Do You Have True Liberty?
In the United State of America, there is pride in our liberty. The Statue of Liberty shines in New York Harbor beckoning people to our shores. We have the liberty to choose religion, sexual preference, abortion, democrat, republican, among many other choices. That is what is truly great about our country. Many people from all over the world want to live and play in America. America is the land of the free and brave.
In expressing our liberty, President Barack Obama signed proclamations claiming June to be LGBT Pride Month and May 7, 2009 as National Day of Prayer. These two proclamations were signed under much scrutiny with both sides calling foul. Then, the Obama administration wrote legal briefs defending the Defense of Marriage Act in California. And, President Obama has said Jesus’ name in public more times than George W. Bush. Both the LGBT and faith-based communities want President Obama to begin the task of implementing policies that directly affected its community, i.e., standing up for same-sex marriages or hosting Christian events at the White House. Both communities are not receiving true liberty for their causes.
Sexual expression is one of the gifts God has given us. There is uproar in the Porn Industry because several stars are receiving positive test results for HIV/AIDS. Actors receive more pay for not using a condom. Heterosexual actors are not encouraged to protect themselves. The industry refuses to follow laws requiring protection when bodily fluids and blood are present in work situations. And, the industry refuses to report personal information of an positive tested patients to governmental authorities who prevent community outbreaks. The industry and its actors are not receiving true liberty of their cause.
Graduating students all over this nation have fought for the liberty to express their religious beliefs. In Florida, the graduating seniors at Pace High School in Sarasota County protested the denial of their religious liberty by standing and saying the Lord’s Prayer shortly after the graduation ceremony began. An UCLA student, Christina Popa, fought for her right to have “I thank my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” read as she crossed the stage to get her diploma. These graduates experienced a touch of true liberty in their causes.
True liberty can only be found in God. He tells us in 2 Corinthians 3:17, “Now the Lord is that Spirit: and were the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” Mirriam-Webster’s dictionary defines liberty as permission especially to go freely within specified limits. True liberty is having the power of choice (permission) while following God’s precepts (specified limits) which are acknowledging Christ as our personal Savior and living for Him.
God allows us to choose whatever we want. We can choose the world and all it has to offer such as adultery, materialism, homosexuality, gluttony, or even vainness. Choosing the things the world offers will cause us to lose our souls. When we choose God, we gain peace, prosperity, and salvation. God lets us make that choice. But He is faithful to place opportunities along the way to point us toward true liberty. Which type of liberty will you choose? Hopefully, we all will choose true liberty.
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You would think that christians would focus more on the divorce rate and adultery or the fact that many women are waiting much longer to get married. If christians truly are “christians”, then christians shouldn’t be getting divorced, but they are in record numbers. “to death do us part.”
Religion will be man’s downfall. Religious people see things….ahh forget it.
LOL @ PPL TAKING QUOTES FROM BEN FRANK AND OTHER “FOUNDING FATHERS”…I HOPE YOU KNOW ALOTTA THINGS FROM THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER SONG TO THE HISTORY LESSONS YOU’RE BEING TAUGHT AND OMITTED LETTERS HAVE BEEN EDITED WITH A VENDETTA KINDA LIKE THE INTENT OF ABORTION TO WIPEOUT BLACKS BUT YOU THINK IT’S JUST FREEDOM OF CHOICE…
HOW IRONIC PPL SAY THEY CANT BELIEVE THE BIBLE BECAUSE OF TRANSLATIONS AND “A MAN WROTE IT”
BUT YOU TAKE THE QUOTES OF GREATS & FAILURES AND PPL WHO HAD OPINIONS BASICALLY PPL WHO WERE LIVING AS WE DO NOW…ARGUING THE SAME ARGUMENTS AGAINST AND FOR RELIGION BUT SOME OF YOU THINK IT’S WISE TO QUOTE THEM!
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
-OSCAR WILDE
Read the book of Genesis 50 to 1
America is in the 20-17 range now…going back to Sodom & Gomorrah!
The insinuation that true liberty cannot exist outside of Christianity is a direct contrast to the founding of this nation. Same sex marriage shouldn’t even be a legal question because it is to for others to decide. Within the scope of this nations history, it wasn’t so long ago that black people were denied the right to legal unions. So I’m always a little disgusted when my brothers and sisters proudly stand up to deny the rights of others. It’s sickeningly ironic. They stand behind their “religious” beliefs as if they have every right to foist said beliefs off on other people. They don’t. Plain and simple. Christianity has run amok in our government and made a mockery of our founding fathers intentions. People should really get back to understanding that their rights end where someone else’s begins. People want the “liberty” to reinstate prayer in the classroom. But if a group of pagans wanted the four corners blessed in school christians would lose their minds. If you want Christian practices in school, go to a christian school. But that would be too logical.
The very idea of more religion working it’s way into our government is horrifying. Laws, mandates and statutes should be put in place without the influence of any religious beliefs.
What an absurd article.
“hosting Christian events at the White House” What????? Did you say not hosting christian events at the white house is affecting communities? Is this some kind of a joke or what? How america even became a christian nation is just beyond my comprehension when its founding fathers hated religion so much,
christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man -Thomas Jefferson
lighthouse are more useful than churches – Benjamin Franklin
Blevins, when would you realize being an american does not necessarily equal to being a christian?
Why does it have to be necessary to hold christian events at the white house?
Sisters never makes a point without quoting the bible, oh my my my–what is really happening to people these days? these religious fantasies are really making people go crazy—–when will you realize its all a wind up by some group of old white beard nutters to enslave peoples mind?
The white house is the seat of the president of a nation of different people with different religions, so you can’t force obama to hold christian events—–next time the american moslems too will demand they hold friday sermons in the white house. 16% of americans are not religions, this % is even more than the black population, so are you saying the interest of these people should be disregarded?
Religion is really becoming interesting, when you have grown up men involve in fantasies and blaming some ill-angel call satan all the atrocities they commit. I know the next thing that will come on your mind is, this guy is a satan! heheee