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A Denver Baptist minister is making national headlines because he is mad a gay actor is playing a missionary in a new movie.
Even closer to voters hearts, Focus on the Family, the National Association of Evangelicals, and the National Conference of Catholic Bishops - among others - are supporting a state constitutional amendment that says that marriage is between "one man and one woman."
Once again, ladies and gentlemen, Colorado is on the front lines of the so-called "culture war."
The movie in question, according to the New York Times, is being made by Evangelical film makers and, "relates the true story of five American missionaries who were killed in 1956 by an indigenous tribe in Ecuador. The missionaries' families ultimately converted the tribe to Christianity, and forgave and befriended the killers."
And, for the amendment, you'll love this, from the Rocky Mountain News, "The amendment would not, in fact, change state law. Colorado law already defines marriage as a heterosexual union."
So, what's this all about?
It doesn't seem like it's really about marriage, but about sex. It doesn't seem that it's about love of God or commitment to scripture, as it is about fear of gays and lesbians. It doesn't seem to be out of concern for society, as it does about trying to get the world to conform to a specific worldview.
As a Christian, my gut says that if you asked those dead missionaries what they would spend their time and energy on in a world that needs people of faith to act, it wouldn't be on protesting an actor or spending thousands of hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars trying ban gay marriage.
Even closer to voters hearts, Focus on the Family, the National Association of Evangelicals, and the National Conference of Catholic Bishops - among others - are supporting a state constitutional amendment that says that marriage is between "one man and one woman."
Once again, ladies and gentlemen, Colorado is on the front lines of the so-called "culture war."
The movie in question, according to the New York Times, is being made by Evangelical film makers and, "relates the true story of five American missionaries who were killed in 1956 by an indigenous tribe in Ecuador. The missionaries' families ultimately converted the tribe to Christianity, and forgave and befriended the killers."
And, for the amendment, you'll love this, from the Rocky Mountain News, "The amendment would not, in fact, change state law. Colorado law already defines marriage as a heterosexual union."
So, what's this all about?
It doesn't seem like it's really about marriage, but about sex. It doesn't seem that it's about love of God or commitment to scripture, as it is about fear of gays and lesbians. It doesn't seem to be out of concern for society, as it does about trying to get the world to conform to a specific worldview.
As a Christian, my gut says that if you asked those dead missionaries what they would spend their time and energy on in a world that needs people of faith to act, it wouldn't be on protesting an actor or spending thousands of hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars trying ban gay marriage.
