How Things Have Changed

[Michael]

December 29,1849: The Christmas hymn by Edmund Sears, "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear," was first published in "The Christian Register." Sears' carol features the American emphasis in Christian living, that is, the social message of "peace on earth, good will toward men."
www.scopesys.com/cgi-bin/today2.cgi

And 160 years later we have the Reverend Stephen L Anderson preaching that: The same God who instituted the death penalty for murderers is the same God who instituted the death penalty for rapists and for homosexuals - sodomites, queers! That's what it was instituted for, okay? That's God, he hasn't changed. Oh, God doesn't feel that way in the New Testament ... God never "felt" anything about it, He commanded it and said they should be taken out and killed.

More here:
www.progressivepuppy.com/the_progressive_puppy/2009/08/baptist-pastor-advocates-killing-gays.html

Peace on earth, good will toward men (apparently no longer in a Christian country like modern America)

[sandyprice]

I think the main problem here is that this religious stuff is being pushed on our local and federal laws. It gives the law to the Christians to enforce and it is growing all over America. Christians will focus on sex to determine moral values. Any sex that does not produce a child is a sin. Christians have every right to believe this but should never try for government laws. In order to qualify to be a Christian one must be a straight white man. Don't tread on me!