Can anybody please explain the urgency of gay marriage?Wednesday,
22 May, 2013 14:56
Why now?
What is the urgency?
Is there a deadline?
Has this been thought over?
Who is in favour?
What do the opinion polls say?
Were there any polls at all? If not, why?
Given that there will be a referendum on the EU anyway, isn't it best to ask people to have their say on this issue also in the same referendum?
I am not even going to discuss the objections based on religious conviction and plain disgust.
Why are they fiddling with nonsense in the first place?
There is an economic crisis in eurozone, civil wars and political crises across the Middle East.
People are afraid of unemployment and recession.
Gay marriage shouldn't even be on the agenda of a sensible government, should it?
Especially at a time pf crisis like this?
Why are they doing this?
What is the point of gay marriage?
Why can't it wait?
One more thing. This is very bad for national reputation.
It makes no sense at all.
A
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I think people like Cameron are dancing to a tune we cannot hear, that is being played across the world. Politicians are having their strings pulled like puppets. Far too many otherwise-sensible countries have done this in the last few months for it to be coincidence.
As you know I'm a Christian, and I believe God is drawing things to an end. The Bible talks about a time of great tribulation (trouble) before Christ returns to set things right. That includes the rise of great evils of all sorts, wrong being declared right (and the other way round), and persecution of Christians and Jews for their beliefs. It also says that no man will know the hour or the day of His return (so I'd be silly to guess) but that the 'birth pains' will be obvious.
Many Christians, myself included, believe that the rebirth of the state of Israel in 1947 was an important fulfillment of prophesy, and was one of the key things that had to happen first. I'm not referring to it as a right or wrong event, merely that it has happened.
The other thing is the rise of what the Bible calls the Antichrist. There are coded descriptions of his character and allegorical references in Revelation, but the essence is that he will arise as the leader of the world, by 'popular acclaim'. It's reasonable to assume he will offer answers to a global crisis, which the desperate will grasp.
We're not there yet, but the effect of economic policy across the world over the years since 2008 has been to make the crisis far deeper and wider ranging than before. Now we are starting to see a property and investment bubble in the western world bigger than has ever been seen before (as a proportion of economic activity). When it inevitably bursts, probably in less than five years, it may send whole continents into anarchy. This might well be the stage on which the Antichrist will stand.
Until the modern era of technology, it hasn't been possible for everyone on the planet to see a single event. It probably is now, with the internet and broadcasting, and that's another thing that needed to be in place, too.
Sitting where I do, in a once honest and Christian nation (that isn't any more), it's as if there's some mass psychological disease that's affected everyone. Normal morality seems to be turned on its head.
Our politicians are dishonest, and our public servants, too. Corruption, once surprising because it was so unusual, is now common. We have whole industries of non-jobs, for example weird sorts of insurance and public sector 'social services' and administration. Over half of all our economic activity is in the public sector - a bigger percentage than in Stalinist Russia.
You ask why: in short because human nature is corrupt. A longer answer might be that God told us it would go this way, and of course it is. That doesn't make it right, nor rational, nor pleasant to watch, and it will, for me, of course get much worse, I expect. Christians haven't been persecuted in this country for hundreds of years, but it's already started again, and it will increase.
SM
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Iraq will never recover and under this Government or for that matter all the other contenders for UK Government after 2015 the UK will continue its downward spiral.
Why has Bliar not been charged as a war criminal, men have done far less and ended up in the Hague. He took the UK into an illegal war and killed thousands of innocent people.
Cameron scrapped most of our defencive capabilities and will not improve 'till 2022 and yet decided to attack Libya and for what, the country is worse now than under Gadaffi.
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