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Related: About this forumWhat the Christian group holding Bobby Jindal's prayer rally has said about homosexuality
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/12/bobby_jindal_prayer_rally.htmlThe American Family Association is throwing a prayer rally for Gov. Bobby Jindal at LSU next month. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
What the Christian group holding Bobby Jindal's prayer rally has said about homosexuality, Eric Garner and more
Julia O'Donoghue, NOLA.com
on December 15, 2014 at 5:12 PM, updated December 15, 2014 at 5:57 PM
Are legal abortion and same-sex marriage leading to more disasters like Hurricane Katrina? Does the First Amendment only protect Christian religious expression?
Next month, Gov. Bobby Jindal is bringing a mass prayer event to LSU's campus sponsored by a conservative Christian group that has espoused controversial views on a number of issues, including the causes of Hurricane Katrina.
The American Family Association (AFA), based out of Mississippi, has weighed in on everything from homosexuality to Eric Garner -- the man who died after a New York City police officer put him in a chokehold. They are paying for Jindal's mass prayer event at LSU, called The Response, in January.
"I haven't looked at their website, so you will need to talk to them about it. Here's what we do know...our nation is facing serious issues, but God is real, He is powerful, and He answers prayer. That is why we are asking people to come to Baton Rouge, Louisiana on January 24th and pray for revival," said Shannon Bates, Jindal's deputy communications manager, in a written statement about the organization.
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SamKnause
(13,107 posts)Will their prayers not be answered if they pray from home ?
Does a group have to contain a certain number of individuals for prayers to be answered ?
Are public prayers the only prayers answered ?
If two people are standing side by side praying for different outcomes on the same issue, which prayer takes precedence?
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So many questions.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)Your questions are of no consequence in this situation.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)Do you speak for them? Can you read their minds?
Do you think everyone views it as a political event, as you do?
SamKnause
(13,107 posts)which I am completely aware of.
In the ball park of Rick Perry filling the stadium with religious people to pray for rain.
Can you answer my questions that pertain to religion or are you avoiding them ?
I thought they were fair and straight questions.
You do not get to decide what I think is consequential.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)Or are you seriously looking for someone to answer them?
Goblinmonger
(22,340 posts)That religion and politics don't mix?
I don't get how you are dismissing those questions.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)especially not by me.
This is a great example of a common enemy being promoted by an even greater enemy that we should all be able to rally around.
But instead, those with a personal agenda are going to divert it into something else entirely - basically an anti-prayer piece as opposed to an anti-Jindal/AFA piece.
What do you make of that?
I never said this wasn't about religion. It clearly is, but its' not really about all those ridiculous questions about prayer posited above.
Kind of makes you wonder when a piece like this can get hijacked in order to be divisive.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)But what would they know.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)If you meant it as purely political, and not about the prayer issue, you'd have put it in GD, not Religion.
You're so transparent I can't even see you anymore.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)"You can believe anything you want as long as it doesn't harm anyone else.
And in your case, it just doesn't."
Here's your harm. When you have two groups of people whose starting point is to assume god/jesus is real, one lends credence to the other even though one of the two groups is the fucked up gaggle of shit in the OP.
'It just doesn't'. Lovely assertion. Would be nice if it were true.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)They said homosexuality is bad. Abortion is too.
Oh and that Eric Garner wouldn't have died if he wasn't committing a crime, therefore he deserved to die.
These are their Christian beliefs. As we are told repeatedly and quite forcefully in this group all the time, unless you can prove their beliefs are wrong, you have no right saying so.
Good day to all.