples.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/10/2...dings.html

To have a pastor perform a ceremony that is against his deeply held legitmate religious views is not freedom to practice religion sport, that is a state mandated religious practice. Something our bill'o rights says we do not have to do, but popular culture says we must.

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If this were true we would not be killing unborn babies, sanctioning gay marriages, and removing God from every aspect of public life, nor would the state mandate our religious practices.
Where do you live? maybe we should trade homes.

There are two boys lost off the coast of Florida and a radio deejay who announced this news story ended, 'our prayers are with you.' I cringed because he said this on a non Christian station. The very next break he had to appologise for expressing his religious views on company air time and made a disclaimer statement that his company did not endorse his 'prayer.'

what kind of world do we live in, where we can not offer prayer to two 14 year olds lost at sea? More over if we live in a majority Christian country then why do we have to go about daily life as if we were stepping on egg shells all the time?

If you went to china, do you think they would keep their deeply held religious/cultural views out of the public eye so as to not offend some douche bag minority? Then why do we do it here unless those numbers are not repersentivite of who and what the majority of this country really is.

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Take another look at the article at your link.  It is regarding "wedding chapels," not churches.  Wedding chapels are basically businesses which marry people.  Businesses are not allowed to discriminate.  Churches are.

Also, as is often the case, Fox News is lying:

http://www.advocate.com/politics/marriag...ing-chapel

http://boisestatepublicradio.org/post/co...rights-law

Next time, try looking for a reputable news source.