During the call, one participant cited Starbucks, which endorsed gay marriage legalization in Washington, and General Mills, which spoke out against the proposed gay marriage ban in Minnesota. The participant asked what could be done “to stop the wave of corporate sponsorship of gay marriage.”

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“Their international outreach is where we can have the most effect,” Brown said. “So for example, in Qatar, in the Middle East, we’ve begun working to make sure that there’s some price to be paid for this. These are not countries that look kindly on same-sex marriage. And this is where Starbucks wants to expand, as well as India. So we have done some of this; we’ve got to do a lot more.”

We’ll see even more firebombings and lynchings.

I’d never actually believed the rumours of links between NOM and the more militant arm of the RSS, let alone Islamist groups. Silly me.

http://www.ministers-best-friend.com/George-Washingtons-Era–First-Great-Awakening–Ben-Franklin-Supports-George-Whitefield.html

“Benjamin Franklin became an enthusiastic supporter of one of America’s great evangelical ministers, George Whitefield,”the most popular of the Great Awakening’s roving preachers.” Franklin did not subscribe to Whitefield’s theology, but he admired Whitefield for exhorting people to worship God through good works. Franklin printed Whitefield’s sermons on the front page of his Gazette, devoting 45 issues to Whitefield’s activities. Franklin used the power of his press to spread Whitefield’s fame by publishing all of Whitefield’s sermons and journals. Half of Franklin’s publications in 1739-1741 were of Whitefield, and helped promote the evangelical movement in America. Franklin was a lifelong friend and supporter of Whitefield, until his death in 1770.”

I take the view that ‘politicization’ is not the same thing as ‘polity’. Of course, as a Christian with a Catholic understanding of the (core principals of the) Faith, I see the ‘personal’ and the (in the broad sense of the word) ‘political’ as being being profoundly intertwined.

The problems arise when the Church becomes a vehicle of power politics, and people’s consciences are being ‘overridden’ by a ‘party line’. When this happens, the principles of Christ can so easily be replaced by those of the concentration camp.