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Speaking in House of Lords debate on happy marriage, Justin Welby says cheerful people who never bicker about anything will undermine miserable marriage as basis for rearing children.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has accused the government of attacking the institution of miserable heterosexual marriage in order to promote the rights of people with a happy disposition to get married.
As peers embarked on a two-day debate in the House of Lords, Welby said:
Allowing marriages to be gay, happy and jolly would cause deep divisions in society and goes against our Christian inheritance of having miserable marriages where we constantly fall out with each other over the slightest things.
Welby joined several other peers who criticised the government’s plans to allow happy marriages and protested that neither the Lib Dem nor Tory 2010 manifesto included a pledge to allow cheerful weddings in their manifestos.
In his speech, Welby said:
The ancient and traditional concept of marriage as a normative place for falling out with each other over who has control of the TV remote is lost. The idea of marriage as a a unique lifelong union, where two people can constantly whinge about each other for the rest of their lives is diminished.
The family in its normal sense of a base community of society where people get irritated with each other over stupid things like who ate the last chocolate digestive is weakened.
For these and many other reasons those of us in the churches and faith groups, who are extremely hesitant about allowing marriages to be happy, hold that view because we think that traditional miserable marriage is a cornerstone of society.
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Hello Tom P
I dont think you are fully understanding this issue
Please dont mock the Archbishop
I believe in equality I am a Christian and believe that Jesus was probably a socialist but the gay marriage issue is ungodly and I am against it.
Elite social engineers are ‘using’ homosexuals to advance a subversive anti God agenda.
They seek to undermine the nuclear family, norms and moral values through a campaign of tolerance.
Humanity is being systematically degraded- they seek to promote a perverse worldview that men and women are identical.
Just as our Creator God made the natural world with exquisite design so natural and spiritual laws also govern humanity-its our job to discern these moral laws and live accordingly
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The God I know wants us to engage with each other in loving relationship, rather than fear-dominated, unloving, judgmental “Don’ts” presented as God’s will. I don’t for a second believe that God minds whether loving relationship exists between a man and a woman, or two men, or two women. The questions are rather: is this relationship loving, and thereby does it support the spiritual/emotional/ethical growth of those involved?
The “ungodly” argument comes not from God, but from the cultural/political vested interests of organized religion – which is about patriarchy, power and money. I imagine Jesus would have had plenty to say about that. He certainly himself appeared rather to favour tolerance, compassion and not casting the first stone.
“Our job” is to foster and grow a personal internal ethical compass from a place of love, empathy and congruence, in dialogue with ourselves and whatever spiritual dimension we experience – rather than looking outward to others for standards, rules and prohibitions – and then to manifest that in the world for the benefit of us all, other beings, our planet, the cosmos.
None of us are “identical”, nor do I know anyone on my side of this debate who argues that we are – we are each unique beings, with unique gifts and unique challenges. Some of us are drawn sexually to our own sex, some to the other sex.
By all means reply to this – but don’t waste my time by replying to a whole load of points I didn’t make and calling them my viewpoint. I mean what I have said. No more, no less.
And Tom – please continue to mock anyone you choose to. You make me laugh, you do. I suspect God likes a laugh too.
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I dont know the guy who writes this blog (I have emailed him once or twice) but I would ask him to look inside himself and listen to his soul.
Its never a good idea to mock God bcoz none of us know how long we have to live and sooner or later we will all end up meeting him.
This screwed up world wants us to believe there is no God for us to answer to and our dysfunctional sick media constantly bombards us with atheist propaganda directing us to rule our own roost – yet (deep down) we ‘always’ have an intuition of immanent design and purpose.
There is a cosmic conspiracy against God and when confronted with the truth people tend to become quite hostile ridicule ignore and will cling tenaciously to a certain mindset.
People may think we are courageous to defy the ‘establishment’ that wants to prevent their right to self expression but rather than giving the establishment the finger what they are actually doing is playing right into the hands of organized social engineers.
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ah that man who speaks about mattiage but when talking anout this government on welfare well recants his words yes a very oily sales man by the look of things jeff3
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but wouldn’t jesus speak out about the dreadfull things this government cause by their loving carress of the sick and disabled didn’t he start to say a thing about their treatment but then took it all back yep the torys even get the oily salesman into gods house would it be better if he threw the money men out nah hes one of them so open your eyes god cares but then do their bishops care about the sick and disabled has they lost their staffs and the sheep are being mauled but still they are very quiet about it ,but then the bishops tables are full whot about those who cant because of sanctions nah jesus left them to it jeff3
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totally agree Lindsey its about love and doing whots right not pointing fingers this is the god I now never wanting only giving help out so that we may all get on
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I looked in to my ‘soul’ (if you ‘believe’ in such things!) & realized that I was right all along. That the is no such thing as god & don’t need any Omnipotent being to tell me how to be a caring individual, (which is more that I can say about a lot of so called Christians).
If there is a small off chance there is such thing as god, I probably would still get into heaven, because I am a nice person who believes that everyone is equal, and have the same rights, even to get married, which is a made up thing anyway!
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Gay marriage is unGodly? What’s God got against happy marriage?
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Austerity, Abject misery and constant anxiety seem to be back in political fashion? Add a little religious intolerance and bigotry and we have a recipe for divided society and mass distraction with pockets of knee jerk, sanctimonious moralists to take the floor after a few years in the shadows? Oh what joy they must have, forcing people into miserable existence and maintaining the spirit of the religious ordeal.
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Holy father
Thank you for the example and inspiration of Moses.
Help us to obey your call and choose to be ill-treated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a short time.
Help us to deal with hatred and hostility and to regard disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than anything this world can offer.
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Unfortunately in this day and age it t doesn’t matter how carefully you say something, or how sincerely you mean it.
If you witness for Christ you are ‘wrong;- sadly you will be vilified and automatically labelled as hateful, bigoted, and ignorant.
I previously made mention of a conspiracy and its worrying that not so many are failing to join the dots.
There is a plan that calls for the destruction of all collective forces capable of resistance.These forces ,which support human identity, are family ,race, Christianity and nation state.
Social engineers want to eliminate these through a (phony) campaign of tolerance.
People on here dissing the Christians are just repeating a NWO mantra that they learnt from media propaganda -you are mostly all brainwashed repeating what you have been taught to believe.
It gives you a sense of belonging and a sense of (false) comfort.
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Mankind is in the grip of a very powerful satanic force-if you dont wake up and see the truth you will end up spiritually degraded sedated and controlled.
These controllers know mankind is lazy gullible and likes its denial system
the average person ‘wants’ to look the other way..they have their celebrities to worship and their romantic love BS to obsess over, their ‘progressive causes’ to promote and defend and their trivia to focus on….
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