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lees1975

(3,841 posts)
Sun May 28, 2023, 08:41 AM May 2023

Boebert lives in a glass house and shouldn't throw stones.

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2023/05/boebert-lives-in-glass-house-and.html

Lauren Boebert's ignorance of the Christian faith shows up on multiple occasions. Defending her son's out of wedlock pregnancy by saying she wasn't going to "nitpick the Bible" was followed by her announcement that she was seeking a divorce. Neither one of those things fit very well in the overall worldview of her brand of Evangelical Christianity, but then, neither did her husband's indecent exposure prior to their marriage, nor does throwing a child around, as one of their sons alleged recently before recanting when his mother took control of the 911 call he was placing.

So it should not be too surprising that the Colorado congresswoman stepped outside of the boundaries of her claimed faith, which is, by description of her action, not really Christian, to label other human beings as "degenerates" because of their sexuality. That's a judgment that she's neither qualified nor permitted to render if she's claiming to be a Christian. It's one thing to determine, for one's self, what standards, principles, values and virtues by which to live, based on a personal interpretation of the Bible and the gospel of Jesus Christ. But it goes against the teaching of that same gospel to judge others unless the same standard is applied. And the fact of the matter is that, in the Christian gospel, Lauren Boebert is also a degenerate. So are we all.

Boebert's public reaction to her son's indiscretion was quite casual, though in the Christian faith, there's no difference between that and any other kind of sexual activity outside of marriage. She's only interested in "nitpicking the Bible" when it scores political points for her. But in this case, her hypocrisy has the potential to create a larger number of detractors than supporters. Oh, and divorce, well, in the book of Matthew, 19:8, Jesus says that divorce for any cause other than marital unfaithfulness, is adultery which meets the definition of degenerate, I think.
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tanyev

(42,522 posts)
1. Ah, but if she keeps people busy dodging stones, they won't be able to look inside her house.
Sun May 28, 2023, 08:46 AM
May 2023

She will probably ramp up the stone throwing after all this.

lees1975

(3,841 posts)
2. After coming within 600 votes of losing in 2022 in a district with a lot more Republicans
Sun May 28, 2023, 10:14 AM
May 2023

than her margin represents, I'd say her circumstances will wind up costing her the next election.

Aristus

(66,294 posts)
5. Unless ramping up the batshittery is a calculated move to bring her
Sun May 28, 2023, 06:47 PM
May 2023

demented supporters lurching back to the polls.

Skittles

(153,113 posts)
6. that's pretty much true of all repukes
Sun May 28, 2023, 11:12 PM
May 2023

but they are too stupid and bigoted to recognize their own hypocrisy

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