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Re: the story on gay marriage in the Netherlands. It's skewed and incomplete. Even the title is misleading, Gay marriage not popular. Well, it's popular enough with the people who actually do it. If one thing is less popular than another, should the less popular thing be illegal?
I'll let Andrew Sullivan complete the story:
A Decade
Today is the tenth anniversary of the first ever legal civil marriages for gay couples in Holland:
In the intervening 10 years, 14,813 of the Netherlands' 55,000 gay couples have gotten married, according to Statistics Netherlands. Of those couples, 7,522 were female and 7,291 were male. There have been 1,078 same-sex divorces, 734 of them by female couples.
That's roughly a five percent divorce rate for the gay men after ten years. The general rate in the Netherlands - over a longer time period, of course - is 38 percent.
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“The devil’s ordinary business is the incessant temptation to evil,” explained Nanni.
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Wow.
Sounds just like ISLAM!
How about the work of exorcism being done on the 1.5 billion who are certainly condemned by their profane worship?
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“Everything he’s doing here is a violation of the Gospel,” said Pastor Ed Rowe with Central United Methodist Church.
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Muslim liar.
There is absolutely nothing about the Quran, preserving the Quran, worshipping Allah or protecting Islam in the Gospel.
In fact, the Epistles warn specifically about the false prophets that would come afterward.
Convert out of Christianity, Mr. Rowe.
You have already submitted.
You are a Muslim.
You favor the conqueror and mass murderer over the Son of God.
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