{"id":1385,"date":"2013-06-29T16:23:56","date_gmt":"2013-06-29T23:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoodpoliticalshepherd.com\/?p=1385"},"modified":"2015-07-03T00:38:36","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T07:38:36","slug":"sodom-and-gomorrahca-chronicling-americas-progressive-slide-into-total-depravity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/gps\/sodom-and-gomorrahca-chronicling-americas-progressive-slide-into-total-depravity\/","title":{"rendered":"Sodom and &#8220;Gomorrahca&#8221; &#8211; Chronicling America&#8217;s Progressive Slide into Total Depravity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1386\" src=\"http:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/gps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Marriage-Ceremony-8.jpg\" alt=\"Marriage Ceremony 8\" width=\"280\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\"><b><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Sodom and \u201cGomorrahca\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\"><b><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0Does America\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\"><b><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Enjoy God&#8217;s Blessing<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\"><b><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Or\u00a0Will Sin and Permissiveness Lead to Ruin?<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">By Scott Rohter, July 2013<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1387\" src=\"http:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/gps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Marriage-Ceremony-Gay.jpg\" alt=\"Marriage Ceremony  Gay\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/>They are<i> \u201cloving and committed same sex couples\u201d.\u00a0<\/i>At least that&#8217;s what we are told<em>.\u00a0<\/em>It&#8217;s the\u00a0typical progressive mantra about homosexuals. They just want to get married so they can enjoy the same legal benefits and tax status that is afforded to\u00a0husbands and wives, but that is just the problem. They are not husbands and wives. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Loving and committed same sex couples<\/em> is\u00a0what they would like to be\u00a0called, but that is not\u00a0how the Bible\u00a0looks at the sin of sodomy no matter how\u00a0hard or often\u00a0they try to <em>&#8220;love&#8221;<\/em> one another or how committed they are\u00a0to their\u00a0relationship .\u00a0Their behavior\u00a0is still\u00a0a\u00a0sin in the eyes of God and it is\u00a0a shameful expression of\u00a0the perverted attraction\u00a0they\u00a0feel for each other no matter what the United States Supreme Court determines, or the nine State Legislatures which have currently legalized this farce\u00a0they call same sex marriage.\u00a0Just remember that the government can\u00a0only make something legal. That doesn&#8217;t\u00a0make it right.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0In Matthew 7:14 it says that, <em>&#8220;wide is the\u00a0gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction.&#8221;<\/em> Wrong is still wrong\u00a0no matter how hard the liberals in the mainstream media\u00a0keep trying to tell us that it isn&#8217;t, and\u00a0while I have\u00a0no doubt that\u00a0same sex couples can and frequently do love one another that\u00a0will never be in God&#8217;s plan. The peculiar attraction that they feel for each other and the monogamous relationship or\u00a0domestic\u00a0partnership\u00a0that they want to redefine as a marriage will never constitute a marriage any more than the penalty in the Affordable Care Act\u00a0constitutes a tax. \u00a0Justice Antonin Scalia was sure right when he said that, <i>\u201cA penalty is not a pig.\u201d<\/i> Surely a domestic partnership between two people of the same sex is not a marriage\u00a0and it never will be. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">There is\u00a0precious little truth in the news\u00a0coming to us over the national airwaves which are controlled by the mainstream media.\u00a0There is also very little truth\u00a0 in our National political dialogue\u00a0coming from Washington\u00a0which is controlled by\u00a0America&#8217;s two major political parties.\u00a0\u00a0With that thought in mind I have decided\u00a0to\u00a0start calling myself a king.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0I am just as much a king as two homosexuals sleeping\u00a0together in the same bed\u00a0is a marriage. When\u00a0I get up\u00a0in the\u00a0morning I\u00a0am going to\u00a0look in the mirror and\u00a0call myself a king, but I will not be a king even though\u00a0I\u00a0call myself\u00a0a king.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">When two homosexuals\u00a0who are sharing\u00a0the same\u00a0bed get up in the morning just because the law says they are married\u00a0that does not mean that they are married in the eyes of God or in the minds of most Americans. The sin that they have just committed in the darkness and the privacy of their own home does not constitute a marriage in the eyes of God anymore than it constitutes a marriage in the\u00a0minds of most\u00a0Americans.\u00a0That is\u00a0in spite of\u00a0all the acts of various State Legislatures and proclamations of government officials around the country and the most recent decisions of the United States Supreme Court.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">The next time I go to the\u00a0bank I am going to\u00a0tell the employee\u00a0at the drive-in window that I am Donald Trump and I\u00a0would like\u00a0to withdraw all of\u00a0his money. I have just about as much right to Donald Trump\u2019s money as gays and lesbians have\u00a0a right to change the prevailing 5000 year old legal definition of marriage.<\/span><\/span><\/span><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1390\" src=\"http:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/gps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Gay-pride-parade-10.jpg\" alt=\"Gay pride parade 10\" width=\"188\" height=\"268\" \/>I remember when all of this politically correct nonsense\u00a0first began to occur. It\u00a0all started in the early 1970\u2019s quite\u00a0innocently enough. A secretary became known as an <em>administrative assistant<\/em>. A\u00a0janitor became a <em>maintenance engineer<\/em>.\u00a0 A car repairman was\u00a0now known as an <em>automotive repair technician<\/em>. Salesmen became <em>consultants<\/em> or <em>customer service agents<\/em> and crippled people became referred to as\u00a0<em>&#8220;the physically challenged&#8221; or handicapped<\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Homosexuals became <em>\u201cgay.\u201d<\/em> I don&#8217;t know why in the world they picked this name to describe themselves. There is nothing happy or gay at all about the homosexual lifestyle which they have chosen. Perhaps the name gay is\u00a0a futile attempt to actually\u00a0convince themselves that they are\u00a0happy. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A\u00a0person with his wires crossed\u00a0in his head\u00a0is now\u00a0referred to as a <em>transvestite,\u00a0<\/em>and an honest to goodness\u00a0freak is known as a <em>trans-sexual<\/em> or <em>a<\/em> <em>transgendered person<\/em>.\u00a0 After that\u00a0he becomes\u00a0eligible to receive <em>gender modification therapy<\/em> and a sex change operation\u00a0at the\u00a0taxpayer\u2019s expense. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If Bruce Jenner wants to\u00a0spend all of his own\u00a0personal\u00a0money\u00a0to pay\u00a0for\u00a0senseless reconstructive\u00a0surgery to\u00a0fulfill\u00a0some sick fantasy he has in his head\u00a0that will help him\u00a0think of himself as a woman that is his own unfortunate business, but to make the taxpayers\u00a0foot the bill for such\u00a0nonsense is just\u00a0plain wrong.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Bruce Jenner will always be a man no matter what he does to himself.\u00a0The only thing wrong with\u00a0Bruce Jenner\u00a0is in his head. He cannot change his internal D.N.A. He was born with a\u00a0male chromosome\u00a0which makes him a man no matter what\u00a0he does\u00a0to\u00a0his\u00a0body. He cannot alter his\u00a0D.N.A.\u00a0 He can\u00a0try to look like a woman, but he can never actually be a woman. In his mixed up mind he\u00a0can have his penis surgically removed\u00a0and\u00a0receive estrogen therapy so he can grow breasts, but\u00a0he will\u00a0always be a man. It would be much better if he would\u00a0agree to undergo the\u00a0appropriate\u00a0psychiatric treatment for what actually ails him rather than to have his\u00a0male appendage\u00a0surgically removed and a prosthetic vagina attached where his penis\u00a0once was. In Oregon the State Legislature has just\u00a0made\u00a0the appropriate\u00a0psychological counseling\u00a0that could actually help\u00a0troubled young individuals who feel like Bruce Jenner\u00a0illegal. Now a parent cannot even intervene in the life of their troubled young teenager in order to prevent them from\u00a0undergoing a sex change operation.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As a result of\u00a0so much\u00a0political correctness\u00a0in our world an unusually hot summer is now\u00a0considered to be global warming. An unusually cold winter is referred to as climate change. If one follows\u00a0the other then climate scientists\u00a0merely ask the government for\u00a0more money to do more research&#8230; When the Federal Reserve Board prints\u00a0more money to pay these phony climate scientists\u00a0there is\u00a0nothing to back it up but the United States military, but instead of calling them crooks\u00a0at the Fed and throwing them all in jail we\u00a0routinely call\u00a0what they are doing\u00a0\u00a0\u201cmonetizing the debt\u201d and they are all considered to be great financial geniuses.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Domestic partnerships are\u00a0now being called <em>&#8220;same sex marriages&#8221;<\/em> while an actual\u00a0marriage between a\u00a0real man and a real woman is gradually becoming known as \u201c<i>opposite sex marriage\u201d. <\/i>The world is definitely upside down.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Bible says that in the last days we shall be\u00a0ruled over\u00a0by little children and that sin\u00a0shall abound.\u00a0 Today it is\u00a0 perfectly legal to murder an innocent little unborn baby after only twelve weeks of life, but it is not okay to execute a homicidal maniac who has committed\u00a0multiple aggravated murders. \u00a0He must receive the psychiatric counseling\u00a0he needs to treat\u00a0his troubled soul, but not so with the troubled man who thinks he is a woman or the troubled woman who thinks she is a man. The psychological therapy they need\u00a0is forbidden in at least one State . It is illegal to try to counsel such individuals who believe that they were born with the\u00a0wrong genitalia..<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1389\" src=\"http:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/gps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Marriage-same-sex.png\" alt=\"Marriage same sex\" width=\"261\" height=\"193\" \/>Our nation is losing its\u00a0way when\u00a0people don&#8217;t stand up for moral certitude. It is true\u00a0that many people today actually think\u00a0worse of\u00a0you for\u00a0believing the Bible than they\u00a0would if\u00a0you\u00a0did not. <em>\u201cThou shalt not steal\u201d<\/em>is pretty straightforward. Oh but it\u2019s not\u00a0considered to be\u00a0stealing anymore when the government taxes\u00a0Americans at the rate of 20% or 30% of their gross incomes. It is called <i>progressive taxation.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><em>\u201cThou shalt not bear false witness\u201d.<\/em> Oh but they didn\u2019t really lie because they weren\u2019t\u00a0under oath at the time they made their false statement. Maybe they were running for some political office which excuses just about anything these days. It is now considered perfectly acceptable to lie to the public in order to get elected.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">God is thoroughly disgusted with the United States of America. I have heard it said that Puerto Rico is a pretty nice place to live and it is offering some very nice tax incentives to relocate there\u00a0if you happen to be rich\u2026 All you have to do is make it your official place of residence\u00a0for six months of the year and you can live their virtually tax free.\u00a0That&#8217;s where\u00a0 a lot of\u00a0exhausted conservatives\u00a0 are going to\u00a0lay around on a beautiful Caribbean beach\u00a0sipping Pinna Coladas and remembering how nice it was living in the U.S.A. when America was still a great nation. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you like\u00a0this article\u00a0then please subscribe to my free RSS Newsfeed\u00a0located at the top of this page.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Select Related Articles<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lessgovisthebest.com\/key-provision-in-defense-of-marriage-act-is-struck-down-by-united-states-supreme-court.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">http:\/\/lessgovisthebest.com\/key-provision-in-defense-of-marriage-act-is-struck-down-by-united-states-supreme-court.html<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/gps\/what-is-so-bad-about-same-sex-marriage.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">http:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/gps\/what-is-so-bad-about-same-sex-marriage.html<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/NewYork-legalizes-gay-marriage.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/NewYork-legalizes-gay-marriage.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/Gay-Lesbian-Activitsts-Repeal-Dont-Ask-Dont-Tell.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">http:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/Gay-Lesbian-Activitsts-Repeal-Dont-Ask-Dont-Tell.html<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/gps\/wrestling-against-the-political-powers-of-this-world-and-the-blind-leaders-of-the-blind.html\">http:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/gps\/wrestling-against-the-political-powers-of-this-world-and-the-blind-leaders-of-the-blind.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"http:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/gps\/sodom-and-gomorrahca-chronicling-americas-progressive-slide-into-total-depravity\/\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"standard\" data-width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" data-action=\"like\" data-font=\"\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"125\" height=\"80\" src=\"http:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/gps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Marriage-Ceremony-8.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail-excerpt\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><p>They are \u201cLoving and committed same sex couples\u201d according to progressives \u2026 At least that is what these homosexuals would like to be called. 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