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Increasingly I’ve noticed a growing trend on social network sites to put a stake in the ground, a line in the sand, for whatever cause you are passionate about. Unfortunately I’ve seen the good and the bad of this technology. Recently I came across a group on facebook that has the following as their description.

As a saddened resident of Iowa, I find it is my duty since no one else seems to be standing up against it to MAKE A STAND in the direction of Jesus Christ and stand against not just homosexual marriage but in particular CHURCH SANCTIONED homosexual marriage! I don’t care if its a hate crime, I don’t care if I am kicked off facebook or anywhere else, I don’t care if my car is vandalised or I get threats; I don’t CARE if I’m hauled off to jail for some insane hate crime. I have a passionate anger (a BIBLICAL RIGHTEOUS anger mind you) against these creeps and perverts who do what was formerly a hanging offense now IN PUBLIC and are disgustingly proud of their unGodly and anti-Biblical practise. Even worse is the sad state of the church that actually upholds and sanctions this type of union. Sadly one of our own churches in the Des Moines, Iowa area has done so. This is huge and I will make the largest possible scene I can against it. I am on fire for GOD and HIS PRINCIPLES which do NOT include homosexual marriages!

George Barna, president and founder of Barna Research Group, commented:

“While it may be alarming to discover that born again Christians are more likely than others to experience a divorce, that pattern has been in place for quite some time. Even more disturbing, perhaps, is that when those individuals experience a divorce many of them feel their community of faith provides rejection rather than support and healing. But the research also raises questions regarding the effectiveness of how churches minister to families. The ultimate responsibility for a marriage belongs to the husband and wife, but the high incidence of divorce within the Christian community challenges the idea that churches provide truly practical and life-changing support for marriages.”

According to the Dallas Morning News, a Dallas TX newspaper, the national study “raised eyebrows, sowed confusion, [and] even brought on a little holy anger.” This caused George Barna to write a letter to his supporters, saying that he is standing by his data, even though it is upsetting. He said that “We rarely find substantial differences“ between the moral behavior of Christians and non-Christians.

bold emphasis mine.