I have to tell you, I talked to a Republican senator this week who said he may vote for both of them but said they’re both pandering. And yet you’re going to bring two constitutional amendments to the Senate floor in the next few weeks, one to ban same-sex marriage, another to ban flag-burning, both reportedly in the papers to mobilize your conservative base. HOST: You talk about a lot of issues that affect people’s lives. Looks like the “heart and soul of the American people” have different priorities, Sen. poll, behind eight other issues, including terrorism (89 percent), the war in Iraq (89 precent), the economy (88 percent), and health care costs (88 percent). On gay marriage, only 40 percent of the American public ranked it as an extremely or very important issue in a Feb. Right now, Cuba, China, and Iran are the only other countries to ban flag desecration and the issue doesn’t even show up on recent polls as an important priority for the American public. Flag-burning incidents declined rapidly after 9/11 and haven’t shown any signs of rebounding. It is under attack today.īut as the Fox News host points out, these moves are nothing more than pandering to the right-wing base. It may not be important here in Washington where people say, well, it’s political posturing and all, but it’s important to the heart and soul of the American people. … Why marriage today? Marriage is for our society that union between a man and a woman, is the cornerstone of our society. HOST: …Are gay marriage and flag burning the most important issues the Senate can be addressing in June of 2006?įRIST:…When you look at that flag and you tell me that right now people in this country are saying it’s okay to desecrate that flag and to burn it and to not pay respect to it, is that important to our values as a people when we’ve got 130,000 people fighting for our freedom and liberty today? That is important. Unless you take out the root, the weed will grow back.Today on Fox News Sunday, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) tried to argue that banning flag-burning and same-sex marriage are two of the nation’s most pressing priorities, which is why he put them on the Senate agenda for June:
By doing so we are making the statement that they do not have free will, we must force them to change. We have to speak to their heart, not tear down their flag. If we push a sinner in the pool, they are not baptized. When God changed me He changed my mind, He did not destroy my cigarettes or other signs (flags) of my evil behavior, He encouraged me to destroy them myself with my own free will. Taking down their flag will not change their hearts, it will only make it appear on the surface that there is change- like sweeping it under the rug- it still exists. For satan and his followers to masquerade as angels of light is not a new thing. We go straight for their hearts and minds- this requires words. And God says in Ephesians six that we no longer battle the physical, like David killed his tens of thousands, we battle the spiritual. We are only to submit to the governing authorities if by doing so we do not go against God's authority. However, sometimes the Holy Spirit urges us to ACTION in order to reshape our interior, and sometimes the Holy Spirit reshapes our INTERIOR in order to facilitate action.Ĭoincidentally, this is an observable reality reflected in a multitude of studies across a variety of fields of expertise. Now, if you want to make the argument that the presence of the Holy Spirit within a person is the key to all of this, I'll agree. OR I don't really know if I believe God fully, but I will pray and ACT AS IF I believe God fully and soon I do believe. OR I don't really feel like I love my husband.he's getting on my last nerve, but I will demonstrate the ACTIONS of love and soon my heart will follow. However, I engage in the ACTION because I've made a commitment, and low and behold, the feelings soon follow. For example, I don't really feel like getting up early to read my bible and pray, it's been a hard week. In fact, it is an idea that God-fearing people live out on a daily basis. Sometimes people change because they adjust their ACTIONS and soon their heart changes.
Sometimes people change because they've been effected in their HEART and it manifests in their ACTIONS. God created people with a symbiotic relationship between INTENTION (our "heartstate") and ACTION.