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The Inquirer’s Heard in the Hall reports of an angry fax Mayor Street got from Jesus regarding his decision to officiate a gay marriage this Saturday (the people at right are sadly neither the complainers nor the people getting married):
No, Mayor Street, Same-Sex Marriage is Not Legal In Pennsylvania
(Philadelphia) – Outgoing Mayor John Street’s decision to perform a same-sex commitment ceremony on Saturday at City Hall offers a further explanation in the course Philadelphia has taken in the past several years. Today the American Family Association of Pennsylvania (AFA of PA), a statewide group which supports Pennsylvania’s one man, one woman marriage law and the effort to pass a Marriage Protection Amendment to the PA Constitution, faxed the mayor a letter of concern outlining the wrong messages that will be sent by his involvement in Saturday’s activities.
“Mayor Street has drifted off course during his political career. Once a strong advocate for traditional values, he can no longer be trusted to uphold those values that are supposedly part of his belief system,” said Diane Gramley, President of the AFA of PA.
Mayor Street is a practicing Seventh Day Adventist. Their beliefs include, “Marriage was divinely established in Eden and affirmed by Jesus Christ to be both monogamous and heterosexual, a lifelong union of loving companionship between a man and a woman. . . . . To this biblical view of marriage the Seventh-day Adventist Church adheres without reservation, believing that any lowering of this high view is to that extent a lowering of the heavenly ideal.”
Ha ha, they’re actually quoting Seventh Day Adventist doctrine to shame Mayor Street into submission? Here are some of Street’s transgressions, according to the Jesus people:
Supported the ‘Get Your History Straight and Your Night Life Gay’ tourism campaign
Street spoke at the unveiling of a gay historical marker across from Independence Hall.
An official acting on Mayor Street’s behalf presented a proclamation to ‘Team Philadelphia,’ a group of homosexual athletes competing in the 2006 ‘Gay Games’ in Chicago.
Mayor Street signed a smoking ban, but ignored the greater threat to his City – the promotion of the homosexual lifestyle and all the health risks involved – including HIV/AIDS which is much more dangerous than smoking.
The promotion of the homosexual lifestyle!! How dare he speak at the dedication of a marker!
Anti-gay marriage group mad at Street [Heard in the Hall]
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Damn these guys for making me want to defend john street just a little bit. And the smoking ban doesn’t exactly work great, so I have little fear of a homosexual ban going into effect.
Maybe they would settle for a homosexual ban with exemptions, like if you make a certain amount of money. Because that’s what they really want, right?
Thank God for groups like that, pointing out the threat posed by monogamous gay couples.
It’s because of gays is why there’s so many shootings in the city, DUH.
Oh wait, you mean with guns… I thought..
OHHHH… nevermind ;-)
Several things strike me on this article. First off, while Mayor Street may go to a Seventh-day Adventist church and may claim to be an Adventist in good standing, he is NOT a true representative of the Adventist beliefs.
While the Bible tells us that God hates the sin, He does love the sinner. However, He NEVER gives the impression that it is OK to encourage, condone, facilitate nor promote sin. This is where Mayor Street has crossed the line.
It’s another sad day for the Adventist church, and for Protestantism as a whole. Yet another public figure falling under the influence of public opinion and popular culture, driven to subdue or reject the Biblical teaching on homosexuality.
May God help us. America is truly on the same path as Rome once was.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA….takes time for breath….HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
just…dammit….HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA