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Porn Tax and Gay Marriage
So, the question I have been answering. What do you think of the proposed porn tax? If you don't know what I am talking about check it out here.
I will answer to questions with this one blog and am sure on a Friday night at 11pm as I write this will have some crazy reaction to this
#1. The porn tax. This is coming to surface because of bad money management and overspending in California. They are short on money and looking at ways at producing income. This has nothing to do with the state of California not liking the porn industry.
Assemblyman Charles Calderon had proposed his bill to help raise revenues for the cash-strapped state. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has forecast a $20 billion budget shortfall. He has proposed this tax before and it did not pass.
Everyone knows we are not in favour of porn. We do however have many friends in the adult industry. This tax is just not fair. Pornography is legal and in the state of California you can produce it. I do not feel that this tax can or should be enforced
#2. Yesteday the California's Supreme Court declared gay couples in the nation's biggest state can marry. So many people are up in arms over this because of this ruling. My thoughts are that the people that say that this is a huge hit for traditional marriage...I don't agree. This does not take away anyones right to have a traditional marriage. This does not mean traditional marriage is facing a threat. This gives those that want to have a same sex marriage the same rights those that want to have a traditional marriage allready have. I don't believe this will have any effect on traditional marriage. Those that want to have a traditional marriage still are able to do that. I think gay marriage goes against what the Bible says about marriage but at the end of the day I believe that they should have the same rights.
Romans 12:2 says:
Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
People that don't know the lord have no reason for living like those that belong to the Lord. We are suppose to stand out and live our lives as God has called us. If we believe that God has created marriage to be between a man and a women then believers need to be a test to that. Our marriages are not in danger because people that don't believe like us want to get married.
Barna studies says Divorce rates among conservative Christians were significantly higher than for other faith groups, and much higher than Atheists and Agnostics experience.
Christian traditional marriage is in danger because Christians are not living a life that God has called us to live.
Goodnight!
Craig
Government has a habit of getting themselves into trouble recently, and the expecting us to dig them out of their decisions by raising taxes somewhere.
And with gay marriage. Well... while I'm opposed to it from my beliefs, I can see the point where our rights are their rights as well. We live in a country where everyone is heard, including us.
Good post Craig. Good food for thought.
So, it seems that many of us a hypocritical on this. We want the right to have a divorce for whatever reason we want, but fight tooth and nail against gay marriage.
It's a tough one for sure.
Though I'm voting against gay marriage and am grateful that I live in a country where my personal opinion still matters.
Same with porn tax. I'm for making porn more difficult to produce, though I understand that state of California tax on porn will just move porn producers elsewhere. A federal ban would be better.
But I can certainly understand your position and we can agree to disagree on this one brother.
In Christ.
On marriage, I agree. There is no mechanism I can see by which legalising gay marriage will in any way harm non-gay marriage - it cannot attack it, dilute it, degrade it or otherwise lessen it. However, those who oppose the ruling already know this - all their talk of 'marriage under attack' and the need to 'defend traditional marriage' seems - at least to me - to be nothing more than empty rhetoric that they use because their real reason is less respectable. At root they simply believe that homosexuality is either immoral or just disgusting, but they need to hide this behind an excuse to remain publicly acceptable. This is why many of their apparent reasons are so pathetic - everything from 'if we have gay marriage we will have to legalise pedophilia!' to 'But they have the right to marry someone of the other gender, so there is no inequality issue!' to such insults as 'Gay couples adopt children and rape them!' Pathetic arguments, because they are no more than a cover.
